Replacing departing workers - August 28, 1999

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryAugust 1999

Vol. 4, No. 8

Week of August 28, 1999

Replacing departing workers

by The Associated Press

Who will run the trans-Alaska oil pipeline as older workers retire?

That’s just one of the questions oil industry leaders and educators tried to address Aug. 3 at the Alaska Process Industry Workshop.

The “process industry” is a group of technical businesses with jobs that are getting more complicated by the year. It includes operators, technicians and control specialists who run power plants, manufacturing plants, refineries and the 800-mile pipeline.

The workshop was sponsored by the University of Alaska, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. and Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.

It’s part of an ongoing effort to form the Alaska Process Industry Consortium, a group trying to address an anticipated shortage of skilled workers as the baby-boomer generation retires, taking with them the skills and experience of a lifetime of work.

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