Piper Alpha: Fire in the night
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hyperblue said:
R8Steve said:
Crap, really wanted to watch this and just got in from work, anyone know if its repeated/on demand?
I'm sure it'll be on iPlayer.Harrowing viewing.
My dad was in a helicopter crash on the North Sea so it'll no doubt touch a nerve for sure.
Just reading that occidental top brass wouldn't let the sister rig claymore turn off its oil supply to piper alpha. Only doing so after the second explosion, because it would cost a lot of money for such a shut down. If I was the guy on that rig I wouldn't have listened I don't think.
The other rig, tartan, was supplying piper alpha with a 120 bar gas line!!!! When that burst it was funnelling 30 tons of gas into the fire per second!!! fking hell!
Glad my dad decide to work in the Middle East on das island. Though he did eventually go work for occidental on PS-1.
The other rig, tartan, was supplying piper alpha with a 120 bar gas line!!!! When that burst it was funnelling 30 tons of gas into the fire per second!!! fking hell!
Glad my dad decide to work in the Middle East on das island. Though he did eventually go work for occidental on PS-1.
A simple, moving and incredibly powerful documentary. Proof that the BBC can still make decent and sympathetic program content where the subject matter and people involved tell the story without embellishment.
Congratulations to the BBC, and RIP to those not so lucky that fateful night.
Congratulations to the BBC, and RIP to those not so lucky that fateful night.
Otispunkmeyer said:
Just reading that occidental top brass wouldn't let the sister rig claymore turn off its oil supply to piper alpha. Only doing so after the second explosion, because it would cost a lot of money for such a shut down. If I was the guy on that rig I wouldn't have listened I don't think.
The other rig, tartan, was supplying piper alpha with a 120 bar gas line!!!! When that burst it was funnelling 30 tons of gas into the fire per second!!! fking hell!
Glad my dad decide to work in the Middle East on das island. Though he did eventually go work for occidental on PS-1.
Hang on. The other rig, tartan, was supplying piper alpha with a 120 bar gas line!!!! When that burst it was funnelling 30 tons of gas into the fire per second!!! fking hell!
Glad my dad decide to work in the Middle East on das island. Though he did eventually go work for occidental on PS-1.
So the fire was in full swing and the gas was still being pumped "through" Piper Alpha?
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GTIR said:
Hang on.
So the fire was in full swing and the gas was still being pumped "through" Piper Alpha?
s.
We covered this on my NEBOSH cse. They didnt cut the flow of gas as comms went pete tong pretty quickly and no one wanted to make a decision on those other rigs to shut down. It was all profit profit even though both rigs could see the fire from where they were.So the fire was in full swing and the gas was still being pumped "through" Piper Alpha?
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My Uncle was on the DSV Uncle John which was a semi-submersible at the time and its was not long after this that he decided to go on-shore for work.
Hyperblue got before me, but like he said. Also have to say a very good program, must remember to dust in my room a little more
Otispunkmeyer said:
The other rig, tartan, was supplying piper alpha with a 120 bar gas line!!!! When that burst it was funnelling 30 tons of gas into the fire per second!!! fking hell!
A gas line of a few miles long can't just be depressurised from 120 to 0 bar in a short time though, so I'm not sure it would have made that much difference. What was different was that in the wake of Piper, it was made mandatory to install seabed located shut-off valves to interfield gas pipelines.Max_Torque said:
A simple, moving and incredibly powerful documentary. Proof that the BBC can still make decent and sympathetic program content where the subject matter and people involved tell the story without embellishment.
Congratulations to the BBC, and RIP to those not so lucky that fateful night.
Not sure the BBC had much of a hand in making Fire In The Night, but it was an excellent documentary. I was only 15 when it happened, it was very moving to see the men's accounts tonight. Congratulations to the BBC, and RIP to those not so lucky that fateful night.
jshell said:
Otispunkmeyer said:
The other rig, tartan, was supplying piper alpha with a 120 bar gas line!!!! When that burst it was funnelling 30 tons of gas into the fire per second!!! fking hell!
A gas line of a few miles long can't just be depressurised from 120 to 0 bar in a short time though, so I'm not sure it would have made that much difference. What was different was that in the wake of Piper, it was made mandatory to install seabed located shut-off valves to interfield gas pipelines.So basically it was a bad/flawed design (Ok for oil not for gas) coupled with human error and lack of procedures topped off with greed and arrogance from the owners, whoever "they" are I'd imagine it's not one person but a collective of spineless managers.
I imagine it's all very different now.
GTIR said:
(Just read the Wiki)
So basically it was a bad/flawed design (Ok for oil not for gas) coupled with human error and lack of procedures topped off with greed and arrogance from the owners, whoever "they" are I'd imagine it's not one person but a collective of spineless managers.
I imagine it's all very different now.
you would like to think so.......So basically it was a bad/flawed design (Ok for oil not for gas) coupled with human error and lack of procedures topped off with greed and arrogance from the owners, whoever "they" are I'd imagine it's not one person but a collective of spineless managers.
I imagine it's all very different now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil...
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