In 2013, Fire in the Night a documentary feature about the Piper Alpha disaster produced by STV for Creative Scotland/BBC, had it’s world premier at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and went on to win the festivals prestigious Audience Award.
In 1978 Occidental’s Piper Alpha was the first platform installation with a Semi Submersible Crane Vessel.
In the late 1980s there were a number of serious incidents in which many lives were lost like Hillsborough, the Herald of Free Enterprise, Lockerbie, the Marchioness, Piper Alpha, and UTA Flight 772.
He was at the centre of major inquiries into the Piper Alpha disaster and the 1986 Chinook Helicopter Crash.
This resulted in the same loss going around the market thereby artificially inflating market loss figures of big claims (such as the Piper Alpha oil rig).
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6 July - Piper Alpha disaster oil rig in the North Sea explodes and results in the death of 167 workers.
He has been involved in a number of Public Inquiries, including the King's Cross Underground Station fire (London 1987), the Piper Alpha explosion and fire (North Sea, July 1988) and the fire in the Garley Building (Hong Kong, 1996).
Such reports include the Piper Alpha oil-platform explosion (Cullen, 1990), the 1987 Kings Cross underground station fire (Fennel, 1988), and the sinking of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise passenger ferry (Sheen, 1987).