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FE AT UR E S 8 INSURANCE
14 ALASKA NATIVE
Aviation insurance is a must-have on the ground and in the air
Preserving tradition and culture in the world of commerce
By Tracy Barbour
By Julie Stricker
Plane Protection
Productive Partnerships
20 TELECOM & TECH New Tech, New Oil Maximizing legacy fields and identifying new plays By Isaac Stone Simonelli
74 FISHERIES Choppy Waters
Climate change, China loom over stronger forecasted salmon runs By Isaac Stone Simonelli
82 ENVIRONMENTAL Handling Hazmat
Training is crucial to managing hazardous waste By Vanessa Orr
88 CONSTRUCTION Infrastructure Update Summer road construction projects in 2019 By Tasha Anderson
70 AGRICULTURE © Amy Pettit
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OIL & GAS SPECIAL SECTION
64 ENI
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26 LNG
Welcome to the LNG Era
34 OVERVIEW
ABOUT THE COVER
Far from Tapped Out 2019 sees renewed vigor on the Slope
Projects around the world and how Alaska LNG stands up
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2019 Alaska Business Oil & Gas Directory
36 DIRECTORY
60 FOREIGN INVESTMENT
International Interest in the North Slope Anadarko
Global companies pursue exploration and production in Alaska
In the oil and gas industry in Alaska, traditionally it’s oil that’s been pulling the heavy weight. And while oil isn’t going away any time soon, projections for the near future point at gas as bursting with potential. Alaska LNG, a longdreamt project to get stranded North Slope natural gas to market, has seen more progress in the last year or two than it has seen in decades, but Alaska LNG isn’t the only project looking to take advantage of rising demand for natural gas in Asia and Europe. However Alaska participates in the LNG market, what’s undeniable is the state’s need to keep an eye forward instead of holding ourselves back.
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Oil Matters
M
ay means many things in Alaska. Break-up is over, temperatures are rising, and most Alaskans are already dreaming of long days reserved for hiking, hunting, fishing... basically all things outdoors. After months of cold and darkness, we’re excited and optimistic about the summer months ahead. The same can be said for the oil and gas industry. Much like a spring renewal, the North Slope in particular is undergoing a rebirth of its own with a few new players entering the scene and long-time operators increasing their investment allocation to further support exploration and development efforts in the region. The Alaska Department of Revenue’s 2019 Spring Revenue Forecast predicts oil production will experience a slight decrease in the near future but expects production to increase next year. In the coming years the general consensus is that the North Slope will continue to see a surge in interest, exploration, and production from both Outside interests and Alaska’s veteran oil and gas companies such ConocoPhillips with its Greater Moose’s 2 and Willow projects, Hilcorp with its Moose Pad wells at Milne Point, and BP’s recent seismic survey of 400 square miles of Prudhoe Bay designed to find previously “hidden” pockets of oil through sonic waves. Along with the companies we cover on a regular basis, there are some (relatively) new to Alaska players entering the oilfield with big plans of their own. Oil Search out of Papua New Guinea is forging a path through the Pikka formation; Eni is taking over operations of the Oooguruk oilfield after it agreed to acquire the remaining 70 percent it didn’t already own from Caelus Natural Resources; Entek is in the final stages of acquiring North Slope leases from Elixir; and United Kingdom-based Pantheon Resources is working toward developing the Brookian zone through its Alkaid well after acquiring the assets of Great Bear Petroleum in January. In this issue of Alaska Business we delve into all of the above in more detail; publish our annual directory of Alaska’s oil and gas explorers, producers, and suppliers; and take a look at new technology being used to discover and extract oil. While much of the Oil & Gas Special Section is devoted to oil, we haven’t forgotten the gas part of that equation. Our cover story this month is all about LNG. Alaska’s proposed LNG project is still in the early stages of development. The route has, after much debate, been nailed down (the 800-mile pipeline will stretch from the North Slope to a liquefaction facility in Nikiski), the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) has a new president, and AGDC is working with BP and ExxonMobil to collaborate on how to cut costs and increase the competitiveness of Alaska LNG. While all of this is happening at home, LNG projects are advancing in the Lower 48 and in countries around the world. This fascinating look at the methods, costs, and settings for LNG projects that are direct or indirect competitors offers eye-opening insight into what the future could hold for the AK LNG project. Happy spring and happy reading. Alaska Business
Kathryn Mackenzie Managing Editor, Alaska Business
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Aviation insurance is vital in Alaska, where airplanes are as commonplace as pickup trucks in Texas. Alaska has six times as many pilots per capita and sixteen times as many aircraft per capita as the rest of the nation.
Types of Aviation Insurance Aviation insurance is geared specifically to the operation of aircraft and the risks involved in the aviation industry, but what determines the insurance needs of an aviation company varies, according
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Anchorage-based Security Aviation’s fleet of aircraft. Security Aviation
to Lee Bridgman, a small business account executive at RISQ Consulting. As a full-service insurance broker and Acrisure agency partner, RISQ Consulting has extensive access to aviation insurance markets. The factors that impact insurance needs include the type of services that the company provides, kind of aircraft owned, number of passengers transported per aircraft, the type of cargo that is carried, where the aircraft normally operates (major airports, remote airports, or Bush facilities), and the aircraft’s use (scheduled or charter operations). There’s a range of aviation insurance available, but the most important kind of coverage is aircraft liability, Bridgman says. Aircraft liability provides coverage to others for bodily injury or property damage in the event of an “occurrence” www.akbizmag.com
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the insured aircraft, including that the insured is legally obrecovery,” Bridgman says. ligated to pay for. “An occurGround-not-in-motion or rence can be anything from ground coverage strictly peran ‘in-flight event’ to a taxiing tains to the loss of an aircraft event or even a plane being while it’s tied down (even on blown into another aircraft a sand or gravel bar) or in a during a windstorm,” he exhangar. Coverage ceases once plains. “While this coverage the aircraft is towed, taxied, or provides coverage for others, in flight. This is a type of covit also provides coverage for Lee Bridgman, Small erage that some private pilots any passengers as a sub-limit Business Account Executive, RISQ Consulting may find more affordable, alas defined in the passenger though it has very limited hull bodily liability limit.” RISQ Consulting coverage for the aircraft. However, Bridgman points Cargo or baggage coverage is comout that commercial operations may have their liability limits or other coverages dic- mon for commercial operations. This coverage pertains to cargo while in the tated by contractual commitments. Other lines of coverage that could aircraft and the personal belongings of be a part of an aviation company’s the passengers. Other coverage options for pilots and policy are passenger bodily liability, medical expense, hull coverage, ground- commercial operations to consider include coverage for spare parts, airport not-in-motion, and cargo and baggage. Passenger bodily liability, as the term premises liability, hangar coverage for the indicates, provides payment for a passen- building itself, and breach of warranty for ger’s bodily injury for which the insured a lienholder. In addition to having insurance to prois legally obligated due to an occurrence arising out of the ownership, mainte- tect its passengers and aircraft, Security nance, and use of the aircraft. “Varying Aviation also carries coverage for two limits of coverage for passenger bodily shuttle vans and a flatbed pickup truck. injury are available and should be based And as part of its benefits package, the on the number of passenger seats that company provides health and life insurthe aircraft is configured for,” Bridgman ance for its twenty-eight employees. says. “The passenger bodily injury limits are also restricted by the aircraft liability Important Considerations limit.” Whether aviation companies operate Security Aviation, for example, opts large cargo aircraft or small Bush prop to carry higher liability limits to cover its planes, there are some key considerations passengers, who include CEOs, govern- they should make when choosing coverment officials, and Hollywood producers. age. “The biggest question they should “Because of the caliber of the people we ask themselves is what the assets of the typically fly, they require higher levels of individual or commercial business are,” liability insurance,” Kapper says. “We carry Bridgman says. “Then they should decide up to $100 million of ‘smooth’ coverage. on the liability limit level to protect those So if you have one to nine people on assets. Then they need to decide how to board, there’s $100 million available for work that into their budget, so they can payout for all of them [collectively]. The afford to insure the hull of the aircraft.” state limits for insurance are at $350,000 He adds: “When discussing the coverper seat.” age, I want them to consider the aircraft Medical expense—which can include as a retirement investment. Years down or exclude the crew—is the first cover- the road when they are ready to sell the age that will respond for each passen- $80,000 to $250,000 or more aircraft, ger who sustains a bodily injury in an they do not want an occurrence to cause occurrence. a total loss to the aircraft days from the Hull coverage or physical damage sale closing date.” coverage protects the aircraft itself. The Bridgman emphasizes that most occoverage can be written via two meth- currences in Alaska are not small claims; ods, with hull coverage while in flight the recovery of the aircraft is potentially a providing the best protection. “In an oc- large expense, as are the transportation currence while taxiing or in flight, it will and medical care of injured passengers. If pay for any physical damage to or loss of there is not any hull coverage for in-flight, Alaska Business www.akbizmag.com
then the insured party becomes responsible for the aircraft recovery. As another important consideration, drone (unmanned aircraft) use is excluded from commercial policies, general liability, property, and auto. Bridgman explains: “If you use a drone and cause bodily injury or property damage to others, your commercial policies will not respond to the claim. This would include the charging of a drone battery that may overcharge and catch fire or damaging a building [for example]. In order to cover the use and storage of a drone, you would need a UAV/UAS [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle/ Unmanned Aircraft Systems] liability policy. I would recommend contacting your personal lines carrier to see how they would respond.” Individuals or businesses that need aviation insurance can purchase coverage through an agent or directly from an insurance company. For instance, Avemco Insurance Company, which is headquartered in Frederick, Maryland, has been selling aviation insurance in Alaska since 1982. Avemco serves as the only direct writer of aviation insurance in Alaska, according to Senior Vice President of Underwriting Mike Adams. “When a cus-
tion policy to provide comtomer calls me with a question prehensive coverage for kits about their policy or coverage, and components. “This would they’re getting information apply to someone who’s not directly from an insurance in a business and is building a company, not from an agent,” plane for their own education Adams says. and use,” Adams explains. “The Avemco provides coverowner can change the value age for many types of nonas they spend more for kits commercial flying aircraft and components. For examwith some exceptions. “We Mike Adams, Senior Vice ple, they could start the policy don’t insure anything that’s President of Underwriting, Avemco Insurance for $25,000 and add another turbine powered,” Adams says. $20,000 when they add an “Our specialty is in fixed-wing, Avemco engine.” personal-use aircraft, be it an Avemco also includes premises coverexperimental, glider, a seaplane, or on age—at no extra charge—with its aircraft skis.” Insurance options from Avemco in- policies for the hangar or tie-down that clude general liability to cover people normally stores the airplane. This is an inside and outside the aircraft, property important bonus, as more airports are damage to cover items not under the requesting proof of additional insured custody or control of the pilot or policy status, according to Adams. Regardless of the kind of insurance inholder, and physical damage to cover the airplane. The company also writes a non- volved, Avemco allows clients to modify owned aircraft policy for clients who are coverage based on their evolving needs. renting or borrowing a plane, as well as “We’ve got pretty good flexibility,” Adams a storage policy to protect parked planes says. “If someone starts their insurance [with their aircraft] on wheels or skis and against non-flying or ground losses. There is also a special insurance option moves to floats, we can make all those for individuals who are building their own changes with just a phone call and adjust airplane. Avemco can write a construc- the premium.”
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Premium Costs In terms of cost, premiums for aviation insurance are based on several factors, including the number of aircraft, number of pilots, limits of liability, passenger liability limits, hull value (or no hull coverage), pilot hours, loss history, type of use, and type of landing gear. Aviation insurance may seem to be relatively expensive compared to insurance for other industries—but, as Bridgman explains, “When you compare liability and hull coverage premium versus liability and property coverage for a building or physical damage for an automobile
of equal value, then the premiums are comparable. When you consider that you may only fly the aircraft twenty to thirty hours a year, for private pilots, then it is more expensive.” He continues: “The comparison becomes greater as the hull value increases; however, the aircraft that has a high hull value is most likely used in a commercial operation. These commercial operations may be a charter pilot that logs 200 to 400 hours or a scheduled operation that exceeds 1,000 hours a year.” Insurance premiums at Security Aviation are definitely impacted by the type of
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plane, type of runway, flying status, and a variety of other conditions. For example, it costs the company less to insure a Lear 45 jet than its other planes because the jet flies from safer asphalt-to-asphalt runways. Incidentally, about 85 percent of the runways that Security Aviation flies into in Alaska are gravel. However, Security Aviation’s insurance carrier offers several benefits to help reduce premiums. “If you don’t have any claims during the year, there’s a return on premium,” Kapper says. “If you have airplanes out of service for thirty days in a given quarter, they will give you a layup credit.” Insurance premiums at Avemco are also influenced by a variety of factors. As an example, an experienced Alaska pilot in Avemco’s most preferred category could pay $4,000 a year for $1 million worth of coverage on a Cessna 206 that’s on floats and valued at $180,000. On the flip side, an inexperienced student pilot could pay $3,000 annually for a half million dollars of liability insurance for a two-seat airplane (with $30,000 coverage included for damage to the airplane). Many of Avemco’s customers in Alaska elect to purchase only liability coverage, Adams says. The resulting premium is significantly less, running about $800 a year for pilots with 300 flying hours.
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As with auto insurance, accident rates are a major factor when it comes to aviation insurance costs. And in Alaska and other places, one of the leading causes of aviation accidents is loss of control during landing. “It’s the person who thinks they are little better than they are who seems to get into trouble,” Adams says. “Or they don’t appreciate the limitation of the airplane—that gets them into trouble.” Adams extends three pieces of advice to help people minimize accidents: know your own abilities, know the aircraft’s capabilities, and train often with a flight instructor. “The aircraft owners with an honest assessment of their own ability who respect the capabilities of the plane and who train regularly tend to have a lower accident rate,” he says. “If we can get the new entrants into aviation thinking more about risk management, an honest assessment of their abilities, and the constant training of their skills, we should see some type of decrease in the number of accidents.” Alaska Business www.akbizmag.com
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n 2018, ConocoPhillips’ winter work plan included drilling an exploration well, Putu 2, which was only four miles from the North Slope village of Nuiqsut. Naturally, the 450 village residents were concerned about potential impacts from the project, says Lisa Pekich, director of village outreach for ConocoPhillips. So long before any drilling took place, the oil company took the time to meet with residents and the North Slope Borough to address those concerns. “There were lots of concerns in the community about being that close, from emergency response to, just in general, seeing the facility,” Pekich says. “Air emissions are a concern—any community that’s got industrial activity around it has concerns about air emissions.”
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It took quite a bit of time—Conoco Phillips deferred drilling the well for a year, Pekich says—but in the end the parties agreed on a robust mitigation plan that allowed the project to move forward. ConocoPhillips addressed noise and air quality concerns by using an innovative, highly efficient electric generator to power the drilling rig instead of a traditional dieselfired rig. It also moved the generator a mile farther from the village. “We used an enclosed flare, so it wasn’t visible, and we had some lighting mitigation so it wouldn’t be so bright from the community,” she says. In addition, Conoco Phillips used mobile monitoring stations to keep tabs on air quality and on the village’s freshwater lake. In the end, the project met with approval through the borough’s permitting process, as well as the Nuiqsut village corporation, Kuukpik. The 2018 winter exploration season was a successful one for ConocoPhillips, Alaska’s largest oil producer. Putu 2 and two other nearby exploration wells struck oil. They are near two major recent oil discoveries: ConocoPhillips’ Willow and Armstrong/ Oil Search’s Pikka. This kind of cooperation between companies and Alaska Native corpora-
tions and communities is crucial to major resource development in the state. Enormous deposits of metals such as gold, copper, and zinc, as well as oil and gas, are located on or near land owned by the Alaska Native regional and village corporations, whose shareholders have deep cultural ties to the land and rely on it to live. The benefits of resource development on Alaska Native lands isn’t restricted to local communities: they’re felt statewide because of a clause in the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act that created the Alaska Native corporations. The clause, called 7(i), requires Alaska Native corporations to share 70 percent of revenues from resource development on their lands with the other twelve original corporations. Clause 7(j) allocates a portion of those revenues to the village corporations. So revenue from ConocoPhillips’ Alpine field, which is on land owned by Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, as well as zinc from the Red Dog Mine in Northwest Alaska on land owned by NANA Corporation, is spread across the state.
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Teck is considered an “industry-leading example of how indigenous peoples and mining companies can work together,” according to Les Yesnik, general manager of Red Dog operations. It wasn’t an agreement that NANA made lightly. Mineral exploration had been ongoing for decades in the region and numerous village meetings were held to discuss future possibilities before approving the concept of mining at Red Dog in 1979. “NANA was deliberate in engaging in mineral development—from the leadership in the early years to the elders and shareholders—there was a joint decision that this was an opportunity for the future, and they embraced it,” says Lance Miller, NANA vice president of natural resources. When the operating agreement was reached on October 11, 1982, NANA had evaluated many potential partners. Cominco, now Teck Resources Limited, had a proven track record of operating in the Arctic, with mines in Greenland and Canada. “NANA’s partnership with Cominco, now Teck, took years to develop and vet,” Miller says. “With any business agreement, you pick your partners wisely.” It’s proven to be a strong partnership, Yesnik says. “We believe the Red Dog partnership is a great example of how resource development can create economic prosperity and opportunity while at the same time supporting tradition, culture, and heritage,” Yesnik says. The relationship is built on four pillars: community engagement, protection of subsistence, economic opportunity, and respect for culture. The Red Dog mine also is the economic engine for Northwest Alaska. “Leadership means action and courage,” says Wayne Westlake, NANA president and CEO. “NANA’s former leaders, after all the decisions they made, had the courage to take action to develop the Red Dog Mine.” It’s been a mutually beneficial partnership, Yesnik says. For Teck, it created what has become one of the company’s most successful operations. For the Iñupiaq residents of Northwest Alaska, it has provided royalties and jobs, both at the mine and through NANA-owned contractors. Since 1990, Teck has provided about $5 billion in economic contributions. Its annual payroll is about $75 million, and 55 percent of its employees are NANA shareholders. www.akbizmag.com
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The Northwest Arctic Borough was created in 1986 based on a payment in lieu of taxes from Red Dog. Today, about 90 percent of the borough’s income comes from Red Dog, about $20 million to $26 million annually, according to NANA. That supports government services in the region as well as provides bonding for schools, programs, services, and other infrastructure. Five schools in the region have been built from these funds. The payment in lieu of taxes agreement also includes a separate village improvement fund, based on a percentage of the mine’s gross profit, which funds priority projects in the borough’s eleven communities, home to about 7,700 residents. Through 2018, Teck paid $27 million into the village improvement fund. Teck also offers university and vocational scholarships and training opportunities for NANA shareholders who are employees. Red Dog also has had an apprenticeship program that is only available to NANA shareholders at no cost to them. Mineral exploration has been ongoing in the eastern part of the region along the Upper Kobuk River. In the 1980s, NANA bought the Bornite copper prospect from Kennecott. They wanted to continue exploration and spent years discussing the possibilities of development with local residents before again looking for the right partner. In 2011 they signed an agreement with NOVAGOLD, now Trilogy Metals. NANA values working with companies that advance the region’s mineral potential and create shareholder value while respecting the traditional subsistence lifestyle. That level of respect is essential, the corporation says. Trilogy takes care that local communities embrace their projects, and its success has attracted interest from other major companies, like South32. Moving ahead with a potential mine at Bornite will provide more jobs, royalties, and contracting opportunities. NANA’s investment in Red Dog Mine has produced three generations of highly skilled shareholders. In fiscal year 2018, 741 shareholders were employed at Red Dog. In the eastern part of the region, where mineral exploration is ongoing in the Ambler Mining District, rigs at Bornite were staffed 100 percent with shareholders. Overall, in FY2018, 840 shareholders were employed in mining operations,
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totaling about $45 million in wages. NANA is also proud of the economic benefits that Red Dog has provided for all of Alaska through 7(i) and 7(j) sharing under ANCSA. Through FY2018, more than $1.2 billion has been shared with the other regional corporations. Today NANA continues to advance mineral opportunities in the NANA region through partnerships as well as through self-funded grassroots exploration. As a recognized player in the mineral development arena, NANA now evaluates additional opportunities to participate elsewhere in Alaska and Canada. The need for minerals is forecast to double by 2060, the corporation says. It has hosted leaders from the Bolivian government at Red Dog and been invited to Greenland and other Arctic nations to share its experience in mineral development.
Setting the Right Example As far as advice to other companies looking to collaborate with local tribes or indigenous groups, Yesnik says that building a strong, lasting collaborative relationship enables both parties to understand each other’s respective priorities and perspectives and create lasting, mutual benefits.
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He says a great example of the “many positive outcomes� from this approach is the development of an independent subsistence committee, which meets quarterly with mine representatives to review all subsistence-related issues. For example, the committee directs a regional caribou-monitoring program. During migration, the committee can request the closure of the 60-mile road
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that links the mine with port facilities on the Bering Sea to reduce potential risks to the herd. Shipping schedules are carefully planned to minimize possible effects on traditional whale and seal hunts. On the North Slope, similar collaborative efforts are in place in the oilfields, says Natalie Lowman, director of communications for ConocoPhillips Alaska.
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“As we have for decades, ConocoPhillips continues to sponsor environmental studies to better understand everything from air quality, hydrology, and archeology to mammal and fish populations,”
Lowman says. “Many studies are carried out cooperatively, working with local communities, government agencies, and stakeholders to assess and monitor the ecosystems where we operate. Our ongoing world-class research programs help us understand the environment and identify better ways to protect it.” Working with federal, state, and local regulators, as well as local communities, ConocoPhillips routinely develops and conducts multi-year baseline environmental studies programs including annual hydrological surveys within important watersheds such as the Colville River delta; lake surveys to document water quality and quantity and usage by various fish species; stream surveys to document the distribution and abundance of fish species; archaeological surveys to ensure culturally significant sites or artifacts are avoided; annual wildlife surveys to document the distribution and abundance of terrestrial mammals and avian species; and vegetation mapping surveys to understand how key wildlife species use certain habitats. ConocoPhillips also invests in educational, cultural, and youth programs
on the North Slope. It has helped build playgrounds in Nuiqsut, Point Hope, and Wainwright; supported training programs in Anaktuvuk Pass; and funded STEM summer camps and tribal system and healthcare system training. In all it does, the company strives to be “inclusive, honest, and respectful” with all its stakeholders and neighbors on the North Slope. An example of this came about a decade ago when ConocoPhillips needed to build a bridge over the Nigliq Channel of the Colville River to access its CD5 oilfield. The 1,420-foot, $100 million span was the first to cross that channel and local elders were concerned about its effect on the fish population. “We got into project design and trying to pick a good spot to cross the channel,” ConocoPhillips’ Pekich says. “We kept working with the community—the landowners are the Kuukpik Corporation in Nuiqsut—to find a sensible solution for the community. Ultimately, we did move the location of the bridge crossing. It did take a while, but we were able to reach an agreement on the location that would allow the project to move forward.”
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Example of a 96-wells plate filled with soil samples, ready for extraction. Samples from different locations sometimes differ in their appearances as is clear from the differing coloration in the wells of this plate. Biodentify
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This technology ranges from Conoco Phillips Alaska’s steerable drilling liner and BP’s proprietary digital rocks technology program to Netherland-based Biodentify’s patented technology developed to analyze surface soil or seabed samples, recognizing otherwise undetectable hydrocarbon microseepage from prospective areas.
