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  1. Report from oil rig platform (1976)

    Genre
    News report

    Report from the Belford Dolphin semi submersible platform on the North Sea. How the platform works and what it does. Male reporter not identified.

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  2. Piper Alpha oil platform destroyed (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Occidental Petroleum spokesman Alex Blake-Milton on the demolition of the Piper Alpha oil platform: why they chose to detonate earlier than planned, how the demolition went, relief at its finally having...

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  3. Piper Alpha - Recovery of bodies (1988)

    Genre
    Interview

    The North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha was sunk following an explosion killing 167 men. An unidentified male speaker discusses how they will recover the bodies from the platform, the difficulties they will...

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  4. Fire on North Sea oil platform? (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    2 clips, possibly about the Piper Alpha oil platform fire of July 1988. Unidentified (Scottish?) male speaker tells of his escape from a fire by jumping; another unidentified (Scottish?) male speaker tells...

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  5. Piper Alpha raised from sea bed (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    The North Sea oil platform, Piper Alpha, which was sunk following an explosion which killed 167 men, has been raised from the sea bed. Grampian Police Chief Alistair Lynn says that they do not yet know how...

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  6. Brent Spar oil platform fate (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Paul Maurice reports on the possible fate of the Shell Brent Spar oil storage platform. Shell has received two hundred suggestions on how to dispose of the structure following the successful Greenpeace...

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  7. Piper Alpha disaster - Public inquiry (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    A survivor of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, John Wood describes the inferno which nearly took his life. Alex Blake Milton reveals that the platform was nearly destroyed by a saboteur a year before the...

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  8. Piper Alpha disaster - Petrie report (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Following the Piper Alpha disaster in which an explosion on a North Sea oil platform killed 167 people, a report from the Department of Energy’s Director of Safety, Jim Petrie, has prompted different...

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  9. Piper Alpha oil rig disaster (1988)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Lisa Hampele reports on the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster where one hundred and sixty-six workers died. Includes interviews with Bob Valentine, survivor, revealing that he reported a gas leak forty-eight...

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  10. US Navy blows up Iranian oil rig (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Sir Geoffrey Howe expresses the UK’s full support for the US attack on an Iranian oil platform, he says it was self defence as Iran had attacked US flagged shipping in the Gulf. Calls for Iran and Iraq to...

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