The oil industry’s worst nightmare came true on July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha oil platform suffered a catastrophic explosion, leaving most workers trapped in an inferno at sea. This disaster led to ...

On July 6, 1988, 167 people died in the Piper Alpha explosion. The world’s deadliest offshore oil disaster, the Piper Alpha explosion, happened 30 years this week. The wreckage of the Piper ...

As the terrifying inferno raged around them, the panicking riggers were seemingly left with a stark choice – death by fire, or death by drowning. With the heat reaching unimaginable temperatures ...

The Piper Alpha explosion was the world's worst off-shore oil disaster. Only now, 20 years on, are the traumatised survivors finally able to tell the full horrifying story... The fire was ...

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 ...

PIPER Alpha survivors have re-lived the horrors of the North Sea disaster in a harrowing TV documentary.The 1988 tragedy, which claimed 167 victims, r Jump directly to the content Scottish Sun ...

Documentary chronicling the tragic events that occurred on board the Piper Alpha rig in July 1988, when 167 men were killed in the world's deadliest offshore oil disaster. Show more Documentary ...

6 July 1988: A series of explosions destroyed the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea. One hundred and sixty seven men died in the world's worst offshore oil disaster. An inquiry blamed the ...

Joe Meanen jumped 175ft from the burning Piper Alpha platform’s helideck – and survived. The Glaswegian scaffolder, then 29, took two steps over the safety netting and dropped into the unknown.

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