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	Piper Alpha Platform fire - Oil rig disasters - Offshore Drilling Rig Accidents
		The Piper Field was discovered by Occidental in January 1973, with the Piper Alpha platform becoming operational in 1976.
		Piper Alpha also had gas pipelines connecting it to both the Tartan platform and to the separate MCP-O1 gas processing platform.
		In total, Piper Alpha had four main transport risers: an oil export riser, the Claymore gas riser, the Tartan gas riser and the MCP-01 gas riser.
	home.versatel.nl /the_sims/rig/pipera.htm (489 words)

	Health and Safety (North Sea Oil and...: 9 Jul 2003: Westminster Hall debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		In the financial year 1988–89, when the Piper Alpha exploded, a total of £3.6 billion was paid to the Exchequer in oil taxation and gas levy.
		It is wholly appropriate that we commemorate Piper Alpha and the victims—those who tragically lost their lives and those who were physically or mentally scarred but survived the terrible tragedy.
		Piper Alpha was a major tragedy for everyone involved—the families, the relatives, the friends and those who survived.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /whall/?id=2003-07-09.272.0 (11595 words)

	Mark Piper - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		Doctor Mark Piper served as the Chief Medical Officer, as well as the head of the life sciences department aboard the starship USS Enterprise, under Captain James T. Kirk in 2265.
		Piper was present on the bridge when the Enterprise encountered the galactic barrier.
		'Captain's Peril' mentioned that as an infant, Piper was "bounced on the knee" of Jack Archer, presumably a relative of former Captain Jonathan Archer.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Mark_Piper (134 words)

	Piper Alpha
		The Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd.
		A large fixed platform, Piper Alpha was situated on the Piper Oilfield, approximately 120 miles northeast of Aberdeen in 474 feet of water.
		Piper Alpha's operator, Occidental were found guilty of having inadequate maintenance procedures.
	www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Piper_Alpha (330 words)

	Piper Alpha - The Encyclopedia
		A large fixed platform, Piper Alpha was situated on the Piper Oilfield, approximately 120 miles (193 km) northeast of Aberdeen in 474 feet (144 m) of water, and comprised four modules separated by firewalls.
		However, Piper Alpha procedures dictated that the pumps be manual whenever divers were in the water, regardless of their location.
		The wreck buoy marking the remains of the Piper is approximately 120 metres from the south-east corner of the replacement Piper Bravo platform.
	www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/Piper_Alpha (2165 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Piper Alpha
		One 30 inch (0.762 metres) diameter main oil pipeline ran 128 miles (206 kilometres) from Piper Alpha to Flotta, with a short oil pipeline from the Claymore platform joining it some 20 miles to the west.
		Piper served as CMO aboard the USS Enterprise after Dr. Phillip Boyce and was the predecessor to Dr. Leonard H. McCoy.
		One Trek novel mentioned that as an infant, Piper was "bounced on the knee" of former Captain Jonathan Archer.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Piper-Alpha (3215 words)

	Piper Alpha - Definition, explanation
		A large fixed platform, Piper Alpha was situated on the Piper Oilfield, approximately 120 miles (either 200 or 220 km) northeast of Aberdeen in 474 feet (144 m) of water.
		The wreck buoy marking the remains of the Piper is approximately 120 metres from the south-east corner of the replacement Piper Bravo platform.
		A lasting effect of the Piper Alpha disaster was the establishment of Britain's first "post-Margaret Thatcher" trade union, the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pi/piper_alpha.php (659 words)

	Piper Alpha - bedeutung definition erklärung glossar zu Piper Alpha (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Die Piper Alpha Katastrophe wurde ein Lehrbeispiel dafür, wie eine Kette aus Unfähigkeit, Missmanagement, Desorganisation, unglücklichen Zufällen und Fehlentscheidungen, in eine Katastrophe führte.
		Das Öl von Tartan und Claymore erzeugte einen Staudruck in der Leitung von Piper, der bewirkte, dass weiterhin Öl aus den zerstörten Leitungen der Alpha nachfloss.
		In der Nähe der Piper Alpha verliefen Gasleitungen mit mehreren Metern Durchmesser.
	piper_alpha.lexikona.de /art/Piper_Alpha.html (1888 words)

	Piper - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		Miss Piper was 23rd Century Starfleet adjutant to Commodore José I. Mendez on Starbase 11.
		Miss Piper was friends with Lieutenant Helen Johansson, a mutual friend of James T. Kirk.
		Miss Piper greeted the landing party from the USS Enterprise when it arrived at the starbase in 2267.
	www.memory-alpha.org /en/index.php?title=Piper&printable=yes (129 words)

