🐦 Piper Alpha wasn’t just a failure.

It was a loss of coherence.

Systems still worked—but not together.

That’s when failure becomes unstoppable.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/phase-2-post-5-when-systems-lose?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#SystemsThinking #ComplexSystems #Engineering #Energy
#Safety #Risk #IndustrialSafety #PiperAlpha
#BoundaryDynamics #BFPF #HybridMind42

There are a lot of trade-offs with fossil fuel use that we definitely don't discuss enough. #PiperAlpha was the really big one I recall as a kid, but it was just the latest in a whole succession of oil platform accidents that cost a lot of lives and suffering in the North Sea. And then there was #DeepWaterHorizon.

And that's quite apart from the climate costs.
You wonder how many of these happen that we don't hear about too.

This is a good reminder.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/28/the-piper-alpha-oil-rig-exploded-and-collapsed-and-i-made-a-desperate-175ft-jump-into-the-sea

Today marks the anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster — one of the most devastating tragedies in the history of the offshore oil and gas industry. On the 6th of July 1988, 167 lives were lost in the catastrophic explosion and fire on the North Sea platform.

We remember the workers who lost their lives, the families and communities forever affected, and the incredible bravery of the survivors and rescuers.
#PiperAlpha

Phys.org: Oil pollution in North Sea is ‘grossly underestimated,’ suggests new report…

After the tragic explosion of the Piper Alpha oil rig platform in 1988 which claimed the lives of 167 people, the resulting oil spill of 670 tons wreaked havoc on marine life and had a lasting impact on the marine environment... phys.org #oilspills #marineenvironment #piperalpha #marinelife #northsea #oceans #oilpollution

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/phys-org-oil-pollution-in-north-sea-is-grossly-underestimated-suggests-new-report/

BBC Developing Drama Series About Scotland’s Piper Alpha Disaster, The Catastrophic Oil Rig Tragedy That Killed 167 People
#News #BBC #JamesWood #PiperAlpha #PiperAlphaDisaster #STVStudios

https://deadline.com/2024/09/bbc-piper-alpha-disaster-drama-1236071110/

REMEMBERING
WITH LOVE
PETER JOHN GRANT
OF
NAEVIEW, NORTH KESSOCK
TRAGICALLY LOST ON
PIPER ALPHA
6TH JULY 1988, AGED 31 YEARS
DARLING HUSBAND
AND DEAREST FRIEND OF
MOIRA ANNE SIM

🙏 #PiperAlpha #PeterGrant #Tomintoul