I In which year was the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster?
Piper Alpha Piper Alpha Piper Alpha was an oil production platform in the North Sea approximately north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland, that was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited. It began production in 1976, initially as an oil-only platform but later converted to add gas production. An explosion and resulting oil and gas fires destroyed Piper Alpha on 6 July 1988, killing 167 people, including two crewmen of a rescue vessel; 61 workers escaped and survived. Thirty bodies were never recovered. The total insured loss was about £1.7 billion ($3.4 billion), making it one of the costliest manmade catastrophes ever. At the time
Piper Alpha to the Cullen Inquiry the events of that night were retold twenty years to the minute after they happened. National Geographic featured this incident in an episode of its "Seconds From Disaster" documentary. The 2013 documentary film "Fire in the Night" is about the disaster. In 2018, the disaster was featured on "James Nesbitt's Disasters That Changed Britain". Testimonials were heard from survivors and relatives of victims. Piper Alpha Piper Alpha was an oil production platform in the North Sea approximately north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland, that was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited. It began production in 1976, initially as