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The first Cullen Report was prompted by Occidental Petroleum's Piper Alpha disaster on 6 July 1988, [1] in which gas condensate ignited, killing 167 of the 229 people on board the oil platform in only 22 minutes. [2]
Lord Cullen has conducted inquiries into three major British disasters, all of which are known as the Cullen Inquiry: The Piper Alpha oil platform disaster, 6 July 1988. The Dunblane Massacre of schoolchildren, 13 March 1996. The Ladbroke Grove rail crash, west London of 5 October 1999.
Robert Cullen, Lord Cullen FRSE (22 September 1742 – 28 November 1810) was a British judge from Hamilton, Scotland. Friends knew him as Bob Cullen . He played a key role, along with his father William Cullen , in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ...
The first Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha Disaster: Offshore Installations (Public Inquiries) Regulations 1974 (SI 1974/338) Lord Cullen: November 1988 November 1990 Vol 1, Vol 2: The inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster of 6 July 1988 Investigation into the flotation of Mirror Group Newspapers plc. Companies Act 1985 (c. 6), s. 432(2) and ...
Lord Cullen may refer to: Francis Grant, Lord Cullen (died 1726/1663–1726), Scottish judge, Solicitor General for Scotland and Lord of Session Robert Cullen, Lord Cullen (1742–1810), Scottish judge, Lord of Session from 1796, involved in founding the Royal Society of Edinburgh
After 180 days of proceedings extending for 13 months, [105] the report Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster (short: Cullen Report) was issued in November 1990. [11] [12] It concluded that the initial condensate leak was the result of maintenance work being carried out simultaneously on a pump and related safety valve. The inquiry was ...
The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 (c. 5) was introduced in the United Kingdom by the Conservative government of John Major, in response to the Dunblane school massacre and the recommendations of the Cullen Report that followed it. [1]
Grant was the eldest son of Sir Francis Grant, 1st Baronet, of Cullen of Buchan, Banff, and his first wife Jean Meldrum, daughter of Rev. William Meldrum of Meldrum, Aberdeen. His father, a Lord of Session, with the judicial title of Lord Cullen, had purchased the estate of Monymusk in 1713 after selling his ancestral estate in Banffshire. [1]