The day shift ended, and the night shift started with 62 men running Piper Alpha.

Gas pipelines of both 16" and 18" diameter ran to Piper Alpha.

Module (A) was all that remained of Piper Alpha.

Their operations crews did not believe they had authority to shut off production, even though they could see that Piper Alpha was burning.

Gas lines of 140 to 146 cm in diameter ran to Piper Alpha.

That service did a considerable amount of work after the explosions on Piper Alpha.

The leaks had great similarities with Piper Alpha.

After Piper Alpha every platform had a safety manager.

Occidental's Piper Alpha remains down, but it may finally be back on stream by late May.

However, lessons were learned from Piper Alpha and regulations were tightened up.