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Offshore Industry oil and gas production petroleum pipeline. Aerial shot of off shore oil platforms working close up day time

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Offshore Industry oil and gas production petroleum pipeline. Aerial shot of off shore oil platforms working close up day time. topm wiew

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has lunch with oil rig workers during a visit at the Montrose Platform in the North Sea where he later...

George Osborne Visits Scotland

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Offshore Industry oil and gas production petroleum pipeline. Aerial shot of off shore oil platforms working close up day time

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has lunch with oil rig workers during a visit at the Montrose Platform in the North Sea where he later...

George Osborne Visits Scotland

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Aerial top view Oil ship tanker drown and crude oil overflow to the river.

The site of the Deepwater Horizon rig accident on Saturday, June 19 as workers repair the relief well and burn off oil collected on the surface of...

OILSPILL-RESERVEWELL

Activists holds signs during a protest in front of the Hale Boggs Federal Building on the first day of the trial over the Deep Water Horizon oil rig...

Civil Suit Against BP For Gulf Oil Spill Begins

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Crude Oil Price Falls. Energy Oil Crisis

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Professional worker wearing safety uniforms working at high place.

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Aerial view Oil ship tanker drown and crude oil overflow to the river.

Smoke rising in the background from the burning of oil caught on the surface, as workmen on the relief well in foreground are tripping in the well...

OILSPILL-RESERVEWELL

Drilling rig, sitting where a Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded on April 20, continues to try and plug a massive oil leak that was created by...

The rescued crewmen of the oil rig Ocean Prince which broke up over a 100 miles off shore seen here landing at Scarborough, 6th March 1968.

Ocean Prince Oil Rig Disaster 6th March 1968

Joyous wedding day six weeks ago and a bright future awaited for oil man Paul Williamson and his bride Alice Chesser, a 25-year-old nurse. Now the...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Dr Armand Hammer, 90-year-old chairman of Occidental Petroleum, answers questions from the world's Press outside the casualty department of Aberdeen...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Smoke plumes from the Piper Alpha oil production platform in the North Sea. *Low res scan - hi res scan on request

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Piper Alpha's main accommodation block, thought to contain the bodies of many of the 112 oilmen still unaccounted for, is lifted from the North Sea...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Bruce Munro with his baby Karen, aged three months. Munro, of Bucksburn, Aberdeen, was named today as one of the survivors of the explosion disaster...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Texan troubleshooter Red Adair. The daring legendary oil industry fire-fighter was called in by Occidental Oil to control the fire on the oil...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Mourners grieve for the 167 live lost in the world's worst oil rig disaster at the Piper Alpha memorial service at the Kirk of St Nicholas in...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Texan troubleshooter Red Adair on board the fire-fighting rig Tharos in the North Sea helping to control the fire on the oil production platform...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Craig Barclay, a 24-year-old welder from Dundee, who died in the explosion disaster on the North Sea oil production platform Piper Alpha. A Scottish...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

An RAF crewman helps a survivor of the explosion disaster on the North Sea oil production platform Piper Alpha, on arrival at Aberdeen Royal...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Royal Air Force Air Load Master Bob Pountney helping a survivor as he arrives at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the explosion disaster on the North...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Derek Ellington, a survivor of the the explosion disaster on the North Sea oil production platform Piper Alpha, is comforted by his wife Norma and...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

An injured oilworker at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, who had been flown ashore after the explosion disaster on the North Sea oil production platform...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

An injured oilworker at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, who had been flown ashore after the explosion disaster on the North Sea oil production platform...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

With bandaged head and swathed in a blanket, a survivor of the North Sea oil production platform Piper Alpha is helped from a rescue helicopter at...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Piper Alpha's main accommodation block, thought to contain the bodies of many of the 112 oilmen still unaccounted for, is lifted from the North Sea...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

The oil production platform Piper Alpha on fire in the North Sea. *Low res scan - hi res scan on request

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Survivor of the explosion disaster on the North Sea oil production platform Piper Alpha embraces loved ones after landing at Aberdeen.

