On the night of 6 July 1988, 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen, a devastating series of explosions ripped through Piper ...

It was built to resist fire—but not the blast that tore it apart. The Piper Alpha explosion killed 167 and exposed deadly gaps in offshore safety.

The world's worst offshore disaster claimed the lives of 167 men onboard the Piper Alpha platform around 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen on the night of July 6, 1988.

A powerful story of the rush for North Sea ‘black gold’, safety failures and a community devastated by loss… The Untold Story ...

A commemorative service will take place on July 6th at 1pm in Aberdeen’s Hazlehead Park, where Scotland’s Piper Alpha ...

Safety has vastly improved on North Sea oil and gas platforms since the deadly explosion on the Piper Alpha rig 25 years ago, but experts warn there is no room for complacency.

The oil industry’s worst nightmare came true on July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha oil platform suffered a catastrophic explosion, leaving most workers trapped in an inferno at sea. This disaster led to ...

PIPER Alpha survivors have re-lived the horrors of the North Sea disaster in a harrowing TV documentary. The 1988 tragedy, which claimed 167 victims, remains the world’s deadliest offshore ...

The dad-of-three only set foot on Piper Alpha for the first time less than five hours before disaster struck. The clock was ticking towards tragedy when Dave attended his induction briefing, where ...

UK union Unite marks the Piper Alpha tragedy yesterday, 29 years on from the incident which killed 167 workers in the North Sea.

Lord Provost Barney Crockett added: "The Piper Alpha tragedy was 30 years ago, yet the events of that night are as shocking today three decades on. It will forever be imprinted on the Aberdeen memory.

Families of the men killed in the world's worst oil rig disaster have branded plans to make a television drama out of the tragedy 'an invasion of our deepest wounds'.