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		Piper is working at the table, a map open in front of her, a book open to the side.
		Piper, I beg you not to be closed to this.
		PIPER: What it means is it would've been nice to have a vanquishing potion when we were ambushed, a vanquishing potion that you were supposed to make, by the way.
	www.twiztv.com /scripts/charmed/season7/charmed-709.txt (7066 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Piper Alpha remembered
		Survivors and relatives are on Monday commemorating the 10th anniversary of Piper Alpha, the world's worst offshore oil disaster.
		The UK Offshore Operators' Association says accidents have fallen by 50% since the Piper Alpha disaster, and workers and unions are consulted on matters of safety.
		The father of a Piper Alpha victim who has campaigned for Occidental Petroleum to be brought to court said many families are still bitter 10 years after the disaster.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/127335.stm (565 words)

	Piper Alpha Red Adair Management Aberdeen Bohrinsel Kompressoren Nordsee Explosion Katastrophe Staudruck (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Die Piper Alpha war eine große Bohrinsel in der Nordsee im Ölfeld Piper ca.
		Die Piper Alpha Katastrophe wurde ein Lehrbeispiel dafür, wie eine Kette aus Unfähigkeit, Missmanagement, Desorganisation, unglücklichen Zufällen und Fehlentscheidungen, die durch Profitgier bestimmt wurden, in eine Katastrophe ungeahnten Ausmaßes führte, praktisch der Super-GAU auf einer Bohrinsel.
		Möglicherweise ist die Lektion, die Piper Alpha den Ölfirmen erteilte, schon wieder in Vergessenheit geraten und die Tragödie könnte sich jederzeit wiederholen.
	g.xpsearch.to /9sEcLakwbcwtsd9mEn%7C%7CSL%7C%7Cgkg%3D%3D_Piper_Alpha.html (2054 words)

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		Piper has a sad look on his face as he looks over the mass of reporters standing around him.
		Piper clears his voice as he leans forward to speak into the mic.
		Piper tries, but he just can't seem to get the high pitched, whiny tone down right, but you all get the picture anyway.
	www.angelfire.com /ego/piper/promos/war.html (799 words)

	Piper Alpha Oil Platorm Inferno
		At 6:00 PM on 6th July 1988 maintenance workers on the oil platform Piper Alpha sought permission to stop work on backup propane condensate pump, leaving a hole in the pump where a valve had been.
		The lack of inter-platform communication led to the other platforms continuing to pump gas through the risers on the assumption that a lack of communication meant that Piper Alpha was dealing with the problem, not providing a failsafe system.
		Other factors seen as adding to the seriousness of the incident included: there had been no full safety drill in the last three years, the training and safety procedures were lacking, there were many new staff unfamiliar with the layout of the platform, and that problems raised by safety audits had not been fixed.
	www.savive.com.au /casestudy/piperalpha.html (457 words)

	OILC
		Piper Alpha remained operational while major maintenance was being carried out, creating the immediate circumstances that led to the disaster.
		Given the mature character of its reservoir as well as safety concerns, the UK as an oil province was not able to increase the volume of output after Piper Alpha rapidly enough to benefit fully from the renewed increase of the oil price which peaked in 1990.
		Piper Alpha demonstrated to the industry, that lack of attention to safety carried a price, not least in subsequent regulatory interference.
	www.oilc.org /viewpapers.cfm?paper_id=2 (4163 words)

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		Piper Alpha was a large production platform in the North Sea that started oil production in the mid 70’s.
		For instance, a year before the Piper Alpha disaster a report had identified the hazard of a gas pipeline explosion, however no action was taken to prevent it from happening.
		However, Peter Fraser the Lord Advocate at the time of the Piper Alpha disaster in the last week of July 1991 decided that - there was insufficient evidence to convict the companies and individuals in a criminal court.
	www.corporateaccountability.org /dl/confs/oct03/cleland.doc (2948 words)

	File closes on North Sea rig disaster - 24 February 1990 - New Scientist
		THE INQUIRY into the Piper Alpha disaster has identified the likeliest factors leading to the explosion that blew the rig apart.
		In addition, tests on models of the Piper Alpha structure showed that the explosive force could have been created by between 150 and 225 kilograms of methane and ethane, or 45 to 75 kilograms of condensate.
		All the satellites lost communication with Piper Alpha when the rig exploded, although some managed to maintain contact with the shore.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg12517057.600-file-closes-on-north-sea-rig-disaster-.html (840 words)

	Piper Alpha rewrites the rules on offshore safety - 17 November 1990 - New Scientist
		This is the conclusion of the Cullen report into the explosion on the oil rig Piper Alpha that killed 167 men on 6 July 1988.
		Piper Alpha is owned principally by the American-owned company Occidental Petroleum UK.
		In his analysis of the causes of the Piper Alpha disaster, Cullen is critical of the amount of training that workers on Piper Alpha received.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg12817431.100-piper-alpha-rewrites-the-rules-on-offshore-safety-.html (709 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Bhopal and beyond
		The first was the Flixborough accident in June 1974 in the United Kingdom when certain modifications in the plant led to the leakage and explosion of cyclohexane, which killed 28 people and destroyed the plant.
		Another was the July 1988 accident known as the Piper Alpha Disaster.
		The Piper Alpha was an offshore oil platform in the North Sea, about 200 miles from Aberdeen, Scotland, operated by the United States-based Occidental Petroleum Company.
	www.hindu.com /2004/12/15/stories/2004121501891200.htm (1425 words)

	ipedia.com: Piper Alpha Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum Ltd. 167 men died when an explosion and resulting fire destroyed it on July 6th, 1988.
		The Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. 167 men died when an explosion and resulting fire destroyed it on July 6th, 1988.
		It produced oil and gas from 24 wellss for delivery to the Flotta oil terminal on Orkney and to other installations by three separate pipeliness.
	www.ipedia.com /piper_alpha.html (353 words)

