Stephen McGinty has written an epic account of the Piper Alpha disaster, Fire In The Night. 20 years on, Oil & Gas Middle East examines the impact the catastrophe had on the offshore industry. What ...

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing a drama series about the Piper Alpha disaster, one of the most catastrophic offshore oil incidents of all time and the worst in terms of lives lost. The drama comes ...

The names of 167 men who lost their lives in the Piper Alpha disaster 30 years ago will be read aloud at a memorial service next week. July 6 marks three decades since explosions ripped apart the oil ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's oil and gas industry has spent billions and transformed standards to make a repeat of the worst ever offshore disaster highly unlikely, officials said on Thursday, nearly ...

A new box-set documentary series set for BBC Two, BBC Scotland and iPlayer will examine the 1988 Piper Alpha oil platform disaster off the Scottish coast that left 167 people dead and remains the ...

A service to remember the 167 men who died in the Piper Alpha disaster is to be held in Aberdeen on the 30th anniversary of the tragedy. Families, friends and representatives of the UK oil and gas ...

Jake Molloy of the RMT-OILC union was speaking on the 23rd anniversary of the disaster that led to the deaths of 167 members of the offshore workforce. “Nobody likes to look back to such a terrible ...

Told through the testimony of rig workers and their families back home, this is the minute-by-minute story of how the 1980s oil boom turned to disaster when Piper Alpha exploded. Piper Alpha burns, ...

With the same meticulous research employed in books on sea explorer Jacques Cousteau and the mysteries of the oceans, Matsen (Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King) takes on the devastating 1988 Piper Alpha ...

WHEN a maintenance crew failed to tell an oil rig control room about a missing safety valve it brought about one of the worst oil rig disasters in history Earlier in the day a safety valve had been ...

In July 1988, a maintenance breakdown on Piper Alpha triggered a chain of explosions that turned the North Sea platform into the deadliest offshore disaster in history. Helicopter footage captured ...

On July 6th, 1988, a series of explosions destroyed the Piper Alpha oil platform - 167 men were killed, only 61 survived. It remains the world’s worst offshore disaster. In minute-by-minute detail, ...