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page Natural gas hits all-time high at
A16 $15.78, crude holds above $61
Vol. 10, No. 51 • www.PetroleumNews.com
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WASHINGTON, D.C.
ANWR or else
Stevens engages in day-to-day battle for ANWR; Christmas recess no certainty
BY ROSE RAGSDALE
Petroleum News Contributing Writer
R
epublican Congressional leaders
vowed the week of Dec. 12 to do
whatever it takes to gain passage
of a controversial bill allowing oil
and gas drilling on the coastal plain of
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge even
if it means no Christmas recess.
The bill is currently part of the
Senate’s $35 billion five-year spending
cut package, but Senate leaders appear to
have hit an impasse in conference committee as ANWR opponents fight to
keep it out of a final conference report. The $50
billion House of Representatives version of the
deficit-cutting package does not include
ANWR.
GOP moderates pressured House leaders to drop ANWR drilling and House
Democrats, in a rare show of unity, unanimously opposed the budget bill because
of cuts to health entitlement spending.
Unless Republican leaders can find a way
to shake ANWR free of this political
vise, the drilling provision may be
“It’s going to be on doomed.
one bill or the other
“It (ANWR) seems dead. The
before I go home.”
—Sen. Ted Stevens,
R-Alaska
see ANWR page A14
ALBERTA
New aboriginal obstacle
Northern Alberta first nation gains federal court hearing of Mackenzie lawsuit
BY GARY PARK
Petroleum News Canadian Contributing Writer
Is Alberta destined to become
a world oil player?
Some think Alberta is destined to
become a world oil player.
Others scoff at such a notion.
Consider the views this month of two
experts.
Donald Coxe, global portfolio strategist for BMO Financial Group and chairman of Harris Investment Management,
says a U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission ruling expected in June will
be the making of the oil sands.
He is betting the commission will
allow the oil sands deposits to be included in company reserves
for reporting purposes, turning northern Alberta into the “focal
point for one of the largest-scale competitions for energy
resources we have ever seen.”
The outcome will be partly controversial and partly ugly.
But from an investor’s standpoint he recommended that those
see INSIDER page A16
B R E A K I N G
N E W S
A4
Kinder Morgan comes out swinging: Firm challenging
Enbridge in Alberta-northern British Columbia oil sands pipeline race
A7 $1.4B capex for Alaska from BP, Conoco: Conoco
shows ‘modest’ increase from ’05; BP less to tankers, more to North Slope
A8 Conoco’s Mulva bets big on gas: The $34B deal to buy
Burlington would make ConocoPhillips top North American gas producer
A
small aboriginal first nation in northern
Alberta has suddenly gained attention for its
concerns over the Mackenzie Gas Project.
The Dene Tha’, with a registered population of 2,413, has persuaded the Federal Court of
Canada to hear its lawsuit filed against the federal
government in connection with the C$7.5 billion
project.
The first nation argues it has been shut out of the
pipeline and wants the regulatory review of the
pipeline halted until it gains a role in the process.
The court has set a two-day hearing for Feb. 20
and 21 to deal with the preliminary issues, the Dene
Tha’ said in a news release Dec. 9.
About 60 miles of the 750-mile pipeline would
cross Dene Tha’s land before connecting with existing pipeline networks.
The Dene Tha’s received C$400,000 in federal
funding last January to investigate economic development opportunities and ensure that the community was made aware of any potential economic spinoffs.
Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Minister of State for
see MACKENZIE page A16
NORTH SLOPE
Slope road plans evolve
DOT has initiated Bullen Point planning, design; looking at foothills access options
BY ALAN BAILEY
ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES
This month’s Petroleum Directory (Section B inside) features two
Q&As by Paula Easley on companies that do business in Alaska’s
oil patch: Alaska Cover-All LLC and Michael Baker Jr. Inc.
About 60 miles of the 750-mile pipeline
would cross Dene Tha’s land before
connecting with existing pipeline
networks.
Petroleum News Staff Writer
T
he State of Alaska has been pushing ahead
with plans for a Bullen Point Road to connect
the road system at Prudhoe Bay with the oil
and gas prospects near Point Thomson,
towards the eastern end of the North Slope, Patty
Miller, northern region design group chief for the
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public
Facilities, told Petroleum News in early December.
Meantime the state has suspended work on a proposed road into the National Petroleum ReserveAlaska, west from the Spine Road that passes
through the Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk oil fields.
Instead DOT wants to focus on the Bullen Point
see ROAD page A15
See full map on page A15
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WEEK OF DECEMBER 18, 2005
Petroleum News A weekly oil & gas newspaper based in Anchorage, Alaska
ON THE COVER
ANWR or else
A8
Stevens engages in day-to-day battle for
ANWR; Christmas recess no certainty
With $34 billion price tag for
Burlington, $18 per BOE of reserves,
deal would make Conoco top North
American gas producer
New aboriginal obstacle
Northern Alberta first nation gains federal
court hearing of Mackenzie lawsuit
ConocoPhillips’ Mulva bets
big on gas
GOVERNMENT
A10 Therriault proposes Alaska energy relief
A11 Conoco compares HDD with Nigliq bridge
Montreal conference lays ground for extending Kyoto
Protocol from 2012 to 2050, U.S. agrees to nonbinding talks going forward
Slope road plans evolve
DOT has initiated Bullen Point planning,
design; looking at foothills access options
NATURAL GAS
OIL PATCH INSIDER
A4
Close spacing approved for shale gas well near Red Dog
1
A5
RCA still to rule on CIGGS settlements
Is Alberta destined to become a world oil
player?
Appeals to an earlier Regulatory Commission of
Alaska ruling are still open but the CIGGS owners
hope for a negotiated settlement
A16 Natural gas hits all-time high at $15.78
EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION
A12 Petro-Canada hikes oil sands spending
FINANCE & ECONOMY
A6 Energy trusts on brink of merger wave
A7
$1.4B capex for Alaska from BP,
Conoco
ConocoPhillips shows ‘modest’ increase from ’05; BP
funds down, but with less to tankers, TAPS reconfig
and more to North Slope
PIPELINES & DOWNSTREAM
A4
RCA still to rule on CIGGS settlements
Company challenging Enbridge in Alberta-northern
British Columbia pipeline race; both negotiating with
oil sands shippers
A10 Hearn downgrading the
upgrader
Imperial Oil backs away from including
refinery in oil sands mega-project; CEO
roubled by ‘gold rush mentality’
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Alaska - Mackenzie Rig Report
Rig Owner/Rig Type
Rig No.
Rig Location/Activity
Operator or Status
Alaska Rig Status
The Alaska - Mackenzie Rig Report as of December 14, 2005.
Active drilling companies only listed.
TD = rigs equipped with top drive units WO = workover operations
CT = coiled tubing operation SCR = electric rig
North Slope - Onshore
14 (SCR/TD)
15 (SCR/TD)
16 (SCR)
19 (SCR/TD)
141 (SCR/TD)
Arctic Fox #1
Milne Point H-pad MPH-15
Kuparuk 1C-20
Well V-212i
Alpine CD4-208
Kuparuk 1J-101
Should spud Hailstorm #1
by 12/ 25
BP
ConocoPhillips
BP
ConocoPhillips
ConocoPhillips
This rig report was prepared by Alan Bailey
Pioneer Natural Resources
Nabors Alaska Drilling
Trans-ocean rig
Dreco 1000 UE
Mid-Continental U36A
Oilwell 700 E
Dreco 1000 UE
Dreco 1000 UE
Oilwell 2000 Hercules
Oilwell 2000 Hercules
Oilwell 2000
Emsco Electro-hoist -2
OIME 1000
Emsco Electro-hoist Varco TDS3
Emsco Electro-hoist
OIME 2000
Emsco Electro-hoist Canrig 1050E
CDR-1 (CT)
2-ES (SCR)
3-S
4-ES (SCR)
7-ES (SCR/TD)
9-ES (SCR/TD)
14-E (SCR)
16-E (SCR/TD)
17-E (SCR/TD)
18-E (SCR)
19-E (SCR)
22-E (SCR/TD)
28-E (SCR)
245-E
27-E (SCR-TD)
Stacked, Prudhoe Bay
Prudhoe Bay Y11Ci
Kuparuk 1D-131
MPU-41PB1
Prudhoe Bay V-46
Annual maintenance
Staged at Cape Simpson
Stacked, Prudhoe Bay
Stacked, Point McIntyre
Stacked, Deadhorse
Stacked, Deadhorse
Stacked, Milne Point
Stacked, Deadhorse
Stacked, Kuparuk
Stacked on 12-acre pad
Available
BP
ConocoPhillips
BP
BP
BP
FEX
Available
Available
Available
Available
Available
Available
Available
Available
Nordic Calista Services
Superior 700 UE
Superior 700 UE
Ideco 900
1 (SCR/CTD)
2 (SCR/CTD)
3 (SCR/TD)
Drill site 13-31, Prudhoe Bay
Well 1L-25a Kuparuk
Kuparuk, 3J-101
BP
BP
ConocoPhillips
JUDY PATRICK
Doyon Drilling
Dreco 1250 UE
Sky Top Brewster NE-12
Dreco 1000 UE
Dreco D2000 UEBD
OIME 2000
TSM 7000
North Slope - Offshore
Oilwell 2000
33-E
NorthStar NS08
BP
Cook Inlet Basin – Onshore
Aurora Well Service
Franks 300 Srs. Explorer III
AWS 1
Stacked in Nikiski
Aurora Gas
Kuukpik
5
Stacked in Nikiski
Available
Marathon Oil Co.
Taylor
Glacier 1
Grassim Oskolkoff #4 (S. of Clam Gulch)
Marathon
National 110 UE
Continental Emsco E3000
Franks
IDECO 2100 E
Rigmaster 850
160 (SCR)
273
26
429E (SCR)
129
Stacked, Kenai
Stacked, Kenai
West McArthur River, Unit 4D
Stacked, removed from Osprey platform
Middle Lake Unit #1
Available
Sold
Forest Oil
Available
Forest Oil
Cook Inlet Basin – Offshore
Unocal (Nabors Alaska Drilling labor contractor)
Not Available
XTO Energy
National 1320
National 110
A
C (TD)
Rig move on platform A
Idle
XTO
XTO
Mackenzie Rig Status
Canadian Beaufort Sea
Seatankers (AKITA Equtak labor contract)
SSDC CANMAR Island Rig #2 SDC
Paktoa C-60
Devon ARL Corp.
Mackenzie Delta-Onshore
AKITA Equtak
Dreco 1250 UE
Dreco 1250 UE
62 (SCR/TD)
63 (SCR/TD)
National 370
64
Stacked, Tuktoyaktuk, NT
EnCana (Available)
Stacked near Tulita in Central
MacKenzie Valley for a well, winter
2005-2006
Husky Oil
On barges moving to Hay River & then
Available
on trucks to Alberta.
Central Mackenzie Valley
AKITA/SAHTU
Oilwell 500
51
Working in Alberta
Apache
Yukon Territories Rig Status
US
Canada
Gulf
Yukon
AKITA/Kaska
National 80UE
58
Stacked in Fort Liard, NT
Ensign Resources Svc. Grp.
Jackknife Double
55
Racked in Ft. Nelson
Baker Hughes North America rotary rig counts*
Dec. 9
1,483
679
70
Dec. 2
1,460
653
74
Year Ago
1,250
500
101
Talisman Energy
Highest/Lowest
US/Highest
US/Lowest
Canada/Highest
Canada/Lowest
4530
488
558
29
December
April
January
April
1981
1999
2000
1992
*Issued by Baker Hughes since 1944
The Alaska - Mackenzie Rig Report is sponsored by:
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NORTHWEST ALASKA
Close spacing approved for shale gas
well north of Red Dog mine
The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has approved a spacing exception for an exploratory gas well, NB 2, a mile and a half north of the Red Dog Mine.
Mine operator Teck Cominco would like to use natural gas to replace diesel at Red
Dog and began gas exploration in conjunction with mineral exploration in the late
1990s. The resource in the Red Dog area is shale gas in the Kuna formation.
The commission said Dec. 12 that NB 2 “is a non-conventional gas exploration
well” on NANA Regional Corp. land; Teck Cominco is the owner and operator of the
leases. The area has been extensively drilled for mineral exploration and the proposed
location of NB 2, in section 17, township 31 north, range 18 west, Kateel River
Meridian, “is favorably positioned on the underlying geologic structure,” the commission said.
It also said the well is part of a multi-well program to test whether gas can be produced in commercial quantities from a non-conventional shale reservoir. “Production
of gas from shale reservoirs requires de-watering to reduce pressure and increase gas
flow,” the commission said, and wells in shale reservoirs typically need to be more
closely spaced than in conventional gas reservoirs.
The commission said the productivity of this shale is unknown, but de-watering
this section of the reservoir and testing gas production will require NB 2 to be closer
than 3,000 feet (the standard distance required between natural gas wells) from NB 1.
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C A N A D A
Kinder Morgan comes
out swinging
Company challenging Enbridge in Alberta-northern British
Columbia pipeline race; both negotiating with oil sands shippers
BY GARY PARK
K
inder Morgan is wasting no time
flexing its muscles as it bids to
become the heavyweight contender
in Canada’s oil sands pipeline sec-
tor.
Having concluded its takeover of
Vancouver-based Terasen Pipelines,
Texas-based Kinder Morgan’s freshly
minted Canadian President Ian Anderson
is challenging Enbridge, the widely-perceived front-runner in the race to build
pipeline connections between Alberta and
the northern British Columbia coast.
In a series of December interviews,
Anderson, formerly chief financial officer
at Terasen, laid out his company’s goals
in unambiguous fashion.
He told the Globe and Mail that
Kinder Morgan “has had as many direct
shipper and customers discussions” as
Enbridge as the two companies lock
horns over their proposals to build
pipelines across northern British
Columbia.
Anderson said Kinder Morgan is hearing from Canadian Natural Resources and
other oil sands producers that negotiations on shipping commitments are still in
the early stages.
Enbridge earlier declared ‘winner’
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That was a less-than-subtle dig at
those who wrote Terasen out of the contest earlier this year when PetroChina
reached a deal with Enbridge to provide
half of the volumes for the proposed
400,000 barrel-per-day Gateway project
and is now in the midst of an open season
to line up shippers.
Merrill Lynch was quick to declare
Enbridge the “winner” when the deal
with PetroChina was made public.
Enbridge has said that, provided it
received sufficient backing, it plans to file
an application with the National Energy
Board by mid-2006.
Anderson said Kinder Morgan will
weigh the industry’s desire for a 500,000
bpd pipeline over the same period.
NEB approved Kinder Morgan Trans
Mountain expansion
On a smaller scale, Kinder Morgan
received NEB approval for a C$230 million expansion of its Trans Mountain system from Edmonton, Alberta, to Burnaby,
British Columbia, to 260,000 bpd of
heavy crude capacity from 225,000 bpd,
targeting early 2007 for completion.
An environmental report has also been
filed prior to a full regulatory application
in February 2006 for a 100-mile twinning
of Trans Mountain to further boost capacity to 300,000 bpd by the end of 2008.
The company said these milestones
“are the direct result of the strong support
received from shippers and reinforce the
importance of the (Canadian business
unit) to Kinder Morgan’s future growth
plans.”
It said the twinning will bolster plans
for a full twinning of Trans Mountain and
the construction of a northern pipeline to
the deepwater port at Kitimat.
“We are committed to serve all customer requirements to move oil to markets, whether they are in Canada, the
United States, Asia or elsewhere,” Kinder
Morgan said in an echo of Enbridge’s
plans.
In addition, the two companies are tussling over parallel hopes to import natural
gas liquids through the Kitimat port to
facilitate the thinning of heavy bitumen
blends for pipeline shipment. PETROLEUM NEWS
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I N L E T
RCA still to rule on CIGGS settlement
Appeals to an earlier Regulatory Commission of Alaska ruling are still open but the CIGGS owners hope for a negotiated settlement
BY ALAN BAILEY
Petroleum News Staff Writer
T
he settlement agreement announced
on Sept. 27 regarding access to the
Cook Inlet Gas Gathering System
(known as CIGGS) marked a major
step towards resolution of a long-running
CIGGS dispute. However, with the
Regulatory Commission of Alaska still to
rule on the proposed settlement, appeals
by Unocal (now part of Chevron) and
Marathon Oil Co. to the Superior Court of
the State of Alaska over an April 2005
RCA order relating to the dispute have
yet to be heard.
CIGGS transports gas from oil and gas
fields in the Trading Bay area on the west
side of the Cook Inlet to the fertilizer and
LNG plants at Nikiski on the east side of
the inlet. Marathon and Unocal jointly
own CIGGS and until recently have operated the system as an unregulated gas
gathering system, under a grandfathering
provision of the Alaska Right-of-Way
Leasing Act.
Since early 2004 Agrium, the owner of
the Nikiski fertilizer plant, has filed two
petitions
with
the
Regulatory
Commission of Alaska to regulate
CIGGS. Agrium viewed the unregulated
operation of CIGGS as an impediment to
access to gas from some producers on the
west side of the Cook Inlet.
RCA dismissed the first Agrium petition but the second petition, filed in
October 2004, remains open. Marathon,
Unocal, Agrium, the Cook Inlet gas producers, Enstar Natural Gas Co. and the
State of Alaska have all become parties to
the CIGGS dispute.
RCA ruling
In response to Agrium’s second petition RCA on April 22, 2005, issued an
order that found CIGGS to be a pipeline
subject to regulation as a utility operation
that transmits or distributes natural gas to
the public for compensation.
RCA said that CIGGS operated in part
as a gathering line for Unocal and
Marathon fields on the west side of Cook
Inlet, and in part as a transmission line for
moving gas to Nikiski. RCA further
found that CIGGS furnished gas to electric and gas utility companies (and hence
to the public). In addition, RCA asserted
that Unocal and Marathon were shipping
gas through CIGGS for compensation
because the companies’ gas prices must
include the cost of using the CIGGS
infrastructure, even though CIGGS transportation costs were not explicitly stated
in the pricing.
On May 9 Marathon and Unocal sub-
“We’ve reached a preliminary
settlement agreement that is now
subject to RCA approval. We’re
continuing to work with RCA
towards finalizing that, which …
is our preferred option to resolve
those issues.” —Marathon Oil
spokesman Paul Weeditz
mitted motions for reconsideration of the
RCA order. Both companies disputed
RCA’s characterization of any component
of CIGGS as a gas transmission line
rather than gas gathering system.
Marathon also said that its gas pricing for
CIGGS-delivered gas depended on the
gas market and was unrelated to CIGGS
costs — the company said that it sold gas
to utilities at a point “after the movement
on CIGGS is completed.”
However, on May 26 the parties to the
dispute entered into mediated negotiations to find a settlement. Those negotiations resulted in the Sept. 27 settlement
agreement. That agreement guaranteed
that a minimum capacity of 40 million
cubic feet per day through CIGGS would
be available for regulated common-carriage service for third party gas shippers.
The remaining capacity would remain
available to Unocal and Marathon to continue the use of the system for its present
purposes. The agreement also established
rules for the tariffs that would apply to the
regulated component of the CIGGS
throughput.
Interim service
RCA subsequently approved interim
service on CIGGS under the terms of the
settlement. This interim service started on
Nov. 1 and will continue until RCA rules
on the settlement.
But RCA has not responded to the
motions for reconsideration that Unocal
and Marathon filed in May, following the
April 22 RCA order. Under RCA regulations, this lack of response indicates RCA
denial of the motions. So, on July 22 and
25, prior to expiry of the time period
allowed for appeal, each company separately appealed the RCA order to the
Alaska Superior Court. Those appeal
cases remain open.
However, both companies would prefer a negotiated settlement. Chevron has
told Petroleum News that it appealed the
RCA April ruling “in case the CIGGS settlement is not approved.” And Marathon
spokesman Paul Weeditz said that
Marathon continues to work with RCA.
“We’ve reached a preliminary settlement agreement that is now subject to
RCA approval,” Weeditz said. “We’re
continuing to work with RCA towards
finalizing that, which … is our preferred
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CANADA
Canadian trusts hit the takeover trail
Canadian energy trusts, freed from the immediate threat of a tax hit, are back
on the acquisition trail.
ARC Energy Trust and Crescent Point Energy Trust forked over a combined
C$737 million on Dec. 7 to roll some aging properties into their portfolios.
ARC picked up 40 million barrels of oil equivalent in proved plus probable
reserves from sister companies, Imperial Oil and ExxonMobil Canada for C$480
million, raising its production by 5,460 barrels of oil equivalent per day (95 percent liquids) to more than 72,000 boe per day.
ARC Chief Executive Officer John Dielwart described the purchase as “legacy” assets from two of the largest and highest-quality light oil fields ever discovered in Western Canada, where 1 billion barrels has so far been recovered.
The deal included Imperial’s interests in the Redwater field near Edmonton
and its stake in the North Pembina field, operated by ExxonMobil.
The purchase price of C$84,000 per boe is in the upper ranks of acquisition
prices, but ARC is comfortable with the 20 year reserve life index.
Potential EOR prize at Redwater
Dielwart said the fields currently have “high operating costs,” although there
is a potential enhanced oil recovery prize in the Redwater reservoir that has not
been included in the reserves.
“Our task will be to translate that potential into value for our unit holders,” he
said.
There is ample confidence in ARC, which Kevin Hall, fund manager of the
GGOF Monthly High Income II Fund, has a “very solid management team with a
proven long-term track record.”
ARC also has one of the longest reserve life indexes among trusts of 12 years
and is “undervalued, given its superior fundamentals,” Hall said.
ARC will finance the deal by selling 9 million trust units to raise C$240 million and use a line of credit to cover the balance.
The trust has also announced plans to spend C$340 million on capital projects
in 2006, up about C$70 million from this year, and drill 263 new wells.
Crescent Point turned its attention to southwestern Saskatchewan, where it
paid C$257 million to an unidentified seller for 15.4 million boe of proved plus
probable reserves, averaging C$51,400 per flowing boe based on 5,000 boe per
day.
Once the transaction is completed in January, Crescent Point will produce
16,350 bpd of oil and natural gas liquids and 18 million cubic feet per day of gas.
—GARY PARK
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JUDY PATRICK
PETROLEUM NEWS
Although BP’s $600 million capital budget for Alaska is down from $700 million in 2005,
more of the budget is going to the North Slope in 2006. The biggest part of the difference
between the 2005 and 2006 amounts was money for tankers and trans-Alaska pipeline
reconfiguration costs in 2005. The Alaska capital budget had gone up “because of the roughly $250 million annually for tanker spend plus reconfiguration costs,” Daren Beaudo said.
A L A S K A
$1.4B capex for Alaska
from BP, Conoco
Conoco shows ‘modest’ increase from ’05; BP funds down, but
with less to tankers, TAPS reconfig and more to North Slope
BY KRISTEN NELSON
Petroleum News Editor-in-Chief
B
oth ConocoPhillips and BP have
released their 2006 capital budgets
for Alaska, and ConocoPhillips
plans to spend some $60 million
more this year than last, BP some $100
million less.
