By Danika Yeager Interim President, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Danika Yeager 2022 marks an exciting milestone; the 45th anniversary of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, or TAPS. And in January, I stepped into the role as Alyeska president after Brigham McCown’s departure. I couldn’t be prouder to serve; I joined TAPS in April 2021, and it’s already been one of my most memorable and meaningful professional experiences. I look…
Submitted by Alyeska. This profile is from their Memories & Mileposts story collection which commemorates 45 years of TAPS operations. After helping build the Trans Alaska Pipeline, or TAPS, from 1974-1977, operating rock trucks, fuel trucks, boom trucks, and forklifts, including working on a Hercules aircraft team offloading critical supplies while Wein F-27s were hauling workers in and out nearby, from Galbraith Lake to…
A new Council report shows how electricity can be used to “see” damage in the asphalt liners that are intended to contain oil in case of a spill at the Valdez Marine Terminal. The terminal’s vast crude oil storage tanks are surrounded by a secondary containment system. This system consists of huge containment cells (two tanks per cell) that would act like a bathtub, holding the oil until it can be cleaned up. To keep oil from leaking into the…
Traveling Health Fair sails again! After cancelling the 2020 Prince William Sound Traveling Health Fair one week before departure, this long-standing Alyeska community tradition restarted for its first in-person event since 2019. The Ross Chouest, a Ship Escort Response Vessel System, or SERVS, tug usually stationed at Port Etches, carried a crew of enthusiastic health and wellness professionals from Valdez to Tatitlek to Chenega and back from…