There were 61 survivors. Piper Alpha remains one of the most expensive man-made catastrophes of all time and is equal to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in terms of its impact on the oil industry.

Tragedies such as Piper Alpha in 1988 taught the UK industry tough lessons about safety and led to major legislative and cultural overhauls, including the move to a goal-setting safety regime, but ...

The Piper Alpha explosion killed 167 and exposed deadly gaps in offshore safety.

A new box-set documentary series set for BBC Two, BBC Scotland and iPlayer will examine the 1988 Piper Alpha oil platform disaster off the Scottish coast that left 167 people ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. At 14,000 tons and 2.5 times the height of the Statue of Liberty, the Piper Alpha oil rig was one of the largest in the world. But on July 6, 1988 ...

The survey, released by jobs website OilandGasPeople.com, also found 62% were worried that the scrapping of the unit could lead to another Piper Alpha disaster, which claimed 167 lives in 1988 ...