BP’s capital spend plan for Alaska for
2006 is $600 million, BP Exploration
(Alaska) spokesman Daren Beaudo told
Petroleum News Dec. 12, “with in excess
of $1 billion expected” for operations and
maintenance.
ConocoPhillips said in a Dec. 9 statement that Alaska exploration and production capital expenditures are expected to
be approximately $800 million, “primarily directed toward the development of the
Alpine satellites and the West Sak heavy
oil field, as well as continued development within the existing Prudhoe Bay and
Kuparuk areas.”
ConocoPhillips Alaska spokeswoman
Dawn Patience said the capital also
includes tankers and exploration. She said
the estimate for the capital that will be
spent in 2005 is $740 million, “with
another $1 billion dedicated to operating
and maintaining our existing Alaska
assets.”
The $800 million budgeted for 2006 is
a “modest” increase from the $740 million estimated actual spend in 2005,
Patience said. She said the company has
not released its operating and maintenance budget for 2006.
ConocoPhillips had budgeted $700
million for capital for 2005 and $900 million for operations in Alaska, a total of
$1.6 billion, compared to $1.74 billion
actually spent. ConocoPhillips operates
and is a major owner in the Kuparuk
River and Alpine fields on the North
Slope, as well as being one of three major
owners at Prudhoe Bay. In Cook Inlet it
operates the Beluga and North Cook Inlet
gas fields.
BP will spend more on the slope
Although BP’s $600 million capital
budget for Alaska is down from $700 million in 2005, Beaudo said more of the
budget is going to the slope in 2006. The
biggest part of the difference between the
“We’re looking at $13 billion in
capital investment over the next
decade” ... including the gas
pipeline. —Daren Beaudo, BP
Exploration (Alaska) spokesman
2005 and 2006 amounts, he said, was
money for tankers and trans-Alaska
pipeline reconfiguration costs in 2005. He
said the Alaska capital budget had gone
up “because of the roughly $250 million
annually for tanker spend plus reconfiguration costs.”
Beaudo said BP doesn’t have a final
total on its 2005 capital spend in Alaska,
but more than $1 billion has been spent
on operations and maintenance during the
year. The 2005 budget for operations and
maintenance was $800 million.
Beaudo said the $600 million budgeted for 2006 includes $161 million for
tankers.
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ConocoPhillips’ Jim Mulva bets big on gas
CONOCOPHILLIPS
With $34 billion price tag for Burlington, $18 per BOE of reserves, deal would make Conoco top North American gas producer
BY ALLEN BAKER
Petroleum News Contributing Writer
J
im Mulva of ConocoPhillips is rolling those dice
again, and the stakes are high: about $34 billion in
cash and stock for Houston-based Burlington
Resources. At first blush, ConocoPhillips stockholders headed for the exits, cutting the value of the company’s shares by 8 percent between Dec. 9, just before the
deal was announced, and Dec. 14.
If the merger goes through, ConocoPhillips will be
tops in North American natural gas production, leapfrogging ExxonMobil, BP, EnCana, and three other companies.
Total daily North American output will be about 3.5
billion cubic feet. The company’s 1.7 billion daily cubic
feet of Canadian gas will be second behind EnCana’s 2.1
bcf per day.
But the price being paid by Houston-based
ConocoPhillips is steep — around $18 for each of
Burlington’s 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent reserves.
Chevron paid about $10.50 per barrel of reserves with
its Unocal takeover. Occidental spent $9 per barrel for
Vintage Petroleum. Chesapeake recently paid about $12
per BOE for gas reserves in the U.S. Appalachians.
So it’s no surprise the market was a bit skeptical of
Mulva’s move, even though natural gas in North
America has been selling at the equivalent of $90-a-barrel oil. Burlington’s reserves are 85
percent gas, and 90 percent of that is
in North America. The company
also has a big inventory of exploration acreage.
Burlington Resources owners
will get $46.50 in cash and 0.7214
shares of ConocoPhillips stock for
each BR share. That amounted to
$92 a share or $35.6 billion Dec. 9,
but shrunk to $88.51 a share or JIM MULVA
$34.2 billion by Dec. 14 as
ConocoPhillips shares declined. Burlington’s shares
closed at $76.09 Dec. 9, just before the deal was
announced. A year ago, the stock was trading in the low
$40s.
$7 gas OK for deal
Mulva maintains the deal is a positive for
ConocoPhillips even if North American gas prices
decline substantially from the current lofty peaks of $14
or $15 per thousand cubic feet.
“We don’t see necessarily a continuation of gas prices
that we’ve seen here recently going out over the long
term,” he said at a conference call with analysts Dec. 13.
“What we really look at is prices of $7 to $8 … and if
they’re north of that, that’s all the better for the transaction.
“We tested also at about $5 per mcf. The numbers
don’t look particularly good at $5 per mcf, but on the
other hand we can live with it in terms of its presence in
the portfolio.
“We don’t think you’re going to see $5 mcf gas prices
— quite likely we will see $7 or $8, and we pretty
strongly believe we’ll see double-digit gas prices as we
go out over the next year or two or three years.”
San Juan cash machine
The companies already are the top two producers in
the San Juan basin, the biggest U.S. gas field. Together,
they pump 1.3 billion cubic feet daily from the basin.
But gas wells tend to taper down quickly, so it takes a lot
of holes to maintain that kind of production. Burlington
already was planning to boost its activity in the field to
300 wells a year by the end of the decade, said Bobby
Shackouls, Burlington’s CEO.
“Once we get the two operations integrated, we think
we’ll be increasing our operations even more,” he told
the analysts. But that doesn’t mean a substantial increase
in production there.
“San Juan is a huge cash flow machine that is flat or
growing slightly,” Shackouls said. “It’s tough to grow
from a 1.3 billion cubic feet base.” The fields in western
Canada will also remain essentially flat, he said, though
Shackouls likes the look of the Deep basin, where the
Gulf Canada acquisition gave ConocoPhillips a leading
stake.
“I believe it’s a slam-dunk look-alike to the San Juan
Basin,” the Burlington leader said. “It’s probably 20 to
25 years behind the San Juan Basin, very early in its
development.”
Growth potential
In the near term, added volumes from the Burlington
inventory will come from the Bossier Trend in Texas, the
Barnett Shale, and the Cedar Creek Anticline in North
Dakota’s Williston basin, he said. There are also a couple of international operations coming on line.
Shackouls, who will join the ConocoPhillips board but
end his executive role, said Burlington’s growth has been
3 to 8 percent annually.
Burlington has a huge amount of acreage and plenty
of potential for increasing the resource base, Shackouls
said.
“At the end of last year, we had 7 trillion cubic feet of
inventory drilling opportunities — over 9,000 projects,”
he said. About half of that fell in the proved undeveloped
category.
No change in COP capex
ConocoPhillips won’t trim back its ambitious capital
spending plans, Mulva said, and the combined operations will devote $17.2 billion to capital projects next
year and $15.4 billion in 2007.
“Everything we’ve announced, we will continue
straight on doing — Asia, the Mideast, the Caspian,
North America,” Mulva said. “We don’t change our
strategy at all.”
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The $1 billion in operations and maintenance includes more than just running
existing operations, he said. Also included in the amount is infrastructure renewal, “improving our facilities to handle
current and future production needs” for
the 50 year future BP sees in Alaska and
“lots of well work.”
“We’re looking at $13 billion in capital investment over the next decade,”
Beaudo said, including the gas pipeline.
BP operates Prudhoe Bay and associated fields on Alaska’s North Slope for
itself and the other working interest owners. BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil
are the majority owners in the Prudhoe
Bay area fields. BP also operates the
Badami, Endicott and Milne Point fields,
and is a major owner in the Kuparuk
River field.
As for property dispositions to reduce
debt, that’s not on the agenda.
“We like the assets we have in
ConocoPhillips,” Mulva said. “We like
the assets we have in Burlington
Resources.”
Debt reduction will come from the
huge cash flow the operations will generate, he said. “Within two or three years,
we pay back all of the debt associated
with the transaction,” he told the analysts.
“We still have at least 2 billion barrels of
oil equivalent, hopefully more….”
ConocoPhillips ... Alaska
exploration and production
capital expenditures are expected
to be approximately $800 million,
“primarily directed toward the
development of the Alpine
satellites and the West Sak heavy
oil field, as well as continued
development within the existing
Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk areas.”
—ConocoPhillips
Overall ConocoPhillips
budget $10.5 billion
ConocoPhillips’ overall budget
includes cash capital expenditures of
some $10 billion, along with $500 million of capitalized interest and minority
interest for a total authorized 2006 capital
budget of $10.5 billion.
This budget was announced Dec. 9,
prior to ConocoPhillips’ Dec. 12 acquisition of Burlington Resources (see story in
this issue).
Jim Mulva, the company’s chairman
and chief executive officer, said the 2006
capital budget “underscores our commitment to maintain cost and capital discipline, while aggressively reinvesting in
our business to grow our capability to
deliver energy to the world.”
“We have a pipeline of large projects
and favorable investment opportunities
on the horizon that will allow us to
strengthen our position worldwide and
provide long-term value for our shareholders.”
The company said 63 percent of its
2006 cash capital budget will be allocated to exploration and production, 35 percent to refining and marketing and the
remaining to emerging businesses and
corporate segments.
The exploration and production 2006
cash budget is approximately $6.3 billion, with about $1.8 billion going to
projects in the North Sea and West Africa
and $1 billion to Asia Pacific projects.
The U.S. Lower 48 and Latin America
are budgeted for some $900 million,
Alaska and Canada each $800 million.
Canadian projects include Syncrude
expansion and Surmont heavy oil development, as well as continued work on the
Mackenzie Delta gas pipeline.
Russia and the Caspian are budgeted
for $700 million, the Middle East and
North Africa $100 million and $200 million on the company’s global gas business for ongoing development of regasification facilities in the United States and
to meet a growing need for natural gas
supplies. Upstream focus
The addition of Burlington also swings
the company decisively to the upstream,
increasing that component to 74 percent
of the operation from the current 61 percent.
“I suspect going forward you’re going
to see our portfolio be about 70 percent
E&P (exploration and production) and
maybe a little more than 20 percent,
maybe 25 percent, R&M (refining and
marketing),” he said.
Adding Burlington will bring total
“We don’t see necessarily a
continuation of gas prices that
we’ve seen here recently going out
over the long term. What we
really look at is prices of $7 to $8
… and if they’re north of that,
that’s all the better for the
transaction.” —Jim Mulva,
ConocoPhillips
reserves to about 11 billion barrels of oil
equivalent, with gas providing 41 percent
of that, up from 35 percent in the current
ConocoPhillips.
Long-term approach
The future company’s Number 1 position in gas production, as well as natural
gas liquids, dovetails nicely with plans
for future development of the company’s
substantial gas resources in Alaska and
Arctic Canada.
“It puts us in a very strong position
where we expect that we can be adding
reserves and growing production,” Mulva
said. “That fits very nicely as we go into
the next decade, because we can see very
recently there’s been quite a bit of
progress with respect to the advancement
of the Mackenzie Delta Canadian gas
pipeline and development there. As well,
we’re making good progress in the State
of Alaska negotiations, moving to the
next step with respect to the development
of the Alaska gas pipeline.”
Gas production from Canada, the San
Juan Basin, and the rest of the Lower 48
“will be supplemented over time as we
bring the LNG resource to North America
and the Arctic gas coming from the
north,” he said. “We’ll be a major player
with respect to gas in North American for
decades to come.”
The companies don’t expect any
antitrust problems. Regulatory approvals
are likely in the first quarter of 2006 and
the deal should close in the first half,
Mulva said, assuming Burlington shareholders approve.
“Synergies” are expected to save the
new entity about $375 million annually
once the operations are combined. Mulva
said cost savings would come from reductions in headquarters and financial
accounting, as well as consolidating some
offices. “We really want to keep the BR
people,” he said. “With 2,400 employees,
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Therriault proposes Alaska energy relief
Alaska Sen. Gene Therriault, R-North Pole, said Dec. 13
that he plans to introduce energy rebate legislation in the
upcoming Alaska legislative session. The bill, which will be
circulated during the first release of pre-filed bills Dec. 30,
is designed to help Alaska residents cope with high energy
costs.
“Although the high price for a barrel of oil is great for our
state treasury,” Therriault said in a statement, “it results in a
drastic hit to the pocketbook of every Alaska household.” He
said the bill would give a portion of the state’s current budg- Sen. Gene
et surplus back to Alaskans through at least one of three Therriault, R-North
Pole
methods.
First the senator is proposing an energy rebate of $250 for
every citizen of Alaska who qualified for the 2005 Permanent Fund Dividend. By
using the list of those pre-approved for the 2005 dividend, the state avoids creating a new list and speeds dispersing of funds to Alaskans for winter heating.
“Whether they heat with gas, oil, electric or wood, all Alaskans are feeling the
pinch from the rapid run up of energy prices,” he said.
Power cost equalization, winterization
The bill would also provide additional funds for the Power Cost Equalization
program in the 2006 budget year.
Therriault said he consulted with Sen. Albert Kookesh, D-Angoon, in drafting
the legislation to cover the expected shortfall in that program and further assist
those who live in rural Alaska, where heating fuel reached $5.40 per gallon in one
village.
“I appreciate working with Sen. Therriault on this legislation and hope this is
the start of a bipartisan effort to make Alaska better,” Kookesh said.
In addition the bill would provide $10 million for the Low Income
Weatherization Program, a one-time increase in funding to weatherize more lowincome households.
“Providing weatherization assistance sooner rather than later will save energy
for these Alaskans from this point forward,” Therriault said. “This is a way to take
a very small portion of the current budget surplus and provide a benefit for the
recipients year after year.”
Therriault said the amounts in the bill are a starting point that could be adjusted to an appropriate level through the committee process.
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Hearn downgrading
Kearl’s upgrader
Imperial backs away from including Fort McMurray refinery in
oil sands mega-project; CEO troubled by ‘gold rush mentality’
BY GARY PARK
or some it was the sound of the first
domino falling.
For others it was merely a nervous shuffling of the tiles.
But when Imperial Oil, Canada’s
largest integrated oil company, makes any
kind of move it draws attention, whatever
the deeper significance.
And Chief Executive Officer Tim
Hearn gave observers of the oil sands
scene plenty to contemplate, whether they
are outright boosters or deep-seated
doubters.
Over recent months, as the line-up of
projects for the next 15 years has climbed
past the C$100 billion mark, the industry’s ability to see all
of the plans through
to completion has
been called into
question.
Fort McMurray,
at the center of the
oil sands region in
n o r t h e a s t e r n Imperial Oil CEO
Alberta, has been Tim Hearn
bursting at the seams over a long period,
struggling to provide basic servicing,
housing, health care and educational
facilities.
The squeeze on experienced construction labor and engineers; the demand on
materials; and the ability of smaller players to raise financing have been accumulating faster than the industry has provided answers.
F
Imperial takes upgrader off table
Hearn offered the most pointed assessment yet by a corporate leader of the challenges posed by the overheated oil sands
sector, which he described as a “gold rush
mentality” which Imperial is not prepared
to join.
In meeting with analysts, he told them
“We’re short of people and we’re
short of infrastructure and the
result is that we’re getting really,
really high inflation and very high
costs and that’s not really the best
outcome for any of us.” —
Imperial Oil CEO Tim Hearn
Imperial was taking off the table plans to
build an upgrader, to turn raw bitumen
into synthetic crude, in the Fort
McMurray area as a key part of the C$4.5
billion-$6.5 billion, 300,000 barrel per
day Kearl project by Imperial Oil and sister company ExxonMobil Canada.
“We’re short of people and we’re short
of infrastructure and the result is that
we’re getting really, really high inflation
and very high costs and that’s not really
the best outcome for any of us,” he said.
“As a lot of these (upgrader) investments come on stream over time and
there’s surplus capacity, bad things happen.”
Hearn warned that unless the upgrading is competitive a “lot of pain” could
occur and he has no intention of putting
“our company, or our people, or our
shareholders through that if I can find a
different path forward.”
Taking his own advice to be “wise and
judicious,” Hearn said Imperial has ruled
out building an upgrader at the Kearl
mine site for the first 100,000 bpd phase.
Existing refineries will be used
Instead it expects to use its existing
refineries in Alberta and Ontario to handle two-thirds of the start-up volumes,
while selling the balance to third-party
refiners.
He said Imperial will pursue low-cost
additions to those refineries to allow them
to process more heavy oil as the first step
towards refining the synthetic crude into
various fuel products.
The company’s own assessment
showed the cost of building an upgrader
is 70 percent more expensive at Fort
McMurray than on the U.S. Gulf Coast
and 40 percent more than at Edmonton.
“I think the first phase is very manageable and low-risk for us,” he said. “From
an economic point of view (adding to
existing refineries) is the wisest first
step.”
Assuming Imperial moves to the next
two 100,000 bpd stages, Hearn was reluctant to say how the upgrading will be handled.
The regulatory documents filed for
Kearl earlier this year reflected that
uncertainty, indicating only that upgrader
plans would be part of a separate application.
Hearn: too many upgrades proposed
Hearn’s reading is simply that too
many upgrades have been proposed as
part of the scramble to handle new production from the oil sands by either building new refineries or reconfiguring existing Canadian plants, which can process
2.5 million bpd although only 360,000
bpd or 14 percent can be heavy oil.
In addition to the facilities owned by
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U.S. cold shoulders
climate summit
Montreal conference lays ground for extending Kyoto Protocol from
2012 to 2050, U.S. agrees to non-binding talks going forward
BY GARY PARK
T
he United States found itself almost
alone among 190 nations who spent
two weeks in Montreal until Dec. 10
working on ways to strengthen commitments among industrial countries to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the
Kyoto Protocol.
At one point, U.S. delegates walked out
of the conference, refusing to accept
mandatory targets or discuss measures to
reduce emissions under a United Nations
framework.
They eventually returned after a direct
appeal by Britain and signed up for nonbinding talks on long-term measures to
tackle climate change.
The thrust of the conference was to lay
the ground work for developing environmental protection plans to regulate energy
use worldwide by extending the Kyoto
Protocol from 2012 to 2050.
In the end, British Environment
Secretary Margaret Beckett described the
agreement to work on new Kyoto targets as
a “diplomatic triumph.”
She said it would be a “great pity” if the
United States refused to join others in moving the debate forward “because there is
such a widespread acceptance of the proposals on the table.”
U.S. accused of not moving forward
“The United States has signaled quite
clearly that they’re really not interested in
moving forward with the rest of the world,”
said Morag Carter, director of the climate
change program at the David Suzuki
Foundation.
She said the decision to negotiate a new
round of cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions
after the Kyoto Protocol ends its first phase
in 2012 “provides a really significant
framework for moving forward.”
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton, who
made a last-minute plea for action on global warming when it seemed the conference
was about to disintegrate, said: “There’s no
longer any serious doubt that climate
change is real, accelerating and caused by
human activities.
“It’s crazy for us to play games with our
children’s future,” he said.
Clinton, who was frequently applauded
A United Nations report shows
that Canada, which has pledged to
cut its annual emissions to 596
million metric tons over the 20082012 period, actually spewed 740
million metric tons in 2003, 24.2
percent more than in 1990, while
the U.S. limited its increase since
1990 by 13.3 percent.
by thousands of delegates, said President
George W. Bush’s administration is “flat
wrong” in arguing that reducing emissions
would damage the U.S. economy.
He said a “serious disciplined effort” to
develop energy-saving technologies would
allow the United States to “meet and surpass Kyoto targets in a way that would
strengthen and not weaken our economies.”
Bush favors voluntary approach
Bush has formally renounced the Kyoto
treaty, preferring a voluntary approach
rather than global negotiations that set fixed
targets.
The United States, which is responsible
for almost 25 percent of world emissions,
was accused by Canada’s Prime Minister
Paul Martin of failing to demonstrate a
global conscience and being in denial about
global warming, although he was later
forced to admit that the United States has a
better record of lowering its emissions than
Canada.
A United Nations report shows that
Canada, which has pledged to cut its annual emissions to 596 million metric tons over
the 2008-2012 period, actually spewed 740
million metric tons in 2003, 24.2 percent
more than in 1990, while the U.S. limited its
increase since 1990 by 13.3 percent.
But the bulk of Canada’s emissions stem
from its electricity and petroleum industries, which export up to 60 percent of their
production to the United States.
Alberta, the dominant oil and gas producing province, accounts for 31.2 percent
of Canada’s emissions, followed by Ontario
at 27.9 percent.
However, the federal government
unveiled a C$10 billion program in April to
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Petro-Canada hikes oil sands spending
Petro-Canada is taking an upbeat view of the oil sands, filing with regulators to
more than double output at its MacKay River project to 70,000 barrels per day by
2012 at a cost of C$810 million.
In a filing with the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, the company said it will
spend C$675 million to raise volumes from the initial 30,000 bpd, due to come on
stream a year from now, and another C$135 million to build a 170-megawatt electrical plant producing both steam, to melt the deep bitumen deposits making it easier to pump them to the surface, and power to run the operation.
Petro-Canada said the expansion will allow it to extract about 55 percent of
MacKay River’s estimated 1.1 billion barrels of recoverable bitumen.
The first phase is expected to cost about C$300 million, meaning the expansion
budget will double the per-barrel expenditure, consistent with the rise in labor and
equipment costs.
—GARY PARK
IMPERIAL
Syncrude Canada, Succor Energy and
Shell Canada, other upgrader plans are
part of major mining operations by
Canadian Natural, Nixon and Canadian
Natural Resources, while Petrol-Canada
is spending C$1.6 billion to increase
heavy oil capacity at its Edmonton refinery from 50,000 bpd to 135,000 bpd.
Alberta’s energy regulator has also
approved Canada’s first stand-alone
upgrader by privately held BA Energy,
which aims to come on stream in three
stages to reach 250,000 bpd by about
2011.
First Energy Capital analyst Mark
Friesen issued a cautionary note recently
by warning that the oil sands region is
over-heated, making it likely that some
projects will be deferred or scrapped.
EnCana pointed in that direction in
November by deciding that exporting
bitumen to the U.S. for upgrading would
be a better economic bet than building its
own plant.
High oil price
assumptions also an issue
Hearn also said the oil price assumptions held by some companies are open to
question.
“It seems that everyone has concluded
that we will have high energy prices forever,” he said. “That may be true, but it
may not. There is a fair amount of nonOPEC capacity coming on stream.
“If there’s any kind of economic slowdown and surpluses start to widen again,
there’s a reasonable chance that prices
could come off.”
Imperial has ample experience on
which to base its concerns.
Hearn noted that the company’s highly
successful Cold Lake heavy oil operation,
now producing 137,000 bpd, has survived
commodity-price swings over the past
two decades that would have threatened
the venture’s economic viability if an
upgrader had been incorporated in the
plant.
“I’m not sure the place would be operating today,” he said.
Institute: spinoff could be C$1 trillion
Countering that thinking, Vincent
Lauerman, global energy analyst with the
Canadian Energy Research Institute, suggested that a drop in oil prices might trim
the profits from an upgrader, although the
facility would continue to operate to
recover some costs.
