Piper Alpha oil rig disaster

Title

Piper Alpha oil rig disaster

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

11 Jul 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:01:43

Description

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 hours before the platform was destroyed; John Brading, Occidental oil company.

Contributors

Lisa Hampele; Bob Valentine; John Brading

Keywords

Fires; Industrial accidents; Oil extraction; Petroleum industry; Gas explosions; Oilfields; Piper Alpha; Occidental

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