Offshore safety is key to longevity of Scotland’s energy industry
The lasting legacy of Piper Alpha is a safer, though always hazardous, industry, writes Fergus Ewing.
The lasting legacy of Piper Alpha is a safer, though always hazardous, industry, writes Fergus Ewing.
Risk management specialists Det Norske Vertias has urged the global oil and gas industry to strengthen its focus on safety risk analysis ahead of the Piper 25 conference.
The judge who chaired the inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster has recalled the harrowing moment he stepped aboard the wreckage of the platform.
It is ironic that just as we are approaching the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster when 167 men lost their lives and many were seriously injured, the Government has made a change which will remove the right to claim compensation based on breach of, among others, the very health and safety regulations introduced following Lord Cullen's report into Piper Alpha.
Few will need to be reminded that next month marks the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster. As the world's worst offshore incident, it claimed the lives of 167 men and cast a dark shadow over everyone and everything connected to oil and gas for a long time afterwards.
It might seem odd choosing this issue of Energy to mark the 25th year since the Piper Alpha disaster of July 6, 1988, but we have taken our cue from the North Sea industry's three-day Piper25 conference on June 18-20.
Think of safety, remember Piper Alpha. Lord Cullen's groundbreaking report laid the foundation for a new era of safety in the oil and gas industry.
Piper Alpha inquiry chairman Lord Cullen is to discuss safety challenges facing oil and gas leaders at an event this summer.
LAWYERS who represented the victims of Piper Alpha say oil firms need to do more to prevent a similar disaster striking again.
The minister who will lead the Piper Alpha commemorations said the pain of the disaster could be felt across an entire city.