The institute has estimated the economic spinoff for Canada from upgrading
could be worth more than C$1 trillion by
2020, based on average oil prices of
US$32 per barrel and oil sands output of
3.2 million bpd.
Alberta Energy Minister Greg Melchin
is one of the strong advocates of capturing a greater share of bitumen’s value by
doing more than just exporting the raw
product.
His government is working with 16
industry players to examine the potential
benefits of a C$7 billion, 300,000 bpd
refinery and petrochemical complex near
Edmonton.
On the pipeline front, Hearn said
Imperial is holding talks with the companies — such as Enbridge, Kinder
Morgan, TransCanada and Altex Energy
— seeking support for various new lines
to the U.S. Midwest, Gulf Coast,
California and possibly Asia.
“Our position is to just work with the
various proponents at this point … and
look at what might be appropriate for us,”
he said.
Imperial Senior Vice President Randy
Broiles indicated to analysts that Imperial
is not counting on all the pipelines being
built. “We think a few will materialize by
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ANWR
Democratic Party is in pretty hard lockstep against this bill,” said Brian Riedl, a
budget analyst with the Heritage
Foundation, according to a report in E&E
Daily Dec. 12.
ANWR to join Pentagon measure
But Congressional Republicans began
exploring a new tactic Dec. 14 in hopes of
winning approval of both $45 billion in
budget cuts and the drilling plan.
Lawmakers and senior aides said they
will tack the drilling proposal onto a
Pentagon spending bill that is among
those that must pass before Congress
heads home for the holidays.
The switch, they said, could clear the
way for approval of the spending cuts
sought by conservatives and the Arctic
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drilling plan that is a priority of
Stevens and other congressional
Republicans and the Bush administration,
leaders have vowed to fight for
provided they could defeat any filibuster.
“It’s going to be on one bill or the
the drilling plan, which is as close
other before I go home,” said Sen. Ted
to approval as it has ever been in
Stevens, R-Alaska, a leading proponent
a quarter century of debate.
of opening the Arctic plain to oil production.
Frist said Dec. 14 he and Hastert are
Stevens and other congressional leadworking
“to find the best way to ‘thread
ers have vowed to fight for the drilling
the
ANWR
needle’ to help our country
plan, which is as close to approval as it
when
it
comes
to energy independence.”
has ever been in a quarter century of
debate.
Leaders sign off on defense bill
The idea of adding it to the defense
Senate
Defense Appropriations
spending measure took on new urgency
Subcommittee
Chairman Stevens said
after House leaders suggested it might be
Dec.
15
and
that
the ‘Big Four’ leaders of
the only way to win approval of both the
the
Defense
Appropriations
subcommitbudget cuts and the drilling initiative.
tees
have
signed
off
on
the
plan.
The Pentagon measure, already tied up
“Yes, it’s on,” Stevens said.
in another dispute over treatment of terror
“It suits me,” added Senate
detainees, is likely to be one of the final
Appropriations
Chairman Thad Cochran.
bills passed this year and could also conSenate
Minority
Leader Reid called
tain aid for the hurricane-ravaged Gulf
the
strategy
“outrageous,”
and Sen. John
Coast as well as money for avian flu
Kerry,
D-Mass.,
dubbed
it
“appalling.”
preparation, making it a difficult bill to
But according to press reports even
resist.
strong
House ANWR opponents did not
But unlike the budget reconciliation
say
they
would vote against the Pentagon
bill, the defense spending measure would
bill
given
the importance of passing the
require 60 votes for passage to overcome
measure
before
Congress adjourns for the
a Senate filibuster by Democrats. Aides
holidays.
told the New York Times they were trying
to determine whether attaching the
drilling provision to the Pentagon meas- Christmas recess no certainty
Nothing says Congress has to take a
ure would prompt a filibuster and whether
they could round up the 60 votes to break Christmas recess, according to Stevens
one. The budget measure had been the aide Courtney Boone. “Sen. Stevens can
first choice of the drilling advocates, remember sitting in the chair in the
since it is exempt from filibuster under Senate New Year’s Eve one year,” Boone
said Dec. 15. “And
Senate rules.
Sen. Cochran, RSenate Budget
But according to press reports
Miss., has vowed to
Chairman Gregg,
even strong House ANWR
not go home without
who’s in favor of
opponents did not say they would his Katrina packincluding ANWR in
vote against the Pentagon bill
age.”
the defense spendgiven the importance of passing
Meanwhile, 57
ing bill, was quoted
congressmen sought
the measure before Congress
in press reports as
to sway their modersaying, “I don’t
adjourns for the holidays
ate colleagues Dec.
know” if Stevens
14, reminding them
will be able to pull
together the needed 60 votes, but it might in a letter of the broad support across the
work because senators would be reluctant country for opening ANWR, including
to hold up money for the troops, hurricane that of labor unions and ANWR residents,
relief, avian flu preparedness and possibly themselves.
Low Income Home Energy Assistance.
“It’s really a specious argument” to Lobbying continues
block such initiatives over ANWR, he
Kaktovik residents wrote GOP memsaid.
bers in Congress a letter Dec. 8, urging
The Senate Budget Chairman said he support for ANWR drilling and outlining
would push to include it in reconciliation their reasons.
if Stevens was unsuccessful.
“We felt it was important to bring facts
Gregg also said that with ANWR still and clarity back to the discussion about
in play, “everything’s in limbo” on the leasing on the coastal plain,” said Lon
budget bill, although press reports said Sonsalla, mayor of the Inupiat village of
negotiators were moving forward per approximately 300. “There has been an
orders from Senate Majority Leader Bill incredible amount of distortion on this
Frist, R-Tenn., and House Speaker Dennis issue. The mainstream Republicans’
Hastert, R-Ill., to wrap up negotiations by advocate a pragmatic approach to federal
Dec. 15.
policies. Our aim is to dignify their hard
•
work with important information that has
been obscured by years of rhetoric.
“Leasing ANWR actually reflects a
rare alignment of local, state and national
purpose,” Sonsalla added.
Others joined the chorus pleading for
Congress to open the 1.5-million-acre
1002 area of the refuge to drilling, including columnist George F. Will of the
Washington Post.
“A quarter of a century of this tactic
applied to ANWR is about 24 years too
many,” said Will in a Dec. 15 editorial. “If
geologists were to decide that there were
only three thimbles of oil beneath area
1002, there would still be something to be
said for going down to get them, just to
prove that this nation cannot be forever
paralyzed by people wielding environmentalism as a cover for collectivism,” he
added.
On Dec. 12 Interior Secretary Gale A.
Norton also emphasized the long-term
significance for America’s energy security and economy of opening 2,000 acres to
energy development in the vast 19 million-acre refuge.
In a statement, the Interior secretary
responded to ANWR drilling opponents
who say the 10 years needed for energy
development is too long to wait for oil to
flow from the area. ”Families all across
this land spend 18 years planning for their
children’s college education. Those same
children deserve a government that will
invest seven to 10 years in their future
energy security,” she said.
More revenue for Uncle Sam
But perhaps the biggest recent boost to
ANWR’s chances came from the
Congressional Budget Office Dec. 8.
The Congressional Budget Office said
energy companies may pay as much as
$10 billion for the rights to drill for crude
oil in ANWR, double the government’s
official estimate. The higher revenue figure could turn some U.S. lawmakers in
favor of ANWR drilling to help offset the
huge federal budget deficit.
The nonpartisan CBO said if long-term
oil prices were roughly $50 a barrel in
2010 — equal to $45 a barrel in today’s
dollars — oil companies may pay $10 billion or more in bids to lease tracts in the
refuge.
That is double the CBO’s official estimate of $5 billion in bids that would be
raised over the 2008-2010 period from
ANWR leases, which is based on oil
prices in the range of $25 to $35 a barrel.
Revenue from the bids would be split
equally between the federal government
and the State of Alaska.
U.S. crude oil prices are currently
around $60 a barrel, and the Energy
Department has forecast oil prices will
stay high in the next few years. PETROLEUM NEWS
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ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES
ROAD
Road, Miller said.
Changing priorities
For several years the state has been
planning industrial roads in support of the
North Slope oil industry — the state has
anticipated that these roads would
encourage increased economic activity
that would then provide a return on the
investment in road construction.
But the plans regarding what roads to
construct have changed over time.
Early in 2003 the top priority was the
westward extension of the Spine Road,
including the construction of a bridge
across the Colville River. At that time
DOT also envisaged constructing a road
west from the Dalton Highway from a
new road junction on the south side of the
North Slope; that road would extend west
through the foothills before turning north
to connect to the village of Nuiqsut on the
Beaufort Sea coast.
By November 2003 the southern road
option had started to take shape, with a
route outlined that would require a 3,200foot bridge across the Colville River.
Mike McKinnon, the then senior planner
for DOT, thought that road construction
Potential routes, marked in yellow, being considered for the Bullen Point Road
could start as early as 2006.
By November 2004 DOT had four environmental impact statement.
expects the EIS to take about two years to
road ideas on its books: the original idea
“We are hoping to get a Corps permit complete. That would place the start of
of a westward Spine Road extension, a application in this winter,” Miller said.
road construction in 2008, she said.
foothills road west from the Dalton
The Corps is particularly interested in
Highway, a foothills road east from the hydrology data and there’s very little of Strategies for the Foothills
Dalton Highway
that type of data
Plans for a road through the Brooks
and a 50 to 60-mile
for the area of the Range Foothills west from the Dalton
With the Bullen Point Road now
coastal route east
potential
road Highway have now evolved into an investaking center stage, Anchoragefrom the central
routes,
Miller tigation into whether to build a series of
North Slope to state based engineering consultants PND said.
airports and staging areas in place of all
leases as far east as Inc. collected data for that route this
“So we’ve had
or part of the road that people envisaged a
the Point Thomson
to do some basesummer.
year ago. DOT is now looking at an
area. Then, in April
line data collecaccess route into an area extending about
of this year, the
tion,” she said.
state said that it was moving ahead with
But uncooperative weather during the 40 miles west of the highway — Miller
the engineering for the eastward coastal summer prevented the shooting of the said that there were concerns about a cariroad, now known as the Bullen Point aerial photographs needed for some of the bou calving area in the path of the northsouth section of the originally proposed
Road.
data collection.
“We did try to get aerial photos this road.
“There are a number of different alterData collection
year and never did get them because of
natives
for getting into that area,” Miller
With the Bullen Point Road now tak- weather,” Miller said.
In the meantime the team is making do said. “We’re weighing whether to take a
ing center stage, Anchorage-based engineering consultants PND Inc. collected with some satellite imagery. But unfortu- road in all the way or have a system of
nately this type of imagery doesn’t cover airports that would have the ability to
data for that route this summer.
“We’ve done some engineering field the entire area at the required resolution, build roads off from those airports, either
studies and done a little bit of the prelim- Miller said. Miller is hopeful that the ice roads in the beginning or gravel
inary engineering through our consult- team can recover any time lost as a result roads.”
of the lack of aerial photographs — she
This winter DOT is looking at these
ant,” Miller said.
Work has included topographic surveys, hydrologic surveys and breakup
surveys, she said. DOT now has the preliminary ice design criteria and has drafted a report on road design criteria. The
design team has determined some potential road routes and stream crossing sites.
The potential routes for the route
entirely involve state land, thus triggering
the need for a state right of way.
However, DOT has been able to share
some of the data collection costs with the
Alaska Department of Natural Resources.
DNR has to carry out similar work in connection with pipeline rights of way that it
has applied for to link future oil and gas
developments on the eastern North Slope
with the Prudhoe Bay complex.
“We have been working with the
Department of Natural Resources on the
project and we’ll continue to do that,”
Miller said. “They’re working on a
pipeline right of way.”
Environmental impact statement
Because the potential routes for the
Bullen Point Road cross wetlands DOT
will have to apply to the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers for a wetlands permit. That
permit will likely trigger the need for an
alternatives and at route alignments, with
a view to doing some fieldwork next year;
fieldwork would address environmental
and engineering issues. One consideration for planning any airport locations is
the feasibility of ice road construction in
the area — that might require placing airports slightly north of the foothills.
Although the north-south segment of
the original road plan included a Colville
River crossing into the northern part of
NPR-A, Miller thinks that a westward
extension to the Spine Road would
include the river crossing instead.
DOT is no longer planning a Foothills
road east from the Dalton Highway,
although it did look at the possibility of
aligning the Bullen Point Road from a
point on the Dalton Highway on the south
side of the North Slope. The advantage of
that route would be a relatively short
crossing over the Sagavanirktok River.
But the relative length of the route and the
difficulty of road construction in hilly
country outweigh any benefits.
“There’s enough disadvantages that it
doesn’t look like it’s the preferred alternative,” Miller said. A16
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Natural gas hits all-time high at $15.78
Natural-gas prices surged to an all-time high Dec. 13, as cold weather in the
United States and ongoing disrupted production in the Gulf of Mexico caused
traders to worry that supplies of home-heating fuels will be tight this winter.
Nymex natural gas rose to an all-time record
of $15.78 per thousand cubic feet Dec. 13
Crude-oil prices held
before easing back to $15.38 in afternoon trading, up 53.9 cents from the Dec. 12 settlement above $61 a barrel, after
the International Energy
price.
“The last thing consumers needed to have
Agency predicted that
happen is a cold snap early in the season,” said global oil demand growth
John Kilduff, analyst at Fimat USA, noting that
will recover next year.
temperatures have been well below normal in
many parts of the country. “With a quarter of
natural gas off-line in the Gulf, it’s just stoking the winter supply fears.”
December has been colder than usual so far, and many forecasters are saying
below-average temperatures will persist throughout the winter.
Natural gas is most commonly used to heat homes in the Midwestern states,
while heating oil is most commonly used in the Northeast.
Kilduff predicted that the price of natural gas could rise as high as $20 per
thousand cubic feet by the middle of January.
According to Francisco Blanch, senior energy analyst at Merrill Lynch, natural gas prices are trading above heating oil prices on a calorie-value equivalence
basis, a rare occurrence over the past 15 years.
Nymex heating oil gained 6 cents to $1.8325 a gallon Dec. 13.
Crude-oil prices held above $61 a barrel, after the International Energy Agency
predicted that global oil demand growth will recover next year. Oil prices also
were supported by OPEC’s decision Dec. 12 to keep its production steady at
record levels for now but to meet next month to consider reducing output.
—THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MACKENZIE
Northern Development, said at the time
that the Dene Tha’ would be able to “identify risks and opportunities and build
internal capacity and strategic partnerships with the appropriate players” in the
project.
Indian
Affairs
and
Northern
Development Minister Andy Scott
pledged that the government would “very
seriously” support the “political, social
and sustainable development goals” of
northerners, allowing them to capitalize
on the opportunities.
In May, the Dene Tha’s filed a lawsuit
to halt the regulatory hearings, claiming
they had not been properly informed about
the process.
INSIDER
who hold only one oil stock should forget
the royalty trusts, with those reserve life
indexes of less than 10 years, and opt for oil
sands producers who are sitting on 60 to 90
years of reserves.
Coxe said that if the SEC modifies its
reserve rules it will add to the recognition
of the oil sands by the International
Monetary Fund and the U.S. Energy
Information Administration and be crucial
in opening the door for world oil giants to
boost their price-earnings ratios if they
have a stake in the oil sands.
But Coxe’s view that Canada will “face
a new kind of importance” in the oil world
is not shared by Faith Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency.
Birol said the influence of the oil sands
will “increase significantly in the next
years, but we do not think they will make a
major revolution on the markets.”
The community said the Canadian government had failed to ensure that aboriginal concerns were taken into account over
industrial development that could have a
negative impact on wildlife and natural
habitat.
Deh Cho demand property taxes
Meanwhile, the hold-out Deh Cho First
Nations got a blunt message from Imperial
Oil Chief Executive Officer Tim Hearn
Dec. 6 that they should not expect a better
deal than other aboriginal regions along
the planned Mackenzie Valley gas
pipeline route.
He said the Deh Cho has a “pretty good
model for what is realistic and available”
from the land access and benefits agreements reached with the Inuvialuit,
Gwich’in and two Sahtu communities.
•
He told the Financial Post the oil sands
can keep the producing nations of OPEC
honest when prices soar, but there are still
unresolved economic questions hanging
over the resource, such as the rising cost of
natural gas which is a key part of the extraction and processing operations and the cost
of transportation to distant markets.
However, Birol conceded that if oil
prices remain at their current levels for several years that will give added impetus to
oil sands expansion, although production
will not replace Middle East oil.
If you’re looking for a third opinion, try
Canada’s Finance Minister Ralph Goodale,
hardly a neutral observer.
With his government in the thick of a
federal election campaign, he told the
Group of Seven finance ministers in
London that Canada aims to “change the
geopolitics of the world” by promoting the
development of its 175 billion barrels of
recoverable bitumen.
—GARY PARK
At a session for analysts and reporters,
Hearn said the work accomplished so far
should encourage the Deh Cho “to see
what is possible.”
But the Deh Cho continue to cling to a
demand for property taxes from the
pipeline — a prospect that has been rejected by the Mackenzie consortium and
Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan.
Hearn urged the Deh Cho to deal separately with the pipeline and their attempts
to negotiate a self-government and land
claim agreement with the Canadian government and not attempt to use the
pipeline for political leverage.
However, he said discussions have not
broken off with the Deh Cho.
He hopes the agreements in principle
reached with the other aboriginal regions
will result in ratified deals by year’s end. Volume 10, No. 51
December 2005
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern and western Canada’s oil and gas industry
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Industry photographer Judy
Patrick put this clever photo on
her Christmas cards this year.
Members of Congress, are you
looking?
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Carolina Mat Co.
P.O. Box 339
Plymouth, NC 27962
Anchorage office
612 E. 3rd. Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Wadeen Hepworth, AK rep
Phone: (907) 272- 5766
Fax: (907) 274-5766
Email: [email protected]
Web site: www.carolinamat.com
Established in 1985. Manufacture laminated, patented, bolted, reusable, solid oak construction, crane
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Air Passenger/Charter & Support
1915 Donald Ave.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Phone: (907) 452-1197
Fax: (907) 452-4539
Contact: Dave Scarbrough
Phone: Anchorage: (907) 248-3335
Helicopter contract and charter services.
Evergreen Helicopters of Alaska
1936 Merrill Field Drive
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Joy Journeay, director of contracts
Phone: (907) 257-1519
Fax: (907) 257-1590
Contact: Mike Roddy, director, marketing
Phone: (907) 257-1525
Nome office: (907) 443-5334
Airlines office: (907) 257-1500
Web site: evergreenaviation.com
Evergreen’s diverse fleet has provided award-winning
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P.O. Box 46
Kenai, AK 99611
Contact: Bob or Jim Bielefeld
Phone: (907) 283-4124
Phone: (800) 478-4124 (within Alaska)
Fax: (907) 283-5267
Air taxi services provided since 1961 state wide, mostly Cook Inlet. Single engine and twin Bonanza.
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Contact: Jeanine St. John
Phone: (907) 245-1544
Fax: (907) 245-1744
The combined scope of the Lynden companies
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Fax: (907) 249-5194
Web site: www.nac.aero
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Fairbanks, AK 99706
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Buildings – Lease Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B3
Buildings – Modular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B3
Camps, Catering & Lodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B3
Cellular Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B3
Chemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B3
Chemical Analytical Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B3
Civil & Hazardous Waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B3
Commercial Diving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B4
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B4
Computer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B4
Construction Equipment & Materials . . . . . . . . . .B4
Construction Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . .B4
Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B4
Contractors - General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B4
Contractors - Pipeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B5
Control Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B5
Corrosion Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B5
Drilling & Well Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B5
Drug Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B6
Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B6
Employee Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B6
Employment Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B6
Energy Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B6
Engineering Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B6
Environmental Engineering & Consulting . . . . . .B7
Environmental Response & Cleanup . . . . . . . . . . .B7
Environmental Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B8
Equipment & Heavy Hauling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B8
Equipment Sales/Rental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B8
Expeditor/Clerk Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B12
Fertilizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B12
Financial Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B12
Freight/Shipping & Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B12
Fueling Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B13
General Oilfield Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B13
Geophysical & Geological Services . . . . . . . . . . .B13
Health Care Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B13
Helicopter Contract/Charter Services . . . . . . . . .B13
Hoses, Hydraulic & Industrial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B13
Industrial Gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B13
Industrial Parts & Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B13
Inspection Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B13
Instrumentation Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B14
Laboratory Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B14
Legal Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B14
Lodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B14
Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B14
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Machining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B14
Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B14
Management Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Marine Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Marine Services & Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Mat Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Mechanical & Electrical Inspection . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Medical Facilities & Emergency Response . . . . .B15
Medical Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Meetings & Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Metal Distributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Movers/Relocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Mud & Mudlogging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Office Furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Oilfield Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B15
Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B16
Pipe, Fittings & Thread Technology . . . . . . . . . .B16
Pipeline Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B16
Plumbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B16
Power Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B16
Process Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B16
Procurement Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B16
Production Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B16
Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B16
Recycling Waste Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B16
Reporting Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B16
Restaurants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B17
Rigging Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B17
Right of Way Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B17
Safety Equipment & Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B17
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B17
Seismic & Geophysical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B17
Shops/Storage Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B17
Soil Stabilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B17
Space Design/Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B17
Steel Fabrication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B17
Steel Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Surveying & Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Tank Fabrication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Telephone Equipment & Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Temporary Placement Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Tire Sales & Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Underwater NDT & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Underwater Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Vehicle Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Vehicle Sales/Rental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B18
Weld Repairs/Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B19
Wire Rope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B19
OIL COMPANIES
Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B19
Phone: (907) 842-3440
Turbine Otter air support for remote seismic exploration, mining and construction sites. Cargo, fuel and
passengers on wheels, wheel skis and amphibian
floats.
dredging operations, remote site land and hydrographic surveying.
Security Aviation
3600 W. International Airport Rd., Ste. 1
Anchorage, AK 99502
Contact: S. Joe Kapper
Phone: (907) 248-2677 – 24 hour service
Fax: (907) 248-6911
Web site: www.securityaviation.biz
All twin engine turbine and piston fleet. Alaska,
Canada, Lower 48. Crew changes, hot freight/HAZMAT, VIP tours, emergency response and aerial surveys. Approved by all oil and gas companies, Alyeska
Pipeline Service Co., Dept. of Defense, Dept. of
Interior, Dept. of Transportation and the State of
Alaska.
ASRC Energy Services
3900 C St., Ste. 701
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Jack Laasch, exec. vp strategic dev. and
external affairs
Phone: (907) 339-6200
Fax: (907) 339-6212
Web site: www.asrcenergy.com
Oil and gas services, engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, pipeline construction and maintenance, project management, geological and geophysical, drilling and completion engineering, well
stimulation, exploration services.
Architecture
Kuukpik - LCMF
139 E. 51st Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Richard Rearick, architectural mgr.
Contact: Derek Howard, survey mgr.
Contact: Wiley Wilhelm, engineering mgr.
