The oil industry’s worst nightmare came true on July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha oil platform suffered a catastrophic explosion, ...

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

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 ...

Piper Alpha began production in 1976 around 120 miles north east of Aberdeen, a Scottish city known as one of the oil capitals of Europe. Twelve years after it opened, the rig collapsed following ...

The hellish disaster unfolded on the night of July 6, 1988, at the Piper Alpha offshore oil and natural gas platform in the North Sea around 190 kilometers (120 miles) from Aberdeen, Scotland.

A fire on a North Sea oil rig kills 167 people on 6 July 1988. A series of explosions rip through the Piper Alpha drilling platform, 120 miles (193km) off the north-east coast of Scotland.

A deadly explosion aboard the Piper Alpha oil rig leaves the surviving crew scrambling to reach the evacuation helipad. But when they get there, they are stunned to find flames and smoke everywhere.

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 ...