ANCHORAGE, AK. APRIL 9, 1996. -- Alyeska Pipeline Service Company announced today that the Joint Pipeline Office (JPO) has approved the implementation of the current revision of Alyeska’s Quality Program. The approval comes at the end of an intense effort by workers on the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) to take the necessary steps to ensure the program is in place, operational, and consistently followed. Alyeska has been operating under conditional approval of the latest revision, Revision 8.1, of the Quality Program since May 1995.

"It took a lot of hard work by everyone to get to this approval, and we’re all proud of the fact that we made it. The approval by the JPO is a milestone, not an end point. Alyeska is now working to improve on the program that we implemented," said Lee Jones, Operations System Integrity Manager.