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Piper Alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea about 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited (OPCAL) and began production in December 1976, [ 3 ] initially as an oil-only platform, but later converted to add gas production.
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 Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC) was a trade union set up in the United Kingdom in response to the deaths of 167 workers on the Piper Alpha platform on 6 July 1988. [3] The death of another worker on the Ocean Odyssey oil rig on 22 September 1988 and other accidents also played a part in spurring its foundation. [1]
A series of explosions and fires on the Piper Alpha, an oil platform 110 miles off the coast of Scotland that had been converted to natural gas production, results in the deaths of 167 people and the collapse of the platform. Note: Only episode with the opening narration being "sequence of critical events, locked in time".
On July 6, 1988, the company's Piper Alpha offshore production platform in the North Sea was destroyed when an out of service gas condensate pump was started with its pressure safety valve removed. The subsequent gas leak, explosion and fire resulted in the deaths of 167 workers in what remains the world's deadliest offshore disaster. [21]
The Piper oilfield is a substantial North Sea oilfield covering 30.1 km 2 (11½ sq. mi.). It lies roughly halfway between Aberdeen and Bergen , at the eastern end of the Moray Firth basin . [ 1 ] Oil extracted from it is piped to Scotland , where it is stabilised at an oil plant on the island of Flotta , in the Orkney archipelago , while gas is ...
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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]