President's Message
Kevin Hostler, President and CEO

Alyeska opportunity challenging, exciting

I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself and tell you I am excited about returning to Alaska and getting the opportunity to lead Alyeska Pipeline Service Company.

My wife Becky and I have already purchased a home in Anchorage and we are eager to get reacquainted with Alaska.

I have worked in a wide range of oil and gas industry positions, including management assignments in the United States, England, Scotland and Columbia. I am moving to Alaska from Houston, TX, where I was senior vice president for BP's global human resources organization and responsible for providing human resources and management support to the company’s worldwide offices in more than 80 countries. Prior to that job, I was business unit leader and president of BP's operations in Colombia, operations manager in the Gulf of Mexico and manager of offshore operations in the North Sea.

I look forward to meeting and working with the outstanding people at Alyeska. Their expertise, skill and dedication to safely operating the Trans Alaska Pipeline System is vital to the economic and energy security of the entire United States. It also makes this assignment highly appealing to me.

We are in the midst of one of the most significant changes in the history of TAPS as part of our strategic reconfiguration project to modernize and upgrade the 28-year-old pipeline. We need to safely implement the pipeline reconfiguration plan – from the field construction we have right now through start up and into full operation. And, we need to do this while safely running our current system. This is not an easy challenge and it will require a commitment from all of us to get it done right.

It will take a bit for me to discover all of the challenges I will face here at Alyeska. But, as I said at my first Alyeska employee meeting, this is not my first rodeo. I have more than 28 years of experience in this industry, including six years spent working here in Alaska for Sohio during the mid 1980s. I will rely on all of these experiences to enhance Alyeska's safety, environmental and financial performance, as we all work together to make TAPS the world’s best-run pipeline. Safety is critical to how we run TAPS. I learned the importance of safety when I worked a field schedule on a platform in the North Sea where each of us counted on the other to get our work done safely. That’s the perspective I bring to safely operating a company like Alyeska. I’m really looking forward to running this great organization.