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

The support vessel Tharos, which rescued a number of oil workers after the explosion disaster on the North Sea oil production platform Piper Alpha. A...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - Support vessel Tharos - North Sea - 1988

Aviation Minister Michael Spicer examines wreckage of the Chinook helicopter which crashed in the North Sea, claiming 45 lives.

Disasters and Accidents - North Sea Oil Rig Chinook Helicopter Crash

Aviation Minister Michael Spicer, right, at Sumburgh Airport, after leaving a helicopter which took him on a flight over the scene of a Chinook...

Disasters and Accidents - North Sea Oil Rig Chinook Helicopter Crash

Trainee technician Eric Morrans from Kintore, Grampian, with his parents Maureen and Joseph in Gilbert Bain Hospital in the Shetlands, one of the two...

Disasters and Accidents - North Sea Oil Rig Chinook Helicopter Crash

Trainee technician Eric Morrans from Kintore, Grampian, in his Lerwick hospital bed in the Shetlands, one of the two survivors of the giant Chinook...

Disasters and Accidents - North Sea Oil Rig Chinook Helicopter Crash

Smoke still billows from the burning wreckage of the Piper Alpha oil production platform, after it exploded killing 167 workers on board. It is the...

Disasters and Accidents - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Fire - North Sea - 1988

The wreckage of the Piper Alpha oil production platform that exploded yesterday killing dozens of workers on board.

Disasters and Accidents - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Fire - North Sea - 1988

Book, bound by the Royal College of Arms, dedicated to the memory of the men who lost their lives in the Piper Alpha disaster. The book contains the...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Piper Alpha relatives, led by Mr Gavin Cleland 60, of Glasgow and Aberdeen South MP Frank Doran outside the House of Commons in London today...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Occidental's Project Manager for Salvage of the Piper Alpha platform, Ramsay Martin.

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Chief Constable Alistair Lynn who will be in charge of the search for bodies of those who died in the Piper Alpha Oil disaster.

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Grief shared outside the Kirk of St. Nicholas in Aberdeen today as the Piper Alpha memorial service was relayed outside by public address system. As...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Health and Safety Commissioner, Alan Tuffin and Roger Lyons, the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union leader, at the Department of Energy in...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Two women share their grief during today's requiem mass at St. Mary's Cathedral in Aberdeen, where a tribute was paid to those killed in Wednesday's...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Mr John Brading, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Occidental Petroleum Ltd., referring to a diagram of the Piper-type of oil platform at a...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

The Secretary of State for Energy, Cecil Parkinson, at the Department of Energy in London today where he met TUC oil unions over North Sea safety...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Scottish High Court judge, Lord Cullen, who was today appointed by the Secretary of State for Energy Cecil Parkinson to chair the public inquiry into...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

The congregation at St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen, prays for lives lost during the Piper Alpha disaster on Wednesday.

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Personal message, handwritten by the Prince of Wales, sent to the Lord Provost of Aberdeen, Robert Robertson, after the Piper Alpha Oil Platform...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Distressed looking Prince of Wales listens to the engineer of the stand-by ship 'Silver Pit' as he meets rescuers on the quayside in Aberdeen. The...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

The Prince of Wales shakes hands with the engineer of the stand-by ship 'Silver Pit' on the quayside in Aberdeen today. The ship rescued 37 people...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis arriving to meet the members of the rescue services at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary today after...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

The Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher meeting members of the rescue services during her visit to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary today after seeing victims...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

The Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher meeting members of the helicopter rescue crews who took part in the major operation to find survivors of the...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

The Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher meeting the rescue helicopter crews on a heli-pad in the grounds of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary today after her...

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

As the long, anxious hours pass, there's comfort in closeness for Scottish sisters Irene Allan and Marianne McPhee, of Portlethen, Grampian, waiting...

Accidents & Disasters - Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

The burning remains of the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North sea, after it had been ripped apart by an explosion yesterday evening

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

The Piper Alpha oil platform the day after it exploded.

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - North Sea - 1988

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