Biodentify Biodentify combines modern technology developments in its patented workflow to take advantage of microseeps: small amounts of gas that leak from a reservoir
and make their way to the surface. “[Microseeps are] too small to measure with any direct detection device. Biodentify has put a new spin on this, which has been made possible due to recent innovations and breakthroughs in DNA sequencing and machine learning,” Biodentify Director of Technology and Operations Chris Te Stroet says. “The overall workflow is protected with a patent. The lab work to extract bacterial DNA and the exact algorithm to identify the biomarkers are trade secrets. The database that contains the biomarker samples used for training and identifying
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the potential reservoirs is a collection of information for Biodentify use only.” Biodentify’s carefully-guarded workflow was not possible ten or fifteen years ago, says Stroet. The company’s approach is effective because the sensors used are incredibly sensitive, albeit indirect, as they collect data from the microbial ecosystem in the shallow soil. More than 340,000 different species of microbes can be found in soil, of which a small number (50 to 200) react to these microseeps of gas. Some microbes—that oxidize the gas—flourish while others find it toxic and die. “We take incredibly detailed ‘fingerprints’ of the soil—DNA analysis of the microbial ecosystem—and compare this with a large database of samples with known productivity,” Stroet says. “Our machine learning algorithms, run on a very large supercomputer, find the small but critical differences in these microbes that tell us whether the new samples have seen ‘microseep’ or not, thus if they are above a reservoir or a dry area.” Traditional geochemistry techniques that make use of microseep as an indicator for potential prospects typically search for and count the cultivated species of
known microbes that oxidize hydrocarbons, providing ten to fifteen biomarkers, a much smaller number than can be deduced from the complete DNA fingerprint. Other companies use a material that, when left at a shallow subsurface for weeks, “collects” gas molecules, a direct indication for microseep. There are other innovative companies that use similar DNA-analysis technology, but they focus on post-drilling, analyzing cuttings to maximize reservoir performance, Stroet explains. “We focus much earlier in the process, on exploration or pre-drilling, taking only shallow surface soil samples to minimize the risk of drilling unsuccessful wells or to rank existing prospects from highest chance of success to lowest chance of success. It’s relatively straightforward and not too expensive versus drilling a well or shooting seismic data,” Stroet says. The accuracy of the tests depends on the geological setting and the complexity of the subsurface. Studies and pilot projects of the workflow generated initial predictions of greater than 70 percent accuracy. “If local data is added into this process, the robustness of the predictions
“[Microseeps are] too small to measure with any direct detection device. Biodentify has put a new spin on this, which has been made possible due to recent innovations and breakthroughs in DNA sequencing and machine learning.” —Chris Te Stroet Director of Technology and Operations, Biodentify
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“Acquiring seismic and drilling is still required, but with Biodentify being added to the workflow, you can be more focused on the prospective areas of where a reservoir is, avoiding areas where the reservoir is not.” —Chris Te Stroet Director of Technology and Operations Biodentify
increases, as well as the accuracy,” Stroet says. “It is especially effective to de-risk areas where you are expecting possible reservoirs or have a number of prospects in the subsurface and you want to de-risk or rank these various prospects against another, or you want to understand which part of the area most likely has hydrocarbons—or a charged reservoir—in the subsurface.” Biodentify provides its services at a number of stages in the exploration and development of reservoirs, both onshore (shale and conventional) and offshore, Stroet says. “First in exploration, Biodentify can be used as a precursor to acquiring seismic or drilling any exploration or appraisal
wells. The methodology can determine if there is a charged reservoir in place, or, when prospects are already identified, possibly based on seismic data or other, we can help rank these prospects from most likely to succeed to least likely to contain hydrocarbons. In case of a shale play, near-field exploration play, we can point out where the ‘hot’ areas are versus the less economic areas,” Stroet says. “In the extraction stage, once a reservoir has been partially depleted, our workflow can determine if there are any bypassed reserves that remain and could potentially be produced.” Despite its utility, this technology isn’t a replacement of previously existing technology but more of a new method
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available to exploration companies to decrease the risk of drilling marginal or dry wells. “Acquiring seismic and drilling is still required, but with Biodentify being added to the workflow, you can be more focused on the prospective areas of where a reservoir is, avoiding areas where the reservoir is not,” Stroet says. Biodentify identifies the areal footprint of the reservoir but cannot determine the zone or depth of the hydrocarbons. This means seismic data and drilling an exploratory well are still required to determine the formation and depth of the reservoir. The company currently has no pilot projects in Alaska, though Stroet sees plenty of potential. “Alaska contains many environmentally sensitive areas with respect to nature and wildlife, and we all need to keep these areas as pristine as possible. Biodentify can be used to focus activities in only the areas that contain those reservoirs and minimize the use for seismic and drilling, which could be harmful and destructive to the environment and the ecosystem,” Stroet says. “A second benefit is that this focused activity can reduce the risks and the capital costs of doing those activities, which allows companies to be more profitable and have additional funds to expand to additional prospects.” As usual, there are additional challenges to operating in much of Alaska, as organisms from which DNA is collected flourish in warmer soil conditions. Nonetheless, they are present in frozen soil, Stroet confirms. “The fingerprint varies over the seasons because of the influence of temperature, moisture, and pH. The algorithms are using machine learning to look for small differences in the DNA fingerprints related to microseepage and they neglect the influences of the climate,” Stroet says. “Yes, this technique can be feasible in Alaska,
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but local sample collection will need to be done and added to the database to have a good robust training set for the projects to be worked in this region.”
Digital Rocks Tech Key upgrades to BP’s proprietary digital rocks technology program in 2017 were another tech step forward in oil and gas exploration. After signing a commercial agreement with Exa Corporation, BP’s ability to predict the flow of oil and water in digital images of reservoir rock was enhanced. “This new capability—known as multiphase flow simulation technology—will help engineering teams to make more informed decisions on wells, production facilities, and resource progression, including enhanced oil recovery,” a BP release states. Exa Corporation’s multiphase fluids simulation solution for digital rocks was co-developed with BP during a three-year technology collaboration agreement. “After years of cooperative research and development, this breakthrough represents an important step forward for BP and for our industry,” says Ahmed Hashmi, BP’s head of upstream tech-
nology. “It underscores BP’s continued leadership in digital technologies and their increasingly important role in helping us to develop energy resources safely, effectively, and economically.” According to the release, the technology uses rock core samples acquired from exploration, appraisal, and development wells that are imaged with ultrahigh resolution CT scans to create a 3D digital model of the rock. These digital images are then put through proprietary algorithms that simulate the physics necessary to characterize rock properties. The algorithms are run at BP’s Center for High Performance Computing in Houston, which is one of the largest supercomputers in the world dedicated to commercial research.
Steerable Drilling Liner During the exploration drilling phase for Greater Mooses Tooth 1 (GMT1), it became apparent that ConocoPhillips Alaska would need to implement new technology to face challenges yet to be encountered on the North Slope. The development of GMT1, which has opened the door for tapping oil reserves at Greater Mooses Tooth 2, hinged on
the development and implementation of new steerable drilling liner technology. The steerable drilling liner technology was needed because the geological bedding, rather than laying relatively flat, was jumbled, making it unstable. “When they started drilling two exploration wells, both had problems, but one had severe problems,” Manager of Drilling and Wells Shon Robinson explained earlier this year. While drilling, the company intersected a portion of earth that had rotated roughly 90 degrees, which drastically changed the stress and pressure in the well. Generally when drilling a well, the drill is pulled out before inserting a metal well lining, which is then cemented in place; however, with these geological conditions, that process created a window of time in which the well collapsed before the metal lining could provide stabilization. The steerable drilling liner developed with Baker Hughes—a full-stream provider of integrated oilfield products, services, and digital solutions—allowed ConocoPhillips Alaska to drill and run the casing down at the same time. Once at the target depth, workers are able to
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Horizontal Drilling and Production New technology for oil extraction has serious impacts on oil exploration, as it can make projects that were once financially unfeasible attractive propositions. Interest in the Nanushuk formation— long known as a source of oil—has increased with advancements in horizontal drilling, which allows for the extraction of oil from deposits miles from the drill rig. In 2016, a drill’s reach extended 55 square miles from a 12-acre gravel pad on the North Slope. “Now we’re moving toward an extended reach drilling rig where we think we can drill from one location up to 154 square 24 | May 2019
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miles,” ConocoPhillips Alaska President Joe Marushack said during a presentation. The advancements are expected to be rolled out in 2020 on Fiord West. Part of the reason that the company can expand its reach is because of geo-steering technology that allows it to stay within the required zone—zones as small as five feet, according to the presentation by Marushack for the Resource Development Council.
Improving the Oilfield Technological advancements in oil and gas exploration have varying impacts on the Last Frontier. Some of the most innovative technology such as that being rolled out by Biodentify has yet to be tested in Alaska, but could prove to be a game changer, especially as oilfield operators work to ensure legacy fields and resources are approached as effectively and efficiently as possible while exploring the potential of new sites. But modern technology and methods, such as the steerable drilling liner being used by ConocoPhillips Alaska, is already having a huge impact on the company’s ability to access resources. And ConocoPhillips Alaska is looking for innovation in other areas as well: “We are continually innovating and improving our core exploration and production business by developing and applying state-of-the-art seismic data acquisition and processing techniques, such as life-of-field, time-lapse seismic data collection, which monitors long-term performance and development of subsea producing reservoirs. We are also able to create better reservoir images beneath salt and other sound-blocking materials, using detailed geological architecture and hydrocarbon quality analyses. The development and application of these geologically integrated seismic-imaging technologies produce higher-quality images that help reduce exploration risk and maximize resource recovery.” As Marushack explained during his presentation, “Technology is really a game changer for us and allowing us to compete with the Lower 48, where their transportation costs are a lot less than ours and where access to land, access to roads is a lot easier than ours. And where, historically, there has been a lot more stable tax environment.” www.akbizmag.com
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various methods to advance the project and improve its competitiveness. And the project has competition. According to Global Gas & LNG Outlook to 2035 by McKinsey & Company, a global market intelligence and analytics group focused on the energy sector, “South Asian gas demand is expected to grow by approximately 2 percent per annum by 2022, spurring LNG [liquid natural gas] imports by 20 billion cubic meters,” and over the next five years it’s anticipated Europe will require approximately 45 billion additional cubic meters of gas imports. According to Shell LNG Outlook 2019, “Projections to 2035 estimate that more than 70 percent of energy demand growth will be met by gas and renewables combined, with gas supplying more than 40 percent of the additional demand.” The report continues to say, “LNG continues to be the fastest-growing supply
source… We expect growth in LNG demand to continue around the world, led by Asia and Europe.” Demand for LNG will be met with new supplies of LNG, and AK LNG is only one of many prospective projects on the horizon taking advantage of the worldwide trend of producing and using renewable and cleaner energy sources.
LNG Canada Just a little south and east of Southeast Alaska, LNG Canada, estimated to cost $31 billion, is currently under construction and is anticipated to begin supplying LNG before 2025. Project owners Shell (40 percent), PETRONAS (25 percent), PetroChina (15 percent), Mitsubishi Corporation (15 percent), and Kogas (5 percent) made the final investment decision to develop LNG Canada in October 2018.
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LNG Canada CEO Andy Calitz said, “The final investment decision taken by our joint venture participants shows that British Columbia and Canada, working with First Nations and local communities, can deliver competitive energy projects. This decision showcases how industrial development can co-exist with environmental stewardship and indigenous reconciliation.” LNG Canada is a LNG processing facility located in Kitimat, British Columbia, that will initially have two LNG trains (a natural gas plant’s liquefaction and purification facility, which is typically comprised of a compression area, propane condenser area, methane, and ethane areas) with the capacity to produce 14 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of LNG. In addition to building the LNG plant, construction includes redesigning an existing wharf at Kitimat to accommodate up to two LNG carriers at once and building a rail yard within the facility that will be connected to an existing rail system. LNG Canada has contracted with TransCanada to build, own, and operate the 670-kilometer (415-mile), $4.6 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline to transport natural gas from the Montney basin, located northeast of Kitimat in British Columbia and Alberta. Construction began on the Coastal GasLink pipeline in January with anticipated completion in 2023. For most of its route the pipeline will be buried underground at a depth of about three feet; initially construction will include one compressor station to increase gas pressure to keep the gas moving through the pipeline, though up to seven compressor stations could be added along the line depending on future demand. LNG Canada Development, Inc. will operate the facility. According to LNG Canada, it will be up to each joint venture participant to provide its own natural gas supply, and each will then individually offtake and market its share of the LNG. According to LNG Canada, this project “represents one of the largest energy investments in the history of Canada.” At peak construction, 4,500 people will be employed at the Kitimat site, and once completed there will be approximately 300 to 450 operational positions at the facility, though that would increase to 450 to 800 jobs if an optional additional two trains are built in the future. During the early days of operations, one specialist LNG ship will
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Arctic LNG 2 PAO NOVATEK is one of the largest independent natural gas producers in Russia and engages in the exploration, production, processing, and marketing of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons. According to NOVATEK, the company currently accounts for 9 percent of total natural gas production in Russia, totaling 68.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas production in 2018. The company announced in early 2017 its plans to build Arctic LNG 2, a liquefaction terminal in Western Siberia, Russia, on the Gydan Peninsula. In December 2018, NOVATEK signed a $2.5 billion LNG platform engineering, construction, and installation contract with a joint venture between Saipem (an Italian energy contractor) and Renaissance (a Turkish services company). The three, nearly 100-foot-high platforms will be concrete gravity-based structures. According to an article published by 4C Offshore, a consultancy and market research organization that targets offshore energy markets, “In general, gravity foundations are designed with the objective of avoiding tensile loads (pulling/ lifting) between the bottom of the support structure and the seabed. This is achieved by providing sufficient dead loads such that the structure maintains its stability in all environmental conditions solely by means of its own gravity.” Also in December 2018, NOVATEK contracted with Nuovo Pignone (a part of Baker Hughes, a GE company), which will provide turbo machinery equipment for the project. Then in February, NOVATEK signed a contract with Siemens to provide compressor equipment for the three LNG trains planned for Arctic LNG 2; each train will be capable of producing 6.6 MTPA (for a total capacity of 19.8 MTPA) of LNG. The equipment contract includes three feed gas compressors and six boil-off gas compressors. In late March, Sevmorput (a Russian, nuclear-powered vessel owned by Rosatomflot) delivered the first shipment of cargo to the Arctic LNG 2 project site at the Utrenneye field (estimated to have 1.98 trillion cubic meters of natural gas and 105 million tons of liquids). Crew members unloaded pipe, metal www.akbizmag.com
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Mozambique LNG It’s expected that Anadarko Petroleum will announce a final investment decision for Mozambique LNG by the end of June, sticking to its development plan despite terrorist activities in the area and Cyclone Idai, which struck the city of Beira in Mozambique in mid-March and put more than 100,000 people in urgent need of humanitarian aid. Both Anadarko and ExxonMobil, which also
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Brownsville LNG There are three LNG projects on strikingly similar schedules all looking to build facilities in Brownsville, Texas. It’s expected that there will be a final investment decision in 2020 on Texas LNG. If built, capacity for the project is 2 MTPA for Phase I, with potential for Phase II (to be constructed at a later date) to provide additional 2 MPTA of capacity. A pipeline to deliver gas to the project is already constructed and runs adjacent to the site. FERC issued the project a draft EIS in www.akbizmag.com
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While “unexpected” is rarely a soughtafter keyword in any industry development project, Mozambique LNG’s potential remains significant. Reserves in the Golfinho/ Atum fields in Anadarko’s Area 1 deepwater block located 10 miles offshore are estimated at 75 trillion cubic feet, one of the world’s largest recent gas discoveries. Additionally, in February Anadarko announced LNG sale and purchase agreements with Tokyo Gas and Centrica for 2.6 MTPA until the early 2040s; CNOOC, 1.2 MTPA for thirteen years; Shell, 2 MTPA for thirteen years; Bharat, 1 MTPA for fifteen years; and Pertamina, 1 MTPA for twenty years. If constructed, Mozambique LNG will be the first onshore LNG facility in the country, comprised of two initial LNG trains with a combined capacity of approximately 12.88 MTPA, meaning more than half of the capacity is already under contract for a minimum of thirteen years, which is just under the project’s goal to sell 9 to 11 MTPA of long-term contracts. “Mozambique will reserve some production capacity to sell on a spot and/or short-term basis, as well,” states the Mozambique LNG website. The LNG park will be scalable, so that as demand increases total production for the project could be expanded to 50 MTPA. A consortium of CB&I, Chiyoda Corporation, and Saipem, known as CCS JV, was selected for the initial development of the onshore development. The scope of work includes the two LNG trains, two LNG storage tanks (each with a capacity of 180,000 cubic meters), condensate storage, a multi-berth marine jetty, and associated utilities and infrastructure. Anadarko expects to construct the two initial trains at a cost of $600 per tonne, meaning the combined cost for the project comes in at about $7.7 billion (significantly lower than earlier estimates of $14 billion to $15 billion), and deliver first LNG in 2023-2024.
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for the cost of the project were approximately $17 billion. Annova LNG is making plans for up to six LNG trains at its proposed Brownsville facility, each capable of producing 1 MTPA. Other site facilities for this project include two storage tanks capable of storing 160,000 cubic meters of gas and one LNG carrier dock with mooring dolphins, access walkways, and a loading platform. There is space within the project’s footprint for additional facilities in the future to increase production including additional storage tanks, trains, and another docking berth. The Annova LNG project, estimated to cost more than $3 billion, is also in the midst of the FERC process, anticipating it will be finalized by the third quarter of 2019, allowing the company to make a final investment decision by the end of the year. If the project stays on schedule, construction would begin in 2020 with first LNG production in 2023-2024.
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If all goes well, construction could begin on the $12 billion to $16 billion Louisiana LNG project, a 50/50 partnership between Energy Transfer and Shell in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Shell would act as the project’s construction manager and operator. The fully-permitted project would convert Energy Transfer’s existing Lake Charles import and regasification terminal into a LNG export facility with three LNG trains with a combined capacity of 16.45 MTPA. In March, the two companies signed a Project Framework Agreement to further develop the project and are “actively engaging with LNG engineering, procurement, and contracting companies with a plan to issue an Invitation to Tender in the weeks ahead,” according to a release from the project. In July 2018, the Department of Energy issued a twenty-year license to Galveston Bay LNG, located in Texas City, Texas, to export up to 16.5 MTPA utilizing five LNG trains; the project would also include construction of an 85-mile pipeline that would supply gas from Katy Hub, west of Houston. Shell finished constructing Prelude FLNG, the first floating LNG project, in 2017; it left the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea in June 2017 and was towed to Northwest Australia, where it was set in position in November 2017. After that, Shell “moved from construction
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into hook-up and commissioning and offshored more than 1,500 people to carry out the complex task of mooring Prelude to its home,” the company states. In June of 2018, gas was loaded onboard, which both allows the vessel to run on natural gas and test the liquefaction process. Prelude FLNG has a production capacity of 5.3 MTPA of liquids; 3.6 MTPA of LNG, 1.3 MTPA of condensate, and 0.4 MTPA of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Wells were opened in December 2018, which marks the “start-up, ramp-up,” or the initial phase of production where gas condensate is produced and moving through the facility. “Once this has concluded the facility will be stabilised for reliable production of LPG and LNG,” Shell states. Not all of these projects are in direct competition with Alaska LNG (as some are targeting different markets or competing on a different scale), which for a quick comparison is currently estimated to cost $43 billion (though the ExxonMobile/BP/ AGDC team is working to bring that number down) and will have three LNG trains with a combined capacity of 20 MTPA and an estimated projected startup of 2023-2025—but some of them are direct competitors, and this list does not include every proposed LNG project across the globe. There’s no doubt about the rising demand for LNG in the coming years; the question remains which projects will manage to cross the finish line to meet it. www.akbizmag.com
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Far From Tapped Out 2019 sees renewed vigor on the Slope By Kathryn Mackenzie
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aking predictions about when an oilfield will come online and how much oil that field will produce is an inexact science at best. The number of factors involved in successfully finding and extracting oil from start to finish is countless. Oil and gas exploration is dependent on climate, price volatility, budgetary restraints (both state and corporate), land access, permitting, safety requirements, technology, and… shall we go on? While it’s close to impossible to say exactly how much oil will come from the North Slope in the coming years, it’s roundly accepted the state will see a major uptick in activity in the region thanks in part to The More Alaska Production Act, also known as SB 21, which has drawn billions of dollars in new investment to Alaska over the past several years, causing Alaska’s major oil and gas players (and some newcomers) to invest their faith and money in the Alaska Arctic with new and ongoing projects.
ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips increased its budget for its Alaska operations from $900 million last year to $1.2 billion this year, or about 20 percent of its total planned 2019 capital expenditures of $6.1 billion, reflecting “higher activity and higher working interest in existing fields and further exploration activity focused on appraising the successful Willow discovery,” the company reports. The Willow prospect—located in the Bear Tooth Unit in the northeast portion of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A)—is expected to produce 100,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) with first oil anticipated in 2024-2025. The company is also developing Greater Mooses Tooth 2 (GMT2) following successful production last year at Greater Mooses Tooth 1 (GMT1) also located in NPR-A. The company expects GMT2 to produce 35,000 to 40,000 bopd via 34 | May 2019
ConocoPhillips’ Alpine field. The company plans for GMT2 to connect to the Alpine production center for processing via GMT1 and CD5 infrastructure. ConocoPhillips
thirty-six initial wells, which may increase to forty-eight, at a cost of less than $1 billion, according to a company fact sheet. Plans call for GMT2 to connect to the Alpine production center “for processing via GMT1 and CD5 infrastructure.” First oil at GMT2 is planned for late 2021.
Hilcorp Hilcorp Energy is developing its Moose Pad prospect in the Milne Point field. This marks the first new pad at Milne Point since 2002 and will be home to fifty wells, according to a presentation given to the Resource Development Council by David Wilkins, senior vice president of Hilcorp Alaska. Facility construction was 86 percent complete in late 2018 and the pad was set for first production in January of this year. The company expects peak production of 16,000 bopd of viscous oil by 2021. The Milne Point field is owned by Hilcorp and BP in a 50/50 partnership and operated by Hilcorp. Hilcorp is using polymer flooding to help push more thick oil out of the ground, resulting in higher yields. In total, Moose Pad represents a $400 million investment that will result in recovery of 60 million barrels of oil, according to the company. Hilcorp expects Milne Point to be producing 35,000 bopd by the end of this year.
Oil Search Oil Search, a relatively new player in Alaska, is developing the Pikka Unit in the Nanushuk formation. The company says Nanushuk will be a major area of development on the North Slope starting with Pikka, which it expects to produce approximately 620 million barrels of oil. The Pikka Unit is being purchased from Armstrong Energy in two increments; half was bought for $400 million in 2018 and the remaining $450 million is set to be paid before June. Oil Search is targeting first oil from the Pikka Unit in 2023 from two drill sites: Pikka B and Pikka C. The company, which commenced its first drilling operation in December 2018,
said in an April release the winter drilling season “met or exceeded expectations for planning, safety, drilling, subsurface data gathering, and overall performance” with confirmation of well deliverability. It went on to say in Pikka C—which was spud in February—flow rates were impacted by well clean-up and mechanical issues, but “sufficient data was acquired from the well to support its pre-drill expectations.” Pikka B was spud in January. Overall, Oil Search (operating in state as Oil Search Alaska) says it expects development will meet or exceed its project forecast. The company continues to advance its plans through permitting and cooperation discussions with other North Slope operators. “The results of the drilling are in… Alaska represents an excellent start to 2019, which promises to be an exciting year,” says Peter Botten, managing director at Oil Search.
BP BP Alaska spent part of the winter season conducting a 3D seismic survey of about 400 square miles of Prudhoe Bay to identify any small pockets of oil that may have been overlooked and could help extend the life of the oilfield for “another forty years.” The company conducted the survey during about a four-month period ending in mid-April using machinery that creates sonic energy waves that echo off rocks thousands of feet below the ground’s surface, returning to data receivers that differentiate the types of sound waves based on the type of rock they bounce off of.
