In all, 167 men died when a gas leak set off explosions that ripped apart the Piper Alpha platform 120 miles ... which remains the deadliest offshore accident in history, still haunts them 36 ...

A survivor of the Piper Alpha disaster has been appointed as the executive director of the safety body of the UK's oil and gas industry. Steve Rae was one of the 61 people who survived when the ...

In 1988, Mr Punchard survived the world's worst ever offshore oil rig disaster on board the Piper Alpha in the North Sea, when it exploded with the loss of 167 lives. That incident ended his ...