The oil industry’s worst nightmare came true on July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha oil platform suffered a catastrophic explosion, ...

It would leave 167 workers dead in what was, and still remains, the world's worst offshore disaster ... rig Tharos was sitting next to Piper Alpha on the night it exploded. It was pumping 40,000 ...

At 14,000 tons and 2.5 times the height of the Statue of Liberty, the Piper Alpha oil rig was one of the largest in the world. But on July 6, 1988, the entire structure became consumed by a ...