Pantheon Pantheon Resources, another Alaska oil and gas newcomer, in April announced it completed flow testing operations at the Alkaid well, acquired from Great Bear Petroleum in January of this year. Alkaid was drilled as a vertical test well in 2015 but was not flow-tested due to massive flooding in the region and was subsequently suspended. Pantheon resumed field operations after acquiring
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the assets from Great Bear Petroleum with the objective of gaining an “understanding of the geological and geophysical properties of the play and to assess the potential commerciality of the three targeted zones.” Pantheon saw successful flow test results at its primary target, the Brookian Formation in the Alkaid well, which confirmed the well as an oil discovery; however, flow testing operations at the shallower West Sak and Ugnu secondary targets found brackish water, resulting in Pantheon downgrading the probability of success in both secondary targets. Future development wells at Alkaid will be horizontal, stimulated, and perforated over larger intervals which Pantheon says will deliver significantly larger production rates than April’s flow rate of 80 to 1,000 bopd of light oil. The company applied to the state to suspend and freeze the wellbore for use as a future development well and producer. “Despite [the] news on the secondary targets, Alkaid has been a great success for Pantheon, exceeding our expectations in the primary target, and upgrading the adjoining Phecda prospect which appears analogous on seismic… Our decision to apply to the State to suspend and freeze protect Alkaid now was impacted significantly by the ‘brackish water’ produced in the West Sak and also by the recent exceptionally warm weather on the North Slope. It is imperative to preserve the Alkaid discovery well for future production. The Alkaid success provides ongoing confidence on future drilling operations where the high tech geophysics applied to Alkaid can be replicated across the entire portfolio and deliver material success, as has been the case with other operators chasing this similar play in adjoining leases,” said Jay Cheatham, CEO of Pantheon in an April press release. It appears that forecasters were right on the money when they predicted the North Slope would see more activity this year than in the past decade as companies from around the world look to Alaska’s oil reserves with renewed interest. North Slope production is expected to average 511,500 bopd in FY2019 and 529,000 barrels per day in FY2020, according to the Resource Development Council. Whether these projections are right on the nose or even close to accurate, there’s no doubt that the North Slope is far from tapped out.
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2019 Alaska Business
Oil & Gas Directory EXPLORATION/PRODUCTION Alaska Gasline Development Corporation Top Executive: Joe Dubler, Interim Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 010/2010 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 20/20 agdc.us | externalaffairs@agdc.us Alaska LNG is an integrated gas infrastructure project with three major components: a gas treatment plant located at Prudhoe Bay, an 807-mile pipeline with offtakes, and a natural gas liquefaction plant located in Nikiski. Alaska LNG will provide gas for Alaskans and LNG for export for generations. 3201 C St., Suite 200, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-330-6300
BP Exploration (Alaska) Top Executive: Janet Weiss, B P AK Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 959/1959 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 74,000/1,500 alaska.bp.com BP operates the Greater Prudhoe Bay area, which consists of the Prudhoe Bay field, one of North America’s largest oilfields. This area produces more than half of Alaska’s oil and gas production. BP Alaska employs more than 1,500 people and supports more than 8,300 jobs in Alaska. PO Box 196612, Anchorage, AK 99515-6612 907-561-5111
ConocoPhillips Alaska Top Executive: Joe Marushack, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 952/1952 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 11,100/1,100 conocophillipsalaska.com n.m.lowman@conocophillips.com conocophillips | @COP_Alaska An independent exploration and production company. We are Alaska’s largest oil producer and have been a leader in oil and gas exploration and development in the state for more than fifty years. 700 G St., PO Box 100360, Anchorage, AK 99510 | 907276-1215
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Doyon Drilling Top Executive: Ron Wilson, P res./GM Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 982/1982 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 391/391 Doyon Drilling operates on the North Slope of Alaska with rigs designed to drill in northern Alaska conditions. The company consistently strives to improve its operations and has some of the most technologically advanced land drilling rigs in the world. 11500 C St., Suite 200, Anchorage, AK 99515 9 07-563-5530
Eni Petroleum Top Executive: Luca Pellicciotta, V P Technical Svcs. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 926/2006 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 33,000/400 Eni is an integrated energy company with a presence in 71 countries and more than 33,000 employees. Eni operates in oil and gas exploration, production, transportation, transformation, and marketing in petrochemicals, oilfield services construction, and engineering. 3800 Centerpoint Dr., Suite 300, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-865-3300
ExxonMobil Alaska Top Executive: Darlene Gates, P roduction Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 870/1954 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 70,000/197 ExxonMobil is the largest holder of discovered gas resources and the second largest oil producer in Alaska. The company operates the Point Thomson facility on the North Slope to produce natural gas condensate and is also the largest interest owner of the Prudhoe Bay unit. PO Box 196601, Anchorage, AK 99519 9 07-561-5331
Marathon Petroleum Top Executive: Cameron Hunt, VP Refining Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 969/1969 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: -/280 marathonpetroleum.com Located on the Cook Inlet, 60 miles southwest of Anchorage, the 72,000 (bpd) Kenai Refinery has been producing gasoline
and gasoline blendstocks, jet fuel, diesel fuel, heating oil and heavy fuel oils, propane, and asphalt since 1969. 1601 Tidewater Rd., Anchorage, AK 99501 | 907-261-7221
Oil Search Top Executive: Keiran Wulff, P res. AK Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 929/2018 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: ~1,300/~100 oilsearch.com Among the top five oil and gas lease holders on Alaska’s North Slope and operator of the Pikka Unit located east of the Colville River and seven miles northeast of Nuiqsut. Pikka Unit first oil is planned for 2025. PO Box 240927, Anchorage, AK 99524 907-375-4600
SERVICES, SUPPORT, SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT 3M Alaska Top Executive: Stephanie Mathers, Reg. Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 902/1971 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 91,500/12 3M.com | innovation.3malaska@mmm.com | 3M 3M manufactures a wide range of products covering many markets in Alaska. In the area of natural resources, we provide products and services that support the oil/gas and mining industries in worker safety, electrical and communications, welding protection, and fire and corrosion protection. 11151 Calaska Cir., Anchorage, AK 99515 907-522-5200
Acuren Top Executive: Frank Noble, Reg. Mgr. AK Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 976/2002 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 4,000+/18 acuren.com | tthorson@acuren.com Materials engineering, nondestructive examination, and integrity management for the oil and gas, power, mining, transportation, and construction industries. 7910 King St., Anchorage, AK 99518 9 07-569-5000
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Top Executive: Scott Hawkins, Pres./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 999/1999 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 130/109 ascillc.com | hr@ascillc.co ASCILLC
Top Executive: Brian Benson, A rea VP Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 902/1955 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 31,000/65
Provide supply chain management services specialized in asset intensive industries (oil and gas, mining, energy, utilities, among others). This includes managed services and BPO solutions. 2525 Gambell St., Suite 405, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-345-2724
Providing safety products and gases of all types and form, welding tools, filler metals, hardgoods, and machines to oilfield and pipeline constructors. We carry a full line of rental welders and plasma equipment and repair (warranty and other) for all major welding equipment and tool manufacturers. 6415 Arctic Blvd., Anchorage, AK 99518 907-562-2080
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Top Executive: Chris Hickling, AK Bus. Dev. Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 998/2008 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 165/30 aesolns.com | info@aesolns.com aesolutions | @aesolns
Top Executive: Ronald Smith, Pres./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 991/1991 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 18/18 aksupply.net | blester@aksupply.net
aeSolutions is a complete system integrator specializing in safety instrumented systems, automation, process safety consulting, industrial cybersecurity, alarm management, and operations and maintenance solutions; supporting all phases of the Process Safety Lifecycle. 3800 Centerpoint Dr., Suite 620, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-865-5992
NOV engineered completion and production solutions, valve actuation, HP iron, piping, pipeline saddles/hangers, corrosion mitigation, Flo-control, valve lubricants/ equipment, RedWing FRC, engineered composite docks, rig mats, towers, modules, foundation systems, solid oxide fuel cells, SCADA. 8000 King St., Anchorage, AK 99518 907-562-3422
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Top Executive: Matt Thorpe, G M Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 004/2004 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 50/50 afognakleasing.com | afisk@afognak.com Lease and sell temporary and permanent remote camp and workforce housing facilities, portable offices and oil field support equipment. Build to suit mancamp and workforce housing facilities. Provide camp relocation, operations and management services. Lease and sell composite or wood rig mats. 3909 Arctic Blvd., Suite 500, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-222-9500
Ahtna Environmental Top Executive: Tim Finnigan, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 010/2010 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 175/57 aeiak.com Specializes in the execution of timesensitive, complex, and multifaceted environmental, engineering, construction, and professional services projects for government and commercial clients. 110 W. 38th Ave., Suite 200B, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-644-0760
AIMM Technologies Top Executive: Brooks Bradford Sr., C EO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 996/2005 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 65/3 hydrokinetics.com | rhanks@aimmtechnologies.com Specializing in tank cleaning and hydrokinetic pipe cleaning. Onshore and offshore oilfield and rig support. Hydroblasting and pressure washing, FinFan and heat exchanger cleaning. Onshore, offshore oilfield and rig support. Drill waste processing, management and disposal. Environmental waste cleaning, management. PO Box 1086, Kenai, AK 99611 | 907-283-7330
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Top Executive: Beau Bivins, Pres./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 014/2014 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 7/7 akaerial.media | info@akaerialmedia.com akaerialmedia | @akaerialmedia Alaska Aerial Media is a sUAS (drone) enabled data collection company. While reducing risk and improving safety, we allow enterprise to fully harness the benefits of sUAS based data collection. We specialize in visual inspections of critical infrastructure and aerial survey including LiDAR. 7447 Meadow St., Anchorage, AK 99507 907-440-0088
Alaska Air Cargo Top Executive: Jason Berry, M ng. Dir. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 932/1932 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 23,000/1,825 alaskacargo.com | cargo@alaskaair.com Goldstreak package express, Pet Connect Animal Travel, priority and general air freight services. Our modern fleet of 737-700 freighters serves 19 Alaska communities with connections to more than 100 destinations in the Lower 48, Hawaii, and beyond with scheduled, reliable service. 4700 Old International Airport Rd., Anchorage, AK 99502 8 00-225-2752
Alaska Airlines Top Executive: Brad Tilden, C hmn./CEO AK Air Group Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 932/1932 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 23,000/1,825 alaskaair.com Alaska Airlines and regional carrier Horizon Air provide passenger and cargo service to 115 destinations in Alaska, Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, and the Lower 48. 3600 Old International Airport Rd., Anchorage, AK 99502 9 07-266-7200
Alaska Clean Seas Top Executive: Barkley Lloyd, GM Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 979/1979 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 90/90 alaskacleanseas.org We protect the environment by providing response services to the Alaska North Slope crude oil explorers and producers and the first 167 miles of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System in accordance with oil spill response agreements and plans. 3300 C St., Suite 200, Anchorage, AK 99503 | 907-743-8989
Alaska Clean Tanks Top Executive: Robert Wilson, O wner Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 013/2013 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 4/4 alaskacleantanks.com bobwilson@alaskacleantanks.com AST/UST bulk fuel polishing and tank cleaning; hazardous cargo tank cleaning; purging and cleaning of tanks for safe entry prior to maintenance or closure; hazard/ non-hazardous waste disposal; vac truck services; tank removal and replacement; tank tightness testing, confined space entry certified. PO Box 60415, Fairbanks, AK 99706-0415 | 9 07-385-3975
Alaska Commercial Development Group Top Executive: Matthew Greer, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 997/1997 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 6/6 acdshops@alaska.net General contractor located in Fairbanks specializing in design/builds. Wood and metal framed industrial buildings. Has space for lease for oil/gas semi-haulers looking for affordable/secure/clean warehouse. 3324 Koba Way, Fairbanks, AK 99709 | 9 07-457-1861
Alaska Directional Top Executive: Billy Long, P res./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 012/2012 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 50/50 alaskadirectional.com akdirectional@alaskadirectional.com Horizontal directional drilling, trenching, underground utility installation, communication towers. 200 E. Commercial Dr., Palmer, AK 99645 | 907-357-9015
Alaska Dreams Top Executive: Meini Huser, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 994/1994 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 20/20 alaskadreamsinc.com | sales@alaskadreamsinc.com Design, sales, and construction of fabric covered steel building and pre-engineered metal buildings. 2081 Van Horn Rd., Suite 2, Fairbanks, AK 99701 907-455-7712
Alaska Energy Services Top Executive: Diane Bachman, P res./Owner Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 010/2010 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 2/2 alaskaenergyservices.com Diane.b@alaskaenergyservices.com Oil and gas, all leasing, telecommunications. PO Box 240708, Anchorage, AK 99524 | 907-632-1180
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Alaska Marine Lines Top Executive: Kevin Anderson, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 980/1980 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 393/169 lynden.com/aml | information@lynden.com LyndenInc | @LyndenInc Alaska Marine Lines is a marine transportation company providing barge service between Seattle, Alaska, and Hawaii. We offer regularly scheduled service to Southeast Alaska and Central Alaska, seasonal service to Western Alaska, and bi-weekly service to Hawaii. Charter services are also available. 660 Western Dr., Anchorage, AK 99501 | 9 07-339-5150
Alaska Oil and Gas Association Top Executive: Kara Moriarty, P res./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 966/1966 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 4/4 aoga.org | info@aoga.org Alaska oil and gas industry trade association. 121 W. Fireweed Ln., #207, Anchorage, AK 99503 | 907-272-1481
Alaska Roteq Top Executive: Kevin Laurin, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 993/1993 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 25/25 akroteq.com | info@akroteq.com Machine shop work, pump repairs, valve repairs, welding and coatings. Distributor for numerous pump and valve companies, Flowserve mechanical seals, and Ingersoll Rand air compressors. 2051 Foundry Way, Wasilla, AK 99654 | 907-376-0550
Alaska Rubber & Rigging Supply Top Executive: Janeece Higgins, C EO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 981/1981 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 110/60 alaskarubber.com | info@alaskaruber.com AKRubbber | @Alaska_Supply AK’s largest supplier of hydraulic and industrial hose assemblies and associated products; specialize in fabrication/testing of wire rope, chain and synthetic slings for overhead lifting and rigging; supply and service fueling, lubrication and pressure washing equip, hydraulic pumps, motors, cylinders, and valves. 5811 Old Seward Hwy., Anchorage, AK 99518-1479 907-562-2200
Alaska Textiles Top Executive: Clif Burnette, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 978/1978 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 24/24 korbana.com We are the number one supplier of FRC apparel, to include our very own Korbana Protective Apparel, in Alaska, North Dakota, and around the world. With a highly trained sales staff we make customer service and quality control our priorities. 620 W. Fireweed Ln., Anchorage, AK 99503 | 907-265-4880
lynden.com/awe | information@lynden.com LyndenInc | @LyndenInc Alaska West Express provides oversized and bulk truckload transportation throughout the United States and Canada, specializing in shipments to and from Alaska, where we are the leader in transporting liquid- and drybulk products, hazardous and non-hazardous chemicals, and petroleum products. 1048 Whitney Rd., Anchorage, AK 99501 | 907-339-5100
American Marine Int. is a full service marine contractor providing international standard commercial diving, heavy marine construction, vessel and logistical support for installation, maintenance and repair projects. In 2018 AMI completed ten years and more than 1.5 million hours with a Zero TRIR. 6000 A St., Anchorage, AK 99518 | 907-562-5420
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American Relocation Services
Top Executive: Lee Smith , Sr. VP Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 001/2001 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 4/2 alaskanenergyresources.com akerr@alaskanenergy.com
Top Executive: Kristina Blackadar, C ommercial Sales Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 988/1988 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 80/65 americanrelocationservices.com Blackadark@americanfast.com
Provides oil drilling equipment to operators. 1120 Huffman Rd., Suite 234, Anchorage, AK 99515 907-336-4664
Commercial/residential relocation, moving and storage, temperature-controlled facilities, ocean freight forwarding, complete packing and crating services, free detailed estimates, military approved, certified moving consultants, budget service available. Also locations in Fairbanks, Soldotna, and Kodiak. 5491 Electron Dr., Unit 1, Anchorage, AK 99518 | 9 07-561-5166
All American Oilfield Top Executive: Pete Dickinson, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 010/2010 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 135/135 allamericanoilfield.com | info@allamericanoilfield.com Onshore and offshore services include drilling, maintenance and support, workover, coil tubing, grind and inject, and well testing crews. Professional services include oilfield engineering, consulting, and management services. Owner/operator of workover Rig 111. 14896 Kenai Spur Hwy., Suite 203, Kenai, AK 99611 907-283-1048
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Top Executive: Thomas Barrett, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 970/1970 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 756/756 alyeska-pipe.com | alyeskamail@alyeska-pipeline.com alyeskapipeline | @AlyeskaPipeline Alyeska Pipeline Service Company has operated the Trans Alaska Pipeline System since 1977 and has delivered more than 17 billion barrels of oil. Focused on safe and flawless operations, employees are committed to keeping TAPS sustainable for all of Alaska. PO Box 196660, MS 542, Anchorage, AK 99519-6660 907-787-8700
American Fast Freight Top Executive: Craig Forbes, V P Ops AK Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 984/1984 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 600/200 americanfast.com | info@americanfast.com AmericanFastFreight Ocean freight forwarding, freight consolidation of all kinds, LTL/LCL, full loads and single shipments, temperature protected, dry vans, specialized equipment, heavy haul, project logistics, barge, steamship, intrastate trucking, warehousing, distribution, and expanded service to Prudhoe Bay. 5025 Van Buren St., Anchorage, AK 99517 | 9 07-248-5548
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American Marine International
Top Executive: Eric Badger, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 978/1978 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 164/150
Top Executive: David Shahnazarian, V P Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 973/1973 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 300/85
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APICC Top Executive: Cari-Ann Carty, E xec. Dir. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 999/1999 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 5/5 apicc.org | info@apicc.org | APICCAlaska | @apicc APICC works with industry and educational and training institutions to prepare Alaskans to work in living wage jobs in Alaska and to ensure an available, well-trained Alaskan workforce. 2600 Cordova St., Suite 105, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-770-5250
Arctic Energy Top Executive: Greg Porter, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 012/2012 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 5/3 arcticenergyalaska.com gporter@arcticenergyalaska.com arcticenergyinc Founded in 2012, Arctic Energy provides combined heat and power energy solutions and distributed generation throughout Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and extreme locations, such as Greenland and Antarctica. PO Box 220110, Anchorage, AK 99522 | 907-382-7772
Arctic Foundations Top Executive: Edward Yarmak, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 972/1972 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 16/16 arcticfoundations.com | info@arcticfoundations.com Two-phase thermosyphons for long-term ground freezing: u sed for permafrost stabilization, frozen dams, containment, etc. 5621 Arctic Blvd., Anchorage, AK 99518 | 907-562-2741
ARCTOS Alaska, a Division of NORTECH Top Executive: Peter Beardsley, CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 979/1979 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 25/25 arctosak.com | info@nortechengr.com nortechengr Full service environmental regulatory compliance contractor, tank and piping inspection, field compliance services, permit
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ARCTOS Alaska continued: and compliance management, oil discharge contingency plans, plan audits, full range spill prevention and response planning services, response management, and support. 3105 Lakeshore Dr., Suite A106, Anchorage, AK 99517 907-222-2445
Baker Hughes, a GE Company Top Executive: Jon Rhodes, Area Mgr. AK Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 969/1980 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 64,000/150 bhge.com | BHGEOG | @bhgeco BHGE covers every segment of the oil and gas industry as a full-stream company, including upstream, midstream, and downstream solutions. Delivering integrated oilfield products, services, and digital solutions to the oil and gas industry. 795 E. 94th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99515 | 907-267-3431
Beacon Occupational Health & Safety Services Top Executive: Holly Hylen, P res./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 999/1999 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 268/260 beaconohss.com | mhylen@beaconohss.com BeaconOHSS Beacon provides single-source remote medical, occupational medicine, safety, and training solutions to keep your employees safe and healthy, regardless of their location. Our client-specific approach is proactive, preventative, and leverages our highly skilled team of professionals and technicians. 800 Cordova St., Anchorage, AK 99501 | 9 07-222-7612
Bering Marine Corporation Top Executive: Rick Gray, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 985/1985 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 62/62 lynden.com/bmc | information@lynden.com LyndenInc | @LyndenInc Bering Marine Corporation provides highly specialized, contracted, marine services to reach water-locked villages and other remote Alaska locations. Our fleet of shallow-draft equipment supports construction of docks, roads, and airstrips in Alaska communities. 6400 S. Airpark Pl., Anchorage, AK 99502 | 9 07-248-7646
Brenntag Pacific Top Executive: Steve Holland, C EO/Brenntag AG Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 874/1990 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 16,000/17 brenntag.com | jshort@brenntag.com BrenntagNorthAmerica | @brenntagna Safety is our number one priority. Brenntag is a founding member of the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD). We are ISO certified and have operated in the State of Alaska for more than thirty years. 4199 S. Lathrop St., Fairbanks, AK 99701 | 9 07-952-4075
Brooks Range Supply Top Executive: Dave Pfeifer, CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 982/1982 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 40/40 Diverse range of automotive and heavy equipment parts, industrial and hydraulic
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hose, hardware, welding equipment, safety and MRO supplies, propane refilling, oil spill materials, lubricants, WSB fuel and oil enhancement products, hand and power tools, NAPA, True Value, VIPAR, IWDC Welding. Pouch 340008, Prudhoe Bay, AK 99734 | 907-659-2550
C & R Pipe and Steel Top Executive: Dennis Wilfer, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 992/1992 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 45/45 crpipeandsteel.com | sales@crpipe.net | crpipe We offer new and used pipe (1/2”-60”), structural pipe, pilings, well casing pipe, bollards, steel posts, culverts, and more. C & R Pipe and Steel in Fairbanks is the largest pipe distributor in Alaska. When you choose us, you gain access to more than 7,500 tons of steel pipe in our inventory. 401 E. Van Horn Rd., Fairbanks, AK 99701 907-456-8386
C2 North Top Executive: Melanie Roller, Owner/Principal Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 001/2001 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 4/4 c2north.com | mroller@c2north.com Small business certifications with an emphasis on Alaska Native corporations. Project management, technical writing, and business solutions for the oil and gas industry. 4141 B St., Suite 201, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-569-9122
Carlile Transportation Top Executive: Terry Howard, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 980/1980 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 420/350 carlile.biz | thendrix@carlile.biz CarlileTrans Transportation and logistics company offering multi-model trucking as well as project logistics services across Alaska and North America. 1800 E. First Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501-1833 907-276-7797
Catalyst Marine Top Executive: Joe Tougas, Pres./Owner Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 008/2008 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 27/25 Since 2008 Catalyst Marine has provided project management and vessel/fleet support services for clients in all Marine Industries. Along with staged equipment in Prudhoe Bay, Kodiak, and Valdez, our team of ABS and USCG certified welders are ready to deploy anywhere in Alaska. 1806 Alameda St., Seward, AK 99664 | 9 07-224-2500
Chugach Alaska Services Top Executive: Ryan Kegley, G M Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 008/2008 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 62/62 chugachalaskaservices.com ryan.kegley@chugach.com Chugach Alaska Services provides tailored, cost-efficient staffing solutions to Alaska’s oil and gas industry. 3800 Centerpoint Dr., Suite 1200, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-261-0474
Chugach Professional Oilfield Services Top Executive: Gerald Atol, G M Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 015/2015 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 5/5 chugach.com | gerald.atol@chugach.com Chugach Professional Oilfield Services provides professional oilfield engineering, consulting, and management services to operators across Alaska. 3800 Centerpoint Dr., Suite 1200, Anchorage, AK 99503 | 907-261-0427
