Alyeska relocating to new Anchorage digs

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. is moving its Anchorage offices, but the firm’s new home isn’t far away.

The operator of the 800-mile trans-Alaska oil pipeline is leaving the BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. office tower and moving into a new building located just south of 36th Avenue between C Street and Arctic Boulevard.

The BP tower and the new building are both in Anchorage’s Midtown district.

Alyeska is vacating several floors in the BP building, where the pipeline company has leased space since 2003.

The new office building, known as Centerpoint West and developed by JL Properties Inc. at a cost of $70 million, “offers 200,000 square feet of premium office space,” said an Alyeska press release.

The eight-story building was completed in early 2010 using Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design specifications — the first commercial building in Alaska with LEED Gold certification, the press release said.

Alyeska expects to wrap up its move in mid-February.

The physical address for the new Alyeska headquarters is 3700 Centerpoint Drive, Anchorage, AK 99503.

Alyeska’s mailing address will remain P.O. Box 196660, Anchorage, AK 99519-6660.

All of Alyeska’s Anchorage phone numbers and its website also will stay the same.

BP implications

Alyeska’s move has implications for BP, which has some staff not only in the Midtown tower but in other locations around Anchorage.

“One of our goals with this change is to base more of our Anchorage teams in the headquarters building,” Steve Rinehart, BP’s Anchorage spokesman, told Petroleum News in a Jan. 3 email.

Alyeska also has offices in Fairbanks and Valdez and has staff stationed along the line, from Prudhoe Bay to Prince William Sound, working as operations technicians, maintenance workers, safety specialists, security officers, spill response coordinators and in other positions.

For more information on the move, contact Alyeska at [email protected] or (907) 787-8870.

—Wesley Loy