One of the worst oil rig disasters in the world happened on British shores, as 167 people were killed when the Piper Alpha ...

THE first thing Ed Punchard knew about the explosion on the Piper Alpha oil rig was when the roof of his “bomb proof” office collapsed on his head. The diver, who’d already come close to one ...

The Piper Alpha disaster was one of the UK's biggest tragedies, with 167 people losing their lives in just minutes as an oil rig off the coast of Aberdeen went up in a wall of flames ...

Victor Gibson spent 20 years as a sailor including a decade as a master of North Sea supply ships, describing his fellow ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

A recent BBC documentary series, The Piper Alpha Disaster, introduced a new generation to the precarious nature of rig life - telling the story of the July 1988 tragedy, in which 167 men died on one ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Friday didn’t approve BP’s proposal after outcry from federal lawmakers, ...

A normal day on an oil rig in Mexico turned into a nightmare when an explosion tore through the platform. This documentary ...

BP's shoddy risk assessment and poor communication played a major role in the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and deaths of 11 rig workers last April, a presidential commission says in a ...