Alyeska Pipeline Service Company is the Alaska corporation that operates the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System on behalf of the oil companies that own it. It was founded in 1970 to design, construct, operate and maintain a pipeline carrying oil from the North Slope fields near Prudhoe Bay, where oil was found in 1968, to an ice-free deep-water port at Valdez on Prince William Sound. The line was built between March 1975 and June 1977; the first oil entered it on 20 June 1977 and the first tanker load left Valdez on 1 August 1977. Ownership is held by a consortium, with Harvest Alaska the largest member, followed by ConocoPhillips Transportation and ExxonMobil Pipeline Company. The company is headquartered in Anchorage and employs around 700 people. Its record includes a limited part in the response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the state and federal leases on the pipeline route were renewed in 2002 and 2003.
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It is headquartered in Anchorage and has around 700 employees.
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History, founding
The Alaska corporation commonly known as Alyeska Pipeline Company was founded in 1970
History, operation
Alyeska then went on to operate and maintain TAPS.
Organization
It is headquartered in Anchorage and has around 700 employees.
Part Of: Oil Pipeline Transport, History
founded in 1970 to design, construct, operate and maintain a pipeline to transport oil from the fields on the North Slope of Alaska
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