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

UK pubcaster the BBC has commissioned a docuseries about the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster off the Scottish coast in the 1980s ...

The world's worst offshore disaster claimed the lives of 167 men onboard the Piper Alpha platform around 120 miles off the ...

THE Piper Alpha blaze remains to this day the world’s deadliest offshore disaster. The North Sea oil platform was engulfed by a fireball 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen 37 years ago. The ...

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 ...

FAMILIES, friends and the ranks of Aberdeen’s trade union movement gathered today to remember those killed on the Piper Alpha oil platform 37 years ago. In the single biggest loss of life in the North ...

The Piper Alpha oil rig was anchored 120 miles north-east of Aberdeen when a series of gas jet fires led to the platform’s collapse. 165 workers on the rig lost their lives along with two first ...

Survival is defined as the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of ordeal or difficulty and its nature being ...

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