North Sea Oil Fire Finally Out

All fires on the stricken Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea have now been put out, more than three weeks after it was destroyed by explosions, the Occidental Petroleum company said today.

A team of firefighters led by U.S. expert Paul (Red) Adair put out a fire in an oil well Thursday evening while a smaller fire burned itself out, a spokeswoman for Occidental, the owners of the platform, said. Explosions ripped through the platform on July 6, killing 167 men in the world’s worst offshore oil disaster.