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Insider this week: Alliance elects board members; no drilling at Badami, Point Thomson this season; Edelen on the Kenai River
THE VOTES ARE IN The Alliance held its annual meeting on Sept. 23 during which nine board of director’s were elected (see pictures at left).
A bit of a vote counting delay produced a request for some jokes from the audience that brought Gov. Tony Knowles, Kevin Meyers, president ConocoPhillips Alaska and Jim Palmer, former vice president of external affairs at BP Exploration (Alaska), to the podium. Gov. Knowles won, by a landslide, for the best (or was it worst) joke during the delay period.
Awards for outstanding service were given to Susan Fischetti, special projects assistant/government relations for the Alliance and Mark Huber, Doyon Universal Services J.V.
Jack Laasch, vice president government relations at Natchiq, was installed as president by retiring president Bob Stinson of Conam Construction.
TALK ABOUT POINT THOMSON WAS — JUST TALK There has been talk about ExxonMobil doing some additional drilling in the Point Thomson unit this year and in the winter of 2003-2004 but unfortunately it was just talk. One of our people checked it out and, according to a state of Alaska official; it appears there was some discussion of doing additional drilling at the Badami unit to see if BP had missed something.
That same rig was going to be used for the Slugger unit well and/or possibly do some addition delineation drilling at Point Thomson. But it appears those plans have been put on the shelf — because — BP has said it is not going to drill Slugger as planned this coming winter. Neither BP nor ExxonMobil have filed permits for drilling at either Badami or Point Thomson for the upcoming drilling season. A NEW AFFILIATION Bill Schoephoester, formerly with Petro Marine, has joined Jade North as an associate. Bill has expertise in project management, regulatory compliance and government affairs, has a BS in Physics and is certified by the Project Management Institute.
Jade North is a consulting partnership founded by John Shively, former commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, and Patty Bielawski. TENANTS MOVING IN Natchiq, an oil service company, has relocated to the new Arctic Slope Regional Corp. building. Natchiq a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporation, provides arctic and sub-arctic engineering, design, construction services and is a major contractor for fabricating facilities on the North Slope. Natchiq’s new address is 3900 C. Street, Suite 701, Anchorage, 99503-5969, phone number (907) 339-6200, fax number (907) 339-6219.PIPELINE REPAIR FINISHED Offshore Divers has completed the sub-sea pipeline repairs on the 20-mile abandoned Amoco pipeline in Cook Inlet reported in PNA’s June 26 edition on page A5. The divers made 89 dives in water up to 150 feet deep said Don Ingraham, owner.
The work included a number of “hot taps” and line cleaning using a vacuum truck secured on an anchored barge.
Don said the foundation of Offshore Divers new warehouse is almost completed and the steel supports are going up this week. A “move in” date is set for mid-October. LUNCHEON SCHEDULED The International Association of Drilling contractors will hold its next luncheon at 11:30 Oct. 17 at the Millennium Hotel. The guest speaker has not been selected. For more information e-mail Anne Green at [email protected] or call 561-7458.WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Charles Edelen, Perman Stoler Customhouse Brokers…. Charlie Edelen bought Perman Stoler Customhouse Brokerage on a handshake in 1966. Trust and honor is all it took to seal the deal. Perman Stoler wanted to retire and Charlie wanted to buy so they shook hands and arranged to have money taken from Charlie’s paycheck toward the purchase. Two years later Charlie made his final payment and began the story of a man who did it “his way” building a successful company.
Charlie had two characteristics that ensured success: knowledge of the custom brokerage business and a strong sense of ethics. It also helped that he had a firm backbone and the ability to say no but “hell no” to people who weren’t honest. To add icing to the cake Charlie was also a darn nice guy with a great brain and a good sense of humor.
Custom brokerage work requires a massive amount of paperwork to ensure compliance with custom laws, duties and tariffs. The paper could fill a forest and the knowledge is worth a mint. Charlie started with two people in 1966 and had more than 12 on staff during the pipeline days.
Perman Stoler was the only brokerage firm in Alaska during the pipeline days. As Charlie said, “We did it all. We cleared all the pipeline materials, like line pipe, casing and tubular goods from Japan, valves from Europe, pipe supports from Canada, the Alyeska docking facilities and tanks at Valdez” and all kinds of equipment or parts that originated in or were sent to a foreign country. It was one jumping office and continued to grow with Charlie at the helm assisted by five of his nine children who share their parent’s ethics.
So — where is Charlie now? Of course he didn’t fade away and still comes to the office a few mornings each week. After a bout of cancer, which he kicked royally, Charlie turned the operation of the company to his daughter Renae Thompson and son Ron Edelen who were awarded their brokers license at the same time, and were given sequential license numbers: That is most unusual.
Charlie spends time on the Kenai River where he and his wife Beverly are building a 2,000 square foot home and where he gave himself the title of “building supervisor.”
Read about the company and get Charlie’s address at www.PermanStoler.com QUOTE OF THE WEEK “Do you realize that when Crown Prince Abdula of Saudi Arabia arrived in Texas, this week, to meet with President Bush, he demanded that no female air traffic controller be allowed to land his flight. Hey Abdula, I don’t think anybody from Saudi Arabia should be telling us how to land a jet anytime soon.” —Dennis Miller Live, May 3, 2002
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