On 6th of July 1988 the Piper Alpha oil production platform run by   Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited exploded resulting in a series of gas and oil fires destroying the platform.

• 167 people died
• only 61 survived
• 30 bodies were never recovered

It remains the world’s worst offshore oil disaster in lives lost.

Piper Alpha Memorial (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Angusmclellan)