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After 180 days of proceedings extending for 13 months, [105] the report Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster (short: Cullen Report) was issued in November 1990. [11] [12] It concluded that the initial condensate leak was the result of maintenance work being carried out simultaneously on a pump and related safety valve. The inquiry was ...
The first Cullen Report was prompted by Occidental Petroleum's Piper Alpha disaster on 6 July 1988, [1] in which gas condensate ignited, killing 167 of the 229 people on board the oil platform in only 22 minutes.
The Piper Alpha oil platform disaster, 6 July 1988. The Dunblane Massacre of schoolchildren, 13 March 1996. The Ladbroke Grove rail crash, west London of 5 October 1999.
Piper Alpha disaster: July 6, 1988: Oil platform explosions: October 5, 2004 () A series of explosions and fires on the Piper Alpha, an oil ... Iowa. As the DC-10 ...
Hammer was leading Occidental in 1988 when its oil rig, Piper Alpha, exploded, killing 167 men. The Cullen Report highlighted failings in many areas on the platform. As of 2016, he has been the subject of six biographies: in 1975 (Considine, authorized biography), 1985 (Bryson, coffee table book ), Weinberg 1989, Blumay 1992, Epstein 1996, and ...
Fire in the Night is a 2013 British documentary film about the Piper Alpha disaster made by Berriff McGinty Films which had been set up by Stephen McGinty, author of the 2008 book Fire in the Night and Paul Berriff, a film maker and cameraman who had witnessed the events of the disaster. [1] [2] It was directed by Anthony Wonke. [3]
Investigators said the plane departed from Fort Dodge, Iowa, Friday morning and had been expected to land in Anderson shortly before 10 a.m. Four people were on board the plane.
The Piper Alpha disaster in 1988 demonstrated how the accidental release of hydrocarbon can lead to the catastrophic failure of an installation with the rupture of major pipeline risers. [1] Jet fires impinged on vessels, pipework and firewalls.