Mr Rae will take up the new role in July. The Piper Alpha platform suffered a series of explosions, the result of gas from a leaking pump igniting. Lord Cullen's report into the disaster after a ...
In 1988, during maintenance work on the North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha, 165 people died after one of the injection pumps exploded. Then came Britain's worst outbreak of Escherichia coli O157, ...