Phone: (907) 273-1830
Fax: (907) 273-1831
Other Offices:
Barrow: (907) 852-8212
Alpine: (907) 670-4739
Arctic specialized architectural and engineering
design for all structures; water/sewer, fuel and transportation systems design; contractor support surveying and permitting for oil and gas development;
Arctic Engineering
ASRC Energy Services – Engineering and
Technology
3900 C St.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: John Lewis, vp operations
Phone: (907) 339-6200
Fax: (907) 339-6212
Drilling and completion engineering, well stimulation, facilities engineering, upstream exploration and
production services, geological and geophysical services, automation, electrical and instrumentation,
platform renovation and construction.
137 E. Arctic Ave.
Palmer, AK 99645
Contact: John H. Riggs, general mgr.
Phone: (907) 745-6988
Fax: (907) 745-0591
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Companies involved in Alaska and western
and northern Canada’s oil and gas industry
A
3M Alaska
Acuren USA (formerly Canspec Group)
Aeromed
AES Lynx Enterprises
Agrium
Air Liquide
Alaska Anvil
Alaska Coverall
Alaska Dreams
Alaska Marine Lines
Alaska Telecom
Alaska Tent & Tarp
Alaska Textiles
Alaska USA Mortgage Company
Alaska West Express
Alaska’s People
Alliance, The
Alpine-Meadow
American Marine
Arctic Controls
Arctic Foundations
Arctic Slope Telephone Assoc. Co-op
Arctic Structures
Engineering & Technology
Operations & Maintenance
Pipeline Power &
Communications
AutryRaynes Engineering
and Environmental Consultants
Avalon Development
B-F
Badger Productions
Baker Hughes
Broadway Signs
Brooks Range Supply
BW Technologies
Carlile Transportation Services
Carolina Mat Company
Chiulista Camp Services
CN Aquatrain
Colville
Construction Machinery Industrial
Coremongers
Crowley Alaska
Cruz Construction
Dowland - Bach Corp.
Doyon Drilling
Doyon LTD
Engineered Fire and Safety
ENSR Alaska
Epoch Well Services
ESS/On-Site Camp Services
Fairweather Companies, The
Flowline Alaska
Friends of Pets
G-M
Gene's Chrysler
Great Northwest
Hanover Canada
Hawk Construction Consultants
H.C. Price
Hilton Anchorage
Holaday-Parks
Hotel Captain Cook
Hunter 3-D
Industrial Project Services
Inspirations
Jackovich Industrial
& Construction Supply
JEMS Real Estate
Kenai Aviation
Kenworth Alaska
Kuukpik/Veritas
Kuukpik - LCMF
Lasser Inc.
LCMF
LCMF - Barrow Village
Response Team (VRT)
Lounsbury & Associates
Lynden Air Cargo
Lynden Air Freight
Lynden Inc.
Lynden Logistics
Lynden Transport
Mapmakers of Alaska
Marathon Oil
Marketing Solutions
Mayflower Catering
MI Swaco
Michael Baker Jr.
MWH
MRO Sales
N-P
NANA Oilfield Services
Natco Canada
Nature Conservancy, The
NEI Fluid Technology
Nordic Calista
North Slope Telecom
Northern Air Cargo
Offshore Divers
Oilfield Transport
Panalpina
PDC Harris Group
Penco
Perkins Coie
Petroleum Equipment & Services
Petrotechnical Resources of Alaska
PGS Onshore
Pipe Wranglers Canada
Precision Power
Q-Z
QUADCO
RAE Systems
Rain for Rent
Renew Air Taxi
Salt + Light Creative
Scan Home
Schlumberger
Security Aviation
Seekins Ford
Sourdough Express
Span-Alaska Consolidators
Steel Brothers
STEELFAB
Superior Machine and Welding
TOTE
Trinity Inspection Services
Tubular Solutions Alaska
UAA Department of Engineering
Udelhoven Oilfield Systems Services
Unique Machine
Unitech of Alaska
Univar USA
Usibelli
U.S. Bearings and Drives
VECO
Welding Services
Wiggy's-Alaska
Worksafe
XTO Energy
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Website: www.greatnorthernengineering.com
Anchorage office: 561-0200
Kenai office: 283-5199
Great Northern Engineering (GNE) is a
full-service engineering firm specializing in industrial power and petrochemical engineering. Complete engineering services in mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, rotating equipment, and corrosion engineering.
Consulting services in project design,
preparation of project documents, bid
assistance, project management, cost
estimating and inspection services.
Arctic Gear
PGS Onshore
341 W. Tudor Rd., Ste. 206
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Larry Watt, Alaska area mgr.
Phone: (907) 569-4049
Fax: (907) 569-4047
Houston Office
738 Hwy 6 South, Ste 900
Houston, TX 77079
Contact: Gehrig Schultz
Phone: (281) 589-6732
Fax: (281) 589-6685
Geophysical acquisition and processing
for the petroleum industry. PGS
Onshore provides fully rubber tracked
Arctic geophysical crews to acquire the
highest density data with the softest
environmental footprint on the North
Slope.
Wiggy’s-Alaska!
8225 Old Seward Hwy., Suite A
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Marc Taylor Owner/Alaska
Representative
Phone: 907-336-1330
Fax: 907-336-1330
Web site: www.wiggys.com
As a result of the light weight and
effectiveness of Lamilite (TM) insulation in the cold weather garment
industry, Wiggy’s of Grand Junction,
CO has opened Wiggy’s-Alaska! in
order to serve the petroleum industry
of Alaska.
Aviation Fuel Sales/Bulk Diesel
Colville
Pouch 340012
Prudhoe Bay, AK 99734
Contact: Mike Kunkel/John Daly gen.
mgrs., Craig Welch, mgr. special projects
Phone: (907) 659-3197
Fax: (907) 659-3190
Jet A, Jet B, 100 LL, 24-hour service.
Dispatch by phone.
NANA Oilfield Svc. (NOSI)
Box 340112
Contact: Jim McGraw/Rick Hofreiter
Phone: (907) 659-2840
Fax: (907) 659-2289
Email:
[email protected]/[email protected]
Web site: www.nanaoilfield.com
Provides support services to all major
companies active in oil exploration or
development on Alaska’s North Slope
in addition to service companies, contractors and government agencies with
ongoing activities in the Prudhoe Bay
area. Provide equipment and vehicle
rental and operate the Chevron fuel
distributorship in Deadhorse.
Bearings
U.S. Bearings & Drives
611 E. International Airport Rd.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Dena Kelley, operations mgr.
Phone: 563-3000
Fax: 563-1003
Web site: www.bearings.com
U.S. Bearings & Drives, formerly BESCO
has been providing bearings and drive
components to our Alaskan customers
since 1952. We offer quality components and experienced personnel.
Buildings — Lease Space
JEMS Real Estate
P.O. Box 190530
Anchorage, AK 9519
1417 W. Northern Lights Blvd., Ste. B
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Michael/Jo Ellen Smith
Phone: (907) 258-5367
Fax: (907) 258-5542
Web site: www.jemsrealestate.com
JEMS Real Estate specializing in real
estate sales, leasing, property management, condo association management
and property rental.
Deadhorse Airport
Deadhorse, AK 99734
Contact: J. Harper Gaston, president
P.O. Box 670
Greenville, GA 30222
Phone: (706) 672-0999
Fax: (706) 672-1188
Space designed for oilfield services.
Located one-half mile north of
Deadhorse airport. 800 sf.–1,200 sf.
individual or combined units. Rent
includes heat, snow removal, maintenance and repairs.
Buildings — Modular
6740 Jollipan Crt.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Paul Nelson, mgr.
Phone: (907) 346-1319
Fax: (907) 346-4400
Contact: Scott Coon
Phone: (907) 646-1219
Fax: (907) 646-1253
National Call Center: 1-800-268-3768
We are the Alaska dealers for Cover-All
Building Systems. Steel framed, fully
engineered, LDPE fabric covered,
portable buildings in 18 to 270 foot
widths and any length.
Alaska Dreams
522 Goldstreak Rd.
Fairbanks, AK 99712
Contact: M. Huser, president
Phone: (907) 455-7712
Fax: (907) 455-7713
Specialized in design, sales and construction of fabric covered steel buildings, a cost efficient building solution
for many applications. We offer our
worldwide, longtime experience for
your future project.
Arctic Structures
9312 Vanguard Dr., Ste. 200
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Ray Gipson
Phone: (907) 522-2425
Fax: (907) 522-2426
Camps, offices, classrooms, clinics, etc.
– large inventory of modular buildings
for rent/sale or custom build – MANUFACTURED IN ALASKA. Supply/erect
pre-engineered metal buildings.
Sourdough Express
P.O. Box 73398
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Contact: Jeff Gregory, president
Phone: 907-452-1181
Fax: 907-451-6188
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: www.sourdoughexpress.com
Sourdough Express Inc. provides trucking services, full service moving and
storage services, and conex container
sales and rentals.
Steel Brothers, Inc.
921 W. 6th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Steve Jones, president
Phone: (907) 272-5529
Fax: (907) 277-6108
Web site: www.steelbrothers.com
Exclusive Alaska distributors of
Hyundai Steel. Steel products and fabrication, structural steel, oil field construction (LTCS) and modular and
portable structures.
Camps, Catering & Lodging
Alaska Tent & Tarp
529 Front St.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Contact: Jim Haselberger
Phone: (907) 456-6328
Fax: (907) 452-5260
Web site: www.ptialaska.net/~aktent
Arctic Structures
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Ray Gipson
Phone: (907) 522-2425
Fax: (907) 522-2426
Chiulista Camp Services/Mayflower
Catering
6613 Brayton Dr., Ste. C
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: George B. Gardner, pres/gm
Phone: (907) 278-2208
Fax: (907) 677-7261
The 100 percent Alaska Native owned
and operated catering company on the
North Slope, catering and housekeeping to your tastes, not ours.
Doyon Ltd.
101 W. Benson Blvd., Ste. 503
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Mark Huber, general mgr.
Phone: (907) 522-1300
Fax: (907) 522-3531
Website: www.doyon.com
Doyon Universal Services provides
remote site catering and camp services
throughout Alaska. They also provide
security service for the Trans Alaska
Pipeline and other prominent locations.
ESS/On-Site Camp Svc.
11419 Alaska Rd.
Fort St. John, B.C. V1J 6N2 Can.
Contact: Daryl Rayner
Phone: (250) 785-0215
Fax: (250) 785-0270
Website: www.ess-global.com
On-Site Camp Services is a specialized
catering company experienced in all
aspects of remote camp services.
Camps from 10 to over 600 beds.
9210 Vanguard Dr., Ste 101
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: George Shedlock, bus. devel.
coordinator
Phone: (907) 344-1207 ext. 228
Fax: (907) 344-0353
Web site: www.ess-global.com
The Alaska division of the worlds
largest contract food service company.
Visit our web site at www.essglobal.com
5761 Silverado Way, Ste P
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Rick MacMillan
Phone: (907) 562-5588
Fax: (907) 562-5898
Cellular Communications
ASTAC
4300 B St., Ste. 501
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: David Fauske
Phone: (907) 563-3989
Phone: 1-800-478-6409
Fax: (907) 563-1932
Full service cellular company providing
cellular and wireless solutions, including equipment sales and service, wireless Internet, maintenance and installation to the North Slope region of
Alaska.
Chemicals
Agrium
P.O. Box 575
Kenai, AK 99611
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Contact: Lisa Parker, govt. relations
Phone: (907) 776-3275
Fax: (907) 776-5579
Web site: www.agrium.com
Value added manufacturer of fertilizer
products.
MI SWACO
721 W. First Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501 &
225 W. 92nd Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99515
Contact: Craig Bieber
Phone: (907) 274-5564
Email: [email protected] or
[email protected]
MI SWACO DSR combines Alaska
know-how and global strength to provide the oil industry with a full-service
drilling partner
RAE Systems
1339 Moffett Park Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Contact: Amanda Leet, mktg.
Phone: (408) 585-3522
Fax: (408) 752-0724
Web site: www.raesystems.com
RAE Systems is manufacturer of rapidly-deployable, multi-sensor chemical
detection monitors and networks for
homeland security and industrial applications. RAE Systems offers a full line
of portable single-sensor chemical and
radiation detection products.
Univar USA
590 E. 100th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 990515
Contact: Ken Lambertsen
Phone: (907) 344-7444
Fax: (907) 522-1486
Web site: www.univarusa.com
World’s largest industrial chemical distributor serving Alaskans since 1924.
Industrial emphasis in oil and gas refining, procuring and gas treating.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: 563-3000
Fax: 563-1003
Chemical Analytical Lab
Univar USA
590 E. 100th Ave.
Phone: (907) 344-7444
Fax: (907) 522-1486
Civil & Hazardous Waste
Pouch 340043
Contact: Jerod Pollen/Ralph E. Allphin
Phone: (907) 659-2145
Fax: (907-659-2146
Serving Prudhoe Bay and the North
Slope’s analytical, water and waste
water compliance monitoring and hazardous waste needs as well as providing immediate response sampling services.
MWH
1835 S. Bragaw St., Ste. 350
Anchorage, AK 99508
Contact: Brett Jokela
Phone: (907) 248-8883
Fax: (907) 248-8884
The engineers, scientists, and constructors of MWH provide innovative projects and solutions for clients throughout Alaska and Worldwide.
Univar USA
590 E. 100th Ave.
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Phone: (907) 344-7444
Fax: (907) 522-1486
Commercial Diving
American Marine Corp.
6000 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Tom Ulrich, reg. mgr. svc.
group
Phone: (907) 562-5420
Fax: (907) 562-5426
Web site: www.amsghq.com
American Marine Corp. provides full
service marine construction and diving
services throughout Alaska and the
Pacific Basin.
Offshore Divers
5400 Eielson St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Don Ingraham, owner/mgr.
Contact: Leif Simcox, owner/oper. mgr.
Phone: (907) 563-9060
Fax: (907) 563-9061
Web site:
http//www.offshoredivers.com
Offshore Divers is an Alaska owned
diving contractor specializing in subsea oilfield work on mooring systems,
pipelines, platforms and docks in Cook
Inlet, on the North Slope and in
Valdez.
Communications
Alaska Telecom
6623 Brayton Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Kevin Gray
Phone: (907) 344-1223
Fax: (907) 344-1612
Fairbanks Office:
713 Gaffney Rd.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Contact: Becky Cummings
Phone: (907) 456-1223
Providing telecommunications support
to oil exploration and production companies and contractors. Satellite communications, voice, data, microwave,
VHF/UHF radio, engineering and installation.
ASRC Energy Services – Pipeline,
Power & Communications
3900 C St.,
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Wade Blasingame
Phone: (907) 339-6400
Fax: (907) 339-6444
Email:
[email protected]
Pipeline construction and maintenance,
fiber optic cable installation.
ASTAC
4300 B St., Ste. 501
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 563-3989
Phone: 1-800-478-6409
Fax: (907) 563-1932
Providing local and long distance service, Internet, maintenance and training, consultation, installation, engineering, Centrex, custom calling features, digital cross connect service, and
digital data service to the North Slope
region of Alaska.
Marketing Solutions
3330 C. St., Ste. 101
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Laurie Fagnani,
president/owner
Phone: (907) 569-7070
Fax: (907) 569-7090
Web site: www.marketingsol.net
Marketing Solutions is a full-service
award-winning advertising and public
relations firm that promotes clients in
the industries statewide.
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North Slope Telecom
2020 E. Dowling, Ste. 3
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Bill Laxson, president
Phone: (907) 562-4693
Fax: (907) 562-0818
Web site: www.nstiak.com
Twenty years of arctic experience in
design and installation of microwave,
satellite, fiber optic, radio, paging,
telephone equipment and systems.
Tower construction, inspection and
maintenance.
Computer Software
Lasser Inc.
3244 NW Grand Blvd.
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
Contact: Owen Lowe, sales/Richie
Worthington, support
Phone: (405) 842-4010
Fax: (405) 840-6092
Web site: www.lasser.com
Lasser production data provides historical oil and gas production on CD-ROM
as well as digital and hard copy maps.
Construction Equipment
& Materials
Alaska Dreams
522 Goldstreak Rd.
Fairbanks, AK 99712
Phone: (907) 455-7712
Fax: (907) 455-7713
As an independent Rockford steel
building dealer we provide full service,
industry leading hi-tech durable steel
construction. The fully engineered and
complete buildings guarantee fast and
economical on site erection.
Brooks Range Supply
Pouch 340008
1 Old Spine Road
Contact: Mike Kunkel/John Daly, gen.
mgrs., Craig Welch, mgr. special. projects
Phone: (907) 659-2550
Toll Free: (866) 659-2550
Fax: (907) 659-2650
Your source on the Slope for safety
supplies, welding supplies, automotive
and truck parts, hardware, tools, steel,
building materials, glass, propane,
hydraulic hoses and fittings, paint and
chemicals. Napa and True Value
Hardware distribution. Own Prudhoe
Bay General Store that carries various
sundries and is home to the Prudhoe
Bay Post Office.
Great Northwest
P.O. Box 74646
Fairbanks, AK 99704-4646
Contact: Buzz Otis
Phone: (907) 452-5617
Fax: (907) 456-7779
Web site: www.grtnw.com
Specializing in cold weather and heavy
civil construction, gravel and rock
products, site-work, petroleum industry
construction, erosion control, underground utilities and reclamation services.
Jackovich Industrial & Construction
Supply
Fairbanks: 1600 Wells St.
Attn: Buz Jackovich
Phone: (907) 456-4414
Fax: (907) 452-4846
Anchorage: 1716 Post Road
Attn: Steve Slone
Phone: (907) 277-1406
Fax: (907) 258-1700
24 hour emergency service. With 30
years of experience, we're experts on
arctic conditions and extreme weather.
4412 Lois Drive
Anchorage, AK 99517
Contact: Sean Langton
Phone: (907) 563-3141
Fax: (907) 261-9140
SBS is Alaska’s largest source of building materials with 14 locations
throughout the state. Specialized oil-
field support provided through our
Commercial Sales division.
921 W. 6th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 272-5529
Fax: (907) 277-6108
Exclusive Alaska distributors of
Hyundai Steel. Steel products and fabrication, structural steel, oil field construction (LTCS) and modular and
portable structures.
Construction Project
Management
Alaska Anvil
509 W. 3rd Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501–2237
Contact: Frank Weiss
Phone: (907) 276-2747
Fax: (907) 279-4088
Web site: anvilcorp.com
Other office: Kenai
50720 Kenai Spur Hwy, Mile 24.5
Kenai, AK 99611
Phone: (907) 776-5870
Fax: (907) 770-5871
Multi-discipline engineering and
design services including construction
management for petro-chemical and
heavy industrial client projects.
Doyon Ltd.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Mark Huber, general mgr.
Phone: (907) 522-1300
Fax: (907) 522-3531
Website: www.doyon.com
Doyon Universal Services provides
remote site catering and camp services
throughout Alaska. They also provide
security service for the Trans Alaska
Pipeline and other prominent locations.
137 E. Arctic Ave.
Palmer, AK 99645
Phone: (907) 745-6988
Fax: (907) 745-0591
Great Northwest
P.O. Box 74646
Contact: Buzz Otis
Phone: (907) 452-5617
Fax: (907) 456-7779
200 W. 34th Ave., Ste. 809
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Maynard Tapp, president
Phone: (907) 278-1877
Fax: (907) 278-1889
Providing people and resources to the
oil, gas, power, telecommunication and
public works industries. Services
include strategic planning, full service
project management team
consulting/outsourcing, supplemental
professionals, professionals, management consulting services.
H.C. Price Co.
301 W. Northern Lights Blvd., Ste. 300
B5
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: David Matthews
Phone: (907) 278-4400
Fax: (907) 278-3255
E-Mail: [email protected]
Other Offices:
Dallas, TX
Nisku, Alberta, Canada
EPC contractor performing oil field
support, pipeline construction and
other heavy industrial projects
statewide.
Lounsbury and Associates
5300 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Ken Ayers
Contact: Jim Sawhill
Phone: (907) 272-5451
Fax: (907) 272-9065
Toll Free: (800) 478-5451
Web site: www.lounsburyinc.com
Provides civil engineering and project
management services for oilfield development. Recent projects include: Tarn,
Pam and Colville Delta North.
Michael Baker Jr.
1400 West Benson Blvd.
Suite 200
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Jeffrey Baker, Alaska
Operations Manager
Phone: (907) 273-1600
Fax: (907) 273-1699
Web site: www.mbakercorp.com
Engineering skills include civil, structural, mechanical, project management,
GIS, and hydrology. Energy services
include CMMS (computerized maintenance management), managed operation and maintenance, training/competency services, and other related energy services.
700 G Street, 5th floor
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 273-3900
Fax: (907) 273-3990
Contact: John Minier
NANA/Colt offers project management,
engineering, design, construction management, and procurement services to
the oil industry.
VECO
949 E. 36th Ave., Ste. 500
Anchorage, AK 99508
Contact: Emily Cross
Phone: (907) 762-1510
Fax: (907) 762-1001
Web site: www.VECO.com
VECO is a multi-national corporation
that provides services, project management, engineering, procurement, construction, operations and maintenance
– to the energy, resource and process
industries and the public sector.
Consulting
Kuukpik/Veritas
2000 E. 88th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Jeff Hastings
Phone: (907) 276-6037
Fax: (907) 279-5740
P.O. Box 1496
Theodore, AL 36590
Contact: Joe Gibbs
Phone: (888) 973-2121
Phone: (251) 653-7173
Fax: (251) 653-2113
Web site: www.trinityinspect.com
Other Office:
8686 Bellingrath Rd.
Theodore, AL 36582
NACE certified coatings inspectors and
AWS certified welding inspectors.
Traceability Data Base tracking pipe
from mill to installation, providing history of each process involved.
Contractors — General
601 W. 5th Avenue, Suite 400
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Dave Thomas
Phone: (907) 562-2792
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Fax: (907) 562-4179
Web site: www.aicllc.com
AIC provides cost-effective solutions to
resource development industries. We
provide innovative ideas to meet each
requirement through the provision of
best-in-class people and equipment
coupled with exceptional performance.
Alaska Telecom
6623 Brayton Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Kevin Gray
Phone: (907) 344-1223
Fax: (907) 344-1612
Fairbanks Office:
713 Gaffney Rd.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Phone: (907) 456-1223
6000 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
group
Phone: (907) 562-5420
Fax: (907) 562-5426
Pacific Basin.
Arctic Structures
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Ray Gipson
Phone: (907) 522-2425
Fax: (907) 522-2426
3900 C St., Ste. 701
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Jack Laasch, exec. vp strategic
dev. and external affairs
Phone: (907) 339-6200
Fax: (907) 339-6212
Oil and gas services, engineering, construction, operations, maintenance,
pipeline construction and maintenance, project management, geological and geophysical, drilling and completion engineering, well stimulation,
exploration services.
ASRC Energy Services – Operations
and Maintenance
3900 C St.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Mark Nelson, exec. vp
Phone: (907) 339-6200
Fax: (907) 339-6212
Oil and gas services, industrial construction, operations and maintenance,
module fabrication and assembly, project management and non-destructive
testing.
Cruz Construction
HC04 Box 9323
Palmer, AK 99645
Contact: Dave or Dana Cruz
Phone: (907) 746-3144
Fax: (907) 746-5557
General contractor specializing in
heavy civil construction, horizontal
direction drilling for utilities. Ice road
and ice bridge construction throughout Alaska in support of resource
development.