Coffman Engineers Top Executive: Tom Looney, V P/Mng. Principal Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 979/1979 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 483/103 coffman.com Civil, commissioning, corrosion control, electrical, forensic, fire protection, industrial design, instrumentation and controls, landscape, lighting, mechanical, pipeline integrity management, pipeline and process facility design, project management, structural, sustainable design, energy audit. 800 F St., Anchorage, AK 99501 | 9 07-276-6664
Colville Top Executive: Dave Pfeifer, Pres./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 981/1981 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 196/196 Colville’s group of oilfield companies provides a full complement of Arctic logistics capabilities. Our services include fuel, aviation, waste management, transport, industrial supply, and camp services. Pouch 340012, Prudhoe Bay, AK 99734 | 9 07-659-3198
CONAM Construction Top Executive: Dale Kissee, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 984/1984 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 300/300 conamco.com General construction contractor specializing in design and construction of oil and gas facilities and pipelines, mining facilities, water and sewer facilities, and other remote infrastructure projects. 301 W. Northern Lights Blvd., Suite 300, Anchorage, AK 99503 | 9 07-278-6600
Cruz Companies Alaska Top Executive: Dave Cruz, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 981/1981 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 243/174 Experts in resource development and heavy civil construction. 7000 E. Palmer Wasilla Hwy. , Palmer, AK 99645 9 07-746-3144
Cruz Marine Top Executive: Kevin Weiss, GM Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 989/1989 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 20/20 Shallow draft marine support for heavy civil construction and resource development based in Cook Inlet with services extending to the western and arctic coast of Alaska. Eco friendly tugs and ramp barges that have double hull fuel tanks and hospital grade silencers. 7000 E. Palmer-Wasilla Hwy., Palmer, AK 99645 907-746-3144
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Deadhorse Aviation Center Top Executive: Tim Cudney, Dir. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 012/2012 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 8/7 deadhorseaviation.com | DeadhorseAviation The Deadhorse Aviation Center is Fairweather’s multi-modal aviation facility designed to meet the needs of onshore and offshore oil and gas development on the North Slope. The DAC has two large hangars, laydown yard for storage rental, office space, terminal, bedrooms, and a full dining facility. 301 Calista Court, Anchorage, AK 99518 | 907-685-1700
Delta Constructors Top Executive: Ed Gohr, CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 007/2007 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 780/270 deltaconstructors.net Delta Constructors specializes in construction management (estimating, planning, scheduling, and project execution) and direct hire construction for structural, piping, mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation disciplines in support of up- and mid-stream oil and gas development. 3000 C St., Suite 202, Anchorage, AK 99503 | 9 07-771-5800
Delta Leasing Top Executive: Rudi von Imhof, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 002/2002 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 65/65 deltaleasing.com Specialized leasing of fleet trucks, SUVs, vans, and shuttle buses, as well as
construction and mining equipment, oil and gas equipment. GM, Dodge, and International warranty repair center. Alaskan-owned. Deadline driven. Results oriented. Anchorage/Kenai/Prudhoe Bay/ Fairbanks/Remote Alaska. 8101 Dimond Hook Dr., Anchorage, AK 99507 907-771-1300
arctic pipeline construction and associated infrastructure. DAL has an established presence in Alaska with offices in Fairbanks and Anchorage and shop/yard facilities in Fairbanks and Deadhorse. 615 Bidwell Ave., Suite 100, Fairbanks, AK 99701 907-374-9130
Denali Universal Services
Top Executive: Mariah Pitka-Jenkins, GM Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 012/2012 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 30/30 doyonremotefacilities.com info@doyonremotefacilities.com
Top Executive: Thomas (Bob) Kean, P res./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 946/1946 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 700/600 denaliuniversal.com
Doyon Remote Facilities
Operational support including catering, housekeeping, facility maintenance, and security. 11500 C St., Suite 100, Anchorage, AK 99515 | 907-522-1300
Remote camp/office facility leasing. General construction. 11500 C St., Suite 150, Anchorgae, AK 99515 | 9 07-375-4240
Doyon Anvil
Top Executive: Aaron Schutt, Pres./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 972/1972 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 866/589 doyon.com | communications@doyon.com doyonlimited | @doyonlimited
Top Executive: Terry Caetano, P res./GM Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 984/1984 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 45/45 doyonanvil.com | tcaetano@anvilcorp.com Full service consulting engineering for the petro chemical industry as well specializing in exploration, Pre-EIS, and early phase development. Extensive experience in brown field revamp projects. 509 W. Third Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501 | 907-677-3021
Doyon Associated Top Executive: Warren Christian, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 006/2006 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 200/200 Doyon Associated (DAL) specializes in
Doyon, Limited
Oil field contracting: drilling, camp, engineering, and pipeline construction. Government services: construction services and utility services on military installations in Alaska. Information technology: government solutions, tribal, and not-for-profit space. Natural resource development. 1 Doyon Pl., Suite 300, Fairbanks, AK 99701-2941 888-478-4755
DXP| Alaska Pump & Supply Top Executive: David Little, C EO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 908/1978
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Serving industrial, municipal, and commercial customers, DXP | Alaska Pump & Supply is at the leading edge of technology providing the best rotating equipment, bearing and PT, MROP, safety products, expert service, and engineered solutions from skids to complete modules. Field services are available. 8400 Sandlewood Pl., Anchorage, AK 99507 907-563-3424
Everts Air Cargo Top Executive: Robert Everts, P res./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 995/1995 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 353/314 EvertsAir.com | shoshaw@EvertsAir.com Everts Air Cargo provides scheduled cargo service within Alaska and air charter services to domestic and international destinations. Passenger, freight, and charter service using smaller aircraft (Pilatus and Caravan) is provided out of Fairbanks. PO Box 61680, Fairbanks, AK 99706 907-450-2300
Fairweather Top Executive: Rick Fox, C EO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 976/1976 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 140/80 fairweather.com Founded in 1976, Fairweather offers a range of highly-specialized services to support remote oil and gas and mining operations. These services include remote medical and HSE support, meteorological and
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oceanographic forecasting, aviation and airstrip support, and expediting and logistics services. 301 Calista Ct., Anchorage, AK 99518 907-346-3247
Five Star Oilfield Services Top Executive: Jenny Dickinson, Ops Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 002/2002 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 90/90 fivestaroilfieldservices.com jdickinson@fivestaroilfieldservices.com Remote catering and camp services. 1301 Huffman Rd., Suite 125, Anchorage, AK 99515 907-272-9877
Fluor Alaska Top Executive: Wyche Ford, AK GM/Sr. Project Dir. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 912/1954 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 56,000/3 fluor.com | Fluor.Alaska@fluor.com fluor | @fluorcorp Engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, maintenance, and project management. 100 years of experience including 50 years in Alaska. Our integrated solutions approach spans the entire project life cycle helping reduce costs and schedules, improve certainty of delivery, and safe work performance. 4300 B St., Suite 210, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-865-2000
Fugro Top Executive: Rada Khadjinova, G M AK Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 962/2003 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: ~10,000/2
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fugro.com | akprojects@fugro.com fugro | @fugro Fugro collects data on topography, soil composition, and environmental conditions, both onshore and offshore. We organize the acquired data and add value through processing, interpretation, and visualization. In addition, we provide geo-related design, asset inspection, and integrity advice. 5761 Silverado Way, Suite O, Anchorage, AK 99518 907-561-3478
GeoTek Alaska Top Executive: Christopher Nettels, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 002/2002 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 35/25 geotekalaska.com | ksmith@geotekalaska.com We specialize in the acquisition of subsurface data for both the environmental and geotechnical professional communities. If your needs involve the characterization of the subsurface we offer drilling, UVOST, utility clearance, ground penetrating radar, and/or vacuum clearing. PO Box 11-1155, Anchorage, AK 99511-1155 | 907-569-5900
Golder Associates Top Executive: Mark Musial, Principal Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 960/1980 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 6,500/35 Arctic and geotechnical engineering, groundwater resource development, environmental sciences, and remedial investigation. 2121 Abbott Rd., Suite 100, Anchorage, AK 99507 907-344-6001
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GPS Alaska Top Executive: Kevin Silvernale, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 004/2004 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 6/6 gpsalaska.com | Info@gpsalaska.com GPS Alaska supplies precision positioning for surveyors, engineers, and contractors. We sell, support, and offer technical training for the positioning products we offer. As well as survey and engineering tools, GPS Alaska is the most experienced team in Alaska for heavy equipment automation. 360 E. International Airport Rd., Suite 10, Anchorage, AK 99518 | 9 07-562-8000
Great Northwest Top Executive: John Minder, C EO/Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 976/1976 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 220/220 grtnw.com | info@grtnw.com Heavy highway civil construction, utilities, paving, landscaping. PO Box 74646, Fairbanks, AK 99707 | 907-452-5617
Halliburton Energy Services Top Executive: Scott Odell, A K District Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 919/1958 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 60,000/349 Halliburton offers a broad array of oilfield technologies and services to upstream oil and gas customers worldwide. 6900 Arctic Blvd., Anchorage, AK 99518 | 9 07-275-2600
High Tide Environmental Top Executive: Chris Hoffman, Owner Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 010/2010
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Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 2/2 hightidealaska.com | Chris@hightidealaska.com We provide marine mammal observers during construction and environmental permitting in Alaska focused on endangered species and underwater noise impacts. We also gather underwater video to depths of 1,000 feet using our Remotely Operated Vehicle throughout Alaska and locations worldwide. 180 E. Hygrade Ln., Wasilla, AK 99654 | 907-354-3132
ICE Services Top Executive: TJ Bourdon, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 986/1986 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 425/425 iceservices.net | info@iceservices.net Since 1986, ICE Services has met the needs of customers across the North Slope requiring camp management and construction, lodging, catering and hospitality, telecommunications and IT Services, utility management, water and wastewater management, and maintenance by nearly every skilled trade. 2606 C St., Anchorage, AK 99503 | 9 07-644-0385
Immersive Geomatics Solutions Top Executive: Kenn Kadow, Principle Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 004/2004 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 15/2 immersivegeomaticssolutions.com kkadow@immersivegeomaticssolutions.com Geo-spatial and facility mapping using 360 degree cameras, ortho, LIDAR, and FODAR technologies. 3400 Knik Ave., Anchorage, AK 99517 | 907-279-4000
Jacobs Top Executive: Nate Aulds, VP/GM Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 946/1962 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 7 7,000/1,200 jacobs.com | JacobsConnects @JacobsConnects Global professional services leader serving the Alaska oil and gas, transportation, port and maritime, environmental, and water and wastewater markets with camp, equipment, infrastructure, scientific, engineering, fabrication, construction, operations, maintenance, and turnaround services. 949 E. 36th Ave., Suite 500, Anchorage, AK 99508 907-762-1500
Judy Patrick Photography Top Executive: Judy Patrick, Owner Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 984/1984 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 1/1 judypatrickphotography.com judy@judypatrickphotography.com Creative photography for oil and gas, mining, construction and transportation industries in North America. 511 W. 41st Ave., Suite 101, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-258-4704
K2 Dronotics Top Executive: Ben Kellie, CEO/Co-Founder Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 015/2015 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 5/5 k2dronotics.com | info@k2dronotics.com UAV (drone) data analysis, flight service, and training. Gathering and processing of LiDAR, RGB, multispectral, and thermal imaging;
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Kassbohrer All Terrain Vehicles Top Executive: Dennis McGiboney, VP Sales/Mktg. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 969/1985 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 400/1 pistenbullyusa.com | contact@pistenbullyusa.com pistenbullyusa PistenBully tracked utility vehicles and PowerBully tracked carriers. Up to 520 horsepower; 17 ton payload. Ice road construction, snow removal, transport equipment, pull heavy sleds, personnel cabins, special use. Support branches throughout North America. 18460 SW 126th Pl., Tualatin, OR 97062 | 5 03-783-1935
Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. Top Executive: Pat Harrison, E xec. Area Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 884/1947 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 22,500/75 Heavy civil construction including transportation, marine, dams, and resource development. 2000 W. International Airport Rd., #C6, Anchorage, AK 99502 | 907-222-9350
Lifewater Engineering Company Top Executive: Bob Tsigonis, P res.
Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 998/1998 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 10/10 LifewaterEngineering.com Custom fabrication of welded plastic tanks, boats, and other products including sewage treatment plants for man camps, homes, and lodges in the most extreme climates and remote places. For Rough Duty Boats, visit www.Class5Boatworks.com. 1963 Donald Ave., Fairbanks, AK 99701 | 9 07-458-7024
Logic Geophysics & Analytics Top Executive: Esther Babcock, G eophysicist Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 017/2017 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 2/2 logicgeophysics.com | services@logicgeophysics.com Near-surface geophysics, including geologic mapping, gravel exploration, engineering geophysics, and environmental site characterization using ground-penetrating radar, seismic, EM, and resistivity tool. 645 G St., Suite 100-978, Anchorage, AK 99501 907-744-8111
Lounsbury & Associates Top Executive: Tom Adams, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 949/1949 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 45/42 lounsburyinc.com | info@lounsburyinc.com Civil engineering, land surveying, planning, construction management. Servicing local and state government, oil and gas industry, and private development. Offices in Anchorage, Wasilla, Fairbanks, and Kuparuk. 5300 A St., Anchorage, AK 99518 | 9 07-272-5451
Lynden Air Cargo Top Executive: Rick Zerkel, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 996/1996 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 194/194 lynden.com/lac | information@lynden.com LyndenInc | @LyndenInc Charter air cargo service in Alaska and worldwide. Scheduled Alaska air cargo and express package service. 6441 S. Airpark Pl., Anchorage, AK 99502 | 907-243-7248
Lynden International Top Executive: John Kaloper, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 980/1980 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 220/52 lynden.com/lint | information@lynden.com LyndenInc | @LyndenInc Domestic and international freight forwarding and customs services. 6441 S. Airpark Pl., Anchorage, AK 99502 | 907-243-6150
Lynden Logistics Top Executive: Alex McKallor, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 984/1984 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 12/4 lynden.com/llog | information@lynden.com LyndenInc | @LyndenInc Arrangement of freight transportation, information management, and logistical services. 6400 S. Airpark Pl., Anchorage, AK 99502 | 9 07-245-1544
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Top Executive: Eric Badger, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 015/2015 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 30/30 lynden.com/loil | information@lynden.com LyndenInc | @LyndenInc
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Lynden Oilfield Services, a division of Alaska West Express, provides support for exploration, production, and service companies on the North Slope working to develop Alaska’s oil and gas resources. 1048 Whitney Rd., Anchorage, AK 99501 | 907-339-5100
Lynden Training Center Top Executive: Eric Badger, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 995/1995 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 4/4 lynden.com/training | ltc@lynden.com LyndenInc | @LyndenInc
Top Executive: Paul Grimaldi, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 954/1954 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 248/131 lynden.com/ltia | information@lynden.com
Top Executive: Robert Fell, D ir. Ops Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 973/1973 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 85/85 We support petroleum, construction, and marine industries as well as federal/state agencies. Our fleet includes Bell 206L, 407 and twin-engine 412HP & BO-105 Eurocopters. Our 86’ helipad equipped vessel supports remote marine-based operations. Bases in Homer, Fairbanks, Kenai, Kodiak, Dutch Harbor, and Valdez. 3520 FAA Rd., Homer, AK 99603 | 907-235-7771
Matheson Tri-Gas
Provides training in hazardous materials transportation, emergency response, incident management, hazardous waste, work place safety, and equipment operation. Lynden Training Center, a division of Alaska West Express, is “the hands-on training facility.” 4325 Cinch St., Fairbanks, AK 99701 | 9 07-456-2223
Lynden Transport
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Full-service, multi-modal freight transportation to, from, and within Alaska. 3027 Rampart Dr., Anchorage, AK 99501 | 907-276-4800
Top Executive: Scott Kallman, P res./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 927/2016 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 9,000/20 mathesongas.com Matheson Tri-Gas is a single source provider of industrial and specialty cylinder gases, gas handling and welding equipment, high performance purification systems, and related hardgoods and safety equipment. The company also provides support services and system management services. 6350 Arctic Blvd., Anchorage, AK 99518 | 9 07-563-6644
Michael Baker International Top Executive: Jeff Baker, S r. VP/AK Ops Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 940/1942
Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 3,000/43 mbakerintl.com Engineering: t ransportation, pipeline, geotechnical, mechanical, civil; GIS & LiDAR; environmental/permitting/NEPA; public involvement. 3900 C St., Suite 900, Anchorage, AK 99503 | 907-273-1600
Modular Transportable Housing Top Executive: Stacy Stoltenow, V P Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 995/2005 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 100/10 mthousing.net | office@mthousing.net Mining/logging camps, construction camps, construction offices, jobsite engineering units, industrial facilities, laboratories, field offices, dormitory buildings, office buildings, urban housing, shower and locker room facilities, medical buildings, exercise buildings, classrooms, survival units. 3116 Commercial Dr., Anchorage, AK 99501 877-929-9902
N C Machinery Top Executive: John Harnish, C EO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 926/1926 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 1,025/225 ncmachinery.com Cat machine sales, parts, service, and rental. Cat engines for marine, power generation, truck, petroleum, and industrial applications. Sales and rental of Cat and other preferred brands of rental equipment and construction supplies. 6450 Arctic Blvd., Anchorage, AK 99518 | 907-786-7500
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Top Executive: Craig Morrison, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 997/1997 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 265/252 nanaworleyparsons.com info@nanaworleyparsons.com NANAWorleyParsons
Top Executive: Udo Cassee, Ops Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 982/1982 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 140/82
NANA WorleyParsons provides multidiscipline engineering and design, project management, procurement, project controls, and construction management for various industries including hydrocarbons, mining, power and telecom, as well as other infrastructure projects. PO Box 111100, Anchorage, AK 99511 | 907-273-3900
Naniq Global Logistics Top Executive: Kim Howard, VP Ops Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 005/2005 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 30/15 Worldwide logistics, including ground, air, and ocean. PO Box 240825, Anchorage, AK 99524 907-345-6122
Nenana Heating Services Top Executive: David Shaw, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 972/1972 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 23/23 nhsi@alaska.net Offering a range of heating services, including home delivery service of oil and gasoline. Our service area includes Cantwell, Denali Park, Healy, Anderson and Nenana, and Kantishna. PO Box 9, Nenana, AK 99760 | 8 00-478-5447
support; mine reclamation. We own and operate 3 direct push rigs and 2 UVOST soil screening systems. 2525 C St., Suite 130, Anchorage, AK 99503 | 907-290-5160
Workovers, completions, coiled tubing drilling, rotary drilling, remote camp leasing, and catering services. 219 E. International Airport Rd., Suite 200, Anchorage, AK 99518 | 9 07-561-7458
Northern Air Cargo
North Star Equipment Services
Anchorage-based Northern Air Cargo is Alaska’s largest all-cargo airline. From groceries and generators to medical supplies and lumber, customers across Alaska, including a wide array of industries such as oil and gas, mining, construction, and commercial fishing, rely on NAC’s services. 4510 Old International Airport Rd., Anchorage, AK 99502 907-249-5163
Top Executive: Jeff Bentz, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 950/1950 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 25-75/25-75 northstarak.com | sales@northstarak.com nsts.nses We provide operated crane services and equipment solutions. We have state of the art ABI Mobilram machines, to drive pile, large diameter drilling, with vibratory and hammer attachments. DOT approved. We have eight offices spread throughout Alaska. Five offer marine logistics support. 790 Ocean Dock Rd., Anchorage, AK 99501 | 907-272-7537
North Wind Group Top Executive: Christopher Leichtweis, CEO/Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 997/1997 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 1,230/85 northwindgrp.com Environmental investigation, restoration, and remediation; engineering; natural and cultural resources; NEPA services; GIS services; construction; demolition; abatement; waste management; regulatory
Top Executive: Gideon Garcia, GM Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 956/1956 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 449/399 nac.aero | acampbell@naservices.aero
Northern Land Use Research Alaska Top Executive: Lindsay Simmons, G M Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 991/1991 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 7/4 northernlanduse.com | lja@northernlanduse.com northernlanduseresearchalaska National Historic Preservation Act Sec. 106 assessments; identification, evaluation, mitigation services-prehistoric/historic archaeology, historic architecture, cultural landscapes, and subsistence; documents for NEPA and permitting; regulatory compliance; consultation; groundpenetrating radar. 725 Christensen Dr., Suite 4, Anchorage, AK 99501 907-345-2457
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NorthStar Supply Top Executive: Richell Carmichael, O wner Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 017/2017 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 2/2 nssalaska.com | info@nssalaska.com NorthStarSupply We supply civil construction materials specializing in geotextiles, erosion control, asphalt maintenance, and dust control products. Conveniently located in Wasilla with a large inventory and the ability to deliver anywhere in the state. PO Box 3637, Palmer, AK 99645 | 9 07-357-1147
Northwest Technical Services Top Executive: Robin Curtis, N orthwest Reg. Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 980/1980 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 2,000/40 pdstech.com | PDSTechInc Contingent staffing for engineering, IT, project management, construction, HSE, and clerical contract labor personnel. 310 K St., #200, Anchorage, AK 99501 907-562-1633
NRC Alaska Top Executive: Blake Hillis, S r. VP NRC Alaska Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 014/2014 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 1,850/100 nrcc.com nrcak @NRCAlaska Emergency spill response, hazardous/nonhazardous waste disposal, petroleum product recycling, industrial cleaning services, vacuum truck services, automotive fluids recycling
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and sales, environmentally friendly cleaners/ degreasers, site clean-up and remediation. Anchorage/Kenai/Prudhoe/Fairbanks. 425 Outer Springer Lp. Rd., Palmer, AK 99645 907-258-1558
Ocean Marine Services Top Executive: Kelly McNeil, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 982/1982 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 75/75 omsi-ak.com OMS operates offshore supply vessels and a landing craft in Cook Inlet. In addition we provide offshore supply and research vessels for special projects from the Beaufort Sea to the California Coast. PO Box 7070, Nikiski, AK 99635 | 907-776-3685
Offshore Systems - Kenai Top Executive: Kelly McNeil, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 983/1983 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 25/25 osk-ak.com Offshore Systems-Kenai is a full service marine terminal facility supporting Cook Inlet Oil & Gas Operators. OSK provides shore-side support services for landing crafts, tug and barge operators, dive support vessels and others. Nikiski Fuel provides diesel, lubricants and packaged goods. PO Box 8505, Nikiski, AK 99635 | 907-776-5551
Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 4/0 pacaklumber.com | sales@pacaklumber.com Wholesale suppliers of construction and specialty materials. Serving all industries in AK. All grades and species of lumber/timber/ ply/panels, treatment, EWP, GLB, metal, SIP, GEO, rigid foam, GWB, helical piers, millwork, and hardware. We stock mats in Alaska. Rig, crane, access traditional/composite. 421 W. First Ave., Suite 245, Anchorage, AK 99501 907-341-3500
Paramount Supply Company Top Executive: Jay Goold, Branch Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 954/1982 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 150/4 paramountsupply.com jaygoold@paramountsupply.com Paramount Supply Company is an industrial wholesaler founded in 1954 by John Hagen. Paramount quickly built its reputation with quality products and exceptional service. That tradition literally began out of the trunk of the founder’s car, continues today. Twentytwo locations in AK, AZ, ID, OR, TX, WA, and WY. 7928 King St., Anchorage, AK 99518 907-349-0280
Pathfinder Aviation
Pacific Alaska Lumber Company
Top Executive: Rogan Parker, D ir. Ops Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 001/2001 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 57/26 pathfinderaviation.com | info@pathfinderaviation.com
Top Executive: Vint Jones, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 007/2007
Pathfinder Aviation supports petroleum, utility, survey, and various other industries
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Top Executive: Doug Chapados, Pres./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 984/1984 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 325/325 petrostar.com Refining and fuel distribution. 3900 C St., Suite 802, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-339-6600
PCE Pacific Top Executive: Scott Davis, VP Sales Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 982/1983 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 140/7 PCEpacific.com
Petroleum Equipment & Services Top Executive: Kevin Durling, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 983/1983 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 25/20 pesiak.com | sales@pesiak.com
