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  1. Roger Lyons on on safety in the offshore oil industry (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview on poor safety levels in the North Sea oilfields. The MSF union has ten thousand members who work in the offshore oil industry; union leaders say they have uncovered revelations about the Piper...

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  2. Piper Alpha disaster - Previous sabotage attempt (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    After the Piper Alpha disaster, owners Occidental say they did not inform the Department of Energy inspectorate of a sabotage attempt on the platform until ten months after it happened. They say they did...

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  3. Piper Alpha disaster - Public inquiry (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Survivors of the Piper Alpha disaster discuss the attempted sabotage of the rig and express their disbelief. John Wood, who worked on Piper Alpha, says it was terrifying. Bob Ballantyne, who survived the...

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  4. 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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  5. Oil reserves high, says Parkinson (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Kevin Murphy interviews Energy Secretary, Cecil Parkinson, about a record number of companies (125) bidding for licences to look for fresh reserves of North Sea oil, many for areas not previously explored....

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  6. Piper Alpha oil rig fire (1989)

    Genre
    Vox pop

    Relatives of men killed in the Piper Alpha oil rig fire speak emotionally about their meeting with Energy Secretary Cecil Parkinson, where he said he could not do anything to bring the bodies back before the...

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  7. 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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  8. First anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Furious offshore oil workers are calling for a twenty-four hour strike on the first anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster. They say a stoppage on July the sixth would be a reminder to the Government...

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  9. Oil tankers collide in North Sea, causing 5-mile slick (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with David Clempson of the Humber coastguard, on a collision between two oil tankers – the Phillips Oklahoma and the Fiona - that’s left a five mile slick off the Humber Estuary in the North...

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  10. Oil tankers collide in North Sea, causing 5-mile slick (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Nick Hull reports from Humberside, on the aftermath of a collision between two oil tankers – the Phillips Oklahoma and the Fiona - that’s left a five mile slick off the Humber Estuary in the North...

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