Deep Water Horizon

[Sample] Piper Alpha

Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil and gas production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum, about 190 km north-east of Aberdeen. On the evening of 6 July 1988, a condensate pump that had been taken out of service for maintenance was restarted; a temporary flange on the pump leaked gas, which ignited and exploded. Fires […]

The Bhopal Gas Disaster Explained | The Night a City Couldn’t Breathe

On the night of 2–3 December 1984, a leak of methyl isocyanate gas from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, spread over the densely populated neighbourhoods surrounding the factory. Water entering a storage tank triggered a runaway reaction, and safety systems that should have contained or neutralised the release were […]