Growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, the shadow of the Piper Alpha disaster loomed large over our community. The tragic ...
A survivor of the Piper Alpha disaster has ... of the safety body of the UK's oil and gas industry. Steve Rae was one of the 61 people who survived when the platform exploded on 6 July 1988.
A re-examination of the events that led to the Piper Alpha oil-drilling platform—at the time the largest and oldest in the North Sea oilfield—exploding on the night of 6 July 1988, killing 167 ...