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The Piper Alpha disaster and the Cullen Report are milestones in the development of process safety. [132] Its effects on the offshore oil and gas industry can be compared with those the Flixborough disaster had on the onshore chemical and petroleum process industry in the 1970s. [133]
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. [2]
In the aftermath of the Piper Alpha disaster, it became apparent that riser jet fires can result in the rapid catastrophic loss of an offshore facility. This is due to the high fluid pressures and the large fuel inventory contained in the pipeline, which upon breach of containment becomes available for long lasting fires.
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.
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]
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.
Tartan Alpha was originally connected to the Piper Alpha platform through a 19 km 18-inch diameter gas pipeline. The failure of the riser of this pipeline at about 22:20 6 July 1988 during the Piper Alpha disaster led to a second major explosion followed by a widespread fire. [4] Production from Tartan's faulted reservoir was 'disappointing'.
The first Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha Disaster: Offshore Installations (Public Inquiries) Regulations 1974 (SI 1974/338) Lord Cullen: November 1988 November 1990 Vol 1, Vol 2: The inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster of 6 July 1988 Investigation into the flotation of Mirror Group Newspapers plc. Companies Act 1985 (c. 6), s. 432(2) and ...