It took more than three weeks to fully extinguish the fires caused by multiple explosions on the Piper Alpha oil platform, located 190km north-east of Aberdeen, on July 6, 1988. It’s unlikely, however ...

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 ...

Tragedies such as Piper Alpha in 1988 taught the UK industry tough lessons about safety and led to major legislative and cultural overhauls, including the move to a goal-setting safety regime, but ...

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 ...

In this interview, Neil Rothnie describes the surge of organisation among oil workers in the British section of the North Sea in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The shock of the explosion on the Piper ...

On 6 July 1988, fire engulfed Piper Alpha, killing 167 men. With dramatic testimony and emotional interviews, this is the minute-by-minute story of that night and the search for truth.