CONAM Construction Company: diversification proves successful.

• Author: Anderson, Tasha
• Position: 2016 CORPORATE 100: COMPANY PROFILE

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CONAM Construction Company began operations in Alaska in 1984 primarily to support oil and gas clients with an open shop alternative performing construction services on major projects on the North Slope. According to CONAM President Dale Kissee, CONAM has diversified since then and continues to make efforts to do so. CONAM, along with its sister corporation, Price Gregory International was purchased in 2009 by Houston-based Quanta Services, Inc., an S&P 500 company (PWR).

CONAM's Business

"Our core business, our bread and butter, has been supporting the oil and gas industry throughout Alaska. Last year we were lucky to have had project work for ConocoPhillips, BP, and Hilcorp on the Slope," Kissee says. "In 1996 we diversified our operations by forming a JV relationship with Tikigaq Corporation of Point Hope known as Tikigaq/CONAM to pursue work within the North Slope Borough."

The first major project performed was the Point Hope Water & Sewer project building the water and sewer treatment infrastructure and distribution system throughout the village. "Since formation of this relationship, Tikigaq/CONAM has performed numerous projects throughout the North Slope Borough having worked in every North Slope Village," Kissee says. Tikigaq/CONAM is currently working for the North Slope Borough under a five year contract providing operations and maintenance services for the Barrow Gas Fields and for the Nuiqsut Gas Line.

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"Last year CONAM made a concentrated effort to expand our construction services to the mining industry in Alaska, resulting in completed projects throughout the state to include work at Red Dog, Kensington, Fort Knox, and Pogo mines which included electrical, civil, and mechanical work" Kissee says. "The mines have been good; they're good to work with--great clients-so we're pretty excited about the opportunities that we see there going forward."

In addition, the company provides equipment maintenance services, running Ford and Peterbilt warranty services out of their North Slope operations facility.

CONAM's history started on the North Slope, but today the company has expanded to provide services across the state. In addition to its Anchorage headquarters and a facility in Deadhorse, CONAM has a shop office complex in Kenai and recently completed the Kitchen Lights project, an onshore gas process facility, for Furie Operating Alaska, a Cook Inlet oil and gas exploration and production...