The Piper Alpha disaster unfolded through a chain of small, reasonable decisions that aligned into catastrophe. A single pump was started without knowledge of a missing safety valve. Gas ignited, ...

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 ...

Bob Ballantyne, who became the voice of the survivors of the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster, has died after a battle against cancer. Bob, aged 61, was one of only 62 men who survived the catastrophe, which ...

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.

Twenty years after the Piper Alpha platform disaster, the UKoil industy still has some way to go in cleaning up its health and safety act TWENTY years ago Occidental Petroleum's Piper Alpha platform ...

Lord Cullen and Linda Ellis are to be honored in the official naming ceremony of the newly-extended HOTA facilities on the training provider's Malmo Road site in Hull on Thursday, September 22, 2011.