• The Piper Alpha Public Inquiry was set up in November 1988 to establish the cause of the disaster. It was chaired by the Scottish judge William Cullen.
  • bugun bu konuda egitim aldiginizda konu bir sekilde piper alpha ya kayar. yukarida da bahsedildigi gibi gunumuzde uygulanan guvenlik onlemlerinin buyuk bir...
  • The explosion at the Piper Alpha Oil Platform in Scotland 30 years ago was a tragic incident that claimed the lives of 167 people.
  • 22:20 BST: A series of explosions followed as pipelines linking Piper Alpha to two other platforms ruptured and burst.
  • Only 61 survived in in what remains the world’s worst offshore disaster. Grenfell Tower is the deadliest fire in Britain since Piper Alpha.
  • In the aftermath of the huge fire on the Piper Alpha platform, July 6, 1988, it was clear that the fire started and escalated very quickly into a full-blown disaster due to...
  • Despite the extensive fixed fire protection system on Piper Alpha, not a single drop of water was applied from Piper Alpha itself to any of the fires.
  • At the height of the event, natural gas was being burned on Piper Alpha at a rate equivalent to the natural gas consumption rate of the entire United Kingdom.
  • The Piper Alpha incident was the catalyst for significant change. Learnings taken from this tragedy created a step-change in health and safety offshore.
  • The investigation and public inquiry that followed the Piper Alpha disaster led to 106 recommendations for preventing a similar accident in the future.