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Piper Alpha exploded and collapsed under the effect of sustained gas jet fires in the night between 6 and 7 July 1988, killing 165 of the men on board (30 of whose bodies were never recovered), as well as a further two rescuers. [4] . Sixty-one workers escaped and survived.
Late in the evening of 06 July 1988, a series of explosions ripped through the Piper Alpha platform in the North Sea. Engulfed in fire, over the next few hours most of the oil rig topside modules collapsed into the sea. 167 men died and many more were injured and traumatised.
Piper Alpha disaster, explosion and sinking of the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea on July 6, 1988. The disaster killed 167 people. The discovery of North Sea oil and gas was a boon to Great Britain.
Oct 17, 2019 · Piper Alpha claims the title of the world‘s deadliest offshore accident. Over 30 years after the Piper Alpha oil platform suffered multiple explosions off Scotland taking lives of 167 people, SAFETY4SEA analyzes the North Sea disaster which made the oil and gas industry to look safety in new terms. Accident details: At a glance.
Jul 6, 2013 · On 6 July 1988 a series of explosions ripped through the Piper Alpha platform in the North Sea. In the space of two hours, 167 men lost their lives. It remains the world's worst offshore...
Feb 19, 2020 · With only 61 survivors of the accident and approximately $3.4 billion total insured damages, (5−7) the Piper Alpha disaster remains one of the worst such events in the Oil & Gas sector and now serves as a perennial process safety textbook case study.
Jul 6, 2018 · On the evening of 6 July 1988, an explosion ripped through the Piper Alpha oil and gas platform 120 miles north-east of Aberdeen. Out of the 228 men on board, 167 died in the world’s...
