ANCHORAGE, AK –  July 13, 2000.  Anchorage, AK.  The Alyeska Board of Directors has named David Wight President and Chief Executive Officer at Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. Wight comes to Alaska after eight years as President and General Manager of BP Amoco Energy Company of Trinidad and Tobago. He has been with the Amoco group since 1964.

 “The board is pleased to have David join Alyeska. He brings a great deal of experience and background to the position. We look forward to working with him on continuing the progress made in recent years,” said Dick Rabinow, President of ExxonMobil Pipeline Company and Chair of the TAPS Owners Committee.

After graduating from Texas Tech University with a Petroleum Engineering degree in 1964, Wight (pronounced White) went to work for Amoco Production Company in Texas as a petroleum engineer. His career with Amoco took him to Kansas, Chicago and Denver before being named in 1989 as Amoco Vice President in charge of production in the Middle East and Africa. In 1990, Wight became Managing Director of GUPCO, a joint venture company with the government of Egypt.

From 1992 until today, Wight has served as President and General Manager of BP Amoco Company of Trinidad and Tobago. During his tenure, the company established the first liquified natural gas plant in Trinidad, only the second LNG plant in the Western Hemisphere. Wight has also been very active in the communities in which he has lived.

Wight is expected to begin his job at Alyeska before the end of summer.  He replaces Bob Malone, who left Alyeska last month to become BP Amoco’s Regional President, Western United States.

“I look forward to working with David in continuing to implement the strategies we’ve been developing at Alyeska in recent years,” said Dan Hisey, who continues in his new role as Chief Operating Officer at Alyeska.

(a photo of David Wight is available upon request)

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