Alyeska's Alaska Native Program a commitment to minority hire, diversity

Alyeska Pipeline has a special relationship with the Alaska Native community through its Alaska Native Program and its commitment to attain a 20% Alaska Native hire in its workforce.

Prior to the construction of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, Alyeska made a commitment to the Alaska Native community to recruit, train, employ and promote Alaska Natives. This commitment was defined in Section 29 of the Federal Agreement and Grant of Right-of-Way for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

Alyeska’s Alaska Native Program supports the TAPS Owners’ contractual commitment with the federal government. Section 29
of the Federal Grant of Right of Way is an agreement that recognizes Alaska Natives as land owners, like all private land owners, must be compensated for land use and occupancy. Instead of cash payments, Alaska Natives opted for jobs and job training opportunities on TAPS. Section 29 is a program to fulfill the Right of Way agreement between TAPS owner companies
and Alaska Native people.

In 1974, Alyeska signed the original Alaska Native Utilization Agreement with the U.S. Department of Interior to afford Alaska Natives recruitment, testing, training, placement, employment and job counseling opportunities on TAPS. In the agreement, Alyeska committed to hire Alaska Natives for 20 percent of its workforce.

Alyeska and the Department of Interior renewed the commitment to Section 29 in September 2007. The new agreement establishes Alyeska’s commitments in perpetuity, retains the overall 20% goal of Alaska Native hire and maintain an annual budget of $2.1 million. Over the past five years Alyeska has met and exceeded the Section 29 goals, and remains committed to maintaining these percentages for the life of the Grant of Right-of-Way.

The company annually invests considerable sums to support education and development opportunities and provides scholarships to educational institutions, Native organizations or their subsidiaries, and Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) contractors.