Alpha Piper Disaster Introduction The accident‚ which occurred on board of the seaward platform Piper Alpha in July 1988‚ took lives of 167 people and cost billions of dollars damage of property. The Piper Alpha is placed in the North Sea‚ around 193 km northeast of Aberdeen. The field was discovered in January 1973 and the same year construction of platform took place. The depth of it was up to 140 m‚ and at the time the development and installation of the Piper Alpha platform give tongue to
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Information on the accident Piper Alpha accident happened in the 6th of July in 1988. In this accident 167 men died including 165 out of 226 workers of the platform and 2 members of the rescue crew. The series of explosions that started at 10.00 pm destroyed the platform in less than one and a half hour. It happened on the production deck which consisted of four modules. Module A - oil is piped up from the sea Module B – Process oil and gas Module C - Process oil and gas Module D – Power
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Piper Alpha: Lessons Learnt‚ 2008 Piper Alpha was a large North Sea oil platform that started production in 1976. It produced oil from 24 wells and in its early life it had also produced gas from two wells. It was connected by an oil pipeline to Flotta and by gas pipelines to two other installations. In 1988‚ Piper Alpha was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd ("OpCal")‚ a wholly owned subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. On 6 July 1988‚ there was a massive leakage of gas
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COPD? Pretty much everyone. Now how many of you have heard of alpha 1 deficiency also known simply as alpha 1? There aren’t many that have. I’m going to inform you about it today. You will learn what it is‚ what causes it‚ what a patient with alpha 1 deficiency goes through and what can be done for that patient. Up until a few years ago‚ I myself had no clue what alpha 1 was. It wasn’t until my mom’s COPD was correctly diagnosed as alpha 1 deficiency did I become familiar with it. From that point
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Abstract: The accident that happened aboard the offshore platform Piper Alpha in This summer 1988 wiped out 167 people and price vast amounts of dollars in damage to property. It had been triggered with a massive fire that was not caused by an unpredictable “act of God” but of an amount of errors and questionable choices. Many of them were rooted within the organization‚ its structure‚ methods‚ and culture. These business factors are generalizable with other industries and engineering systems.
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brightest stars (11th as viewed from Earth). Hadar is a blue-white super giant in the constellation Centaurus (Cen). In about 4‚000 years‚ the motion of Alpha Centauri‚ who’s proper name is Rigel Kentaurus‚ will carry it close enough to Hadar that they will appear to be a magnificent double star. Because of the distance away from Earth that Alpha and Beta Centauri are (approximately 90 parsecs)‚ they will be an optical double. As they sit today‚ the two stars look like a pair of eyes‚ the right one
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In the fall of 2010 Pi Kappa Alpha at the University of Utah (Alpha Tau) was at a point of crisis. The chapter received a membership review in response to poor membership‚ lack of accountability and apathy. Following the membership review the house was left with dwindled membership and a group of disheartened members who remained. The following spring the remaining members of the house opted to not take on a new member class. Instead they would build a foundation within the active chapter of
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The case study that will be investigated is the Alpha Piper Platform disaster. In today’s competitive world‚ companies need safe and dependable workplaces for the wellbeing of employees‚ people in the community and the environment. A risk assessment must be carried out to keep everyone in the workplace safe and healthy. Risk assessment is used to document‚ identify and reduce hazards in the workplace. BACKGROUND - PIPER APHA PLATFORM The piper alpha platform disaster took place in 1988‚ where the
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According to the article‚ in 2012‚ astronomers have found a binary star system‚ which they named Alpha Centauri‚ that includes a star named Alpha Centauri B being orbited by the planet‚ Alpha Centauri Bb‚ by using the radial velocity method. To clarify on the radial velocity method‚ a planet may possibly be found by seeing the star wobble‚ which may most likely happen due to the gravitational pull of the planet. Astronomers also add that the newly found planet is 4.3 light years away from Earth‚
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The report "Alpha Olefin Market By Type (1-Butene‚ 1-Hexene‚ 1-Octene‚ 1-Decene‚ 1-Dodecene 1-Tetradecene‚ C16-18‚ C20)‚ & Applications (LLDPE‚ HDPE‚ Detergent Alcohols‚ Synthetic Lubricants‚ Polybutene-1‚ AOS‚ & Others) - Global Trends & Forecast To 2018"‚ defines and segments the global alpha olefin market with analysis and forecasting of the global volume and revenue. Alpha olefin demand will grow with a CAGR of 4.2% from 2013 to 2018 and reach 4.6 million metric tons. Browse 84 market data
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