EMERSON-DeltaV Control System, SIS Systems and SIL instrumentation, Fisher Valves, Anderson Greenwood and Crosby Safety Relief Valves, Rosemount Instrumentation, MicroMotion Flow Meters, wireless devices and systems, rotating equipment monitoring systems, wide range of field services. 4730 Business Park Blvd., Anchorage, AK 99503 907-243-3833
We are in the business of supplying specialty products in the Alaska oil and gas market. Representing the following industry leaders: T ESCO, HDBS, Churchill Drilling Tools (Circ subs), Sprung Engineered Structures, Drilltech, TAM International, and Cementation Accessories and Equipment. 5631 Silverado Way, Unit G, Anchorage, AK 99518 907-248-0066
Petro Marine Services
PND Engineers
Top Executive: Kurt Lindsey, P res./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 936/1936 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 230/230 petromarineservices.com | lexh@petro49.com Serving the unique petroleum needs of a broad range of Alaska industries including fishing, home fuel sales, power generation, tourism, timber, transportation, construction, mining, and retail gasoline. 1813 E. First Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501 907-562-5000
Top Executive: Jim Campbell, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 979/1979 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 102/75 pndengineers.com General civil, structural, geotechnical, Arctic, marine, and coastal engineering; survey; permitting; hydrology; metocean; quality assurance; inspection. 1506 W. 36th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99503 907-561-1011
Price Gregory International Top Executive: Robert Stinson, S r. VP AK Division Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 974/1974 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 3,000/300 pricegregory.com Pipeline, power, heavy industrial construction, EPC, and consulting services. Infrastructure construction services provider. 301 W. Northern Lights Blvd., Suite 300, Anchorage, AK 99503 | 907-278-4400
PRL Logistics Top Executive: Ron Hyde, Pres./CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 002/2002 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 50/50 PRLLogistics.com | info@pacrimlog.com pacrimlog PRL is Alaska-owned and -operated with a high commitment to safety. From expediting to your most complex, remote logistics challenges, PRL provides scalable logistics solutions worldwide to meet your logistics needs and ensure project success. We specialize in Alaska, the Lower 48, and beyond. PO Box 222029, Anchorage, AK 99522 907-261-9440
Quantum Spatial Top Executive: Adam McCullough, AK Program Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 960/1960 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 471/21 Q uantum Spatial’s comprehensive capabilities encompass the acquisition,
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utilizing twin-engine Bell 212/412s, a EC135 and single engine AS350 B2 and B3, Bell 206 series helicopters with OAS-approved pilots and aircraft. They operate field bases throughout the state including Deadhorse. 1936 Merrill Field Dr., Anchorage, AK 99501 9 07-226-2800
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Quantum Spatial continued: analysis, integration, and management of geospatial data. We offer a diverse portfolio of advanced imaging and remote sensing technologies, backed by powerful modeling, visualization, and GIS tools. 2014 Merrill Field Dr., Anchorage, AK 99501 | 907-272-4495
Resource Data Top Executive: Jim Rogers, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 986/1986 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 192/82 resourcedata.com | info@resourcedata.com ResourceData Resource Data is an Alaska-based, custom software, GIS, and IT consulting company. We’ve supported the oil and gas industry with IT solutions for over 30 years, working in all phases of the business: f rom exploration, land, and environmental to production and oil fields to incident response. 560 E. 34th Ave., Suite 100, Anchorage, AK 99503 907-563-8100
ROTAK Helicopter Services Top Executive: Ely Woods, GM Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 016/2016 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 25/15 rotakheli.com | ely@rotakheli.com ROTAK offers aerial support for external load, remote tower support, mining support, powerline construction, oil/gas support, and disaster relief. 5014 Captain Hill Court, Anchorage, AK 99502 | 907-302-4113
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Security Aviation Top Executive: Stephen “Joe” Kapper, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 985/1985 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 25/25 securityaviation.biz | sales@securityaviation.biz flysmarterthinkcharter 24/7 on-demand air charter. Approved carrier for the Corps of Engineers, state and federal agencies. Executive travel, crew changes, HAZMAT, “HOT” cargo, and medical transports. 6121 S. Airpark Pl., Anchorage, AK 99502 9 07-248-2677
Seekins Ford Lincoln Top Executive: Ralph Seekins, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 977/1977 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 101/101 seekins.com | sales@seekins.com SeekinsFordLincoln | @SeekinsFordLinc Automotive sales, service, parts, quick lane tire and auto center, and body shop. 1625 Seekins Ford Dr., Fairbanks, AK 99701 907-459-4000
Shoreside Petroleum Top Executive: Kurt Lindsey, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 986/1986 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 150/150 shoresidepetroleum.com Shoreside Petroleum is an Alaskan-owned fuel and lubricants distributor marketing fuels, lubricants, and other petroleum products in Southcentral Alaska. Shoreside operates terminals in Anchorage, Cordova, Seward, Wasilla, and Whittier. It also owns
the Essential 1 retail gas station brand. 1813 E. First Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501 907-344-4571
Siemens Industry Top Executive: Leverette Hoover, G M AK/HI/Pacific Rim Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 849/1982 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 351,000/90 siemens.com | leverette.hoover@siemens.com Energy services company and system integrator, including automation/energy management control systems, fire alarm, HVAC mechanical systems, security (card access, CCTV, intrusion, etc.), audio, video solutions, mass notification systems, and electrical distribution. 5333 Fairbanks St., Unit B, Anchorage, AK 99518 907-563-2242
SLP Alaska Top Executive: Brian Walden, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 012/2012 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 6/6 slpalaska.com | brian@slpalaska.com slpalaska Safety consulting; safety training; well control training; incident investigation; leadership coaching; performance improvement planning and implementation; OSHA compliance; loss control; risk management; risk assessment; safety program development; expert witness; injury case management. 46540 Jo Ave., Kenai, AK 99611 907-202-3274
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On time and on budget. At Lynden, we understand that plans change but deadlines don’t. That’s why we proudly offer our exclusive Dynamic Routing system. Designed to work around your unique requirements, Dynamic Routing allows you to choose the mode of transportation – air, sea or land – to control the speed of your deliveries so they arrive just as they are needed. With Lynden you only pay for the speed you need. lynden.com | 1-888-596-3361
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Spill Shield Top Executive: Lark Christensen, Ops Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 992/1992 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 3/1 spillshield.com | lark@spillshield.com Supplier for Smart Ash, Oil Away, Drug Terminator, and MediBurn incinerators. Absorbents, water scrubbers, oil spill response kits, Super Sacks, harbor boom, nitrile gloves, MicroBlaze, absorbent pads, rolls, boom, sock, duck ponds, spill kits, and related oil spill cleanup and prevention products. 2000 W. International Airport Rd., #D-2, Anchorage, AK 99502 | 907-561-6033
Steigers Corporation Top Executive: William Steigers, Chairman/CEO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 993/2004 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 7/1 steigers.com | wdsteigers@steigers.com Steigers Corporation is a full-service environmental consulting firm providing a wide range of services for industrial projects. We specialize in project development and in managing complex environmental and permitting programs. 5005 S. Kipling Pkwy., Suite A7-321, Littleton, CO 80127-1375 | 800-935-6569
Swagelok Alaska Top Executive: Tarek Sheira, M gr. AK Sales/Ops Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 965/1965 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 30,000/10 alaska.swagelok.com/en | info@alaska.swagelok.com Instrumentation and fluid system
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components. Authorized Swagelok distributor for Alaska. 341 E. 56th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99518 9 07-563-5630
Taiga Ventures Top Executive: Mike Tolbert, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 979/1979 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 19/19 taigaventures.com | contracting@taigaventures.com Taiga Ventures provides remote camps and logistics services (expediting, resupply, catering, fuel systems, vehicle and equipment rentals) for exploration, drilling, mining, clean-up, and disaster relief projects Statewide. Drill mud, PVC well pipe, and supplies in stock. In Anchorage @ 351 92nd Ave, 245-3123. 2700 S. Cushman St., Fairbanks, AK 99701 907-452-6631
Total Safety U.S. Top Executive: George Ristevski, C EO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 994/2003 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 2,865/4 totalsafety.com Remote emergency medical services, breathing air systems, gas detection systems, H2S and safety consultants, safety, and medical training. 209 E. 51st Ave., Anchorage, AK 99503 9 07-743-9871
TransGroup Global Logistics Top Executive: Rich Wilson, S tation Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 987/2011
Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 3,000/4 transgroup.com | richw.anc@transgroup.com US-owned full service freight forwarder and global logistics provider. We provide transportation, warehousing, and specialized logistics solutions, coupled with software tailored to meet the specific needs of each individual customer for every link in your supply chain. Areas served: w orldwide. 5631 Silverado Way, #G-101, Anchorage, AK 99518 9 07-243-4345
Transmark Cartage Services Top Executive: Ken Maccabee, Ops Supervisor Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 990/2017 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 150/5 tcsdelivers.com | ANC@tcsdelivers.com TransmarkAlaska Our fleet of more than 50 vehicles includes straight trucks, 53-foot trailers, refrigerated units, courier cars, light-duty pick-ups, and drayage trucks to ensure that no matter what your needs, Transmark Cartage Services possesses the right equipment to meet them. 6200 Boeing Ave., Suite 350, Anchorage, AK 99502 907-351-2328
Tri-Jet Precision Cutting Services Top Executive: Danielle Davis, G M Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 004/2004 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 11/11 trijetprecision.com | accounting@trijetprecision.com TriJetManufacturing
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Tri-Jet Precision continued: Waterjet cutting, powder coating, ceramic coating, welding and fabrication, machiningincluding 5-axis, 3D modeling, and drafting. 1960 S. Eklutna St., Palmer, AK 99645 866-607-1653
Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 300/275 udelhoven.com | cduxbury@udelhoven.com Oilfield services, construction management, electrical, and mechanical construction. 184 E. 53rd Ave., Anchorage, AK 99518-1222 | 9 07-344-1577
UMIAQ Environmental
TTT Environmental Instruments & Supplies
Top Executive: Terri Mitchell, G M Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 016/2016 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 10/10 uicalaska.com
Top Executive: Deborah Tompkins, O wner Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 003/2003 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 12/11 tttenviro.com | info@tttenviro.com
UMIAQ Environmental services include natural resource management, permitting, regulatory compliance support, stakeholder relations, spill response planning, and contaminated site clean-up. State of Alaska DBE and SBA 8(a) certified. 6700 Arctic Spur Rd., Anchorage, AK 99518 | 907-677-5208
Portable gas detection, health and safety monitoring, environmental equipment. Rentals, sales, service, and supplies. Warranty center. Alaskan-owned small business. 4201 B St., Anchorage, AK 99503 | 9 07-770-9041
Tutka
Unique Machine
Top Executive: Amie Sommer, Member Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 999/1999 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 30/30 tutkallc.com | amie@tutkallc.com Heavy civil general contractor (roads, bridges, culverts, site work), environmental cleanup and consulting. WBE/DBE, WOSB, HUBZone. 2485 E. Zak Cir., Suite A, Wasilla, AK 99654 | 9 07-357-2238
Udelhoven Oilfield System Services Top Executive: Jim Udelhoven, C EO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 970/1970
Top Executive: Chris Shumate, Pres./COO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 974/1974 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 50/50 umalaska.com | lisa.scheerer@umalaska.com uniquemachinellc Unique Machine is Alaska’s largest machine shop, having served the fishing, mining, construction, government, and oilfield industries for more than thirty years. Unique Machine strives to be our customer’s supplier of choice by being the best at what we do, quality is never compromised. 8875 King St., Anchorage, AK 99515 | 9 07-563-3012
Valley General Energy Services Top Executive: Justin Shields, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 2 016/2016 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 4/4 vgesllc.com | kdenoncour@vgesllc.com valleygeneralenergyservices Consulting, logistics, management, employee placement, procurement, architecture, and engineering services. 1400 E. Wasilla Shops Cir., Suite 2B, Wasilla, AK 99654 907-357-8444
Vigor Alaska Top Executive: Yohl Howe, GM Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 994/1994 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 2,300/150 vigor.net | VigorIndustrial | @VigorIndustrial Vigor is a values-driven, diversified industrial business. We repair ships and build projects in support of energy generation, our nation’s infrastructure, national defense and the maritime industry. 3801 Tongass Ave., Ketchikan, AK 99901 | 907-228-5302
Washington Crane & Hoist Top Executive: Mike Currie, P res. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 975/2008 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 40/9 washingtoncrane.com | sdick@washingtoncrane.com Crane builders, crane design, new crane sales, new hoist sales, lifting equipment design and sales. Material handling solutions for industry, hoists, job cranes,
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Washington Crane & Hoist continued: work stations, chain falls, lever hoists, crane upgrades, crane maintenance, crane inspection, crane repair, hoist repair, and crane parts. 651 E. 100th Ave., Unit B, Anchorage, AK 99515 907-336-6661
Waste Management National Services Top Executive: Mike Holzschuh, S r. Territory Mgr. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 971/1971 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 43,000/2 Hazardous and nonhazardous waste disposal, project management, complete logistical oversight, complete US and Canadian manifesting, rail transportation, over-the-road transportation, marine transportation, and turnkey remedial services. 1519 Ship Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501 | 907-274-0477
West-Mark Service Center-Fairbanks Top Executive: Scott Vincent, C EO Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 967/2009 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 200/10 Liquid transportation tank trailer repair. 3050 Van Horn Rd., Fairbanks, AK 99709 907-451-8265
Wolseley Industrial Group Top Executive: Dylan Lish, A rea Mgr. AK Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 950/1981 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 15,000/89
wolseleyindustrialgroup.com Karl.Greninger@WolseleyInd.com Wolseley Industrial Group provides PVF materials in every Alaska market. Locations in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Soldotna, and Wasilla. We are the only ISO9001:2008 certified PVF supply house in the State of Alaska. Full time Quality Assurance provided. Steel, HDPE, pipe, valves, fittings, stainless. 151 W. 95th Cir., Anchorage, AK 99515 | 907-273-2100
YRC Freight Top Executive: Elliot Garison, O ps Supervisor Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 924/1981 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 10,000/3 yrc.com YRC Freight operations in Alaska give you an integrated solution for moving LTL and TL freight between key markets using just one carrier from beginning to end. In addition, YRC has comprehensive coverage throughout North America, including cross-border to and from Canada and Mexico. 431 E. 104th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99515 907-344-0099
Yukon Equipment Top Executive: Charles Klever, Pres. Year Founded/Established in Alaska: 1 945/1945 Worldwide/Alaska Employees: 36/36 yukoneq.com | Info@yukoneq.com Sales, service, parts, rental and lease equipment, including Case, Trail King, Elgin, Vactor, Oshkosh, Etnyre, Monroe, Trackless,
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International Interest in the North Slope Global companies pursue exploration and production in Alaska By Tasha Anderson
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again and continues to gradually climb upward. Overall, oil prices have slowly and steadily trended up. Other positive news from the Slope includes BP’s investment in a massive, 450-acre seismic program that wrapped up last month; Pantheon Resources confirmed a successful flow test at its Alkaid well in April; and Oil Search flowed oil from two wells in its Pikka unit in April. All these positive early-year announcements follow a landmark development in 2018 when Alaska’s Congressional Delegation, after decades of work, managed to open ANWR to development. It had been hoped that offshore Arctic exploration, which was banned by then-President Barack Obama, would
be able to move forward due to an executive order by President Donald Trump— disappointingly, on April 1 a federal judge overturned the executive order, once again shutting down hope of developing a project offshore in the Alaska Arctic, at least for now. Governor Mike Dunleavy said of the decision, “I am disappointed by this ruling and its implications for the state and national economy. Alaska’s potential offshore oil and gas deposits, if given the opportunity to be safely and responsibly developed, can create jobs, revenue, and economic opportunity for decades. One president should not have the power to lock up Alaska’s resources in perpetuity. America needs Alaska’s natural resources.” Despite this recent decision (which
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to be safely and responsibly developed, can create jobs, revenue, and economic opportunity for decades.” —Governor Mike Dunleavy
may likely be appealed), in general the North Slope today is defined by cautious optimism and renewed interest and investment. Alaska’s oil potential is global in scale, and international organizations engaged in exploration or development (or both) have been seizing opportunities they see in the Last Frontier.
area with the goal of identifying and imaging subsurface coal seams to up to 1,500 meters in depth to find optimal locations for two coal bed methane core-
holes scheduled for later this year. With the plans finalized, Elixir issued an invitation to tender to conduct the 2D seismic program and had responses from eight
Elixir, Entek, and Exploration Elixir Petroleum is an international oil and gas exploration company whose strategy is to “acquire high impact exploration projects” that meet several objectives, including onshore, early stage, low cost exploration opportunities with moderate geological risk or conventional and unconventional oil and gas projects with clear monetization outcomes. Elixir Petroleum bid on and was awarded three leases adjacent to the Umiat oil field in 2014, and in 2018 finalized the necessary steps to allow settlement of the acquisition of the 35,423 acres of leases. Elixir was then the high bidder on an additional ten leases totaling 114,310 acres on the North Slope, located near the first three, which are “on trend with recent large oil discoveries made by ConocoPhillips,” the company stated in late 2018. Elixir doesn’t have long-term plans to continue investing in Alaska: in November 2018 Elixir granted an exclusive option to Entek Energy to acquire all of Elixir’s Alaska acreage, including the ten new leases, gaining up to 200 million Entek shares in return. Elixir stated in a December 2018 release, “The recent bid round represents the last significant expenditure the company expects to make on the Alaskan leases as the focus of the company shifts back toward the high impact Mongolian CBM acquisition that Elixir is in the process of completing.” Mongolian CBM refers to the Nomgon IX Coal Bed Methane project, which is located in the South Gobi Desert in Mongolia. As of March Elixir finished planning a 2D seismic program for the www.akbizmag.com
Exciting projects are underway on Alaska’s Western North Slope that could result in thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in investment. Following the successful startup of GMT1, ConocoPhillips has a pipeline of projects in the works. Greater Mooses Tooth 2 is under construction, at an estimated cost of more than $1 billion, and we are in the permitting phase of the Willow discovery, which could produce 100,000 barrels of oil daily. For ConocoPhillips, investment equals opportunity.
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“Alaska’s potential offshore oil and gas deposits, if given the opportunity
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“After some years of minimal activity, Entek will again be an active player in oil exploration in this exciting new oil province.” —Mark McAuliffe, Executive Chairman, Entek
companies, which as of press time it was still assessing. While Elixir is shifting its focus away from Alaska, it clearly sees the potential of the North Slope, as evidenced by the 200 million shares it will gain through the transition with Entek. In a March Alaskan Transaction Update, Elixir Managing Director Dougal Ferguson stated, “Completion of this transaction provides
Elixir’s shareholders who are on the Elixir register on or before 12 April 2019 with fantastic leverage to both these world class exploration opportunities.” In addition to the Entek shares, Elixir will receive a cash payment from Entek of $1.35 million, of which $500,000 will be used to repay a bridge loan from Entek. The remaining $850,000 the company plans to put toward progressing the 2D seismic program in Mongolia. In a late 2018 release about the additional ten NPR-A leases, Entek Executive Chairman Mark McAuliffe said, “This is great news for Entek and its shareholders. Upon exercise of the option, Entek will hold leases over a substantial prospective area situated immediately to the south of the Willow Field which is currently under evaluation by ConocoPhillips. “After some years of minimal activity, Entek will again be an active player in oil exploration in this exciting new oil province.” Entek’s plan for the newly acquired Alaska leases includes reprocessing existing 2D seismic, doing a resource assessment, securing investment partners, and potentially engaging in a 3D seismic program in 2019/2020, according to an Entek investor presentation
titled Moving into the Right Address and published in March. In the same presentation, Entek explained to investors its interest in the North Slope: it’s one of the world’s super basins, which has produced more than 16 billion barrels of oil; there’s “significant” underutilized capacity in TAPS; there’s an estimated 28 billion barrels of remaining resource, including recent discoveries of more than 1 billion barrels of conventional oil; the state has an “excellent fiscal regime and stable political climate supportive of oil and gas exploration”; and oil and gas major players have an already-established presence in the area. Entek focuses on exploring high impact oil and gas opportunities with significant potential in proven and producing areas. The company already has a foothold in North America in the Niobrara shale formation, which extends through most of northern Colorado and eastern Wyoming.
Production Other international companies have a definite eye on production. Pantheon Resources was formed in 2005 as an independent UK-based oil and gas exploration company. Pantheon
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first Arctic project and has estimated reserves of 220 million barrels of oil and produces 18,000 barrels of oil per day. Eni also owned 30 percent of Caelus’ Oooguruk field and announced in January its intention to buy out the rest and take over operations. According to a January Eni release, “the acquisition of the 70 percent of Oooguruk will allow Eni to immediately increase its Alaska production… and to implement important operational synergies and optimizations between Oooguruk and Nikaitchuq, both operated at 100 percent. Eni plans to drill further pro-
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duction wells at Oooguruk and Nikaitchuq, with the target to increase its total Alaska production beyond 30,000 barrels of oil per day. This operation will also further strengthen Eni’s presence in the region, after the recent acquisition in August 2018 of 124 exploration leases (for a total of approximately 350,000 acres) located in the Eastern North Slope of Alaska.” An ongoing positive investment environment and continued interest from global entities is and will continue to be a boon for Alaska’s economy and communities.
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completed acquiring the assets of Great Bear Petroleum in January for approximately $49 million; those assets included Great Bear Petroleum Ventures I and Great Bear Petroleum Ventures II, 250,000 leased acres on the North Slope, and 1,000 square miles of 3D seismic data. In March, Pantheon confirmed oil during production testing of its Alkaid well, originally spud in 2015 but immediately suspended due to regional flooding. The company stated in a release, “The production and pressure data collected through testing, along with pressures and log data acquired when the well was drilled in 2015, gives us increased confidence in the 240 feet of net oil pay in the Brookian [zone of interest]. The acquired data will now be used to determine reservoir parameters and improve development plans.” According to Pantheon CEO Jay Cheatham, “This is an excellent result which exceeded our expectations… we are very fortunate that the Alkaid reservoir is directly adjacent to both the Trans Alaska Pipeline and to the Dalton Highway. It is on track to become our first oil development in Alaska.” Papua New Guinea-based Oil Search took operatorship in March 2018 of its recently acquired Alaska assets: a 25.5 percent interest in the Pikka unit and adjacent exploration acreage, in addition to 37.5 percent interest in the Horseshoe Block. Earlier this year Oil Search “expanded significantly” its leases on the North Slope, “positioning the company for long-term growth,” according to the company’s 2018 Annual Report. The company has already drilled two exploration wells in the Pikka Unit, one in December and the second in January. Oil Search announced in April that both wells produced oil. During the company’s 2018 Results Presentation in February, Managing Director Peter Botten said, “Everything we’ve seen about Alaska has been encouraging and exciting… Right now we’re aiming to drill up to three wells in 2019/2020, probably some further appraisal wells in Pikka, but also looking at how we look at and appraise the Horseshoe area to the south… although our focus clearly is on delivering high-value out of Papua New Guinea, Alaska does look good for us and we’re very pleased with the acquisition.” Italian company Eni began production in Alaska in 2011. The wholly-owned and –operated Nikaitchuq field was Eni’s
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talian energy company Eni is quietly making a splash in global energy circles, including Alaska’s North Slope oil patch. The company entered the area and began production in 2011, developing the Nikaitchuq field, which it fully owns and operates. The field is located offshore in shallow water and is estimated to have recoverable reserves of 220 million barrels of oil and an operating life of thirty years. Eni plans to make the most of it, including using it as a
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base to reach nearby federal leases. Eni is using several proprietary technologies, which combine a vertical depth of 4,000 feet with a horizontal reach of 20,000 feet, to extend its reach and reduce its footprint. The facilities were designed and built “using technology aimed at minimizing the impact on the environment,” the company states. That includes zero flaring, pipe-in-pipe technology for hydrocarbon transportation, spill containment devices in all modules, and low emission turbine generators. The company also partnered with Caelus Natural Resources for a 30 percent interest in the Oooguruk oil field, located just a few miles from Nikaitchuq. Eni’s was a low-key entry to Alaska—but there was more to come. In 2014, the company gained a new CEO dedicated to re-envisioning the company on principles based on efficiency, integration, and deployment of new technologies with the goal of becoming a global energy leader.
