Alyeska moving to BP building

Kristen Nelson, PNA editor-in-chief

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.’s corporate staff in Anchorage will be moving from the Bragaw Street location into the BP building next year.

Alyeska spokesman Mike Heatwole told PNA Oct. 23 that the firm’s lease on its current facility expires next year and that earlier this year the company started looking at options for its Anchorage staff.

Alyeska looked at several properties, he said, and the available space in the BP building made the most economic sense.

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. spokesman Paul Laird told PNA that the company has been consolidating its space within the building since President Steve Marshall told the Alaska Support Industry Alliance’s Meet Alaska in January that along with cutting costs, the company would also be subletting office space.

Laird said lease terms with Alyeska were not finalized, but that the space involved was floors two and eight through 10, about 71,000 square feet, one-quarter of BP’s rentable space. He said there was no timetable set, but said those floors of the building have been empty for a few months.