The oil industry’s worst nightmare came true on July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha oil platform suffered a catastrophic explosion, ...
A survivor of the Piper Alpha disaster has been appointed as the executive director of the safety body of the UK's oil and gas industry. Steve Rae was one of the 61 people who survived when the ...
Aberdeen became the oil capital of Europe and an estimated half a million jobs were created by the industry over the decades. The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 ...
He has produced many internationally award-winning documentaries. In 1988, Mr Punchard survived the world's worst ever offshore oil rig disaster on board the Piper Alpha in the North Sea, when it ...