Great Northwest
P.O. Box 74646
Contact: Buzz Otis
Phone: (907) 452-5617
Fax: (907) 456-7779
H.C. Price Co.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 278-4400
Fax: (907) 278-3255
Other Offices:
Dallas, TX
statewide.
MWH
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 248-8883
Fax: (907) 248-8884
2525 C St., Ste. 201
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Ben Cleveland
Phone: (907) 263-7000
Fax: (907) 263-7070
Website: www.peakalaska.com
Alaska based general contractors.
Udelhoven Oilfield System Services
Anchorage office:
184 E. 53rd Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 344-1577
Fax: (907) 522-2541
Nikiski office:
P.O. Box 8349
Nikiski, AK 99635
Phone: (907) 776-5185
Fax: (907) 776-8105
Prudhoe office:
Pouch 340103
Phone: (907) 659-8093
Fax: (907) 659-8489
Serving Alaska for more than 25 years.
Welding Services
P.O. Box 7248
Nikiski, AK 99635
Mile 20.5 Kenai Spur Hwy.
North Kenai, AK
Contact: Keith T. Raham
Phone: (907) 776-8279
Fax: (907) 776-8279
Cell Phone: (907) 252-5466
General Contractor #27005. Oilfield
and general welding fabrication and
repair services including aluminum,
stainless steel and carbon steel.
Website: www.arcticcontrols.com
An Alaskan owned and operated company since,1985, Arctic Controls, Inc.
has been highly successful as manufacturer representatives for the state of
Alaska in the Process Control and
Instrumentation field. Selling equipment to the oil and gas markets, mining and water wastewater/municipal
markets.
BW Technologies
3279 West Pioneer Pkwy.
Arlington, TX 76013
Contact: Inside Sales Rep
Phone: (817) 274-2487
Fax: (817) 274-8321
Canadian Office:
2840 2 Ave. SE
Calgary, AB T2A 7X9
Phone: (800) 663-4164
Fax: (403) 273-3708
Web site: www.gasmonitors.com
BW designs, manufactures and distributes a full line of cutting-edge gas
detection instrumentation for protection of personnel and facilities worldwide.
Dowland-Bach
6130 Tuttle Pl.
P.O. Box 230126
Anchorage, AK 99523
Contact: Lynn Johnson, president
Phone: (907) 562-5818
Fax: (907) 563-4721
Web site: www.dowlandbach.com
North Slope Telecom
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 562-4693
Fax: (907) 562-0818
Design, installation and maintenance
of SCADA, CATV, surveillance, power
generation and remote communication
systems. Twenty years of arctic experience.
Corrosion Analysis
Acuren USA (formerly Canspec
Group)
7911 King St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Kim Harker
Phone: (907) 569-5000
Fax: (907) 569-5005
Employing our materials engineering
and inspection expertise, Canspec, has
been integrally involved in the detection, assessment and disposition of corrosion anomalies for over three
decades.
Drilling & Well Services
Contractors — Pipeline
3900 C St.,
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 339-6400
Fax: (907) 339-6444
Email:
[email protected]
2525 C St., Ste. 201
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 263-7000
Fax: (907) 263-7070
Control Systems
Arctic Controls
1120 E. 5th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Scott Stewart, president
Phone: (907) 277-7555
Fax: (907) 277-9295
ASRC Energy Services –
Engineering and Technology
3900 C St.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 339-6200
Fax: (907) 339-6212
Drilling and completion engineering,
well stimulation, facilities engineering,
upstream exploration and production
services, geological and geophysical
services, automation, electrical and
instrumentation, platform renovation
and construction.
Baker Hughes Inteq
7260 Homer Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Mel Rixse, AK mgr.
Phone: (907) 223-3605
Cell Phone: (907) 250-6420
Fax: (907) 267-6623
Web site: www.bakerhughes.com
Baker Hughes Inteq delivers advanced
drilling technologies and services that
deliver efficiency and precise well
placement. Major capabilities include
directional drilling, measurementwhile-drilling (MWD), logging-whiledrilling (LWD), drilling fluids, and wellsite information management services.
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Doyon Ltd.
Doyon Drilling, Inc.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Ron Wilson
Phone: (907) 563-5530
Fax: (907) 561-8986
Web site: www.doyon.com
Doyon Drilling, a leader in Arctic
drilling, provides drilling and casing
services on Alaska’s North Slope.
The Fairweather Companies
2000 E. 88th Ave., Suite 200
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Bill Penrose
Phone: (907) 258-3446
Fax: (907) 279-5740
Web site: www.fairweather.com
The Fairweather Companies provide
project management, engineering,
drilling, permitting, logistics, and operational services to the exploration and
production sectors of the petroleum
industry.
MI SWACO
721 W. First Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Brad Billon
Phone: (907) 274-5526
Fax: (907) 279-6729
SWACO
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Dana Rhodes
Phone: (907) 274-5541
MI SWACO combines Alaska know-how
and global strength to provide the oil
industry with a full-service drilling
partner
2525 C St., Ste. 200
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Leslie Adams
Phone: (907) 263-6000
Fax: (907) 563-3734
Nabors Industries
515 W. Greens Rd., Ste. 1200
Houston, TX 77067
Contact: Debbie Quick, corp. dev.
Phone: (281) 775-8570
Fax: (281) 775-8195
Web site: www.nabors.com
Nabors operates a large, high-quality
and diverse fleet of land and offshore
rigs in the significant oil, gas and geothermal markets worldwide. Other support services include well-servicing,
marine transportation, manufacturing
and logistics, and rig instrumentation.
Nordic-Calista Services
4700 Business Park Blvd., Bldg. E, #19
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 561-7458
Fax: (907) 563-8347
Contact: Udo Cassee, Operations Mgr.
Nordic-Calista Services provides innovative, reliable workover/drilling rigs
specifically designer for arctic conditions. We strive to maximize productivity and efficiency while promoting
safety and environmentally-conscious
drill practices.
5631 Silverado Way, Ste G
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Kevin Durling/Donald Parker
Phone: (907) 248-0066
Fax: (907) 248-4429
Web site: www.pesiak.com
P.E.S.I. provides both conventional and
specialty products and services for the
Alaska oil industry. Regardless of your
location, you will receive products and
service that is guaranteed to meet your
requirements.
Quadco
6116 Nielson Way
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: David Baggett, vp, AK mgr.
Phone: (907) 563-8999
Fax: (907) 563-8985
Other offices: Farmington NM, Denver
CO, Casper WY
Quadco has supplied services to the
Alaska oilfield since 1976. We have
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trained personnel to help with instrumentation, solids control, pipe handling and Top Drive drilling equipment. 24 hour on call
Schlumberger Oilfield Services
2525 Gambell St.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Daniel Palmer
Phone: (907) 273-1700
Fax: (907) 561-8317
Web site: www.slb.com
Schlumberger Oilfield Services provides
people and technology, working
together to offer exploration and production solutions for the life of oil and
gas reservoirs.
Tubular Solutions Alaska, LLC
310 K Street, Suite 402
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: John Harris, general manager
Phone: (907) 770-8700
Fax: (907) 222-1203
TSA is a fully integrated supply chain
service company providing forecasting,
procurement and coordination services
aimed at reducing total cost of ownership for OCTG product.
Unique Machine
a subsidiary of Sumitomo Corp.
5839 Old Seward Hwy
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Pat Hanley, gen. mgr.
Phone: (907) 563-3012
Fax: (907) 562-1376
Web site: www.uniquemachineinc.com
The design, development, manufacture
and distribution of oilfield construction, mining, fishing and government
parts to industry quality standards.
Drug Testing
Worksafe
300 W. 36th Ave., Ste. A
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 563-8378
Fax: (907) 563-8380
Web site: www.worksafeinc.com
Worksafe works to keep your employees from getting hurt on the job if
they are using drugs or alcohol.
Worksafe Drug Testing increases productivity, reduces liability with fewer
injuries and accidents and provides
insurance cost savings.
Electrical
3M Alaska
11151 Calaska Circle
Anchorage, AK 99515
Contact: Paul Sander, manager
Phone: (907) 522-5200
Fax: (907) 522-1645
Web site: www.3m.com
Serving Alaska for over 34 years, 3M
Alaska offers total solutions from the
wellhead to the retail pump with a
broad range of products and services –
designed to improve safety, productivity and profitability.
Dowland-Bach
6130 Tuttle Pl.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Lynn Johnson
Phone: (907) 562-5818
Fax: (907) 563-4721
Web site: www.dowlandbach.com
Industrial control and panel fabrication
Anchorage office:
184 E. 53rd Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 344-1577
Fax: (907) 522-2541
Nikiski office:
P.O. Box 8349
Nikiski, AK 99635
Phone: (907) 776-5185
Fax: (907) 776-8105
Prudhoe office:
Pouch 340103
Phone: (907) 659-8093
Fax: (907) 659-8489
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Employee Services
200 W. 34th Ave., Ste. 809
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 278-1877
Fax: (907) 278-1889
4041 B Street
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Cathy Scanlon
Phone: (907) 273-2430
Fax: (907) 273-2490
Web site:
www.nmsemployeeleasing.com
Provides professional, technical, and
traditional resources for full time, part
time, long term or temporary employees. Complete reference check, 10year criminal background check, 5
panel drug screen and evaluation for
every employee. Quality assessment
and computer based testing.
Worksafe
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 563-8378
Fax: (907) 563-8380
Employment Services
Alaska’s People
670 West Fireweed Lane, Ste. 112
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Lonnie Jackson, director
Phone: (907) 265-5901
Fax: (907) 274-6134
Web site: www.alaskaspeople.com
Alaska’s People is the Native
Employment Specialist statewide. We
have placed thousands of native
Alaskans and American Indians into all
levels of employment from entry to
executive.
Anchorage, AK 99507
coordinator
Phone: (907) 344-1207 ext. 228
Fax: (907) 344-0353
The Alaska division of the worlds
largest contract food service company.
Visit our web site at www.essglobal.com
Energy Services
3900 C St., Ste. 701
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Jack Laasch, exec. vp strategic
dev. and external affairs
Phone: (907) 339-6200
Fax: (907) 339-6212
Oil and gas services, engineering, construction, operations, maintenance,
pipeline construction and maintenance, project management, geological and geophysical, drilling and completion engineering, well stimulation,
exploration services.
and Maintenance
3900 C St.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 339-6200
Fax: (907) 339-6212
testing.
Hunter 3-D
6001 Savoy, Ste. 110
Houston, TX 77036
Contact: Dan Huston, vice president
Phone: (713) 981-4650
Fax: (713) 981-4650
Web site: www.hunter3dinc.com
Hunter 3-D is a geophysical consulting
company based in Houston, Texas. We
interpret seismic, gravity and magnetic
data for projects in Alaska and worldwide.
Michael Baker Jr.
Suite 200
Anchorage, AK 99503
Operations Manager
Phone: (907) 273-1600
Fax: (907) 273-1699
Engineering Services
Group)
7911 King St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Kim Harker
Phone: (907) 569-5000
Fax: (907) 569-5005
decades.
Alaska Anvil
509 W. 3rd Ave.
Phone: (907) 276-2747
Fax: (907) 279-4088
Other office: Kenai
Kenai, AK 99611
Phone: (907) 776-5870
Fax: (907) 770-5871
Alaska Telecom
6623 Brayton Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Kevin Gray
Phone: (907) 344-1223
Fax: (907) 344-1612
Fairbanks Office:
713 Gaffney Rd.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Phone: (907) 456-1223
Alpine-Meadow
11043 Tsusena Circle
Eagle River, AK 99577
Contact: George Snodgrass, president
Phone: (907) 694-7423
Fax: (907) 694-7423
Website: www.alpine-meadow.com
We are a small, low-cost, professional,
personal company with 18 years engineering and environmental experience
in Alaska with major oil companies. We
offer permitting and compliance,
strategic planning, incident investigations, crisis management services.
Engineered Fire & Safety
B7
3138 Commercial Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Don Maupin, gen. mgr.
Phone: (907) 274-7973 ext. 123
Fax: (907) 274-6265
Email [email protected]
Web site: www.efs-fire.com
An industry leader in the design, integration and testing of safety solutions
for high value risks. UL system certifications and panel fabrication.
ENSR International
Anchorage, AK 99512
Contact: Chris L. Humphrey, P.E.
Phone: (907) 561-5700
Fax: (907) 273-4555
Serving Alaska since 1977. ENSR is an
environmental engineering and consulting firm with more than 70 offices
worldwide providing environmental
planning, assessment, permitting, compliance management and contamination cleanup.
2000 E. 88th Ave., Suite 200
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 258-3446
Fax: (907) 279-5740
industry.
137 E. Arctic Ave.
Palmer, AK 99645
Phone: (907) 745-6988
Fax: (907) 745-0591
Kuukpik - LCMF
139 E. 51st Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Richard Rearick, architectural
mgr.
Contact: Wiley Wilhelm, engineering
mgr.
Phone: (907) 273-1830
Fax: (907) 273-1831
Other Offices:
Barrow: (907) 852-8212
Alpine: (907) 670-4739
Arctic specialized architectural and
engineering design for all structures;
water/sewer, fuel and transportation
systems design; contractor support surveying and permitting for oil and gas
development; dredging operations,
remote site land and hydrographic surveying.
5300 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Ken Ayers
Phone: (907) 272-5451
Fax: (907) 272-9065
Toll Free: (800) 478-5451
Provides civil engineering and project
management services for oilfield development. Recent projects include: Tarn,
Palm and Colville Delta North.
Michael Baker Jr.
Suite 200
Anchorage, AK 99503
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Operations Manager
Phone: (907) 273-1600
Fax: (907) 273-1699
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 273-3900
Fax: (907) 273-3990
the oil industry.
Natco Group
P.O. Box 850, Stn. T
Calgary, Alberta T2H2H3
Contact: Kevin Baird, bus. dev. mgr.
Phone: (403) 203-2103
Fax: (403) 236-0488
Website: www.natcogroup.com
Natco Group engineers, designs and
manufactures process, wellhead and
water treatment equipment and systems used in the production of oil and
gas worldwide.
PDC Harris Group
1231 Gambell St.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Steve Theno
Phone: (907) 644-4716
Fax: (907) 561-7028
Contact: Mike Moora
Phone: same as above
Fax: same as above
Web site: www.pdcharrisgroup.com
PDC-Harris Group provides front-end
engineering design, detailed design,
and environmental permitting services
to the oil, gas, and power generation
markets.
(PRA)
3601 C St., Ste. 822
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Tom Walsh
Phone: (907) 272-1232
Fax: (907) 272-1344
Our multidisciplinary staff of qualified
and experienced professionals possess
a diverse array of technical capabilities
to provide our clients with a full spectrum of geoscience and engineering
consulting services.
P.O. Box 1496
Theodore, AL 36590
Contact: Joe Gibbs
Phone: (888) 973-2121
Phone: (251) 653-7173
Fax: (251) 653-2113
Other Office:
Theodore, AL 36582
NACE certified coatings inspectors and
AWS certified welding inspectors.
Traceability Data Base tracking pipe
from mill to installation, providing history of each process involved.
VECO
949 E. 36th Ave., Ste. 500
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 762-1510
Fax: (907) 762-1001
Environmental Engineering
& Consulting
Alaska Anvil
509 W. 3rd Ave.
Phone: (907) 276-2747
Fax: (907) 279-4088
Other office: Kenai
Kenai, AK 99611
Phone: (907) 776-5870
Fax: (907) 770-5871
Alpine-Meadow
11043 Tsusena Circle
Contact: George Snodgrass, president
Phone: (907) 694-7423
Fax: (907) 694-7423
Website: www.alpine-meadow.com
We are a small, low-cost, professional,
personal company with 18 years engineering and environmental experience
in Alaska with major oil companies. We
offer permitting and compliance,
strategic planning, incident investigations, crisis management services.
AutryRaynes Engineering &
Environmental Consultants
4300 B St., Ste. 303; P.O. Box 200873
Contact: Luke C. Franklin, vp
Phone: 907-522-7040
Fax: 907-522-7041
AutryRaynes is an Anchorage-based,
female-owned consulting firm specializing in comprehensive environmental
permitting and compliance, oil field
regulatory services, environmental
response and hazardous waste management services.
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ENSR International
Anchorage, AK 99512
Phone: (907) 561-5700
Fax: (907) 273-4555
MWH
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 248-8883
Fax: (907) 248-8884
Pacific Environmental (PENCO)
6000 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Tom Ulrich, reg. mgr.
American Maine svc. group
Phone: (907) 562-5420
Fax: (907) 562-5426
PENCO provides environmental
response, containment and clean up.
Hazardous wastes and contaminated
site clean up and remediation.
Asbestos and lead abatement.
Petroleum vessel services and bulk fuel
oil facility and storage tank maintenance, management and operations.
PDC Harris Group
1231 Gambell St.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Steve Theno
Phone: (907) 644-4716
Fax: (907) 561-7028
Contact: Mike Moora
Phone: same as above
Fax: same as above
Web site: www.pdcharrisgroup.com
PDC-Harris Group provides front-end
engineering design, detailed design,
and environmental permitting services
to the oil, gas, and power generation
markets.
Quadco
6116 Nielson Way
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 563-8999
Fax: (907) 563-8985
CO, Casper WY
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Environmental Response
& Cleanup
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 562-2792
Fax: (907) 562-4179
AutryRaynes Engineering &
Environmental Consultants
4300 B St., Ste. 303; P.O. Box 200873
Contact: Luke C. Franklin, vp
Phone: 907-522-7040
Fax: 907-522-7041
AutryRaynes is an Anchorage-based,
female-owned consulting firm specializing in comprehensive environmental
permitting and compliance, oil field
regulatory services, environmental
response and hazardous waste management services.
ENSR International
Anchorage, AK 99512
Phone: (907) 561-5700
Fax: (907) 273-4555
Great Northwest
P.O. Box 74646
Contact: Buzz Otis
Phone: (907) 452-5617
Fax: (907) 456-7779
LCMF
Barrow Village Response Team
(VRT)
P.O. Box 955
Barrow, AK 99723
Contact: Charlie Hopson
Phone: (907) 852-8212
Fax: (907) 852- 8212
Hotline: (907) 367-3272
Website: www.lcmf.com
Barrow VRT provides certified spill
response and cleanup personnel within
the North Slope Borough. Responders
trained through affiliation with Alaska
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Clean Seas and Alaska Chadux.
6000 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 562-5420
Fax: (907) 562-5426
Unitech of Alaska
2130 E. Dimond Blvd.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Debbie Hawley
Phone: (907) 349-5142
Phone: (800) 649-5859
Fax: (907) 349-2733
UOA is Alaska’s only 24-hour oil spill
remediation, environmental and industrial supply company. Specialty areas
include sorbents, geotextile, containment berms, drums and ice melt.
Environmental Supplies
Pouch 340043
Phone: (907) 659-2145
Fax: (907-659-2146
water compliance monitoring and hazardous waste needs as well as providing immediate response sampling services.
6000 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 562-5420
Fax: (907) 562-5426
Rain for Rent
43784 Kenai Spur Hwy.
Kenai, AK 99611
Contact: Randy Harris, branch mgr.
Phone: (907) 283-4487
Fax: (907) 283-4528
Web site: www.rainforrent.com
Other Office:
1642 Bannister Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 440-2299
Rain for Rent combines rental tanks,
pipe, and filtration systems for solutions to temporary liquid-handling
needs. We offer engineering and onsite personnel – 24/7, 365 days a year.
Unitech of Alaska
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 349-5142
Phone: (800) 649-5859
Fax: (907) 349-2733
Equipment & Heavy Hauling
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 562-2792
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Fax: (907) 562-4179
Carlile Transportation Systems
1800 E. 1st Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Linda Leary
Ph: (907) 267-7797
Fax: (907) 276-6786
Other Offices: Fairbanks, Prudhoe Bay,
Kenai, Seward, Federal Way, WA,
Houston, TX, Edomonton, ALTA
Alaska owned and operated, full service, multi-modal, transportation and
logistics company.
Crowley Alaska
2525 C St., Ste. 303
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Craig Tornga
Phone: (907) 278-4978
Fax: (907) 257-2828
Marine transportation throughout
Alaska. North Slope heavy hauling with
CATCO all-terrain vehicles.
Northern Transportation
310 K St., Ste. 200
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: John Marshall, Lynette Storoz
Phone: (907) 264-6682
Fax: (907) 264-6602
Marine transportation along Alaska’s
North Slope via Mackenzie River route.
TOTE-Totem Ocean Trailer Express
2511 Tidewater Road
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Curt Stoner
Phone: (907) 265-7215
Phone: (800) 234-8683
Fax: (907) 278-9689
Web site: www.totemocean.com
TOTE’s roll on/roll off ships sail two
times per week between the Port of
Tacoma and the Port of Anchorage.
Transit time is a fast 66 hours.
COMPANY NEWS
Aeromed receives prestigious CAMTS
accreditation
Alaska-based Aeromed International Critical Care Air Ambulance has received
accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport
Systems, otherwise known as CAMTS. Accreditation requires compliance with
CAMTS standards and an ability to demonstrate a quality air ambulance service;
there are only 112 accredited services worldwide, Aeromed said.
“Aeromed applied for the accreditation earlier this year as part of our commitment to provide the highest standard of care to our clients as possible,” said
Brooks Wall, Aeromed’s director of operations. “We are proud of the CAMTS
accreditation and the recognition of our service.”
Aeromed, a subsidiary of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp. and preferred
service provider for the Alaska Native Trial Health Consortium, operates a fleet
of fixed-wing air ambulances from its bases in Anchorage and Bethel.
Experienced pilots operating a variety of aircraft provide service both between
major centers and from remote rural locations. Alaska’s strategic position on the
Pacific Rim and the company’s extended-range aircraft also enable worldwide air
ambulance missions, the company said.
Duty medical crews located at the airport achieve a rapid response of less than
45 minutes to aircraft door seal, while ensuring that each mission has an experienced flight nurse and flight paramedic onboard, the company said.
Security Aviation Inc. provides Aeromed’s Anchorage-based aviation services
and Grant Aviation provides aviation services from Bethel.
Baker Hughes acquires Zeroth Technology
Baker Hughes Inc. announced Dec. 2 that it has acquired all of the outstanding
shares of Zeroth Technology Ltd., commonly known as Zertech. Based in
Aberdeen, Scotland, privately owned Zertech specializes in the design, development and manufacture of downhole well technology. Zertech has developed and
patented a unique, non-elastomer, expandable metal sealing element for well
intervention applications, with customers that include major oil and gas exploration and production companies in the United Kingdom, Norway and the Middle
East, Baker Hughes said.
The International Coiled Tubing Association European Chapter recently
awarded Zertech the association’s annual Leading Edge Advantage Award for
Innovation and Technology. This award recognizes oilfield operating and service
companies that demonstrate the application of technical innovation in well intervention, Baker Hughes said.
