The first oil flowed into the Alyeska pipeline on June 20th, 1977 and began it’s 800-mile journey through a 48-inch wide pipe from Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez at 4 miles an hour. In the Port of Valdez, a 1,000-acre facility, across the bay from the city of Valdez, the S.S. ARCO Juneau […]
Response crews, made of Alyeska Pipeline, the Coast Guard and Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation report that as of Monday afternoon 798 barrels of water/oil mix has been collected from the spill that occurred just west of the Emergency Response Building at the Valdez Marine Terminal. Of that 33,516 gallons of water/oil mix, three […]
ANCHORAGE, AK – Carrie Irwin Brown joined Alyeska Pipeline Service Company as its Alaska Native Program Director in August. Carrie brings experience from a variety of Alaska organizations. She was most recently the Director of the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium; prior to that, she was the Executive Director […]
In an announcement on Tuesday morning, multinational oil and gas giant, BP Alaska announced the sale of its operations in Alaska to Hilcorp, one of the world’s largest privately-held oil and gas exploration and production corporations for a sum of $5.6 billion. The sale is to be completed in 2020 and is a part […]