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 ...

TV & Film 16.07.25 BBCS revisits Piper Alpha disaster for BBC2 BBC Studios Specialist Factual Unit is to make a new series revisiting the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster for for BBC Two, BBC Scotland and ...

On the night of 6 July 1988, 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen, a devastating series of explosions ripped through Piper ...

A new BBC documentary series is set to tell the full story of the Piper Alpha disaster and revisit the tragedy's aftermath. The world's worst offshore disaster claimed the lives of 167 men on the ...

Nearly 40 years after 167 men were killed on Piper Alpha, a new BBC documentary will air revisiting the night and months beyond.

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 ...

Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.

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 ...