Lefties of a certain age all agree on one thing. Margaret Thatcher was evil. Not misguided, duplicitous or unscrupulous. But plain wicked. It is often said that one of the problems with politics today ...

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UK pubcaster the BBC has commissioned a docuseries about the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster off the Scottish coast in the 1980s ...

THE Piper Alpha blaze remains to this day the world’s deadliest offshore disaster. The North Sea oil platform was engulfed by a fireball 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen 37 years ago. The ...

A powerful story of the rush for North Sea ‘black gold’, safety failures and a community devastated by loss… The Untold Story ...

On the night of 6 July 1988, 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen, a devastating series of explosions ripped through Piper Alpha, one of the North Sea’s flagship oil platforms. By the time dawn broke, ...

Transocean ended two straight days of losses on Tuesday, jumping 8.12 percent to close at $2.93 apiece following the Department of Energy’s warning that blackouts could spike by 100 times by ...

Egypt's top oil official reviews status of investigation into fatal rig sinking Minister of Petroleum Karim Badawi met with owners of rig and technical investigation committee Egypt's Minister of ...

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 ...

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The Coast Guard medevacked a man who was reportedly suffering severe chest pains from an oil rig off the coast of Santa Barbara on Friday.