Death and Oil: A True Story of the Piper Alpha Disaster on the North Sea by Brad Matsen

Death and Oil: A True Story of the Piper Alpha Disaster on the North Sea

Brad Matsen

304 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging emotional informative slow-paced
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July 6, 1988, began as a normal day on Piper Alpha, the biggest offshore oil rig on the North Sea. But just after 10:00 p.m., a series of explosions rocked the platform, and the inferno continued to burn for weeks. Of the 226 men working on the pl...

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