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It wasn’t long before Eni began to build on its small but strategic holdings in Alaska. In August 2018, the company acquired 124 exploration leases, a total of about 350,000 acres, in the eastern North Slope region. In January 2019, Eni announced it entered into an agreement to acquire the remaining 70 percent of Oooguruk from Caelus Natural Resources. Eni will also take over operations of the oilfield, located in the Beaufort Sea about two miles offshore. Oooguruk has been in production since 2008 and produces about 10,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd). The field has twenty-five producing wells and fifteen gas/water injector wells. The facilities are on an artificial gravel island located in water about 10 feet deep with dry production trees. In a news release, Eni says it plans to drill further production wells at both sites, with the goal of increasing its production to more than 30,000 bopd. From its
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Italy, Eni is engaged in every aspect of the energy industry. More than just oil and gas, Eni is interested in all forms of energy— petroleum, renewable, and hybrids, as well
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decarbonization. offshore base on Spy Island, the company is using long-reach angled drilling to explore its federal leases. Its recent moves in Alaska are part of an aggressive global growth plan for Eni. Based in San Donato, Italy, Eni is engaged in every aspect of the energy industry. More than just oil and gas, Eni is interested in all forms of energy—petroleum, renewable, and hybrids, as well as techniques that will result in cleaner energy, such as decarbonization. It holds stakes in major Middle East refining businesses and dozens of patents. Since Claudio Descalzi took over as CEO in 2014, the company has embraced a strategic imperative to improve the business and geographical balance of the company to meet what it calls the “energy transition.” Since then, Eni has grown its LNG business. It’s entered the Middle East with major business acquisitions and is looking for new and expanded opportunities in Mexico, Indonesia, Venezuela, the United States, and Norway. Eni, which holds multiple patents related to energy www.akbizmag.com
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production, biofuels, green energy, and more, is committed to a “circular business model,” in which one aspect of its business fuels the next so that all aspects of the corporation are related in some way. According to an investor fact sheet, exploration and production for oil and gas is its main business, which it conducts in more than forty countries. “Eni’s strategy is to deliver organic production growth, leveraging on a high-quality portfolio of assets and longstanding relationships with host countries,” the fact sheet states. “Our strategy combines geographical diversification with scale benefits and project synergies.” In 2019 alone, Eni has begun construction of a photovoltaic plant in Sardinia; cut a deal with RenOils in Italy to boost the collection of used food oil and food for frying; entered the renewable energy market in Australia; and signed an agreement with Coldiretti to cultivate agricultural biogas in Europe. It also announced a major oil find off the coast of Angola. Eni also has extensive oil and gas holdings in the Middle East, as well as in twenty-one oil and gas fields in the United States, both in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, with net daily production of about 60,000 bopd.
Expansion Descalzi shared the company’s strategic growth plan for 2018-2021 with New York investors in April 2018. “Over the past four years we have strengthened the company, operationally and financially, implementing a fast and effective strategy and anticipating the fall of the oil price,” he says. “In a period of very low prices, we have increased our hydrocarbon production and restructured our mid-downstream businesses to achieve positive structural results after years of losses, all while generating substantial cash and reducing costs and investments.” Eni is entering a phase of expansion, with the goal of strengthening the company and increasing value for shareholders. “Our strategy is based on a deep integration of all of our businesses and a continued focus on efficiency and strict financial discipline,” Descalzi says. “Over the next four years, we expect production to increase by an average of 3.5 percent per year (globally) and to discover 2 billion barrels of new resources.” In a February 2019 presentation on 2018 results, Descalzi notes the company’s 66 | May 2019
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after years of losses, all while generating substantial cash and reducing costs and investments.” —Claudio Descalzi CEO, Eni
excellent safety record, strong financial performance, and economic diversity despite years of downturn in the industry. “We have been able to reshape our businesses quickly, so that today’s Eni is more flexible, faster, more efficient, and more valuable thanks to the large contribution from exploration success and fast-track development of our discovered resources,” Descalzi notes. “Seventy percent of the projects we sanctioned in the last three years come from discoveries of the last five years.” By leveraging the quality of its portfolio and low-cost development, Descalzi says, Eni has increased production by 16 percent while reducing capital expenditures by 35 percent. And it has done so very quickly because it was fighting against the downturn and because it had the opportunity, he says. Areas such as the Middle East, Asia, and Alaska are prime for further growth. Eni already has significant holdings in Mexico. “I think that we have to develop, to continue to work, and there are huge important opportunities to grow and rebalance further our portfolio,” Descalzi says. In the United States, the company is planning to increase production and conduct further exploration in Alaska. “We have to do much more to be able to be more resilient, more balanced,” he says.
Dual Development Model In Alaska, as elsewhere, Eni is focusing on two strategic pillars: a dual exploration model and a new accelerated development model. The integration gives Eni more control over every phase of the projects, accelerating time to market. Over the past three years, Eni has begun production on most products ahead of schedule. The integrated www.akbizmag.com
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model of exploration and development allowed the company to reach record average production of 1.816 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe) in 2017, while reducing capital expenditures, the company says. Over the next four years, Eni plans to spend €900 million (more than $1 billion) per year on exploration activities, Descalzi says. Its goal of 3.5 percent annual production growth will be fueled by “starting and ramping up new projects,” which it expects will account for approximately 700,000 boe per day (globally) by 2021. Optimization of current production is expected to add an additional 200,000 boe.
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Another goal for Eni is reducing its carbon footprint by, in part, using renewable energy to power its oil and gas production facilities in what it calls the circular economy. The European Union has a goal to “decarbonise” its energy system to achieve a climate neutral Europe by 2050 to reduce greenhouse emissions by 90 percent. Eni has a “clear and defined climate strategy” integrated into its business model, Descalzi tells investors. “That strategy is based on the following drivers: lower CO2 emissions across all our operations; our ‘low carbon’ oil and gas portfolio, which is characterized by conventional projects with low CO2 emission; developing green businesses through our growing commitment to renewables; and our commitment to scientific and technological research,” he says.
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Eni is at the forefront of other energy technologies. It has been working with Italian universities to accelerate the development of innovative technologies and integrating them into its business models. In March Eni activated a wave power energy generation project offshore of Ravenna, Italy. The Inertial Sea Wave Energy Converter (ISWEC) is part of the first hybrid power plant able to produce energy from waves and photovoltaics, integrated with a hybrid smart grid, the company announced in a news release. It is capable of a peak power output of a bit more than 50 kilowatts, suitable for powering medium and large offshore assets. Eni says it plans to use the technology to convert mature offshore platforms into hubs for renewable energy generation. “Waves are the most underutilized renewable source in the world, with extremely high energy density, high predictability, and low variability, making them a very promising future energy source suitable for the decarbonization of offshore processes,” the release states. Even the modern bane of plastic is getting a new life with Eni as part of its Waste to Fuel element of its circular economy. Also in March the company signed an agreement with the Italian National Consortium for the collection, recycling, and recovery of plastic packaging to launch research projects to produce hydrogen from non-recyclable plastic packaging waste. Eni holds a patent, “Ecofining,” that allows it to produce high-quality biofuels from used cooking and frying oil, animal fat, and other non-edibles, according to the company. Eni is looking at whether a similar process can be used to produce bio-oil and biomethane from the organic portion of unrecyclable plastic waste. It remains to be seen how Eni’s commitment to a low-carbon future—the company’s goal is to achieve net zero emissions by 2030—translates to its holdings in Alaska. But the company is aiming to become a world-leading global energy provider. In the meantime, Descalzi tells investors that the company is “doing well” in Alaska and is looking at further investment in the state. “(Alaska) is an additional target, a main target for us,” he says. “And so, it’s not finished yet.”
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Alaska Grown Interest in farming, local foods grows By Vanessa Orr
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nly 5 percent of the food that is consumed in Alaska is grown in Alaska. This means that the rest of what Alaskans eat needs to be flown or barged in from other areas, making the state food insecure. With open land as far as the eye can see, how can this be possible? And what can be done to increase the amount of local fruits, vegetables, dairy, and meat reaching Alaska tables? The good news is that more Alaskans are interested in farming than ever before, and Alaska consumers are driving the market to provide fresh foods that are grown and harvested locally. But to truly meet the needs of the 49th State, it’s going to take more investment in infrastructure—such as flash freezing facilities for fruits and vegetables—to take the state’s food system to the next level.
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Preserving the Land Farms require farmable land, and despite the fact that Alaska is the largest state in the nation, there’s actually not that much useable farm space. “Alaska is a huge state, but there’s very little land that is privately held. Most of the land is owned by the state and federal governments and Native corporations,” explains Amy Pettit, executive director, Alaska Farmland Trust (AFT). “There is also very little land that is ideal for farming. When you look at soil classifications—with Class 1 being the best in the country—we have no Class 1 due to soil temperature. We start with Class 2, and we have very little of that. And what we do have is being eaten by developers.” As the Last Frontier attracts more people, more homes are being built, with developers seeking out all of the prime flat land that is available. “We’re losing farmland daily to construction and housing developments, but the average person looking around sees so much land,” says Pettit. “While most people see wide open space and thousands of acres, I’m watching real soil be destroyed.” One of AFT’s goals is to establish conservation easements that protect at-risk soil. The organization also links landowners who own farmable soil with people who want to farm through its FarmLink program. “To date, we have purchased development rights on six parcels, the majority of which are active farms,” says Pettit. “Usually the landowner is at a transition stage and wants to pass the farm on to the next generation or sell it to another farmer.” While these farmers are being aggressively pursued by developers, AFT offers an alternative option. “Most farmers’ assets are all tied to the land; they have no retirement if they aren’t bought out,” says Pettit. “We buy the development rights. We’re not asking them to give up the value of their land; we’re making a permanent investment in their property so that it will continue to be farmed.” AFT’s FarmLink program, which is based on similar programs along the East Coast, can help connect those who own the land and those looking for farmable land. “We contacted 800 land owners to see if they were interested in leasing or renting property for farmland,” says Pettit. “We got a good response, so we took the first ten properties and began to reach out to next-generation farmers. Despite www.akbizmag.com
the fact that we did this on a shoestring budget, we’ve successfully had two links so far. We were super excited—it’s like Match.com, but for farmers.” Pettit adds that while she hopes to increase investment in this program, one of the biggest challenges facing farmers—as well as the state—is the upcoming budget. “The State Division of Agriculture’s current budget has basically been zeroed out, eliminating services and support for the agricultural industry, including grants, loans, and research,” says Pettit. “It’s frightening, and we’re waiting with bated breath to see what happens. And this is not just unique to the agriculture section—the cuts are across the board.”
Supply and Demand As the farm-to-table trend continues to gain steam, Alaska’s farmers are benefiting from consumer interest in fresh, healthy food.
“Farming is growing in Alaska without a doubt, mimicking the national trend of customers deciding that they want more information on where their food comes from,” says Pettit. “It is also being affected by the younger generation of folks that want to go back to the land—to have their hands in the dirt.” In addition to seeing an increasing number of younger farmers, Pettit says that she is also seeing people becoming interested in farming as a second career as they reach retirement age. “We are definitely seeing increasing interest in folks getting into agriculture,” agrees Margaret Adsit, owner of Alaska Farm Tours. “A lot of folks on my tours are middle-aged Alaskans looking to transition into a second career in a small or big way. We have lots of conversations about what their options are, and what is being done. They are asking the right questions and doing a lot of information gathering.” Margaret Adsit, owner of Alaska Farm Tours, stands beside “Mat-Su Giants” that were grown in Alaska’s fields. © Fred Traber
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adds. “All of our CSA people come out the last week of the season for a U-pick event, and many visit in the summer as well. I think that’s part of the charm— farms are now a destination as well as a place to get produce.”
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Peonies bloom in Alaska when they are not blooming anywhere else, which has helped to establish an international market for the flower. © Fred Traber
According to AFT, there are thirty-six different types of fruits and vegetables that can be grown in Alaska soil. Farmers are also relying on hydroponic greenhouse production to make up for less than ideal soil. These products are most often sold at farmers’ markets, which are rapidly multiplying. “In the 2012 agricultural census, Alaska had the largest growth in the number of farm markets per capita in the nation,” says Pettit. “In 2005, the state had thirteen farmers’ markets. This year, there are more than fifty. Consumers are looking for local products and growers are responding. “More producers are getting their products into grocery stores as well, with five growers, including producers of vegetables and milk, now in retail stores like Fred Meyer, Carrs Safeway, and more,” she continues. She adds that grain operations, like barley and small acreage wheat production, are also on the upswing, as is the growth of the livestock industry. Two crops that are gaining in popularity are peonies, which bloom well in Alaska when they’re not blooming anywhere else, and rhodiola (also known as Arctic root or golden root), a perennial flowering plant whose root is used as medicine. “The only products that I know are shipped out are rhodiola and peonies; all of our vegetables and grains stay instate,” says Adsit. She adds that while hay production is a good crop to get into as it sells for $12/bale, it is very labor intensive and yields can vary from year to year. “Our carrots are the sweetest you can grow, and our peonies—from what I’ve 72 | May 2019
heard from farmers selling in the international market—are the most beautiful that they’ve ever seen,” she says. “Cold weather crops like kale, broccoli, and lettuce love light, so they grow huge. Crops here grow quickly and robustly, and they taste better and sweeter because of the soil temperatures.” According to Adsit, taste comparisons held at the Alaska State Fair comparing in-state produce against out-of-state products show that without fail, Alaska food tastes fresher. “On taste alone, Alaskans prefer Alaska grown,” she says. Michelle Church and her husband, David, of Moonstone Farms, own a colony farm between Palmer and Wasilla where they grow twelve acres of hay, about 350 peony plants on a small plot, and about two acres of chemical-free organic produce. They bought it in 1995 from her husband’s grandmother, who had a forty-acre homestead as one of the original colonists in the area. Moonstone Farms sells through CSAs (community-supported agriculture) and to local restaurants, and people also buy directly from the farm. “One of the biggest changes that we’ve seen over the years is the change in the length of time that you can grow things,” says Church. “In the past twenty years, we’ve been getting two more weeks of summer, and we’ve been planting two weeks earlier than we used to start; the soil is getting warmer. “We’ve also seen more interest in local produce and in chemical-free food. People want to know where their food came from and have a connection to it,” she
With demand for locally produced goods increasing, what can be done to make sure that this burgeoning industry continues to grow? According to the experts education, awareness, and infrastructure are key to creating food security. “The number one thing for beginning farmers to do is to find a mentor,” says Adsit. “Don’t be ‘Alaska stubborn’ and think you can do everything yourself. Work with a mentor for a couple of seasons to get a knowledge base in place, or pay farmers for information the same way you pay for a professional education.” She also suggests joining an association, such as the Alaska Peony Growers Association, for help. “You’d also do yourself a huge benefit to take over an operation that’s already in existence,” she adds. “For farmers, the first five years are the highest level of risk. Farms require a huge capital investment if you’re purchasing property. If you are buying, look for owner financing or consider renting land and put in an option to buy over the long term—there are a lot of different mechanisms out there.” Adsit also believes in spreading the word about how important farms are to the state. “When I used to work for the Alaska Farmland Trust, I realized that as an industry, we weren’t telling the story of farming; we weren’t being advocates of Arctic agriculture,” she says. “Farmers have no time [to advocate for themselves] with a roughly 110-day growing season, depending on where you are in the state, though some do offer U-pick events and tours.” Adsit began Alaska Farm Tours as a way to introduce people to farming in Alaska. The tours, which visit farms in Anchorage, Talkeetna, and Palmer, showcase the diversity of the state’s agriculture and talk about the challenges and benefits of the industry. “Alaska is very proud of its seafood story, and we share that,” she says. “We need to do the same with farming.” One of the major hurdles limiting production at Alaska farms is the inability to preserve the product so that it can be shipped in-state and perhaps even further abroad. Value-added production facilities,
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such as flash freeze facilities, could open up huge new markets, as well as help local companies use more home-grown products. “We have no flash freeze facilities for farm use, though we have them for seafood,” says Adsit. “Without permanent cold storage and distribution facilities, it is holding us back from moving beyond the farmers’ market model. “With flash frozen peas, we would no longer need to import them. In rural Alaska, importing food is a huge issue— and it comes with a hefty price tag. I got a lemon last week that cost over $2. Now who is going to buy that? My answer is to create a frozen food market so that we could ship to anywhere in the state.” “One of the biggest challenges in Alaska is the inability to extend beyond the fresh season,” agrees Church. “Facilities that could do flash freezing and enable processing directly from the field would be a huge boon to Alaska agriculture.” Value-added infrastructure would also enable the creation of a secondary market for food not “pretty enough” for farmers’ markets. “If we could get this food to institutions, schools, and hospitals to use in
Cold weather crops like kale, broccoli, and lettuce love light, so they grow big in Alaska. © Fred Traber
other products, that would be a big benefit,” says Adsit. “Right now, this is a huge missed marketing opportunity for Alaska growers with only a few farmers playing in these markets.” Regardless of the challenges, it seems the time is right for those who want to provide Alaska-grown food for future generations. “It is a very exciting time to be in
agriculture; never before has there been this level of customer demand and support,” says Pettit. “People want to pay a good price for what is growing and invest in local food and infrastructure. “The door is wide open,” she adds. “Whether you want to grow mushrooms or peonies, whatever your passion is, you can do it in Alaska. There is an outlet for your product.”
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Climate change, China loom over stronger forecasted salmon runs By Isaac Stone Simonelli
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his year’s salmon runs will provide insight into the theory that a warm water anomaly in the Gulf of Alaska in 2015 was to blame for poor runs nearly everywhere in the Last Frontier (with the exception of the record-setting run of sockeye in Bristol Bay) last year. “The very large Bristol Bay sockeye harvest, 41.9 million, was definitely the highlight of 2018. Another highlight were substantial chum salmon harvests in Southeast Alaska, 11.5 million, and Prince William Sound, 3.5 million,” says Rich Brenner, a biologist with the Alaska 74 | May 2019
Department of Fish and Game (ADFG). If the forecast for 2019 is realized, Alaska fishermen can look forward to a record harvest of about 29 million chum salmon during 2019, with most of this harvest predicted to come from hatchery chum salmon in Southeast Alaska. “We are also predicting sizeable harvests of pink salmon in Prince William Sound, about 65 million; Kodiak, about 27 million; and the South Alaska Peninsula, about 20.6 million,” Brenner says. “But we are calling for a fairly small harvest of pink salmon in Southeast Alaska. Finally, the Bristol Bay sockeye harvest is expect-
ed to exceed 26 million during 2019.” Consistently, experts point toward the record-breaking Bristol Bay sockeye run as the highlight of 2018. Though down from about 41 million, even if the forecasted 26 million run into Bristol Bay this year, it will be counted as a strong, above-average year for the world-class fishery. “If you were a Bristol Bay fishermen, things were good; if you weren’t, on average, it was a rough season,” says Garrett Evridge, an economist with McDowell Group, an Alaska-based research firm. “The volume of salmon that we harvested was among the smallest
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harvest years that we’ve seen in the last thirty to forty years, but it was one of the most valuable.” The average ex-vessel price overall for salmon was $5.20 per fish, which was significantly higher than the $3.05 paid per fish in 2017. According to McDowell Group the average ex-vessel price was $0.98 overall for salmon, with chinook pushing the price way up with a value of $5.98 per pound. Coho fetched $1.34 per pound, and sockeye was valued at $1.33 per pound. At the bottom of the price range were pinks, valued at $0.45 per pound, followed by chum at $0.78 per pound.
Though chum is close to the bottom of the barrel when it comes to price, there has been a shift in the market—and marketing—of the fish. Evridge points out that as the price of sockeye increases, it helps bolster the prices of other species of salmon— especially when Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) and others in the industry are building a market for the fish. “ASMI has taken the charge for calling it [chum] keta, and since then it’s been pretty well accepted in the US marketplace and is also performing well internationally,” says Jeremy Woodrow, the acting director of ASMI.
“The volume of salmon that we harvested was among the smallest harvest years that we’ve seen in the last thirty to forty years, but it was one of the most valuable.” —Garrett Evridge Economist, McDowell Group
Trollers have not always focused on keta; they’ve been doing it just for the last ten years or so, and still it depends on the price, Evridge says. “It’s a sign of the increasing value for all five salmon species that it’s worth it for a troller to harvest a relatively small number of keta compared to the numbers you’d get with a seiner, because the quality of the fish—bright fish—are worth it,” Evridge says. “The data shows keta is a valued contributor to total Alaska salmon production.” There is little leftover stock coming into the season, so things look good for the price and market for Alaska salmon in 2019, says Evridge. “A bright spot is definitely market conditions that the volume will be sold into. Most of the indicators are pretty favorable.” These indicators include inventory carryover (which is indicative of demand), last year’s price, and market competition, such as farmed salmon. “You’ll often see wild Alaskan salmon being sold alongside farmed salmon from Norway or Chile,” Evridge says, noting that there is a competition there for consumers, which can impact price.
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Farmed salmon prices dropped below record numbers last year—though they are still solid, says Evridge. If market conditions remain strong for Alaska salmon, the net ex-vessel value for sockeye has the potential to be very important to the state, despite ADFG forecasting a sockeye salmon harvest for 2019 coming in 10 percent below the ten-year average. “We always want to remember there’s a difference between actual harvest and forecasted harvest,” Evridge says. “And that difference can be 20 to 30 percent. Bristol Bay in 2018 is a good example, where the actual harvest was higher than the forecasted harvest. We don’t want to put too much emphasis on the forecasted number, but it does provide some indication.” Another bright spot for salmon in 2019 is that it will be an odd year, which typically means a 30 percent to 50 percent larger pink salmon harvest compared to an even-numbered year, Evridge says. “Our most accurate forecasts are generally for sockeye salmon because we have correlations linking returns from the prior year to their brood-year siblings that return this year. Thus, we have a fair amount of confidence in these predictions,” Brenner says. “We also have confidence in the predictions for Southeast Alaska pink salmon because NOAA and ADFG have an outmigration survey that does a good job of predicting harvests the following year. However, pink salmon all return after only a single year in the ocean, making them generally more difficult to forecast than other species. Thus, we must rely upon average harvests or run sizes during recent years to make our predictions… but we would love to have additional surveys.”
Association. “News reports say they expect farmed salmon consumption in China to go from 90,000 metric tons [198 million pounds] this past year to around 250,000 metric tons [550 million pounds] by 2025. There’s a lot of opportunity for all wild salmon.” “Because the export market is so important to Alaska’s seafood industry, anything that has a potential to disrupt trade is watched closely,” Woodrow says. Woodrow explains that the tariffs could affect Alaska seafood exports in two ways: one, those that apply to Alaska seafood destined for China and the
rapidly growing domestic market that ASMI has been working to develop there over the last twenty years and two, there are Alaska seafood products that are subject to tariffs reprocessed in China and destined for the United States. Alaska seafood sales to China took a 20 percent hit in 2018 because of the new taxes, “and we expect to take a big hit from China this year,” Woodrow says. In an attempt to get a grip on how the taxes have impacted the Alaska seafood industry, ASMI conducted a survey of mostly Alaska processors. Of those who responded, 65 percent said they had lost
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sales due to the tariffs, 50 percent reported delays in sales, 36 percent reported they lost customers, and 21 percent said they experienced unanticipated costs because of the trade conflict. However, ASMI, working with US trade representatives, managed to get some exceptions to the US tariffs for certain species, including salmon, cod, and pollock. “Another important question is: Why is China important to us?” Woodrow says. He points out that the growing middle class and size of the population make China an important market for any kind of protein. “Increase demand for your product, and you increase the value at home,” he says. Increasing demand by bolstering efforts in existing markets and developing new ones to diversify the market for Alaska seafood is a top priority for ASMI. A three-year, $5.5 million grant from the Department of Agriculture was awarded to ASMI for just that purpose. “We don’t have a crystal ball, but we do know that the ongoing conflict with China means we need to also look at other markets,” Woodrow says, noting
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that there will be increased marketing efforts in established markets such as Germany and Japan as well as China. Additionally, ASMI is looking to use the grant money to explore opportunities in Southeast Asia and Brazil. “The short story is that anything can mess up these important export markets,” Woodrow says, emphasizing the importance of diversifying. “We’re hoping that a trade agreement is made between the US and China and this just becomes a bad memory.”
