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

How could a state-of-the-art $350 million oil rig sink due to a simple maintenance mistake? This documentary explores the chain reaction aboard Brazil’s P-36 platform from a gas leak to an explosion ...

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 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 ...

A docudrama that tells the story of one of the worst offshore oil and gas disasters has been released on BBC iPlayer this week. Disaster at Sea: The Piper Alpha Story is a three-part BBC series ...

Told through the testimony of rig workers and their families back home, this is the minute-by-minute story of how the 1980s oil boom turned to disaster when Piper Alpha exploded. Show more On 6 July ...

Kevin O'Connor spends four weeks at a time working on an offshore oil rig. Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, Stylecaster, Business ...