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 ...

In a couple of months, the UK industry will mark the 30th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster, still the world’s deadliest offshore accident. The phrase “no room for complacency” is concerned is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sight confronting the Royal Air Force rescue team was absolute horror: isolated in the middle of the North Sea, the Piper Alpha—one of the world's most immense oil platforms—was completely ...

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 ...

Pipeline shut on Dec. 11; repair work could last several weeks. Deliveries of crude oil through the Forties pipeline in the North Sea are under force majeure for the first time in decades and operator ...

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, ...