Climate Change Though the 2015 warm water anomaly— known as the “blob” and suspected to have severely impacted salmon returns in the Gulf of Alaska—has come to an end, scientists continue to try to understand the ramifications of climate change on Alaska stocks in the long term. “The variability of pink salmon harvests have increased dramatically during recent years, with every large statewide harvest followed by a decline in harvest the following year. During recent years we have seen the largest pink salmon harvests in history and some of the smallest since the 1970s, and climate
change is a possible driver for some portion of these vacillations,” Brenner says. “The effects of ocean acidification on Alaska’s fisheries are potentially large and likely to increase in the future. However, these effects are also difficult to study. At present shellfish farmers on the West Coast are already making adjustments in their methods to deal with acidified water and further adjustments are likely in the future.” Acidification of the oceans is the ongoing decrease in the pH of ocean water caused by the increased absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Studies have highlighted the possible implications of acidification on two important Alaska fisheries: Pacific cod and crab. “Changing environmental conditions can impact species in multiple ways and not all life stages may respond in the same way,” says NOAA Fisheries Scientist Tom Hurst. Hurst and a team of scientists from the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, and the Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies at Oregon
State University conducted two laboratory studies to evaluate larval fish sensitivity to elevated carbon dioxide levels. The released results show that larval Pacific cod response to elevated carbon dioxide levels varies depending on its stage of development. “Studies like this are important because most marine fish mortality occurs at the larval stage of development and the high-latitude oceans where Pacific cod and other important commercial fisheries occur are expected to be among the most vulnerable to ocean acidification,” states a NOAA release. “We wanted to explore this because it has implications for the sustainability of Pacific cod and other important fish stocks in Alaska,” Hurst says. Scientists have also been looking at the impact of acidification on Alaska crab. Studies focused on the effects on Tanner and blue king crab stocks in Alaska waters were released in 2016 but are ongoing. “A lot has to do with the stage in life that a crab is exposed to more acidic conditions [lower pH levels] than normal,” says Chris Long of the NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center. “For instance,
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the ocean environment that larval Tanner crabs live in is highly dynamic, with variable levels of acidity. At this age, Tanner crabs seem able to tolerate shifts in pH. But if these animals are exposed to more acidic conditions at the embryo stage, they may be less able to tolerate changes in ocean acidification as larvae.” The study on blue king crab revealed slower growth rates and higher mortality in juveniles exposed to more acidic conditions. “In 2013 we announced findings that lower pH levels could have profound effects on the development of Alaska red king crabs and Tanner crabs,” says Bob Foy, science and research director for the NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center and former head of the center’s Kodiak lab. “For the last few years, we’ve been looking at the effects of ocean acidification on different life stages of Tanner and blue king crab and the projections don’t look good. “If there are any bright spots in all of this, it is that we saw evidence that both Tanner and blue king crab species have the capacity to adapt.” Lower levels of sea ice in the Arctic and beyond due to climate change are another area of concern, though what those effects are—and will be—is still being examined. “Unusual and unexpected weather events during the winter of 2017/2018 resulted in the lowest ice year on record for the eastern Bering Sea,” says Elizabeth C. Siddon, who produces the Bering Sea Ecosystem Status Report for the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. “And, already this year, we’re seeing less ice in the northern Bering Sea then we did last year at this time.” Because of the previously unprecedented low sea ice levels, Siddon and her team gave a “heads-up” presentation to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council in October—they usually don’t present until December. The lack of sea ice and its impacts on the ecosystem in the northern and southern Bering Sea are thought to be connected to a number of red flags observed in the ecosystem last year, including a large die-off of seabirds. In 2017, NOAA’s summer bottom trawl survey turned up significant amounts of pollock and Pacific cod in the northern Bering Sea, which was irregular. “Typically when the ice came down in
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the winter, those fish presumably would move back down over the southern shelf, but without that signal of the sea ice coming down the question was, ‘Did they stay in the northern Bering Sea?’” Siddon says. “If they stayed, was there enough food for them? Are they now reproducing over the northern Bering Sea shelf? If they are, are those spawning populations viable?” Last year’s bottom trawl, surface trawl, and acoustic surveys again documented the presence of pollock and Pacific cod in the northern Bering Sea, Siddon writes in the Bering Sea Ecosystem Status Report. “Pollock biomass declined slightly from 2017 to 2018. However, more than 50 percent of Pacific cod biomass in the eastern Bering Sea was found over the northern portion of the shelf,” she writes. To compensate for these findings, Pacific cod in the northern Bering Sea, which is thought to be part of the same spawning population, was included in the most recent stock assessment, says Siddon. Another impact of the lack of sea ice is that it makes it difficult to predict when herring will begin spawning in Bristol Bay, says Bert Lewis, the Central Region
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supervisor of the Division of Commercial Fisheries for ADFG. “When the sea ice would go away, it would mean things were warming up, and when you see it go over 40, that’s when they’re going to start moving to spawn,” Lewis says, noting that he
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is already seeing a bit of a warm water anomaly, which could indicate that spawning will start earlier this year. “So we will be telling industry, better get ready it could be early. Nobody knows when it’s going to happen… A couple years ago, they started spawning and there was nobody there from industry to fish. Not a boat in sight.” Lewis points out that Alaska’s fisheries are in a state of dynamic flux, with many of the patterns that used to be fairly predictable becoming noticeably less so. “Forecasts are inherently uncertain. You kind of make an educated estimate of what we think is going to happen based on all these different factors,” Lewis says. “And [forecasting] really originated in Bristol Bay, and it was important there because it’s so remote that having an idea of the magnitude of the return allows industry to anticipate how many resources to deploy in a region.” Certainly from crabbers eyeing dwindling stocks of king crabs—and surprisingly robust snow crab stocks—to those preparing for pollock and salmon this year, there is a level of optimistic uncertainty about what the year, as well as their nets and pots, will hold.
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because of companies that make sure that these goods are transported safely and securely. The Department of Transportation (DOT) classifies hazardous materials into nine different hazard classes. These include explosives; gasses; flammable and combustible liquids; flammable solids (such as substances liable to spontaneous combustion and which, on contact with water, emit flammable gases); oxidizing substances and organic peroxides; toxic substances and infectious substances; radioactive materials; corrosive substances; and miscellaneous dangerous goods/ hazardous materials and articles.
Transporters of these materials must meet specific agency requirements, whether moving them by highway, rail, vessel, or air. Training is also required to work with hazmat, with courses offered in two specific areas: hazardous materials transportation and hazardous waste and emergency response. “Hazardous materials transportation includes learning the proper packaging, handling, and marking/labeling/placarding of the materials and equipment, as well as the proper way to fill out paperwork and security procedures,” explains Tyler Bones, training director for the Lynden Training Center and director of HSSE for Alaska West Express. “OSHA and EPA have very specific regulatory requirements concerning the levels of training required for hazardous waste and emergency response, which vary from the very basic
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that DOT requires additional permits for highly hazardous materials. Because much of Alaska isn’t on the road system, many hazmat materials need to be flown to their final destinations, especially to Bush communities. “Alaska’s a different animal. It’s not like in the rest of the country where you can just put something on a truck and it will get there; up here, many items need to go by air,” says Todd Clark, president of Tgi Freight, which has been providing freight handling and hazmat services since 1989. “While we do prepare some hazmat for transport by vessel or highway, it is a very small amount. Almost everything we prepare is for transportation by air.” In addition to shipping large stock orders for companies that have chosen to outsource this part of their business, Tgi also handles a good amount of walk-in business from people who may not have realized the special handling that hazmat requires. “Oftentimes, people find out at the airport that their items aren’t packaged correctly and they don’t have the knowledge or the training required to ship aerosols, flammable paint, drain cleaner, 84 | May 2019
and more,” says Clark. “We go through each item, package it, mark it, certify it, and check it in with the airlines.” As society has become more aware of the dangers of transporting hazardous materials, the industry evolved to meet more stringent transportation requirements. “People have become more educated over the years; back when I started in the early 1980s, transporting hazardous material was kind of a new baby,” says Clark. “Then 9/11 came along and everything changed. People realized that now someone was going to be going through their luggage, because everyone was looking at what was being put on airplanes. A lot more items got caught that used to flow through. It’s definitely been an evolution.” Large-scale accidents also compelled the industry to look for ways to improve the transportation of goods. “For example, after the first few crude train incidents in the Lower 48 and Canada, the Federal Railroad Administration [a division of DOT] worked with the railroad industry to develop safer railcars,” says Bones. “DOT may also grant special permits for shipping hazmat in containers not typically used for a particular
chemical; for example, shipping a toxic liquid in a gas cylinder to ensure safety during air transportation.”
Hazardous Waste and Emergency Response When hazardous waste does need to be cleaned up, whether from an accident or as a byproduct of an industry such as construction, mining, oil and gas, or fishing, it’s not quite as easy as it would be in the Lower 48. “The management of hazardous waste in Alaska is more challenging than in other states because we cannot dispose of it in-state; the majority of all hazardous waste has to be transported out of state for treatment or disposal,” says Bones. EPA and DOT regulate the management and transportation of hazardous waste, and generators of this waste have to use approved transporters to ship it. There are also very strict timeline requirements on how long hazardous waste can stay at a facility and how long it can take while being transported. “We get calls all the time from people who want to know if the materials they are handling in their remodel or have
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encountered on their property are dangerous, and how to dispose of it,” explains Shayla Marshall, senior program manager at Environmental Management, Inc. (EMI). EMI is a health and safety training and consulting firm that deals with hazardous materials including asbestos, lead-based paint, and PCBs, among other materials. “They may have some awareness that the materials contain things such as asbestos because of the age of their building or have a comprehensive O&M plan identifying the locations of the hazards,” she adds. “Being able to communicate that to a contractor who may be working around those materials or notifying the landfill before you arrive at the gate will save you time, money, and a lot of headaches.” EMI is most often involved in commercial properties or when an incident—such as the recent earthquake— causes major structural damage. “After the earthquake, we worked with several commercial and government entities who had building materials such as ceiling tiles that had fallen; the earthquake kicked up a lot dust and debris,” says Marshall. “They were concerned about the impact of this to their employees’ health and safety.”
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EMI had teams working around-theclock testing air quality and collecting samples from dust and building materials. Its sister company, Central Environmental, Inc. (CEI), worked just as hard. “CEI has the trained personnel, trucks, and equipment to do the clean-up,” says Marshall. While there are some standard regulations, there may also be specific regulations geared toward particular facilities. “For example, we worked with a client
after the earthquake that required us to follow specific regulations concerning the hazards of exposure in education facilities,” says Marshall, citing concerns about potential fiber release and the possibility that students and teachers could be breathing asbestos into their lungs. “Our inspectors collected air samples and either let the client know that the buildings were safe to occupy or had crews go back in and clean it again.”
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Hazmat Training When companies are dealing with such dangerous materials, it is imperative that their employees be trained to handle items safely and securely. Tgi Freight hazmat employees are required by regulation to do recurrent training no less than every three years, but Clark says that they typically do so more often than that. EMI has been providing training since 1988. This training includes hazardous waste operations and emergency response (HAZWOPER), asbestos abatement, lead abatement, hazardous materials transportation, and hazardous paint certification. The training is most often for those who may be performing renovation or repairs; people who are exposed to hazardous materials as part of their jobs; those who are collecting samples or designing response actions; and entities that are transporting hazardous materials. “Our training includes hands-on activities that help everyone understand the mandatory work practices to prevent exposure,” says Marshall. “We also do training on how to manage this waste stream and how hazmat is transported; we want people to have a full picture of how to recognize, assess, manage, and dispose of these waste materials.” EMI offers training to everyone from local, state, and federal government entities to those in the construction industries. “We strive to deliver training that is tailored to our clients’ needs and is relevant to their industries—it’s important that anyone who manages or handles hazardous materials knows what they’re doing and understands how to identify and minimize risks,” says Marshall. Lynden opened its own training center back in 1995. “The Lynden Training Center was started because transportation companies kept requesting to sit in on the hazardous materials transportation training that Alaska West Express was conducting back in 1993-94,” says Bones. The center first provided hazardous materials transportation training and then added hazardous materials emergency response and clean-up training soon after its inception. Because its employees have always belonged to the Fairbanks North Star Borough hazardous materials teams, the center’s instructors have real-world emergency response experience.
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Approximately 1,000 students receive training each year, with the majority of courses being taken by non-Lynden companies and the public. According to Bones, the center trains personnel to safely work with and around chemicals, how to properly transport them, and how to respond to emergencies involving hazardous materials. “Our training focuses on working with all types of hazardous chemical materials, depending upon the needs of the customer,” he explains. Training focuses on four primary areas— transportation compliance, emergency response and spill clean-up, industrial safety, and equipment operations. Examples of basic courses include fall protection, fire extinguishers, and respiratory protection, with more specialized courses including hazardous materials technician certification, incident commander, wilderness first responder, methods of instruction, and confined space rescue technician. “The center offers a wide variety of courses to meet our customers’ specific needs, whether that’s confined space entry and rescue training in Buckland; propane fire training at the State Fire Chiefs Conference; hazardous materials
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technician training for oil and gas facilities; technical rescue technician training in Kodiak, or chemical-specific training for the Department of Defense, just to name a few,” says Bones. He adds that Lynden has trained the State of Alaska’s statewide hazardous materials response teams for the past seven years in hazardous materials technician training, which results in students being eligible for state and international level certification. The center also has a strong
working relationship with the Alaska fire marshal’s office and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which allows it to offer State of Alaska accredited courses and bestow college credit. Properly handled, hazardous materials can safely be managed and transported throughout the state, and hazmat waste can be disposed of in the proper way. Even as the industry evolves, the safety of the state’s residents and its environment remain the top priority.
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Infrastructure Update Summer road construction projects in 2019 By Tasha Anderson
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ay traditionally signals the beginning of summer construction, including projects statewide to improve or construct roads, bridges, and the affiliated infrastructure. Road projects can take years to design and permit and are generally well-known to the public long before construction begins. This year construction in Alaska may deviate from that slightly because of the anticipation that as the frozen earth thaws, further damage from the November 30, 2018, earthquake may be become apparent. Also, some emergency repairs made at that time were temporary and will require additional work. For now, the following is a selection
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of plans that are moving forward for road and bridge construction this summer and fall for projects that have taken the more well-worn project development path. In Anchorage in the vicinity of East 40th Avenue and Loon Cove Circle, R&M Consultants developed the civil design to correct drainage inadequacies causing flooding. The construction estimate for the project is less than $1 million for 5 miles of roadway improvements and 1 mile of new pedestrian pathway, as well as improvements including storm drain pipe, manhole, open ditch, and landscaping elements. The Municipality of Anchorage Project Management & Engineering project is slated to begin construction this month and wrap up by August. The intersection of Danby Street and Wembley Avenue in Fairbanks is being updated this year; the Danby-Wembley Roundabout design was developed by R&M. The engineering firm also prepared final bid documents for the project, which will include construction of a multi-lane
roundabout to reduce angle crashes and accommodate oversize/overweight truck traffic. The design cost is $1.16 million and construction is coming in at an estimated $4.4 million. General contractor Exclusive Paving is scheduled to begin construction this spring and end construction in August. The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) aims to improve safety and service for the first 12 miles of the Elliott Highway with the Elliott Highway MP 1 to MP 12 Rehabilitation project, which started construction in June 2018. Construction work will continue this summer and is slated for completion by the end of October. The cost of construction for this project is just under $25 million. According to DOT&PF, “notable traffic impacts� during construction this year include diversions at MP 11 and only one lane being open on the Chatanika River Bridge beginning this month. The project will repair poor performing foundation and pavement
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to signalize the Sterling Highway and Main Street intersection and add a north-bound right-turn lane from the Sterling Highway to Main Street. The project is scheduled for completion in November. Construction is planned this summer for Seward Highway Improvements from MP 100 to MP 105, from Indian to Bird Creek. The DOT&PF project has a construction cost estimate of $35 million; upgrades to the five miles of highway include rehabilitating the road, construction of one mile of new pedestrian pathway, replacement of the Indian Creek Bridge, and replacement of several large drainage structures to accommodate fish. R&M developed civil design for the highway reconstruction, which is up for bid this month with an anticipated construction start of this summer and end in 2021. PND Engineers provided engineering services to DOT&PF for the First and Second Waterfall Creek Bridge Replacements project taking place north of Ketchikan. Construction will continue this summer on the project that began in December 2018 and is anticipated to conclude in September 2020. Orion Marine Contractors is the general contractor for the $8.3 million project. According to PND, “Following an initial cost analysis comparing a roller-compacted concrete option to a pre-stressed concrete bulb-tee girders single-span bridge, the latter was selected. Design involved vertical realignment and widening of the paved, two-lane rural highway at two ravine crossings, guardrail… erosion control along ditches and abutments, temporary detours and bridges, incorporation of bridges designed by DOT&PF, tie-ins with three driveways, relocation of overhead power and telecommunications, temporary traffic control, signing, and striping.”
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Estimated to cost $51.7 million, the Stantec environmental and design team has been supporting DOT&PF for the Kivalina Evacuation and School Site Access Road, which will “increase community resilience by constructing a safe, reliable, all-season evacuation road between the community of Kivalina and Kisimigiuqtuq Hill that residents will be able to use in the event of a catastrophic storm or ocean surge,” according to Stantec. “As part of the innovative teaming process, DOT&PF, the Federal Highway Administration, the Northwest Arctic Borough, the Native Village of Kivalina, the City of Kivalina, NANA Regional Corporation, and other permitting and stakeholder agencies delivered the project into the construction phase in less than twenty-two months,” the company states. Work began on the project in late 2018 and will continue this year. The Seward Highway MP 17 to MP 22.5 Rehabilitation project includes the rehabilitation and safety improvements of 5.5 miles of the highway between Moose Pass and Seward. The road will be widened from 28 to 37 feet, generally remaining in its existing location, and two new slow vehicle turnouts (one northbound and one southbound) will be added to improve safety. R&M was responsible for civil design for the project, which has an estimated construction budget of $65 million. The DOT&PF project will be up for bid in September 2019, with construction scheduled to start shortly thereafter and concluding in 2022. In the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, R&M is the engineer of record for the Willow-Fishhook Road MP 34 Repairs project for DOT&PF. With an estimated construction budget of up to $1 million, this FEMA disaster grant-funded project will provide roadway repairs following heavy rains in late 2012 that damaged the Willow-Fishhook Road near Hatcher Pass. Repairs include replacing lost roadway embankment and stabilizing approximately 350 feet of Willow Creek stream bank. Construction is planned for August through October. For those traveling Alaska’s roads this summer, take a quick look at DOT&PF’s “Know B4 U Go” website: 511.alaska.gov/ alaska511/mappingcomponent/index. The site provides up-to-date information on driving alerts, conditions, current and future events, and other important road information. www.akbizmag.com
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Circular Logic: Why Roundabouts?
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ccording to the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF), in 2000 Alaska didn’t have any roundabouts, but as of early last year the state had more than thirtysix, and that number continues to grow. Roundabouts are commonly included in new road construction, and many intersections across the state have been renovated to integrate roundabout designs. DOT&PF states: “The trend in Alaska mirrors the trend across the United States for a simple reason: [roundabouts] are much safer than a traditional signalized or fourway-stop intersection.” DOT&PF explains three primary reasons that roundabouts are safer: there are fewer collision points, fewer
serious injury crashes, and increased safety for pedestrians. There are thirty-two possible “collision points” in a traditional fourway intersection, as vehicles cross traffic while turning left, turn right on a red light, speed up to make the intersection before a light change, or engage in other typical intersection behaviors; however, in a roundabout there are only eight points of collision, four where vehicles enter the roundabout and four where vehicles exit. When crashes do happen, they are less likely to result in serious injury or death. This is in part because a roundabout configuration almost eliminates the possibility of headon and T-bone crashes. Vehicles in
the roundabout are also traveling at a slower speed, which reduces the severity of the consequences of a crash. And because vehicles move slower within and when entering and exiting the roundabout, both drivers and pedestrians have a better chance to react to avoid collisions. DOT&PF reports that, according to national studies, intersections converted from a traditional configuration to a roundabout experience a 90 percent reduction in fatalities, a 75 percent reduction in injuries, and a 35 percent reduction in crashes overall. “We have seen similar results at roundabouts in Alaska,” the department states. “In the ten years since roundabouts were installed at an intersection in North Pole, there have been zero injury crashes and a 68 percent reduction in crashes overall.” Roundabouts have also been shown to reduce congestion, reduce fuel usage and pollution, and lower the long-term costs of maintaining an intersection.
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instead of a single-lane roundabout. Roundabouts are not appropriate for every intersection, but under the right circumstances, they can save lives, reduce injury, and save money.”
Because of all of these benefits, DOT&PF now has a “Roundabout First” policy, meaning “designers must provide a written justification of any decision to install a traffic signal
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here’s something indescribably special about indulging in fresh food cooked up in the back of a truck. Maybe there’s a bench you politely fight other diners over or maybe you end up awkwardly juggling a drink, napkins, and too-hot-to-eat-but-I-don’t-care food truck offerings in too few hands—but either way you can taste the passion that’s absolutely necessary for a food truck to find success in today’s competitive field. Below Alaska Business has listed just a few food trucks that move around Alaska’s population centers. We’re sure you’ll see a few favorites—and we hope you find some new options to try.