Schlumberger introduces new
wireline services
Equipment Sales/Rental
Air Liquide
6415 Arctic Blvd.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Brian Benson, tech sales rep
Phone: (907) 273-9762
Fax: (907) 561-8364
Air Liquide is the dealer and warranty
station for Lincoln, Miller, Milwaukee,
Victor and most other welding equipment manufacturers
6407 Arctic Spur Rd.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Jill Reeves
Phone: (907) 562-0707
Fax: (907) 562-2426
Web site: www.arcticwirerope.com
Arctic Wire Rope & Supply is Alaska’s
largest and most complete rigging supply source. We specialize in custom
sling fabrication (wire rope, web,
chain, and polyester round.)
Hanover Canada
500, 101-6 Ave. SW
Calgary, AB, T2P 3P4 Canada
Contact: Rod Saville, Country Mgr.
Canada
Phone: (403) 261-6801
Fax: (403) 266-1066
Web site: www.hanover-canada.com
Hanover Canada is the leading
provider of natural gas compression
services and equipment in Canada. We
maintain an 85,000 horsepower rental
compression fleet in Canada and over
3.6 million horsepower rental fleet
worldwide. Hanover custom designs
production equipment in accordance
with customer’s specifications using
strict internal engineering standards.
We have the capability to provide
process, mechanical and instrument
design engineering for any production
Schlumberger Oilfield Services has introduced a new family of wireline measurement services. Known as “Scanner,” the new services will deliver “more
simultaneous radial measurements, in true 3D, and at multiple depths of investigation, to help clients fully characterize the subsurface environment and better
understand their reservoirs,” the company said. The three initial Scanner services
consist of an acoustic scanning platform, a multiarray triaxial induction tool and
a nuclear magnetic resonance logging tool.
“At Schlumberger, we continually test the limits of existing technology, in an
effort to respond to the technical and economic challenges of complex reservoirs
and extreme environments,” said Sami Iskander, president, wireline,
Schlumberger. “The innovative Scanner family of services reduces uncertainty
and helps clients to better understand their subsurface formations, which ultimately leads to vastly improved technical and business decisions for the lifetime
performance of their oil or gas asset.”
The acoustic platform, known as Sonic Scanner, uses state-of-the-art technology to provide “multiple depths of investigation, excellent waveform quality and
user-friendly presentations that simplify the complexity of sonic logging, without
compromising the quality and quantity of information,” the company said. The
induction tool, known as Rt Scanner, “provides direct measurements to evaluate
the vertical and horizontal resistivity around the wellbore, as well as the dip and
azimuth of the formation, in true 3D.” The nuclear magnetic resonance tool,
known as MR Scanner, provides “a detailed formation evaluation of the nearwellbore region, fluid identification and in-situ hydrocarbon characterization.”
Schlumberger says that use of the new services has already improved well data
collection in several locations, including places where the geology is especially
difficult to log.
Additional information can be found at www.slb.com/understand.
equipment project worldwide.
H.C. Price Co.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 278-4400
Fax: (907) 278-3255
Other Offices:
Dallas, TX
statewide.
Kenworth Alaska
2838 Porcupine Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Jim Scherieble, branch mgr.
Phone: (907) 279-0602
Phone: (800) 478-0602
Fax: (907) 258-6639
Web site: www.kenworthalaska.com
Fairbanks office:
3730 Braddock St.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Contact: Tom Clements, branch mgr.
Phone: (907) 455-9900
Fax: (907) 479-8295
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Alaska Cover-All LLC: The most versatile
buildings on the market
Cover-All’s thermally welded polyethylene fabric construction holds up under all extreme Alaska weather conditions
COURTESY ALASKA COVER-ALL
Q. Where is Alaska Cover-All LLC located?
A. My husband Paul Nelson and I maintain a home
office for the business as well as our Cover-All building at
1761 E. 64th Street. The 64th location is where Scott
Coon and Henry Brown work.
Q. What year was the company founded, who
founded it?
A. In 1998 Jim Protzman of Arctic Insulation asked
Paul if he and I wanted to do a partnership being a dealer
for Cover-All Building Systems. We said yes. I handled
the bookkeeping and advertising side of the business and
Paul handled sales with Jim. At that time, we were just
Alaska Cover-All.
Alaska Cover-All headquarters in Anchorage
struction. We provide a dependable, economical, and
transportable fabric covered, steel framed building. The
buildings come in many sizes and can be designed for
specific applications. We encourage people to look at our
buildings. For an idea of the configurations possible,
there’s a 30’ x 180’ warehouse building at Alpine; a 100’ x
160’ at Kuparuk; a 100’ x 107’ Graybar Electrical
Warehouse in Anchorage; a 130’ x 180’ Ship’s Drydock in
Seward which is 114’ tall; and derrick and container
enclosures for Anadarko’s Hot Ice Project.
tion purchased an 80’ x 53’ building. Meini connected the
existing building and the Cover-All for additional retail
space. It worked beautifully for the summer tourist
months. John said many a tourist was seen looking up at
the building truss structure instead of the stuffed bears!
The Cover-All building is used in the winter for storage.
Q. What is the most challenging job the company
has undertaken?
A. The Seward Ship’s Drydock, which
is 23,000 sq. ft. and 114 feet tall. The
Q. Is your company expanding any
building has a wind rating of 135 miles
of its operations and/or locations?
per hour. The Anadarko Petroleum Hot
A. We just opened the 64th location
Ice Project - a drill rig derrick encloin September of this
sure; also roof and wall covers for
year. We wanted a great
open areas between containers. These
By Paula Easley
Cover-All office buildenclosures were custom designed using
ing of our own to show, have meetings
existing Cover-All truss components.
with clients, etc., and a yard with storage for the delivery of our buildings.
Q. What are the biggest obstacles to completing
work the company undertakes?
Q. What is Alaska Cover-All’s main
strength, i.e. its edge over the competition? Main competitors?
A. Understanding clients’ needs and the challenge of
wintertime erection. Fortunately the buildings don’t
require extensive foundation work, and the largest ones
we’ve done were assembled in a couple of weeks.
A. Our buildings are very reliable
and economical and have virtually
unlimited applications. The patented
Q. What is Alaska Cover-All’s safety record?
truss-arch design assures superior
A. Excellent, with no blemishes. We are a 2005 recipibuilding integrity and is engineered
ent of the Marsh USA Excellent & Safety Award through
from certified structural-grade steel tub- AGC.
ing. High performance
DuraWeave® fabric covers
are virtually maintenance
free, and have tremendous
The Seward Ship Drydock project, a 23,000 square-foot structure
rip, tear and puncture resistance. The framework is built
construction, focusing on design, development, permitting
with ViperSteel® and finished with triple-coated
and management. He is on the Board of Directors for the
Gatorshield® corrosion barrier for a longer servAssociated General Contractors of America, Anchorage
ice life. All welds are finished with a molten zinc
chapter and is working (with many others) on the
process.
Municipality of Anchorage’s “Title 21” Rewrite
Our main strength is probably the level of
service we provide. We were chosen 2002 U.S.
Q. Describe any partnership arrangements and
Dealer of the Year and won Western Regional
when they became effective.
Dealer of the Year two years in a row. Customer
A. I have mentioned Jim Protzman. Meini Huser who
service is an important factor in judging for
The Anadarko Petroleum Hot Ice project consisted of a a drill rig derrick
owns Alaska Dreams Inc. out of Fairbanks, has been
these awards. Cover-All Corporation follows up enclosure as well as roof and wall covers for open areas between conerecting our buildings since 1999. Meini helped a friend in with every customer regarding their purchase
tainers
Fairbanks pull a truck out of a ditch during a blizzard.
experience. I’m happy to say we get very high scores for
Meini, having put up other fabric buildings for many
service. As far as competitors — no comment, other than
Q. Does Alaska Cover-All maintain a website?
years, noticed the cargo — our building going to the
that the various fabric building companies have different
A. Cover-All Building Systems is located in
slope. He calls us, comes down to Anchorage to help erect
offerings. We believe Alaska Cover-All offers the best
Saskatchewan, Canada. and has manufactured over 44
a building and see what we had — no money exchanged.
products available.
million square feet of buildings in the last 12 years. The
After a joint venture handshake, he continues to erect our
company maintains a website at www.coverall.net/. In
buildings to this day.
Q. What new markets, clients and/or projects did
addition to obtaining complete information on designs and
Alaska Cover-All attract in the last year?
specifications, interested parties can sign up to receive
Q. What is the company’s primary business sector,
A. A timber company purchased a building last month.
periodic information from the company. Alaska Cover-All
and what services do you offer?
John Binkley of the Fairbanks Riverboat Discovery opera- pictures are also available on their website. G
A. Our primary business sectors are industrial and con-
A. Paul and I are 50/50 owners. We bought out Jim
Protzman in 2001 as he was too busy with his other company. While Paul and I are final decision-makers, we do a
lot of team thinking with Henry and
Scott. Henry, a longtime Alaskan,
has worked in both vertical and horizontal construction for 25 years,
with the last 12 focused on construction and project management. He
joined Alaska Cover-All in 2001.
Scott Coon, who handles sales
and support, graduated from the
University of Alaska and recently
An Fink-Nelson projoined Alaska Cover-All. He has
vided information
for this article
over 13 years of sales and design
experience in the industrial fabric
industry and won a 2004 Industrial Fabric Association
International Award of Excellence.
Pete Stone has joined us as a consultant for the building industry. Pete has 27-plus years in the construction
field in Alaska, and has worked on projects throughout the
State from Prudhoe Bay to Ketchikan. He started in highway construction and transitioned to “vertical” building
FORREST CRANE
Q. Who heads up Alaska Cover-All and who is on its
senior management team?
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Michael Baker Jr. Inc.: Company looks forward to
Alaska’s growing stature in global energy markets
Baker’s cold-region experience and consistency in providing high-quality engineering keep company growing
A. The Alaska office of Michael Baker Jr. Inc. (Baker)
recently moved to 1400 W. Benson Blvd., Suite 200, at
the corner of Minnesota and Benson in Anchorage.
Baker’s corporate headquarters are in Moon Township,
just outside of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Q. When was the company founded, who founded
it, and what was its original name?
A. Michael Baker Jr. founded the company in 1940.
Today, Michael Baker Jr. Inc. is a wholly owned operating
subsidiary of the Michael Baker Corp. The first Alaska
office was opened in 1942.
A. In Alaska, Jeffrey Baker, P.E.,
is assistant vice president and Alaska
operations manager; Keith Meyer,
P.E., is chief engineer; Paul Carson,
P.E., is pipeline engineering manager; and Michael Alexander, P.E., is
civil engineering manager.
Donald P. Fusilli Jr., J.D., P.E., is
president and CEO of Michael
Baker Corp., and Albert Romano is
west area manager, which includes
Anchorage. Wes Watkins, P.E., is
linear utilities practice director.
COURTESY MICHAEL BAKER JR.
Q. Who heads up Baker and
who is on its senior management
team?
Jeffrey Baker, assistant vice president
and Alaska operations manager, provided information
for this article
Q. Does Baker have subsidiaries? If so, what services
do they provide?
One of the five vertical loops along the Alpine pipeline
alignment
Overall the company has some 4,500 employees in more
than 40 offices across the United States and internationally.
Q. What is Baker’s main strength, i.e., its edge over
the competition?
building on Elmendorf AFB.
Additionally, Baker has strengthened its coalbed
methane position by providing both energy operations and
maintenance services, plus engineering and environmental
administrative services for key clients in two major U. S.
coal bed methane basins.
Q. What are the most challenging jobs the company
has undertaken?
A. Overall, TAPS was probably the most challenging
project for Baker in Alaska. Baker was instrumental in the
civil design of TAPS and logged over 3.2 million manhours on the project. Baker did pipeline optimization and
mile-by-mile design, surveyed the haul road, surveyed
pipeline access roads, as well as produced civil and structural design of the pump stations.
More recently, Baker was the civil and pipeline engineering contractor for the Alpine development project.
Alpine sits in the heart of the Colville River Delta. To connect the Alpine oil field to existing North Slope facilities
and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, a 34-mile crosscountry pipeline was built to traverse the Colville River
Delta and the East Channel of the Colville River. Facilities
and pipelines were designed to withstand the delta’s flooding and ice movements. Additionally, the horizontal directionally drilled crossing of the Colville River presented
unique challenges.
Q. What do you see as your company’s biggest challenge in the next five years?
A. In Alaska, the global energy market, combined with
the effects of permafrost changes on existing and future
pipelines and civil infrastructure projects, will be a challenge for our engineers. With our history and our continuing field hydrology and geotechnical programs and
pipeline design, we should be in an excellent position to support our clients’ needs
in these changing environments.
A. In Alaska, Baker’s edge is our longevity, our consistency in providing high-quality engineering and our cold
A. Baker’s subsidiaries are basically divided into engiregion experience.
neering and energy service sectors. The engineering subBaker has been a part of Alaska’s develsidiaries provide the full range of engineering and archiopment since World War II. For the last
tectural services for large, complex projects, including
30 years, Baker has provided engineerhighway and bridge design, transit planning and design,
ing services for pipelines and infrastructure with special emphasis
Q. What is the average length of
on cold region developtime
employees work for the compaments. Our staff has some
By
Paula
Easley
ny?
Are
you hiring for any positions?
of the greatest depth of
A.
Our
current
Alaska
staff
averages about six years
pipeline engineering expertise in Alaska and
with
the
company.
Yes,
we
are
recruiting for staff to supother cold regions. Baker has consistently
plement
our
civil
and
structural
disciplines.
provided innovative techniques to address
Arctic challenges, such as our pipeline founQ. Why would someone choose to work at Baker?
dation and support solutions to limit heave
A. We are a currently a small office. Staff have the
and thaw settlement in permafrost. Our
opportunity
to work on diverse, challenging projects all
strengths include understanding pipeline
over
the
state.
We have a flexible work environment and a
design requirements and challenges related
high
retention
rate. There are ample opportunities at Baker
to seismic-induced ground motions, fault
displacements, frost heave, thaw settlement,
and ice forces.
Baker field hydrologist measuring stream flow for a roadway crossing,
One of our strengths is optimization of
North Slope
design. During the Alpine project, Baker
NEPA regulations and documentation, GIT/GIS/GPS and
was very successful at this. The Colville River crossing
mapping, and civil infrastructure projects.
was the first horizontal directionally drilled pipeline river
Baker’s energy sector provides worldwide operations
crossing in the Arctic. Baker was awarded an Outstanding
and maintenance services for the oil and gas industry. It is
Civil Engineering Achievement Honorable Mention by the
a single-source supplier of competency-based personnel
National ASCE in 2000 for this work.
recruiting and training, comprehensive operations and
Our improvement of aboveground pipeline configuramaintenance, and supply chain management services.
tions resulted in reductions in overall construction costs.
The vertical loop concept eliminated block valves at river
Q. What services does Baker’s Alaska office provide?
crossings. Our development of the Colville River Delta
A. The Alaska office focuses on civil and pipeline engi- two-dimensional surface water model was instrumental in
neering with emphasis on civil engineering specialties of
designing the Alpine facilities, and continues to support
hydrology, hydraulics, and geotechnical investigations. We satellite development in the delta today. Hydrology of the
also provide GIS, CADD, permitting and NEPA support,
delta was one of the critical challenges to development.
and documentation support services.
Baker hydrology team on location at the Ublutuoch River
Q. Who are the company’s main clients?
A. Our main Alaska clients include ConocoPhillips
Alaska, BP Exploration Alaska, Alyeska Pipeline, and the
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.
We are also performing work for the Alaska Natural Gas
Development Authority, the U.S. Department of Energy,
the Office of Pipeline Safety and for companies involved
in the various gas pipeline proposals.
Q. How many employees does Baker have? How
many in each of its locations?
A. The Alaska office has 18 full-time employees.
Q. What new markets, clients, and/or projects has
Baker attracted in the last year?
A. In Alaska, we are teamed with Arctic Slope
Regional Corp. and Enstar on a feasibility study to supply Southcentral Alaska with natural gas through a spur
line originating near Fairbanks or Delta Junction. We
recently started a new contract with BP to provide selectstage engineering on the Liberty pipeline project, and
have started a project with ADOT&PF for hydrological
and hydraulic studies at four northern region airports. A
new venture was being part of the Weldin
Construction/RIM Architects team for the design/build
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers C-17 Flight Simulator
to grow professionally. On the corporate side, the company provides excellent benefits and opportunities to work in
other areas of the United States and foreign countries for
one of the country’s largest engineering firms.
Q. What is Baker’s safety record?
A. Baker’s safety record is excellent. Safety is the first
of Baker’s stated values, and we live our values.
Q. Does Baker maintain a website?
A. We do. It is Michael Baker Corporation:
www.mbakercorp.com. G
Q. Where is Michael Baker Jr., Inc. located?
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Kenworth Alaska is a full service truck
dealership in two locations –
Anchorage and Fairbanks. New and
used truck sales, parts and service.
Box 340112
Phone: (907) 659-2840
Fax: (907) 659-2289
Email:
3408 Arctic Blvd.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Kathryn Russell, president
Phone: (907) 561-4820
Fax: (907) 562-2316
Suppliers of petrochemical refueling
and testing equipment, meters and
valve systems for the oil and gas industry and portable measurement for
petroleum, chemicals and bulk liquids.
We also supply refrigerant recovery
and recycling equipment.
8001 Petersburg St.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Sales, Service & Parts
Phone: (907) 522-3434
Fax: (907) 522-1198
Web site: www.pacificdda.com
Other office:
3177 N. Van Horn Rd.
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Phone: (907) 479-1235
Fax: (907) 479-1237
We are distributors for Detroit Diesel,
Allison and Kohler. We have served
Alaska for over 30 years with quality
products for the petroleum industry.
2525 C St., Ste. 201
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 263-7000
Fax: (907) 263-7070
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 248-0066
Fax: (907) 248-4429
requirements. for Alaska oil industry.
Pipe Wranglers Canada (2004) Inc.
5400 39139 Highway 2A
Red Deer, AB Canada T4S-2B3
Contact: Vince Morelli, executive vp
Phone: (403) 342-4441
Fax: (403) 342-6613
Web site www.pipewranglers.com
PWCI is a manufacturing & service
company of pipe handling equipment.
We are manufacturers of hydraulic catwalks for service rigs and drilling rigs
onshore and offshore.
Quadco
6116 Nielson Way
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 563-8999
Fax: (907) 563-8985
CO, Casper WY
Quadco maintains a fleet of oil field
instrumentation, solids control and
other equipment for oilfield and industrial needs. We represent Varco Oil
Tools, MD Totco, Texas Oil Tools, SPM,
Derrick Equipment and various other
manufacturers. 24 hours on call.
Rain for Rent
Kenai, AK 99611
Phone: (907) 283-4487
Fax: (907) 283-4528
Other Office:
1642 Bannister Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 440-2299
2536 Commercial Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Mike Huston, vp
Phone: (907) 276-2858
Fax: (907) 258-4623
Web site: www.toteminc.com
Totem Equipment & Supply Inc. locally
owned and operated since 1961.
Supplies light, medium and heavy
equipment. Specializing in temporary
and permanent heating solutions.
Expeditor/Clerk Services
Catering
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 278-2208
Fax: (907) 677-7261
North Slope, catering and housekeeping to your tastes, not ours.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 770-8700
Fax: (907) 222-1203
Fertilizer
Agrium
P.O. Box 575
Kenai, AK 99611
Contact: Lisa Parker, govt. relations
Phone: (907) 776-3275
Fax: (907) 776-5579
Web site: www.agrium.com
Value added manufacturer of fertilizer
products.
Financial Services
Alaska USA Mortgage
471 W. 36th Ave., Ste. 100
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Mary Jo Pippin
Phone: (907) 261-3455
Fax: (907) 929-6784
Email: m.pippin@alaskausamortage
We offer competitive rates and exceptional service for financing primary
home, 2nd home/vacation home
investment properties.
471 W. 36th Ave., Ste. 201
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: David Gottstein
Phone: (907) 562-6374
Toll free: (800) 280-3962 (DYNA)
Fax: (907) 563-9502
Alaska money management firm, offering experienced professional judgement, leading edge technology, and
customized portfolios. Individual and
corporate clients.
Freight/Shipping & Cargo
1915 Donald Ave.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Phone: (907) 452-1197
Fax: (907) 452-4539
P.O. Box 68900
Seattle, WA 98168
Contact: Keola Pang-Ching, director,
cargo sales
Phone: (206) 433-3122
Fax: (206) 433-3225
Award winning cargo services to more
places, more often, with more lift to,
from, and within the state of Alaska.
P.O. Box 107500
Anchorage, AK 99510
Contact: Amber Dyson, Marketing and
Logistics Technician
Phone: (907) 265-2485
Fax: (907) 265-2597
The Alaska Railroad Corporation offers
real estate, passenger and freight services – including complete services to
move your freight between Alaska, the
Lower 48 and Canada.
Brooks Range Supply
Pouch 340008
1 Old Spine Road
Phone: (907) 659-2550
Toll Free: (866) 659-2550
Fax: (907) 659-2650
Expediting and delivery of hardware
and more throughout oilfield and
North Slope villages. Open 24 hours,
365 days a year.
CN Aquatrain
3015 Madison Way
Anchorage, AK 99508
Contact: Laurie A. Gray, agent
Phone: (907) 279-3131
Toll free: (800) 999-0541
Fax: (907) 272-3963
CN Aquatrain has provided Alaska with
dependable access to Canadian and
Lower 48 markets for 38 years.
1800 E. 1st Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Ph: (907) 267-7797
Fax: (907) 276-6786
logistics company.
Crowley Alaska
2525 C St., Ste. 303
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 278-4978
Fax: (907) 257-2828
Marine transportation throughout
Alaska. North Slope heavy hauling with
CATCO all-terrain vehicles.
Kenai Aviation
P. O. Box 46
Kenai, AK 99611
Contact: Bob or Jim Bielefeld
Phone: (907) 283-4124
Phone: (800) 478-4124 (within Alaska)
Fax: (907) 283-5267
Air taxi services provided since 1961
state wide, mostly Cook Inlet. Single
engine and twin Bonanza.
Lynden
Alaska Marine Lines
Alaska West Express
Lynden Air Cargo
Lynden Air Freight
Lynden Logistics
Lynden Transport
6441 S. Airpark Pl.
Anchorage, AK 99502
Phone: (907) 245-1544
Fax: (907) 245-1744
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The combined scope of the Lynden
companies includes truckload and lessthan-truckload highway connections,
scheduled barges, intermodal bulk
chemical hauls, scheduled and chartered air freighters, domestic and
international air forwarding and international sea forwarding services.
Northern Air Cargo
Anchorage, AK 99502
Contact: Nick Karnos, acct. mgr.
Anch./Prudhoe Bay
Phone: (907) 249-5161
Fax: (907) 249-5194
Serving the aviation needs of rural
Alaska for almost 50 years, NAC is the
states largest all cargo carrier moving
nearly 100 million pounds of cargo on
scheduled flights to 17 of Alaska’s
busiest airports. NAC’s fleet of DC-6, B727, and ATR-42 aircraft are available
for charters to remote sites and flag
stops to 44 additional communities.