	Offshore risk management: myths, worker experiences and reality
		The second section examines the post-Piper Alpha reconstruction of the offshore regulatory regime that was marked by the formal acceptance of modern risk management practices by the industry.
		In his 800 page inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster, Lord Cullen concentrated on the causes of the disaster and the measures that could be taken to prevent a recurrence of such incidents (Cullen, 1990).
		Following the Piper Alpha disaster, the language of risk management which accompanied the Piper Alpha enquiry, has served to re-legitimise the systematic exclusion of the workforce from safety management and safety auditing.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /educol/documents/00001394.htm (6476 words)

	Alpha Males and the Messiah Complex \| TheResurgence
		With the wisdom and expertise of Dr. Jones may we be enabled to preach a faithful gospel by understanding today’s current beliefs.
		I try to imagine their conversation as they walked on into town "This guy can calm the seas and feed five thousand people, but he needs us to go get him a freaking sandwich?" It seems like the only alpha male I've ever read about that doesn't have a messiah complex is the actual Messiah.
		I am a young, aggressive, alpha male who didn't get hugged by his dad a lot; no doubt I have serious issues.
	theresurgence.com /mc_blog_2006-08-10_alpha_males_and_the_messiah_complex (1114 words)

	Sache - Products
		Piper Alpha was an oil production platform in the North Sea that caught fire in 1988 resulting in 167 fatalities and the loss of the platform.
		Many of the problems on Piper Alpha were not unique to an oil production platform because the facility’s process equipment was typical of many chemical plants including tanks, pipes, compressors, pumps, reliefs, etc. All of the problems identified on Piper Alpha could have been eliminated by the appropriate application of OSHA’s Process Safety Management regulations.
		The Piper Alpha DVD includes a re-creation of the events in 1988 as well as dramatic and motivational material for understanding and practicing the important concepts of chemical process safety.
	www.sache.org /products.asp?year=2007 (870 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Piper Alpha victim's campaigning father dies at 75
		GAVIN Cleland, the tenacious pensioner who devoted his later life to fighting for justice for his son Robert and the 166 other oil-rig workers who were killed in the Piper Alpha disaster, has died at his home in Glasgow, aged 75.
		Yesterday, Bill Speirs, the general secretary of the Scottish TUC, led the many tributes to the "working class hero" who had spent more than 15 years in a relentless crusade to have Occidental, the owner of the North Sea platform, prosecuted for its role in what is still the world’s single worst offshore disaster.
		After the death of his son Robert, in the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, he campaigned hour after hour, day after day, year after year, for those responsible to be brought to justice, and for action to be taken to ensure that such a horrific industrial disaster couldn’t happen again.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=862312004 (702 words)

	piper \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Piper can mean:Piper, a piping designerBagpipes playerPiper (genus), a plant genusThe ETA10P supercomputerPiper Aircraft or The New Piper Aircraft companyPiper Cars, a UK specialist sports car manufacturerPiper (car), an Australian specialist sports car manufacturerPiper diagram, a method of plotting e.g.
		Piper Perabo, l'actrice américaine, née en 1976Piper, le genre végétal de plantes nommées poivriers, dont les fruits sont appelés poivre, p.
		Piper is een botanische naam van een geslacht van bedektzadigen.
	www.babylon.com /definition/piper/All (307 words)

	DNV - Enhancing safety in the Gulf of Mexico
		Karen Madro, HSE manager in Shell Exploration and Production Company, Houston, would naturally wish the Piper Alpha disaster had never happened and that removal of the Brent Spar platform had not given rise to such huge protests against the operator her own company, Shell.
		She emphasises that it is not individual events such as these which govern Shells focus on safety and the environment.
		Piper Alpha was an eye-opener for the entire industry.
	www.dnv.co.kr /publications/dnv_forum/by_subject/oil_gas/EnhancingsafetyintheGulfofMexico.asp (706 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Four companies that later transformed into the OPCAL joint venture obtained an oil exploration licence in 1972 and later that year or next discovered the Piper Field located at 58Â° 28' N 0Â° 15' E
		* Separate 46 cm diameter gas pipelines run from Piper to the Tartan platform, and from Piper to the gas compressing platform MCP-01 some 30 miles to the Northwest.
		;2230 The Tharos, a large fire fighting and rescue platform, draws alongside Piper Alpha.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Piper_Alpha (2109 words)

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