WASHINGTON, May 3, 2006 – API awarded its 2005 Distinguished Award for Outstanding Safety and Environmental Performance to Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. Jeff Wiese, Program Development Director for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, assisted Richard Bird, Group Vice President, Enbridge Inc., in presenting the award at API’s 57th annual pipeline conference in Fort Worth, Texas on April 25, 2006.
Alyeska operates the 800-mile-long Trans Alaska Pipeline System, which is one of the largest pipeline systems in the world, stretching from Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope to Valdez in the southern part of the state. Alyeska won the award based on its release performance per mile of pipeline operated as reported to the Pipeline Performance Tracking System, its low rate of safety incidents, and its community outreach program, which was widely praised as standard-setting for the pipeline industry as a whole.
For the fourth year in a row, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company won the separate environmental performance award for large operators (reporting no releases for the past two years). Several pipeline companies in the small operator category also received environmental awards reporting no releases, including Cook Inlet Pipe Line Company, Portland Pipe Line Corporation, Equistar Pipelines, PPL Interstate Energy, Wolverine Pipe Line Company and Whitecap Pipeline Company, LLC.
BP Pipelines (North America) Inc. won the occupational safety performance award for large operators. In the small operator category, nine companies shared that honor, including Ciniza Pipe Line Company, CITGO Pipeline Company, Cook Inlet Pipe Line Company, Equistar Pipelines, Koch Pipeline Company LP, ONEOK NGL Pipeline, L.P., Unocal Pipeline Company, Whitecap Pipeline Company, LLC, and Wyoming Pipeline Company.
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