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

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 ...

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

At the time of the disaster, Piper Alpha was one of the country’s largest oil and gas platform producing over 300,000 barrels of crude oil a day — around 10% of the UK’s total daily amount.

On 6 July 1988 a series of explosions ripped through the Piper Alpha platform in the North Sea. In the space of two hours, 167 men lost their lives. It remains the world's worst offshore oil disaster.

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 ...

At 14,000 tons and 2.5 times the height of the Statue of Liberty, the Piper Alpha oil rig was one of the largest in the world. But on July 6, 1988, the entire structure became consumed by a ...

Marathon Oil (MRO) shut its North Sea Brae Alpha oil platform late Monday after a gas alert, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. None of the 171 staff on board were evacuated from the platform, ...

The Cormorant Alpha oil platform in the UK North Sea returned to full production capacity on Aug. 24, the operating company said on Tuesday, ending a shutdown for repairs that began in January.