# Piper Alpha
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piper alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea approximately 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited and began production in 1976, initially as an oil-only platform but later converted to add gas production.
An explosion and resulting oil and gas fires destroyed piper alpha on 6 July 1988, killing 167 men, including two crewmen of a rescue vessel; 61 workers escaped and survived.
234 - Building a fire safety culture with George Boustras
Today we sit down with safety science leader George Boustras - a professor at European University Cyprus, UNESCO Chair in Disaster Risk Reduction and Societal Safety in South East Mediterranean and founder of Centre of Excellence in Risk & Decision Sciences (CERIDES). With George we try to examine …
Ep.99 When is dropping tools the right thing to do for safety?
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The failure of 27 wildland firefighters to follow orders to drop their heavy tools so they could move faster and outrun an exploding fire led to their death within sight of safe areas. Possible explanations for this puzzling behavior are developed using guidelines propo…
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Ian Garden - Offshore Safety, False Positives & Speaking Up
In this episode of Wind, Waves & Wells, I sit down with Ian Garden, Managing Director of RigDeluge and creator of the False Positives documentary.
Ian discusses concerns he has raised over more than a decade regarding offshore firefighting systems, emergency response planning, rescue capability an…
EVOL: CNOOC production, Scottish nukes, and Piper Alpha book
This week CNOOC revealed production figures for its UK assets in a document that painted a "gloomy" picture of the operator's future in the North Sea, according to one analyst.
In this episode of Energy Voice Out Loud, Aberdeen features lead Ryan Duff is joined in the studio by news editor Erikka …
036: Behind the Curtain: Lessons from a Lifetime Shaping Insurance Law with Michael Payton
Insurance law is rarely front-page news until someone like Michael Peyton enters the room. In this energetic, wide-ranging conversation, Clyde & Co's long-standing chairman unpacks stories from the Shergar mystery and Piper Alpha, right through to the AI ‘hallucinations’ haunting today’s legal work…
Then & Now: From Spindletop to cybersecurity, how oil and gas safety evolved
What began as an oil and gas industry where workers relied on experience, instinct, and sometimes...luck...has evolved into one built on rigorous safety systems, risk management, and continuous improvement. In this Then & Now episode of the Oil & Gas ReEnterprised podcast, host Laura Bell-Hammer tr…
Piper Alpha Disaster: The Jenga Tower That Was Always Going to Fall
On this episode of Processing Safety with Trish and Traci, forensic engineer Dr. Sean Brady joins Trish Kerin and Traci Purdum to revisit Piper Alpha, the 1988 North Sea platform disaster that killed 167 workers. They trace how a lost permit-to-work, a missing relief valve, and a design never updat…
Announcement: The Brady Heywood Podcast is coming back
The Brady Heywood Podcast is coming back and the first episode drops on Tuesday 3 November.
Instead of standalone episodes, we'll be doing limited series' where we cover one story or topic across several episode released weekly. The first series is Piper Alpha, one of the worst offshore disasters …
Piper Alpha: A Son’s Story - Shane Gorman
Shane Gorman was just 18 and three days into Army basic training when his father, Dave, was killed on Piper Alpha. He first understood the scale of what had happened when he saw the newspaper headlines at a train station on his journey home.
In this episode of Wind, Waves & Wells, Shane joins me t…
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