Death and oil : a true story of the Piper Alpha disaster on the North Sea /
Matsen, Bradford.
New York : Pantheon Books,
c2011.
Documents the events of the 1988 oil rig disaster on the North Sea, drawing on interviews with survivors and family members, the Occidental Petroleum Corp., and rescue workers to trace the gas leak that triggered the explosion and the devastation it continues to inflict.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Autumn 1988 -- Caddy shack -- Pumping money -- The divers -- Silver pit -- Oxy and the doctor -- Piper Alpha -- The granite city -- Piper Alpha -- The divers -- Aberdeen -- The galley -- Tharos -- Escape -- Hell -- Night -- Tharos -- The morning news -- Hellfighter -- Sadness -- Rage.
Documents the events of the 1988 oil rig disaster on the North Sea, drawing on interviews with survivors and family members, the Occidental Petroleum Corp., and rescue workers to trace the gas leak that triggered the explosion and the devastation it continues to inflict.
Offshore oil well drilling
Oil well drilling rigs
Oil wells
Explosions
Disasters
Disaster victims
Survival