Piper Alpha

High school (ages 12+)
Environment & Earth

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/piper-alpha

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the location?North Sea, approximately 120 miles (190 km) northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland
2. What is the operator?Occidental Petroleum
3. What was Piper Alpha and where was it located?Piper Alpha was a huge concrete platform that floated in the North Sea, about 120 miles northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland.
4. Why was Piper Alpha so important for oil and gas?It produced about 10% of the North Sea's oil and gas and was the world's largest single oil producer at the time.

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