Inquiry Planned Into Oil Platform Disaster
ABERDEEN, Scotland —
ublic inquiry into the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster in the North Sea in which 167 men were killed will start on Jan. 19 and last for up to six months, it was announced Friday.
Lord Cullen, a Scottish judge who will head the investigation, said he will try to establish the cause of the explosion that destroyed the platform last July in the world’s worst offshore oil disaster. Occidental Petroleum owned the platform.
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