Alaska: 3015 Madison Way
Anchorage, AK 99508
Contact: Laurie Gray, agent
Phone: (907) 279-3131
Cell: (907) 229-0656
Phone: (800) 999-0541
Canada: 42003 McKenzie Hwy.
Hay River, NWT X0E0R9
Contact: John Marshall
Phone: (867) 874-5167
Cell: (867) 874-1003
Fax: (867) 874-5179
Web site: www.ntcl.com
NTCL, Canada’s largest and oldest
northern marine transportation company, ships dry cargo and fuel to communities and camps along the
Mackenzie River, the Beaufort Sea
coast and Alaska’s North Slope.
Panalpina
Anchorage, AK 99502
Contact: John Hodel, branch mgr.
Phone: (907) 245-8008
Fax: (907) 245-8018
International and domestic freight forwarding and logistics services.
Integrated solutions for supply chain
management. Specialists in oil and
energy projects.
Renew Air Taxi
P.O. Box 61230
Fairbanks, AK 99706
Contact: Bob Wener
Phone: (907) 457-7287
Fax: (907) 457-7288
Web site: www.RenewAir.com
Other Office:
Dillingham, AK 99576
Phone: (907) 842-3440
Turbine Otter air support for remote
seismic exploration, mining and construction sites. Cargo, fuel and passengers on wheels, wheel skis and
amphibian floats.
Sourdough Express
P.O. Box 73398
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Phone: 907-452-1181
Fax: 907-451-6188
sales and rentals.
Span Alaska Consolidators
8130 S. 216th St.
Kent, WA 98032
Contact: Tom Landry, executive v. p.
Phone: (800) 257-7726
Phone: (907) 349-3606 (Anchorage)
Fax: (253) 395-7986
Website: www.spanalaska.com
An Alaskan freight consolidator/forwarder serving all of Alaska with timely and friendly service. Inbound service
from the Lower 48 to Alaska.
“Promises Made, Promises Delivered.”
TOTE-Totem Ocean Trailer Express
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2511 Tidewater Road
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Curt Stoner
Phone: (907) 265-7215
Phone: (800) 234-8683
Fax: (907) 278-9689
Web site: www.totemocean.com
TOTE’s roll on/roll off ships sail two
times per week between the Port of
Tacoma and the Port of Anchorage.
Transit time is a fast 66 hours.
Fueling Services
Colville
Pouch 340012
Phone: (907) 659-3197
Fax: (907) 659-3190
Diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, aviation gasoline in bulk and small quantity deliveries, electronic card-lock fleet management, solid waste and recycling, industrial gases and solid waste. Tesoro fuel
station.
General Oilfield Supplies
5811 Old Seward Hwy.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Janeece Higgins, general mgr.
Phone: (907) 562-2200
Fax: (907) 561-7600
Web site: www.alaskarubber.com
Wholesale and retail of industrial and
hydraulic hose and fittings. All applications and styles available. Conveyor
belting, sheet rubber, v-belts, pumps,
Kamloks and much more.
Alaska Tent & Tarp
529 Front St.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Phone: (907) 456-6328
Phone: (800) 478-8368
Fax: (907) 452-5260
We are a commercial and industrial
fabric business. We make covers.
MRO Sales
5631 Silverado Way, Unit G
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Don Powell
Phone: (907) 248-8808
Fax: (907) 248-8878
Web site: www.mrosalesinc.com
Other offices:
Kenai: Al Hull (907) 335-2782
MRO Sales offers products and services
that are special to the Alaskan market.
MRO can help solve the time problem
on hard to find items.
3408 Arctic Blvd.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 561-4820
Fax: (907) 562-2316
Geophysical & Geological
Services
ASRC Energy Services –
Engineering and Technology
3900 C St.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 339-6200
Fax: (907) 339-6212
Drilling and completion engineering,
well stimulation, facilities engineering,
upstream exploration and production
services, geological and geophysical
services, automation, electrical and
instrumentation, platform renovation
and construction.
CoreMongers
6212 Magnaview Dr.
Contact: Clifton M. Posey
Phone: (907) 317-2361
Web site: CoreMongers.com
CoreMongers specializes in high resolution core photography and other
whole core services including core slabbing and core plugging. CoreMongers
is based locally in Anchorage.
ENSR International
Anchorage, AK 99512
Phone: (907) 561-5700
Fax: (907) 273-4555
ESS/On-Site Camp Svc.
11419 Alaska Rd.
Fort St. John, B.C. V1J 6N2 Can.
Contact: Daryl Rayner
Phone: (250) 785-0215
Fax: (250) 785-0270
Website: www.ess-global.com
On-Site Camp Services is a specialized
catering company experienced in all
aspects of remote camp services.
Camps from 10 to over 600 beds.
Hunter 3-D
Houston, TX 77036
Phone: (713) 981-4650
Fax: (713) 981-4650
(PRA)
3601 C St., Ste. 822
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Tom Walsh
Phone: (907) 272-1232
Fax: (907) 272-1344
Our multidisciplinary staff of qualified
and experienced professionals possess
a diverse array of technical capabilities
to provide our clients with a full spectrum of geoscience and engineering
consulting services.
PGS Onshore
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 569-4049
Fax: (907) 569-4047
Houston Office
Houston, TX 77079
Phone: (281) 589-6732
Fax: (281) 589-6685
Slope.
Schlumberger Oilfield Services
2525 Gambell St.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Daniel Palmer
Phone: (907) 273-1700
Fax: (907) 561-8317
Web site: www.slb.com
Schlumberger Oilfield Services provides
people and technology, working
together to offer exploration and production solutions for the life of oil and
gas reservoirs.
Health Care Professionals
Aeromed International
4700 Business Park Blvd., Ste. E25
Anchorage, AK 99503
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Contact: Brooks Wall, director
Phone: (907) 677-7501
Fax: (907) 677-7502
Web site: www.aeromed.com
Aeromed International is an all jet critical care air ambulance fleet based in
Anchorage. Medical crews are certified
Flight Nurses and certified Flight
Paramedics.
Worksafe
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 563-8378
Fax: (907) 563-8380
Helicopter Contract
& Charter Services
1915 Donald Ave.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Phone: (907) 452-1197
Fax: (907) 452-4539
1936 Merrill Field Drive
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Joy Journeay,
director of contracts
Phone: (907) 257-1519
Fax: (907) 257-1590
Contact: Mike Roddy,
director, marketing
Phone: (907) 257-1525
Nome office: (907) 443-5334
Airlines office: (907) 257-1500
Web site: evergreenaviation.com
Evergreen’s diverse fleet has provided
award-winning safety to Alaskans since
1960 in petroleum exploration & production, firefighting, forestry, construction, search & rescue, cargo transport,
and utility transmission.
Hoses, Hydraulic & Industrial
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 562-2200
Fax: (907) 561-7600
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Industrial Parts & Supply
Air Liquide
6415 Arctic Blvd.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 273-9762
Fax: (907) 561-8364
Air Liquide is the dealer and warranty
station for Lincoln, Miller, Milwaukee,
Victor and most other welding equipment manufacturers
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 562-2200
Fax: (907) 561-7600
Brooks Range Supply
Pouch 340008
1 Old Spine Road
Phone: (907) 659-2550
Toll Free: (866) 659-2550
Fax: (907) 659-2650
Bay Post Office.
Unique Machine
5839 Old Seward Hwy
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Pat Hanley, COO
Phone: (907) 563-3012
Fax: (907) 562-1376
Website: www.uniquemachineinc.com
Connections; API 5CT, API 7B, Grant
Prideco H-Series, Hydril, Hunting, Atlas
Bradford, NS Technology Co, Inc.,
Vallourec and Vam PTS proprietary
connections.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: 563-3000
Fax: 563-1003
Inspection Services
Industrial Gases
Air Liquide
6415 Arctic Blvd.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 273-9762
Fax: (907) 561-8364
Air Liquide is your local manufacturer
and supplier of industrial, medical, and
scientific gas in Alaska. We also supply
bulk gases and dry ice statewide.
Colville
Pouch 340012
Phone: (907) 659-3197
Fax: (907) 659-3190
station.
Group)
7911 King St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Kim Harker
Phone: (907) 569-5000
Fax: (907) 569-5005
decades.
3138 Commercial Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 274-7973 ext. 123
Fax: (907) 274-6265
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PETROLEUM DIRECTORY
P.O. Box 1496
Theodore, AL 36590
Contact: Joe Gibbs
Phone: (888) 973-2121
Phone: (251) 653-7173
Fax: (251) 653-2113
Other Office:
Theodore, AL 36582
Visual inspection of welding and coating application associated with line
pipe for inland and offshore pipelines,
offshore production platforms, tank
farms and treatment facilities.
Anchorage office:
184 E. 53rd Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 344-1577
Fax: (907) 522-2541
Nikiski office:
P.O. Box 8349
Nikiski, AK 99635
Phone: (907) 776-5185
Fax: (907) 776-8105
Prudhoe office:
Pouch 340103
Phone: (907) 659-8093
Fax: (907) 659-8489
Instrumentation Systems
Arctic Controls
1120 E. 5th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 277-7555
Fax: (907) 277-9295
An Alaskan owned and operated company since,1985, Arctic Controls, Inc. has
been highly successful as manufacturer
representatives for the state of Alaska in
the Process Control and Instrumentation
field. Selling equipment to the oil and
gas markets, mining and water wastewater/municipal markets.
BW Technologies
Arlington, TX 76013
Phone: (817) 274-2487
Fax: (817) 274-8321
Canadian Office:
2840 2 Ave. SE
Calgary, AB T2A 7X9
Phone: (800) 663-4164
Fax: (403) 273-3708
detection instrumentation for protection
of personnel and facilities worldwide.
Epoch Well Services
5801 Silverado Way
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: James R. Carson, AK div. mgr.
Phone: (907) 561-2465
Fax: (907) 561-2474
RIGWATCH is a complete digital drilling
instrumentation system that monitors all
drill floor and mud system parameters.
Critical data is displayed and archieved
on workstations located at key points on
the rig.
RAE Systems
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Phone: (408) 585-3522
Fax: (408) 752-0724
RAE Systems is manufacturer of rapidlydeployable, multi-sensor chemical detection monitors and networks for homeland security and industrial applications.
RAE Systems offers a full line of portable
single-sensor chemical and radiation
detection products.
Quadco
6116 Nielson Way
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 563-8999
Fax: (907) 563-8985
CO, Casper WY
Quadco maintains a fleet of oil field
instrumentation, solids control and
other equipment for oilfield and industrial needs. We represent Varco Oil
Tools, MD Totco, Texas Oil Tools, SPM,
Derrick Equipment and various other
manufacturers. 24 hours on call
Laboratory Services
Pouch 340043
Phone: (907) 659-2145
Fax: (907-659-2146
water compliance monitoring and hazardous waste needs as well as providing
immediate response sampling services.
CoreMongers
6212 Magnaview Dr.
Phone: (907) 317-2361
CoreMongers specializes in high resolution core photography and other whole
core services including core slabbing and
core plugging. CoreMongers is based
locally in Anchorage.
Legal Services
Perkins Coie
1029 W. 3rd Ave., Ste. 300
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Eric Fjelstad, attorney
Contact: Amy J. MacKenzie, attorney
Phone: (907) 279-8561
Fax: (907) 276-3108
Other Offices:
Beijing, Bellevue, Boise, Chicago, Denver,
Los Angeles, Menlo Park, Olympia,
Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle,
Washington D.C.
Website: www.perkinscoie.com
Perkins Coie law firm handles oil spill
planning, air emissions, NPDES permits,
hazardous waste, CERCLA, wetlands permits, NEPA, and other environmental
and natural resources issues.
Lodging
P.O. Box 249
Girdwood, AK 99587
Contact: Kathryn Stone, sales mgr.
Phone: (907) 754-2213
Fax: (907) 754-2290
Website: www.AlyeskaResort.com
Alyeska Prince Hotel contains over
30,000 sq. feet of event space suited for
20-450 people. It is a premiere destination for meetings and conventions. Our
managers will assist you in creating the
ideal meeting for your group.
Anchorage, AK 99507
coordinator
Phone: (907) 344-1207 ext. 228
Fax: (907) 344-0353
The Alaska division of the worlds largest
contract food service company. Visit our
web site at www.ess-global.com
Hilton Anchorage Hotel
500 West Third Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Karen Boshell
Phone: (907) 272-7411
Phone: 1-800-445-8667
Fax: (907) 265-7042
Website: www.anchorage.hilton.com
At the Hilton, guests discover unexpected luxury. We are just steps away from
shopping, day tours, fishing and the
convention center. The Hilton’s 600
guest rooms and suites, three restaurants, indoor pool, and native art collection will make your stay complete.
Hotel Captain Cook
4th & K St.
Anchorage, AK 995
Phone: (907) 276-6000
Website: www.captaincook.com
Alaska’s only member of Preferred
Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. 547
rooms including 96 suites, three restaurants and a coffee bar. Located in downtown Anchorage.
Logistics
P.O. Box 107500
Anchorage, AK 99510
Phone: (907) 265-2485
Fax: (907) 265-2597
1800 E. 1st Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Ph: (907) 267-7797
Fax: (907) 276-6786
logistics company.
Crowley Alaska
2525 C St., Ste. 303
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 278-4978
Fax: (907) 257-2828
Complete materials supply services to
remote locations. Marine transport
throughout Alaska. Oil field services
including heavy hauling with all-terrain vehicles on North Slope.
2000 E. 88th Ave., Suite 200
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 258-3446
Fax: (907) 279-5740
industry.
Lynden
Alaska Marine Lines
Alaska West Express
Lynden Air Cargo
Lynden Air Freight
Lynden Logistics
Lynden Transport
6441 S. Airpark Pl.
Anchorage, AK 99502
Phone: (907) 245-1544
Fax: (907) 245-1744
The combined scope of the Lynden
companies includes truckload and lessthan-truckload highway connections,
scheduled barges, intermodal bulk
chemical hauls, scheduled and chartered air freighters, domestic and
international air forwarding and international sea forwarding services.
MRO Sales
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Don Powell
Phone: (907) 248-8808
Fax: (907) 248-8878
Other offices:
Kenai: Al Hull (907) 335-2782
Prudhoe Bay: Joe Bob Bruster (907)
659-2868
We provide Professional Procurement
Service for hard-to-find supplies, parts
and equipment. Regardless of your
location, you will receive service that is
guaranteed to meet your requirements. From Anchorage to Siberia,
from shipping to communications, you
receive service from the experts that
have ‘Been There, Done That’
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Northern Air Cargo
Anchorage, AK 99502
Contact: Nick Karnos, acct. mgr.
Anch./Prudhoe Bay
Phone: (907) 249-5161
Fax: (907) 249-5194
Serving the aviation needs of rural
Alaska for almost 50 years, NAC is the
states largest all cargo carrier moving
nearly 100 million pounds of cargo on
scheduled flights to 17 of Alaska’s
busiest airports. NAC’s fleet of DC-6, B727, and ATR-42 aircraft are available
for charters to remote sites and flag
stops to 44 additional communities.
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 279-3131
Cell: (907) 229-0656
Phone: (800) 999-0541
Phone: (867) 874-5167
Cell: (867) 874-1003
Fax: (867) 874-5179
NTCL, Canada’s largest and oldest
northern marine transportation company, ships dry cargo and fuel to communities and camps along the
Mackenzie River, the Beaufort Sea
coast and Alaska’s North Slope.
Panalpina
Anchorage, AK 99502
Contact: John Hodel, branch mgr.
Phone: (907) 245-8008
Fax: (907) 245-8018
International and domestic freight forwarding and logistics services.
Integrated solutions for supply chain
management. Specialists in oil and
energy projects.
Span Alaska Consolidators
8130 S. 216th St.
Kent, WA 98032
Contact: Tom Landry, executive v. p.
Phone: (800) 257-7726
Phone: (907) 349-3606 (Anchorage)
Fax: (253) 395-7986
Website: www.spanalaska.com
An Alaskan freight consolidator/forwarder serving all of Alaska with timely and friendly service. Inbound service
from the Lower 48 to Alaska.
“Promises Made, Promises Delivered.”
Machining
Superior Machine & Welding
1745 Ship Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Jantina Lunsford, pres.
Phone: (907) 277-3538
Fax: (907) 277-4999
Web site: superiormachine.net
To meet your needs we do oilfield connections, propellers, couplings, shafts,
bearings, sandblasting, welding, line
boring, blocking gears, heavy equipment repair, brake rotors and custom
machining.
Unique Machine
5839 Old Seward Hwy
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 563-3012
Fax: (907) 562-1376
and distribution of oilfield construction, mining, fishing and government
parts to industry quality standards.
Maintenance
Alaska Tent & Tarp
529 Front St.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Phone: (907) 456-6328
Phone: (800) 478-8368
Fax: (907) 452-5260
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We are a commercial and industrial
fabric business. We make covers.
Arctic Controls
1120 E. 5th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 277-7555
Fax: (907) 277-9295
An Alaskan owned and operated company since,1985, Arctic Controls, Inc.
has been highly successful as manufacturer representatives for the state of
Alaska in the Process Control and
Instrumentation field. Selling equipment to the oil and gas markets, mining and water wastewater/municipal
markets.
and Maintenance
3900 C St.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 339-6200
Fax: (907) 339-6212
testing.
3138 Commercial Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 274-7973 ext. 123
Fax: (907) 274-6265
MRO Sales
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Don Powell
Phone: (907) 248-8808
Fax: (907) 248-8878
Other offices:
Kenai: Al Hull (907) 335-2782
We are a stocking distributor for topof-the-line waste oil heaters (Reznor),
waste water flocculants (Waterclear),
environmentally friendly solvents for
your parts washer (PT Technology), corrosion and erosion repair and maintenance polymers (Belzona), Vapor phase
(VpCI™) and Migrating Corrosion
Inhibitors (MCI) (Cortec) and valve
lubricants and sealants (Chemola).
Management Consultant
200 W. 34th Ave., Ste. 809
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 278-1877
Fax: (907) 278-1889
Maps
Mapmakers Alaska
259 S. Alaska St.
Palmer, AK 99645
Contact: Brit Lively, manager
Phone: (907) 745-3398
Fax: (907) 745-6733
Maps for oil and gas industry and custom map work
Marketing Solutions
3330 C. St., Ste. 101
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Laurie Fagnani,
president/owner
Phone: (907) 569-7070
Fax: (907) 569-7090
Web site: www.marketingsol.net
Marketing Solutions a full-service
award-winning advertising and public
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relations firm also designs and produces full-scale custom maps.
Marine Propulsion
8001 Petersburg St.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 522-3434
Fax: (907) 522-1198
Other office:
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Phone: (907) 479-1235
Fax: (907) 479-1237
Marine Services
& Construction
6000 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
group
Phone: (907) 562-5420
Fax: (907) 562-5426
Pacific Basin.
Offshore Divers
5400 Eielson St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 563-9060
Fax: (907) 563-9061
Web site:
Valdez.
2525 C St., Ste. 201
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 263-7000
Fax: (907) 263-7070
Mat Systems
Alaska Dreams
522 Goldstreak Rd.
Fairbanks, AK 99712
Phone: (907) 455-7712
Fax: (907) 455-7713
Custom fabrication of timber or timber
with steel combination heavy-duty
equipment or road mats, prefabricated
retaining walls, containment enclosures or helicopter landing platforms.
Carolina Mat Co.
P.O. Box 339
Plymouth, NC 27962
Anchorage office
612 E. 3rd. Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 272- 5766
Fax: (907) 274-5766
Established in 1985. Manufacture laminated, patented, bolted, reusable, solid
oak construction, crane (4’x 8-12” x 1230’) and deck mats. Guaranteed to
hold up to 50 tons. Also sell steel reinforced drill rig mats and C-Lock mats
8’wide x 16-40’ lengths.
Mechanical & Electrical
Inspection
Udelhoven Oilfiystem Services
Anchorage office:
184 E. 53rd Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 344-1577
Fax: (907) 522-2541
Nikiski office:
P.O. Box 8349
Nikiski, AK 99635
Phone: (907) 776-5185
Fax: (907) 776-8105
Prudhoe office:
Pouch 340103
Phone: (907) 659-8093
Fax: (907) 659-8489
Medical Facilities & Emergency
Response
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 677-7501
Fax: (907) 677-7502
Paramedics.
Medical Services
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 677-7501
Fax: (907) 677-7502
Paramedics.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 562-5588
Fax: (907) 562-5898
Meetings & Conventions
P.O. Box 249
Girdwood, AK 99587
Phone: (907) 754-2213
Fax: (907) 754-2290
30,000 sq. feet of event space suited
for 20-450 people. It is a premiere destination for meetings and conventions.
Our managers will assist you in creating the ideal meeting for your group.
Hilton Anchorage Hotel
500 West Third Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Karen Boshell
Phone: (907) 272-7411
Phone: 1-800-445-8667
Fax: (907) 265-7042
Website: www.anchorage.hilton.com
At the Hilton, guests discover unexpected luxury. We are just steps away
from shopping, day tours, fishing and
the convention center. The Hilton’s 600
guest rooms and suites, three restaurants, indoor pool, and native art collection will make your stay complete.
Hotel Captain Cook
4th & K St.
Anchorage, AK 995
Phone: (907) 276-6000
rooms including 96 suites, three restaurants and a coffee bar. Located in
downtown Anchorage.
Movers/Relocation
1120 E, 35th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99508
Contact: Leslye Langla, managing
B15
direct.
Phone: (907) 777-1501
Fax: (907) 777-1515
Asset management, systems furniture,
project coordination, space planning,
systems delivery/installation, furniture
refurbishing, and relocation/remodel
services. Authorized Steelcase dealer
for Alaska.
Sourdough Express
P.O. Box 73398
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Phone: 907-452-1181
Fax: 907-451-6188
sales and rentals.
Mud & Mudlogging
Epoch Well Services
5801 Silverado Way
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 561-2465
Fax: (907) 561-2474
With over 250 wells logged since 1989,
Epoch is the leading provider of
advanced mudlogging services in
Alaska. Our DML 2000 software assimilates a comprehensive database of
geological and drilling information
with presentations available in a variety of hardcopy and digital formats.
Office Furniture
1120 E, 35th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99508
direct.
Phone: (907) 777-1501
Fax: (907) 777-1515
for Alaska.
Oilfield Services
6740 Jollipan Crt.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Paul Nelson, mgr.
Phone: (907) 346-1319
Fax: (907) 346-4400
Contact: Scott Coon
Phone: (907) 646-1219
Fax: (907) 646-1253
National Call Center: 1-800-268-3768
We are the Alaska dealers for Cover-All
Building Systems. Steel framed, fully
engineered, LDPE fabric covered,
portable buildings in 18 to 270 foot
widths and any length.
Box 340112
Phone: (907) 659-2840
Fax: (907) 659-2289
Email:
Rain for Rent
Kenai, AK 99611
Phone: (907) 283-4487
Fax: (907) 283-4528
Other Office:
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PETROLEUM DIRECTORY
1642 Bannister Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 440-2299
1745 Ship Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 277-3538
Fax: (907) 277-4999
machining.
