Alaska firms land point Thomson contracts.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: OIL COMPANIES - Exxon Mobil Corp. gives ice road construction contract to Nanuq Inc. and Alaska Frontiers Constructors Inc. - Brief article

ExxonMobil awarded contracts to Nanuq Inc. and Alaska Frontier Constructors Inc., both of Anchorage, to support first-well work on Point Thomson. The Alaska companies will build and maintain nearly 50 miles of ice roads and an ice airstrip needed to transport the drilling rig and associated materials, camps and personnel to the Point Thomson site on the North Slope. Company officials anticipate employing more than 200 people for the project...