Juneau Pucker Wilson’s mission is to serve “delicious and affordable food that our guests will keep coming back for.” The food truck has a selection of burgers, chicken sandwiches, tacos, hot dogs, and fries. puckerwilsons.com The Wild Alaskan Halibut Truck claims to have the best fish and chips in Juneau in addition to offering up burgers, coconut shrimp, tacos, a pulled pork sandwich, and a selection of breakfast options. thewildalaskan.us Forno Rosso Pizzeria & Catering has motorized its pizza oven, providing fresh, hot, wood-oven pizzas on-the-spot in Juneau. The
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truck has classic, Alaska-themed, and dessert pizzas plus a range of beverages. fornorossoalaska.com Bun Daddy has a regular location next to the Juneau Arts and Humanities Center and serves handmade, fusion-style steamed buns. facebook.com/bundaddy/
Fairbanks The Fire’s goal is to “use our expertise in bringing you authentic, homemade, flavorful, and fresh meals on the go.” The food truck’s menu includes burgers, tacos, wraps, wings, and fries. facebook.com/907thefire/ Husky Hot Dogs cooks up a selection of high-quality, all-beef
hot dogs in addition to local creations and favorites including reindeer sausage and a smoked salmon hot dog. facebook.com/ huskyhotdogs/
enchiladas, tamales, and tostadas. Benny’s has been in operation since 1969. facebook.com/ BennysFoodWagonAK/ Yeti Dogs was named the 2018 Hot Dog Vendor of the Year by Mobile-Cuisine.com and serves gourmet hot dogs, including Alaskan reindeer sausage, German style bratwurst, and a field roast vegan sausage. facebook.com/yetidogsak/
The Alaska Cheesesteak Company used to be a restaurant and has transitioned into being a full-time food truck, offering up a range of creative cheesesteak options served with chips or fries. facebook.com/alaskacheesesteakco Wagner’s Pizza Bus serves Fairbanks residents and guests a range of pizzas, salads, hoagies, calzones, wings, burgers, appetizers, and poutine. The fullymobile pizza kitchen is housed in a converted school bus. facebook. com/pg/WagnersPizzaBus/
Jeepney is the food truck operated by Adobo Grill and features Filipino fusion foods such the adobo burrito, sisig burrito, and pandan ice tea. facebook. com/AdoboGrillJEEPNEY/ Boom Ba Laddy’s food truck menu includes hot sandwiches, burgers, specialty hot dogs, fried tacos, munchies like fries and chips, and macaroni and cheese bowls. boombaladdys.wordpress. com
Anchorage El Green-Go’s cooks up a range of tacos, burritos, and nachos, including some breakfast options, many of which have “Get it Wet” options including roasted poblano, green chili ranchero, black bean coconut queso, and nacho sauces. facebook.com/elgreengosak/
International House of Hot Dogs specializes in gourmet hot dogs, featuring recipes from around the world including Mexico, Hawaii, Greece, and more, including a vegetarian option. facebook.com/ihohAK/
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MAY Juneau Jazz 3-18 & Classics
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MAY Kodiak Crab 23-27 Festival
Juneau Jazz & Classics celebrates its annual festival with sixteen days of soul-lifting, blues-chasing, live music by way of concerts, workshops, cruises, and free events all over town. This year’s roster includes Julie Coucheron, King Louie & LaRhonda Steele, Volante Winds, Gonzalo Bergara Trio, Eliot Fisk, Argus Quartet, and more. jazzandclassics.org
Crab Fest is a time for the community to celebrate the abundant resources received from the sea. Activities include good food, games, a parade, vendors, and more. kodiakchamber.org
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MAY Copper 2-5 River Delta
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This is Alaska’s premier, must-see aviation event with more than 23,000 attendees, including pilots and aviation enthusiasts. Alaska is the “flyingest” state in the union with more pilots and aircraft per capita than anywhere in the world. The gathering takes place at the FedEx Hangar at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. greatalaskaaviationgathering.org
This week long festival is a great experience and a wonderful sight to see. As many as 5 million shorebirds rest and feed in Cordova during the spring migration. There are opportunities for bird watching, hiking, presentations, community events, and many more activities fun for all ages. coppershorebird.com
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The Barefoot Mile is a 1-mile barefoot walk where participants stand behind the cause of human trafficking and walk in solidarity with those who are the most vulnerable to trafficking. Funds raised will assist in the rescue, restoration, reintegration, and prevention of human trafficking in Alaska, the United States, and internationally. The walk takes place from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Town Square. alaskabarefootmile.org
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MAY Equifest and 18 Stallion Showcase Enjoy horse demonstrations, games, vendors, food, and more at this free horse show. Equifest is an annual event hosted by the Anchorage Horse Council to celebrate Alaska’s horses and the arrival of spring. anchoragehorsecouncil.net www.akbizmag.com
This is a one-day family friendly event showcasing many facets of Juneau’s maritime history, commerce, and culture, including a helicopter rescue demonstration, great seafood, activities for kids, informational and sales booths, and songs and stories for all ages. There’s also a Maritime Marinade contest, food vendors, and a beer garden, all at the Alaska Steamship dock. jedc.org/maritimefestival
Also known as Beerfest, this festival includes a Gourmet Brewers’ dinner, fun run, and connoisseur and general admission tastings, located at the Southeast Alaska State Fairgrounds. seakfair.org
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Festival More than 130 bird species migrate to Kachemak Bay. Sandhill cranes, Arctic and Aleutian terns, Pacific golden-plover, bristlethighed curlew, horned puffins, and red-necked stint are only a few bird species visitors might see. The festival includes fun and educational activities for any level of birder and all ages. kachemakshorebird.org
Celebrate art and the start of a new season at the Arts Council’s annual Celebration of the Sea Art Walk. Guests will enjoy the blessing of the fleet, new art pieces by local artists, music, and refreshments. Start at any participating location and enjoy a wonderful spring evening of art. ketchikanarts.org
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MAY Little Norway 16-19 Festival This festival celebrates the signing of Norway’s constitution in 1848, the coming of spring, the beginning of the fishing season, and US Armed Forces Day. The festival includes food and craft booths downtown, a parade, a Scandinavian pageant, a herring toss, a walk-run race, and Vikings and Valkyries roaming the streets. petersburg.org
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MAY Prince of Wales 25 Island Marathon The race welcomes both runners and walkers; this year will be the 20th anniversary of the full marathon and 8th anniversary of the half marathon. A destination race, the marathon states: “We are the race venue for those seeking a challenge and stunning scenery in a unique locale.” powmarathon.org
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MAY Seward 17-19 Mermaid Festival This festival takes place in partnership with the Seward Harbor Opening Weekend to celebrate rejuvenation, develop a creative community impact, and encourage local entrepreneurship, using the mermaid as a symbol to represent Seward’s relationship with the ocean. The festival includes vendors, live music, a swap meet, pub crawl, and more. sewardmermaidfestival.com
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MAY Valdez Fly-In 10-12 and Air Show This is the premier Bush flying event in Alaska and includes airplane rides, static displays, local vendors and concessions, the Poker Run, a Flour Bombing, and the STOL competition, as more than 200 airplanes descend on Pioneer Field in Valdez. valdezflyin.com
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MAY-JUN Yakutat Tern 30-2 Festival One of the largest and southernmost known breeding colonies of Aleutian Terns is in Yakutat. The mission of the festival is to highlight the extraordinary natural and cultural resources of Yakutat and to stimulate the local economy by hosting a festival celebrating Aleutian Terns. Participants of the festival will enjoy birding activities, natural history field trips, art exhibits, educational events for kids and adults, and Alaska Native cultural presentations. yakutatternfestival.org May 2019 | 95
BUSINESS EVENTS MAY MAY 2-4
ACP Alaska Chapter Meeting Sheraton Hotel & Spa, Anchorage: ACP is the American College of Physicians, and the annual chapter meeting is an opportunity for CME credits and MOC points. acponline.org MAY 2-4
Alaska VFW State Convention Anchorage: The annual convention includes a Joint Memorial Service, VFW Business Session, guest banquets, and other events. alaskavfw.org
MAY 16-19
JUNE 17-21
JULY 12-18
ACUL Annual Meeting
9th Annual Nuka System of Care Conference
Uniform Law Commission Annual Meeting
Nuka Wellness and Learning Center, Anchorage: The general conference presents Southcentral Foundation’s developed and proven content on organizational strategies and processes; integrated medical, behavioral, and traditional practices; and supporting infrastructure. southcentralfoundation.com
Anchorage: The Uniform Law Commission provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived, and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law. uniformlaws.org
JUNE 18-19
Soldotna: The Alaska Municipal League is a voluntary, nonprofit, nonpartisan, statewide organization of 162 cities, boroughs, and unified municipalities, representing more than 97 percent of Alaska’s residents. akml.org
Talkeetna: The Alaska Credit Union League’s annual meeting is an opportunity to gather, network, and learn. alaskacreditunions.org/events.html MAY 16-19
Alaska Optometric Association CE Conference Alyeska Resort, Girdwood: The mission of the AKOA is to influence the future of eye care by ensuring the welfare of Alaskans and promoting the continued development of the profession of optometry. akoa.org
MAY 7-9
Wakefield Fisheries Symposium
MAY 17-18
Anchorage: This symposium provides a forum for discussion on ways to facilitate effective cooperative research, a platform for scientific talks on the application and results of cooperative research, and opportunity to evaluate how such research might be best envisioned, applied, and implemented. alaskaseagrant.org/events/ wakefield-fisheries-symposium
Westmark Baranof Hotel, Juneau: The annual meeting of the Alaska Dental Society, which is “Committed to enhancing the dental profession and the health of all Alaskans.” akdental.org
MAY 8-10
Alaska Bar Convention Fairbanks: This conference provides opportunities to complete CLE requirements as well as includes an opening reception, several luncheons, and an awards reception and dinner. alaskabar.org MAY 13-16
AWWMA Statewide Conference Hotel Captain Cook, Anchorage: This conference is a venue for information, technology, expertise, curiosity, and thirst (for refreshment and knowledge) for the Alaska Water Wastewater Management Association. awwma.org 96 | May 2019
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Alaska Oil & Gas Association Dena’ina Center, Anchorage: AOGA hosts a one-day conference focused on industry trends, legal and scientific issues surrounding development, and national and state-level energy policies and politics. aoga.org JUNE JUNE 14-18
Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference Kenai Peninsula College, Homer: Sponsored by the Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula College/ UAA, this highly acclaimed, nationally-recognized conference features workshops, craft talks, public readings, and panel presentations in literary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and the business of writing. writersconf.kpc.alaska.edu
National 8(a) Association Alaska Regional Conference Anchorage Marriott Downtown: The 2019 Alaska Regional Conference offers educational sessions, matchmaking, networking, and resources for all small businesses. national8aassociation.org JULY JULY 11
Best of Alaska Business 49th State Brewing Co., Anchorage: Alaska Business honors more than sixty companies that have been selected by our readers as leaders in their field, ranging from breweries and sushi restaurants to web designers and swag providers. The event is awesome—and space is limited. akbizmag.com/2019-best-ofalaska-business-awards/ JULY 8-12 & 22-26
Alaska Business Week Alaska Business Week i s a oneweek summer program teaching the basic principles of private sector business to Alaskan high school students. The Anchorage program runs July 8-12 at King Tech High School and the Mat-Su program runs July 22-26 at Colony High School. alaskabusinessweek.com
AUGUST AUGUST 13-15
AML Summer Legislative Meeting
AUGUST 21-23
APA Annual Meeting Alaska Power Association’s 6 8th Annual Meeting and ARECA Insurance Exchange Annual Meeting, hosted by Alaska Electric Light & Power and Inside Passage Electric Cooperative, brings together APA’s statewide membership for three days of association business, general sessions, speakers, and networking. alaskapower.org SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 23-27
Alaska Fire Conference Ketchikan: The conference includes training, workshops, lectures, and a firefighter competition. alaskafireconference.com SEPTEMBER 23-27
IAWP 2019 Conference Dena’ina Center, Anchorage: The theme for the 2019 conference of the International Association of Women Police is “Mentoring the Next Generation.” iawp2019. womenpoliceofalaska.org
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RIGHT MOVES First Alaskans Institute Cheryl Pitiksuq Johnson has been hired as First Alaskans Institute’s Indigenous Sustainability Advancement Pitiksuq Director, and Anna Ts’aayeneekeelno Clock has been hired as the organization’s Indigenous and Intergovernmental Affairs Coordinator. Pitiksuq holds a bachelor of science in aviation technology with an emphasis in aviation management and a minor in business administration from the University of Alaska Anchorage. She also holds several human resources credentials (PHR & SHRM-CP). Ts’aayeneekeelno holds a bachelor of arts in Japanese studies from Middlebury College. Most recently, she was a 2018 First Alaskans Institute Summer Intern in the Office of former-Governor Bill Walker and after was hired to stay on the team as a policy and program analyst and special assistant to Lieutenant Governor Valerie Davidson until the end of their term.
Michael Baker International Michael Baker International expanded its operation in Anchorage with two new hires: Marc Luiken, Civil/Transportation Engineering Manager, and Patrick Whitesell, Environmental Department Lead. Previously, Luiken served Luiken as Commissioner for the
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. Prior to his public service in Alaska, Luiken served twenty-nine years with the US Air Force, retiring as the Vice Commander of the 11th Air Force in 2010. Before joining Michael Baker, Whitesell served as an Environmental Specialist at DOWL for eleven years. He managed a small team Whitesell and led dozens of phase one environmental site assessments, numerous wetland delineations, and noise analyses for a range of private- and public-sector clients.
Landye Bennett Blumstein Landye Bennett Blumstein announced that Elizabeth Saagulik Hensley has become a partner in the firm. Saagulik received her bachelor’s degree from Saagulik Dartmouth College in 2005 and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in 2009. Her experience includes serving as general counsel to a regional tribal nonprofit organization, staff attorney and public policy liaison, Alaska legislative aide, and senior policy advisor.
AIDEA The AIDEA Board appointed Tomas Boutin as AIDEA Executive Director. Boutin comes to this position after a distinguished career in forestry, including four years of service as Alaska
State Forester. Boutin received his undergraduate degree in forest resources from the University of New Hampshire and holds a master of business administration from the University of Oregon School of Business.
CRW Engineering Group CRW Engineering Group recently promoted two long-term employees to the position of Principal. Justin Keene, PE, began at CRW in 2000 as a summer intern before joining full-time in 2003. Since then, he has served Keene as a project manager/ engineer on a variety of civil engineering projects throughout Alaska involving transportation, site, and utility (water, sewer, and storm drain) infrastructure. Anthony Robinson, PLS, CFedS, is a senior land surveyor and certified federal surveyor with more than twenty-two years of Robinson experience leading field surveys and mapping for design, rightof-way, land/site development, and construction projects. He graduated from Michigan Technological University with a bachelor’s in land surveying and an associate’s in civil engineering. He joined CRW in 2008.
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Senior Architect with the firm’s buildings group in Anchorage. Nagata will apply her twenty years of experience to serve and Nagata grow the firm’s buildings practice in Alaska. In addition to a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Oregon, Nagata earned her master of real estate and construction management from the University of Denver.
Ahtna Ahtna is pleased to announce several new hires within its subsidiaries. Nathan Hagar is the newest Geologist based in the Fairbanks office of Ahtna Environmental, Inc. (AEI). Hagar attended Hagar the University of Alaska Fairbanks and graduated in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in geological engineering. Hagar will be a field team lead for projects such as the installation and startup of an air sparge/ soil vapor extraction system at Fort Wainwright. Martin Molyneux has joined the company as a Senior Project Manager as part of its construction team based in Anchorage. Molyneux has twenty-seven Molyneux years of experience in Alaska and California managing megaprojects, as well as performing operational work involving major facilities, pipelines, sealifts, and fabrication. Molyneux has a bachelor’s degree in political science from University of Colorado, Boulder. Justin Dunn has joined the AEI team as a Senior Project Manager in
Anchorage. He has an extensive background in commercial vertical construction throughout Alaska and has worked on Dunn projects from the North Slope to Kodiak Island. His experience includes federal, municipal, and private construction. Dunn has an associate of applied science degree in small business management from WyoTech in Laramie, Wyoming. Marty Walker was hired by AEI as a Site Superintendent based out of the firm’s Anchorage office. Walker has twenty-two Walker years of civil construction experience including an extensive background with equipment operation. Walker has supervised projects for federal, state, municipal, and private clients. AEI’s Anchorage office hired Wayne Johnson as Senior Superintendent. Johnson has thirty years of experience in all phases of Johnson the construction industry including providing comprehensive project supervision, quality control, safety management, and project administration. He has extensive experience with military, state, and commercial clients.
MTA MTA announced several promotions. Jared Lindman was promoted to Director of Product Management. Since joining MTA, Lindman has organized and improved Lindman MTA’s Business Solutions
product suite. Lindman is a natural fit to drive MTA’s product strategy to create value for members, a competitive advantage in the marketplace, and drive long-term profitability. Jacki Webb was promoted to Director of Marketing and External Communications at MTA. In this role, Webb will ensure Webb brand consistency across all channels driving brand awareness and loyalty. Webb leads a high energy team that continuously seeks to build the MTA brand through creative messaging, strategic partnerships, and community events. Matt Langhoff was promoted to Vice President of Administrative Services at MTA. He has been with MTA for more than fifteen years Langhoff and has dedicated himself to the HR arena. In the past two years, his leadership and guidance transformed MTA’s HR department from traditional HR to Administrative Services. The new department encompasses HR and also risk management, fleet and facilities, warehouse operations, and the project management office. Diana Escobar was promoted to Project Management Office Manager at MTA. During her fifteen-year tenure with Escobar the organization, Escobar has worked in various departments and has been a central player in keeping MTA’s corporate infrastructure operating smoothly. Escobar has served in the Project Management Office for the last eight years and has played a vital role in the strategic implementation of some of MTA’s most critical projects.
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INSIDE ALASKA BUSINESS First National Bank Alaska’s newly renamed Wealth Management department (previously Investment Management & Trust Services) offers customers a full spectrum of investment, asset, and trust management services for business and personal finances. The new name is meant to better reflect the bank’s global approach to helping Alaskans manage investable assets. fnbalaska.com
US Senate The US Senate passed an appropriations package that includes $655 million dedicated to the design and construction of a new heavy polar security cutter; $20 million to acquire long lead-time materials for a second polar security cutter; and $400 million for offshore patrol cutters and $340 million for fast response cutters, six of which will be based in Alaska. Additionally, the bill provides $53 million for shore-side infrastructure facilities in Alaska to support the new cutters, with $22 million going to Kodiak and $31 million to Seward. senate.gov
Pebble Mine The US Army Corps of Engineers released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Pebble Project, a copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry project, which would include an open-pit mine and associated infrastructure. The public comment period on the Draft EIS began March 1 and will end May 30, 2019. Comments can be submitted online, through testimony at public meetings, or by mail. The Draft EIS and all contact information are available at pebbleprojecteis.com.
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(D-Bethel) and has been tasked with advancing strategic partnerships between tribes and state government. The House Special Committee on Tribal Affairs was created by the passage of House Resolution 5 on a 37-1 vote. It has been authorized for the duration of the current legislative session, which ends in January 2021. akleg.gov/house.php
Sabrewing | ACSPI Sabrewing Aircraft Company and the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (ACSPI) signed a history-making agreement for Sabrewing to provide a mix of up to ten aircraft—including the 800-pound-payload Rhaegal and the 4,400-pound-payload Wyvern aircraft. The aircraft will be tested at a new ACSPI-created test range, one of the largest aircraft test ranges North America, centered about St. Paul Island. Under the agreement, Sabrewing will provide equipment and training to allow the ACSPI community to initiate and operate a complete test range complex, known as the SPxTR (pronounced “specter”) Complex. Sabrewing will use the SPxTR Complex to conduct research and development, as well as FAA certification of its aircraft designs. In addition to the aircraft and test range, Sabrewing and ACSPI are creating a joint venture corporation to provide UAV pilot training, maintenance and dispatcher training, and aircraft replacement and spare parts. sabrewingaircraft.com | tanamawaa.com/acspi/
Anchorage Midtown Farmers Market The Anchorage Midtown Farmers Market will be held on Saturdays starting June 22, 2019, in the BP Alaska building parking lot. Approximately twenty-five vendors are expected to sell their food and agricultural-related products at the new market. The Anchorage Midtown Farmers Market will be held
each Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., from June 22 through October. anchoragemidtownfarmersmarket.com
AWWC The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center (AWWC) announced its resident coyotes have moved into their new enclosure and are on display to the public. Togiak, the male coyote, came from a litter that was living in a den in the flight path at the military base in Anchorage. When the United States Department of Agriculture relocated the den, Togiak was left behind by his family and was transferred to AWWC in 2016. Aurora, the female coyote, has a similar story to Togiak: she was discovered on the runway of the military base, her mother and littermates nowhere to be found. She was relocated to AWCC in 2017. AWCC takes in injured and orphaned animals year-round and provides them with spacious enclosures at its 200-acre facility. Most of the animals that arrive at AWCC become permanent residents. alaskawildlife.org
KeyBank | ACLT Anchorage Community Land Trust received a $75,000 grant from KeyBank, which will be used for the expansion of its Set Up Shop program. Set Up Shop provides a pipeline of support for neighborhood entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their business in low-income areas. Through the program, entrepreneurs have access to training, lending, business assistance, and real estate services to enable them to build the business of their dreams in their home community. This marks KeyBank’s largest small business investment in the state. key.com | anchoragelandtrust.org
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AT A GLANCE What book is on your nightstand? Cowboy Up: John Smith Leads the Legendary Oklahoma State Wrestlers to Their Greatest Season Ever by Kim D. Parish: It’s about the legendary John Smith as a wrestler and as a coach and goes through the best season that John Smith had as the head coach of the Oklahoma State Cowboys wrestling team. What movie do you recommend to everyone? Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. If you’re not first, you’re last [he laughs]. What’s the first thing you do after work? Most of the time, I hurry up and get ready to go to wrestling practice [Dickinson is a wrestling coach]. If you couldn’t live in Alaska, where would you live? Nowhere [he laughs]. I love Alaska. But I would probably say either Idaho or Western Montana. If you could domesticate a wild animal, what animal would it be? A wolverine. They’re the most tenacious animal I know of—they never give up.
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AB: Dead or alive, who would you like to most see perform live in concert? Dickinson: Hank Williams Jr.
American Oilfield in 2010. In 2015, the
company partnered with Chugach Alaska AB: What’s something you’re superstitious about? Dickinson: If a coin [on the ground] is tails looking up at me, I walk on by. If it’s heads, I pick it up.
ownership, and Pete Dickinson is president of the company that provides oil and gas workover drilling operations, expertise in project management for oil and gas projects, and labor for operator-owned drilling and workover rigs. Alaska Business: What do you do in your free time? Pete Dickinson: I like to spend a lot of time with my family, and we do a lot of hunting and fishing. AB: Is there a skill you’re currently developing or have always wanted to learn? Dickinson: I’m always trying to learn better ways, or more effective ways, to motivate people—whether it’s in my wrestling coaching or it’s at work. AB: What is your go-to comfort food? Dickinson: Moose burgers. My daughter, Nicole, makes them best. AB: Other than your current career, if you were a child today, what would your dream job be? Dickinson: There’s no money in it, but probably coaching college wrestling. AB: What’s the most daring thing that you’ve ever done? Dickinson: Well, I’m doing it right now. I am building a gym/ wrestling facility for kids. It’s going to be a 15,000-square-foot [new construction] facility for kids… [that includes] a wrestling room, a CrossFit area, a weight room, a cardio room, and an auxiliary, little gym for yoga or whatever else we need to help pay to make the dream come true. AB: Where are you building it? Dickinson: Right outside of the city limits in Soldotna. We’ve already got the property and we’re designing it right now. We’re almost done with the architectural stage and we’re just now getting into engineering.
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AB: What’s your greatest extravagance? Dickinson: It’s not all my extravagance, but I spend money on it: taxidermy. We’ve got almost a museum here in our house, and a lot of them aren’t mine, they’re my wife’s or my son Michael’s or my daughter’s. We’ve totally bought into the whole Alaskan idea of hunting and gathering. We only eat wild game and we get it ourselves. AB: What is your best attribute and your worst attribute? Dickinson: For my best, let’s say it’s persistence. I never stop going after what I want. I think that there can always be a first and there can always be the best, so it might as well be me or our project or our company or our family. My worst is always looking for and expecting perfection… I call it attention to detail, but that’s kind of my worst attribute because sometimes I push too hard to get that detail, that perfection.
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he BP Energy Outlook is produced to aid BP’s analysis and decision-making and is published as a contribution to the wider energy debate. But the Energy Outlook is only one source among many when considering the future of global energy markets. BP considers the scenarios in the Energy Outlook, together with a range of other analysis and information, when forming its long-term strategy.
In all the scenarios considered, world GDP more than doubles by 2040 driven by increasing prosperity in fast-growing developing economies. Renewable energy is the fastest growing source of energy, contributing half of the growth in global energy supplies and becoming the largest source of power by 2040. Natural gas grows robustly, supported by broad-based demand and the increasing availability of gas, aided by the continuing expansion of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The Outlook considers a range of alternative scenarios, including the need for “more energy,” “less carbon,” and the possible impact of an escalation in trade disputes.
Primary Energy Demand (In billion tonnes of oil equivalent) End-use Sector
20 Transport Industry (excludes non-combusted use of fuels)
Non-combusted Buildings 15
Region
Fuel
Other
Renewables
Africa Other Asia
Hydro Nuclear
India
Coal
China
Gas
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Oil
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5
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ANS Crude Oil Production 3/31/2019
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Oil
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ANS Production barrel per day 510,000 Mar. 31, 2019
Rapid Transition
ANS West Coast Crude Oil Prices 3/29/2019
CO₂ Emissions (Gigatonnes of CO₂)
09/01/2012
50
09/01/2008
45
ANS West Coast $ per barrel $68.81 Mar. 29, 2019
09/01/2004
40
09/01/2000
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Statewide Employment Figures 01/1976—02/2019 Seasonally Adjusted
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2/01/2019
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Labor Force 355,235 Feb. 2018 Employment 332,150 Feb. 2018 Unemployment 6.5% Feb. 2018
01/01/2010 05/01/2004
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Less Globalization
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Rapid Transition
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Northern Air Cargo..............................98, 99 nac.aero Northrim Bank...............................................25 northrim.com NRC Alaska.....................................................59 nrcc.com Oxford Assaying & Refining Inc...............16 oxfordmetal.com Pacific Alaska Lumber.................................73 pacaklumber.com Pacific Pile & Marine................................. 101 pacificpile.com Parker Smith & Feek.....................................75 psfinc.com PenAir...............................................................81 penair.com Petrotechnical Resources Alaska (PRA)...28 petroak.com PND Engineers Inc...................................... 68 pndengineers.com Princess Lodges........................................... 80 princesslodges.com Quality Asphalt Paving (QAP)...................92 colaska.com Resolve Marine Group............................... 48 resolvemarine.com Resource Development Council (RDC)............................................... 50 akrdc.org Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers....................91 rbauction.com Seatac Marine Services...............................22 seatacmarine.com Security Aviation.......................................... 46 securityaviation.biz Span Alaska Transportation LLC..............93 spanalaska.com Stellar Designs Inc....................................... 94 stellar-designs.com Teck Alaska Incorporated..........................19 teck.com Think Office.................................................. 66 thinkofficellc.com Tutka LLC........................................................83 tutkallc.com Urban Pain Institute.................................... 24 urbanpain.org Ugashik Traditional Village........................76 ugashikvillage.com United Way of Anchorage............................ 9 liveunitedanchorage.org USI Insurance Services............................... 11 usi.com West-Mark Service Center.........................35 west-mark.com WesternAircraft.............................................55 westair.com Yukon Equipment Inc..................................91 yukoneq.com
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