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 ...

Piper Alpha began production in 1976 around 120 miles north east of Aberdeen, a Scottish city known as one of the oil capitals of Europe. Twelve years after it opened, the rig collapsed following ...

Halliburton awarded a five-year contract from Repsol to support the full well lifecycle on its platform assets in the U.K. North Sea; financial terms were not disclosed.