Piper Alpha disaster took my dad - I still took a job offshore
Shane Gorman's dad David was one of the 167 men who died after a gas explosion destroyed the oil platform in 1988.
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Piper Alpha
Oil platform destroyed by explosion and fire in 1988
Piper Alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea about 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited (OPCAL) and began production in December 1976, initially as an oil-only platform, but later converted to add gas production.
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