Photography
CoreMongers
6212 Magnaview Dr.
Phone: (907) 317-2361
CoreMongers specializes in high resolution core photography and other
whole core services including core slabbing and core plugging. CoreMongers
is based locally in Anchorage.
430 W. 7th Ave., Ste. 220
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Judy Patrick
Phone: (907) 258-4704
Fax: (907) 258-4706
Web site: JudyPatrickPhotography.com
Creative images for the resource development industry.
Pipe, Fittings & Thread
Technology
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 248-0066
Fax: (907) 248-4429
requirements.
Unique Machine
5839 Old Seward Hwy
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 563-3012
Fax: (907) 562-1376
Connections; API 5CT, API 7B, Grant
Prideco H-Series, Hydril, Hunting, Atlas
Bradford, NS Technology Co. Inc.
Vallourec and Vam PTS proprietary
connections.
Pipeline Maintenance
6000 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
group
Phone: (907) 562-5420
Fax: (907) 562-5426
Pacific Basin.
3900 C St.,
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 339-6400
Fax: (907) 339-6444
Email:
[email protected]
Offshore Divers
5400 Eielson St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 563-9060
Fax: (907) 563-9061
Web site:
Valdez.
2525 C St., Ste. 201
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 263-7000
Fax: (907) 263-7070
VECO
949 E. 36th Ave., Ste. 500
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 762-1510
Fax: (907) 762-1001
Plumbing
Udelhoven Oilfield System
Services
Anchorage office:
184 E. 53rd Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 344-1577
Fax: (907) 522-2541
Nikiski office:
P.O. Box 8349
Nikiski, AK 99635
Phone: (907) 776-5185
Fax: (907) 776-8105
Prudhoe office:
Pouch 340103
Phone: (907) 659-8093
Fax: (907) 659-8489
Power Generation
8001 Petersburg St.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 522-3434
Fax: (907) 522-1198
Other office:
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Phone: (907) 479-1235
Fax: (907) 479-1237
Process Equipment
Hanover Canada
500, 101-6 Ave. SW
Canada
Phone: (403) 261-6801
Fax: (403) 266-1066
Hanover Canada is the leading
provider of natural gas compression
services and equipment in Canada. We
maintain an 85,000 horsepower rental
compression fleet in Canada and over
3.6 million horsepower rental fleet
worldwide. Hanover custom designs
production equipment in accordance
with customer’s specifications using
strict internal engineering standards.
We have the capability to provide
process, mechanical and instrument
design engineering for any production
equipment project worldwide.
Natco Group
Phone: (403) 203-2103
Fax: (403) 236-0488
water treatment equipment and systems used in the production of oil and
gas worldwide.
Procurement Services
Alaska Anvil
509 W. 3rd Ave.
Phone: (907) 276-2747
Fax: (907) 279-4088
Other office: Kenai
Kenai, AK 99611
Phone: (907) 776-5870
Fax: (907) 770-5871
MRO Sales
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Don Powell
Phone: (907) 248-8808
Fax: (907) 248-8878
Other offices:
Kenai: Al Hull (907) 335-2782
We provide Professional Procurement
Service for hard-to-find supplies, parts
and equipment. Regardless of your
location, you will receive service that is
guaranteed to meet your requirements. From Anchorage to Siberia,
from shipping to communications, you
receive service from the experts that
have ‘Been There, Done That’
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 273-3900
Fax: (907) 273-3990
the oil industry.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 770-8700
Fax: (907) 222-1203
Production Equipment
1902 North Yellowood Ave.
Broken Arrow, OK 74145
Contact: Hughes Coston SR
Phone: (918) 250-5584
Phone: (800) 537-9327
Fax: (918) 250-4666
Website: www.rodguides.com
Sucker rod guides – The Ultra Flow
field installed guide, The Wheeled Rod
Guide
Real Estate
P.O. Box 107500
Anchorage, AK 99510
Phone: (907) 265-2485
Fax: (907) 265-2597
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JEMS Real Estate
P.O. Box 190530
Anchorage, AK 9519
1417 W. Northern Lights Blvd., Ste. B
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Michael/Jo Ellen Smith
Phone: (907) 258-5367
Fax: (907) 258-5542
Web site: www.jemsrealestate.com
JEMS Real Estate specializing in real
estate sales, leasing, property management, condo association management
and property rental.
Deadhorse Airport
Deadhorse, AK 99734
P.O. Box 670
Phone: (706) 672-0999
Fax: (706) 672-1188
Recycling Waste Management
Colville
Pouch 340012
Phone: (907) 659-3197
Fax: (907) 659-3190
station.
3408 Arctic Blvd.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 561-4820
Fax: (907) 562-2316
6000 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 562-5420
Fax: (907) 562-5426
Quadco
6116 Nielson Way
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: David Baggett, VP, Alaska
manager
Phone: (907) 563-8999
Fax: (907) 563-8985
CO, Casper WY
Reporting Software
Epoch Well Services
5801 Silverado Way
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 561-2465
Fax: (907) 561-2474
PERC is a Windows based relational
database program for morning reports,
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well planning, drilling, completion and
workover reports. RIGREPORT provides
contractors with an electronic tour
sheet for morning reports and payroll
reporting.
Restaurants
P.O. Box 249
Girdwood, AK 99587
Phone: (907) 754-2213
Fax: (907) 754-2290
30,000 sq. feet of event space suited
for 20-450 people. It is a premiere destination for meetings and conventions.
Our managers will assist you in creating the ideal meeting for your group.
Hotel Captain Cook
4th & K St.
Anchorage, AK 995
Phone: (907) 276-6000
rooms including 96 suites, three restaurants and a coffee bar. Located in
downtown Anchorage.
Rigging Supplies
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 562-0707
Fax: (907) 562-2426
1745 Ship Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 277-3538
Fax: (907) 277-4999
machining.
Right of Way Maintenance
Carolina Mat Co.
P.O. Box 339
Plymouth, NC 27962
Anchorage office
612 E. 3rd. Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 272- 5766
Fax: (907) 274-5766
Established in 1985. Manufacture laminated, patented, bolted, reusable, solid
oak construction, crane (4’x 8-12” x 1230’) and deck mats. Guaranteed to
hold up to 50 tons. Also sell steel reinforced drill rig mats and C-Lock mats
8’wide x 16-40’ lengths..
Cruz Construction
HC04 Box 9323
Palmer, AK 99645
Contact: Dave or Dana Cruz
Phone: (907) 746-3144
Fax: (907) 746-5557
General contractor specializing in
heavy civil construction, horizontal
direction drilling for utilities. Ice road
and ice bridge construction throughout Alaska in support of resource
development.
Safety Equipment & Supplies
3M Alaska
Anchorage, AK 99515
Phone: (907) 522-5200
Fax: (907) 522-1645
designed to improve safety, productivity and profitability.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 562-0707
Fax: (907) 562-2426
BW Technologies
Arlington, TX 76013
Phone: (817) 274-2487
Fax: (817) 274-8321
Canadian Office:
2840 2 Ave. SE
Calgary, AB T2A 7X9
Phone: (800) 663-4164
Fax: (403) 273-3708
detection instrumentation for protection of personnel and facilities worldwide.
Brooks Range Supply
Pouch 340008
1 Old Spine Road
Phone: (907) 659-2550
Toll Free: (866) 659-2550
Fax: (907) 659-2650
Bay Post Office.
Jackovich Industrial
& Construction Supply
Fairbanks: 1600 Wells St.
Attn: Buz Jackovich
Phone: (907) 456-4414
Fax: (907) 452-4846
Anchorage: 1716 Post Road
Attn: Steve Slone
Phone: (907) 277-1406
Fax: (907) 258-1700
24 hour emergency service. With 30 years
of experience, we're experts on Arctic
conditions and extreme weather.
5400 39139 Highway 2A
Phone: (403) 342-4441
Fax: (403) 342-6613
PWCI is a manufacturing & service
company of pipe handling equipment.
We are manufacturers of hydraulic catwalks for service rigs and drilling rigs
onshore and offshore.
RAE Systems
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Phone: (408) 585-3522
Fax: (408) 752-0724
RAE Systems is manufacturer of rapidly-deployable, multi-sensor chemical
detection monitors and networks for
homeland security and industrial applications. RAE Systems offers a full line
of portable single-sensor chemical and
radiation detection products.
Unitech of Alaska
PETROLEUM DIRECTORY
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 349-5142
Phone: (800) 649-5859
Fax: (907) 349-2733
Wiggy’s-Alaska!
8225 Old Seward Hwy., Suite A
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Marc Taylor Owner/Alaska
Representative
Phone: 907-336-1330
Fax: 907-336-1330
Web site: www.wiggys.com
As a result of the light weight and
effectiveness of Lamilite (TM) insulation in the cold weather garment
industry, Wiggy’s of Grand Junction,
CO has opened Wiggy’s-Alaska! in
order to serve the petroleum industry
of Alaska.
Security
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 562-5588
Fax: (907) 562-5898
Seismic & Geophysical
Hunter 3-D
Houston, TX 77036
Phone: (713) 981-4650
Fax: (713) 981-4650
Kuukpik/Veritas
2000 E. 88th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Jeff Hastings
Phone: (907) 276-6037
Fax: (907) 279-5740
PGS Onshore
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 569-4049
Fax: (907) 569-4047
Houston Office
Houston, TX 77079
Phone: (281) 589-6732
Fax: (281) 589-6685
Slope.
Shops/Storage Space
Deadhorse Airport
Deadhorse, AK 99734
P.O. Box 670
Phone: (706) 672-0999
Fax: (706) 672-1188
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Soil Stabilization
Arctic Foundations
5621 Arctic Blvd.
Contact: Ed Yarmak
Phone: (907) 562-2741
Fax: (907) 562-0153
Web site: www.arcticfoundations.com
Soil stabilization – frozen barrier and
frozen core dams to control hazardous
waste and water movement.
Foundations – maintain permafrost for
durable high capacity foundations.
Space Design/Planning
1120 E, 35th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99508
direct.
Phone: (907) 777-1501
Fax: (907) 777-1515
for Alaska.
Steel Fabrication
Holaday – Parks, Inc.
1820 Marika St.
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Contact: Jerry Freel, vp ops. AK
Phone: (907) 452-7151
Fax: (907) 452-3800
Web site: www.holaday-parks.com
Holaday-Parks is a sheet metal fabrication that involves welding. We also do
heating ventilation and air conditioning.
2525 C St., Ste. 201
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 263-7000
Fax: (907) 263-7070
6111 Quinhagak St.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Contact: Tom Ranes, owner
Contact: Mike Prince, shop fore.
Phone: (907) 868-5079
Fax: (907) 868-5087
Web site: ranesandshine.com
We are a custom welding and fabrication shop with a 20’ brake, 13 1/2’
shear, computerized plasma table and
mobile welding trucks.
STEELFAB
2132 Railroad Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Janet Faulkner, vice president
Phone: (907) 264-2819
Fax: (907) 276-3448
STEELFAB is the largest Alaskan-owned
steel service center in the state. It provides pressure vessels, modules, special
design items and raw steel products.
2536 Commercial Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Contact: Mike Huston, vp
Phone: (907) 276-2858
Fax: (907) 258-4623
Web site: www.toteminc.com
Totem Equipment & Supply Inc. locally
owned and operated since 1961.
Supplies light, medium and heavy
equipment. Specializing in temporary
and permanent heating solutions.
Anchorage office:
184 E. 53rd Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 344-1577
Fax: (907) 522-2541
Nikiski office:
P.O. Box 8349
Nikiski, AK 99635
Phone: (907) 776-5185
Fax: (907) 776-8105
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Prudhoe office:
Pouch 340103
Phone: (907) 659-8093
Fax: (907) 659-8489
Welding Services
P.O. Box 7248
Nikiski, AK 99635
North Kenai, AK
Phone: (907) 776-8279
Fax: (907) 776-8279
Cell Phone: (907) 252-5466
General Contractor #27005. Oilfield
and general welding fabrication and
repair services including aluminum,
stainless steel and carbon steel.
Steel Sales
Colville
Pouch 340012
Phone: (907) 659-3197
Fax: (907) 659-3190
Diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, aviation gasoline in bulk and small quantity deliveries,
electronic card-lock fleet management,
solid waste and recycling, industrial gases
and solid waste. Tesoro fuel station.
STEELFAB
2132 Railroad Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 264-2819
Fax: (907) 276-3448
921 W. 6th Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 272-5529
Fax: (907) 277-6108
Exclusive Alaska distributors of Hyundai
Steel. Steel products and fabrication,
structural steel, oil field construction
(LTCS) and modular and portable structures.
Surveying & Mapping
ASTAC/fm, a division of ASTAC
4300 B St., Ste. 501
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Don Nelson
Phone: (907) 563-3989
Phone: 1-800-478-6409
Fax: (907) 563-1932
Provides expertise in implementing GIS
technology whether it be data conversions or a complete turnkey solution.
Kuukpik - LCMF
139 E. 51st Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Richard Rearick, architectural
mgr.
Contact: Wiley Wilhelm, engineering
mgr.
Phone: (907) 273-1830
Fax: (907) 273-1831
Other Offices:
Barrow: (907) 852-8212
Alpine: (907) 670-4739
Statewide contractor project support surveyors; remote site land and hydrographic surveys for government and private; oil and gas development surveying, mapping, and permitting.
5300 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Ken Ayers
Phone: (907) 272-5451
Fax: (907) 272-9065
Toll Free: (800) 478-5451
Specializing in surveying for Alaska oil
and gas exploration, oilfield development and transportation systems, conventional and GPS surveying, and mapping.
Tank Fabrication
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 279-3131
Cell: (907) 229-0656
Phone: (800) 999-0541
Phone: (867) 874-5167
Cell: (867) 874-1003
Fax: (867) 874-5179
NTCL, Canada’s largest and oldest northern marine transportation company,
ships dry cargo and fuel to communities
and camps along the Mackenzie River,
the Beaufort Sea coast and Alaska’s
North Slope.
Telephone Equipment & Sales
ASTAC
4300 B St., Ste. 501
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 563-3989
Phone: 1-800-478-6409
Fax: (907) 563-1932
Providing local and long distance service,
Internet, maintenance and training, consultation, installation, engineering,
Centrex, custom calling features, digital
cross connect service, and digital data
service to the North Slope region of
Alaska.
North Slope Telecom
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 562-4693
Fax: (907) 562-0818
Design, installation and maintenance of
telephone, cable plant, fiber optics, data
network, VOIP, paging and cellular systems. Twenty years of arctic experience.
Temporary Placement Services
Alaska’s People
670 West Fireweed Lane, Ste. 112
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Lonnie Jackson, director
Phone: (907) 265-5901
Fax: (907) 274-6134
Web site: www.alaskaspeople.com
Alaska’s People is the Native
Employment Specialist statewide. We
have placed thousands of native
Alaskans and American Indians into all
levels of employment from entry to executive.
Catering
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 278-2208
Fax: (907) 677-7261
North Slope, catering and housekeeping
to your tastes, not ours.
4041 B Street
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Cathy Scanlon
Phone: (907) 273-2430
Fax: (907) 273-2490
Web site: www.nmsemployeeleasing.com
Provides professional, technical, and traditional resources for full time, part time,
long term or temporary employees.
Complete reference check, 10-year criminal background check, 5 panel drug
screen and evaluation for every employee. Quality assessment and computer
based testing.
Tire Sales & Service
TDS
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Mike Weitz, mgr.
Phone: (907) 562-2010
Fax: (907) 563-7097
Other Office:
3601 S. Cushman
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Sales and service of passenger, truck, or
tires and retreading of tires.
Training
University of Alaska
UAA Engineering, Science & Project
Management (ESPM)
Graduate Programs
University Center, 104
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: Dr. Jang Ra
Phone: (907) 786-1862
Web site: www.uaa.alaska.edu/espm
Nation’s most respected program, training professionals to plan execute and
lead projects in all areas of business
industry and government. Learn more at
www.uaa.alaska.edu/espm.
Underwater NDT &
Photography
6000 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Tom Ulrich, reg. mgr. svc. group
Phone: (907) 562-5420
Fax: (907) 562-5426
Pacific Basin.
Offshore Divers
5400 Eielson St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 563-9060
Fax: (907) 563-9061
Web site: http//www.offshoredivers.com
Offshore Divers is an Alaska owned diving contractor specializing in sub-sea oilfield work on mooring systems,
Inlet, on the North Slope and in Valdez.
Underwater Welding
6000 A St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Contact: Tom Ulrich, reg. mgr. svc. group
Phone: (907) 562-5420
Fax: (907) 562-5426
Pacific Basin.
Offshore Divers
5400 Eielson St.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 563-9060
Fax: (907) 563-9061
Web site: http//www.offshoredivers.com
Offshore Divers is an Alaska owned diving contractor specializing in sub-sea oilfield work on mooring systems,
Inlet, on the North Slope and in Valdez.
Vehicle Repair
Gene’s Chrysler Dodge Jeep Sprinter
3400 Cushman
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Contact: Greg Wagner
Phone: (907) 452-7117
Fax: (907) 458-3225
Web site: www.geneschrysler.com
New car and truck sales, leasing, parts
and service, fleet sales and service, truck
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upfitting and truck rental. New –
Saturday service.
Kenworth Alaska
2838 Porcupine Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 279-0602
Phone: (800) 478-0602
Fax: (907) 258-6639
Fairbanks office:
3730 Braddock St.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Phone: (907) 455-9900
Fax: (907) 479-8295
dealership in two locations – Anchorage
and Fairbanks. New and used truck sales,
parts and service.
Seekins Ford Lincoln Mercury
1625 Old Steese Hwy.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Contact: Steven Angel, fleet sales mgr.
Phone: (907) 459-4044
Fax: (907) 450-4007
Web site: www.seekins.com
Ford Lincoln Mercury dealer located in
Fairbanks Alaska providing solutions to
your transportation needs. Parts and
service support in Fairbanks and Prudhoe
Bay.
Vehicle Sales/Rental
Gene’s Chrysler Dodge Jeep Sprinter
3400 Cushman
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Contact: Greg Wagner
Phone: (907) 452-7117
Fax: (907) 458-3225
Web site: www.geneschrysler.com
New car and truck sales, leasing, parts
and service, fleet sales and service, truck
upfitting and truck rental. New –
Saturday service.
Kenworth Alaska
2838 Porcupine Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 279-0602
Phone: (800) 478-0602
Fax: (907) 258-6639
Fairbanks office:
3730 Braddock St.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Phone: (907) 455-9900
Fax: (907) 479-8295
dealership in two locations – Anchorage
and Fairbanks. New and used truck sales,
parts and service.
Seekins Ford Lincoln Mercury
1625 Old Steese Hwy.
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Contact: Steven Angel, fleet sales mgr.
Phone: (907) 459-4044
Fax: (907) 450-4007
Web site: www.seekins.com
Ford Lincoln Mercury dealer located in
Fairbanks Alaska providing solutions to
your transportation needs. Parts and
service support in Fairbanks and Prudhoe
Bay.
Welding
3M Alaska
Anchorage, AK 99515
Phone: (907) 522-5200
Fax: (907) 522-1645
designed to improve safety, productivity
and profitability.
1820 Marika St.
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Phone: (907) 452-7151
Fax: (907) 452-3800
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6111 Quinhagak St.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 868-5079
Fax: (907) 868-5087
We are a custom welding and fabrication shop with a 20’ brake, 13 1/2’ shear,
computerized plasma table and mobile
welding trucks.
Anchorage office:
184 E. 53rd Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 344-1577
Fax: (907) 522-2541
Nikiski office:
P.O. Box 8349
Nikiski, AK 99635
Phone: (907) 776-5185
Fax: (907) 776-8105
Prudhoe office:
Pouch 340103
Phone: (907) 659-8093
Fax: (907) 659-8489
Welding Services
P.O. Box 7248
Nikiski, AK 99635
North Kenai, AK
Phone: (907) 776-8279
Fax: (907) 776-8279
Cell Phone: (907) 252-5466
General Contractor #27005. Oilfield and
general welding fabrication and repair
services including aluminum, stainless
steel and carbon steel.
Weld Repairs/Manufacturing
Hanover Canada
500, 101-6 Ave. SW
Canada
Phone: (403) 261-6801
Fax: (403) 266-1066
Hanover Canada is the leading provider
of natural gas compression services and
equipment in Canada. We maintain an
85,000 horsepower rental compression
fleet in Canada and over 3.6 million
horsepower rental fleet worldwide.
Hanover custom designs production
equipment in accordance with customer’s specifications using strict internal
engineering standards. We have the
capability to provide process, mechanical
and instrument design engineering for
any production equipment project
worldwide.
1820 Marika St.
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Phone: (907) 452-7151
Fax: (907) 452-3800
Natco Group
Phone: (403) 203-2103
Fax: (403) 236-0488
water treatment equipment and systems
used in the production of oil and gas
worldwide.
2525 C St., Ste. 201
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: (907) 263-7000
Fax: (907) 263-7070
5400 39139 Highway 2A
Phone: (403) 342-4441
Fax: (403) 342-6613
PWCI is a manufacturing & service company of pipe handling equipment. We
are manufacturers of hydraulic catwalks
for service rigs and drilling rigs onshore
and offshore.
6111 Quinhagak St.
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Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 868-5079
Fax: (907) 868-5087
We are a custom welding and fabrication shop with a 20’ brake, 13 1/2’ shear,
computerized plasma table and mobile
welding trucks.
STEELFAB
2132 Railroad Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 264-2819
Fax: (907) 276-3448
1745 Ship Ave.
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 277-3538
Fax: (907) 277-4999
bearings, sandblasting, welding, line boring, blocking gears, heavy equipment
repair, brake rotors and custom machining.
Unique Machine
5839 Old Seward Hwy
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 563-3012
Fax: (907) 562-1376
and distribution of oilfield construction,
mining, fishing and government parts to
industry quality standards.
Welding Services
P.O. Box 7248
Nikiski, AK 99635
North Kenai, AK
Phone: (907) 776-8279
Fax: (907) 776-8279
Cell Phone: (907) 252-5466
General Contractor #27005. Oilfield and
general welding fabrication and repair
services including aluminum, stainless
B19
steel and carbon steel.
Wire Rope
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: (907) 562-0707
Fax: (907) 562-2426
largest and most complete rigging supply source. We specialize in custom sling
fabrication (wire rope, web, chain, and
polyester round.)
OIL
COMPANIES
Operators
700 G St. • P.O. Box 100360
Contact: Jim Bowles, president & CEO
Phone: (907) 265-6134
Fax: (907) 265-1502
Marathon Oil
3201 C St., Ste 800
Anchorage, AK 99503
Contact: John A. Barnes, regional mgr.
Phone: (907) 561-5311
Fax: (907) 564-6489
Website: www.marathon.com
XTO Energy
810 Houston St. • Fort Worth, TX 76102
Contact: Vaughn O. Vennerberg, II
Phone: (817 870-2800
Fax: (817) 870-0379
Other Office:
52260 Shell Rd.
Kenai, AK 99611
Contact: Scott Griffith, mgr. envir., health,
safety & training (EHST)
XTO Energy, established in 1986, is
engaged in the acquisition and development of quality, long-lived producing oil
and gas properties and exploration for oil
and gas.
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