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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 Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea in 1988. The Kuwaiti oil fires following the Gulf War in 1991. [31] The 1968 American film Hellfighters, which starred John Wayne, is about a group of oil well firefighters, based loosely on Adair's life; Adair, Hansen, and Matthews served as technical advisors on the film.
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.
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 ...
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 C tail number means the plane is Canadian, and the registration information shows it as a 1978 Piper PA-32R, a six- or seven-seat high-performance, single engine, fixed-wing aircraft.
OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Söhnlein told a Coast Guard hearing Monday that the cause of Titan submersible disaster may never be known. He also told the panel it “was not supposed to happen.”
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'.