The Royal Air Force rescue team gazed at the hellish spectacle in front of them. They were alone in the middle of the North Sea, and one of the world’s largest oil platforms was consumed by flames and ...

The oil industry’s worst nightmare came true on July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha oil platform suffered a catastrophic explosion, leaving most workers trapped in an inferno at sea. This disaster led to ...

Told through the testimony of rig workers and their families back home, this is the minute-by-minute story of how the 1980s oil boom turned to disaster when Piper Alpha exploded. Piper Alpha burns, ...

Bob Ballantyne, who became the voice of the survivors of the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster, has died after a battle against cancer. Bob, aged 61, was one of only 62 men who survived the catastrophe, which ...

Red Adair, Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews played a dominant role in fighting oil and natural gas well fires for decades. Piper Alpha was a large, fixed production platform operated by ...