TAPS project, people featured on World’s Toughest Fixes

TAPS takes center stage this Thursday with the much-anticipated premier of National Geographic’s World’s Toughest Fixes episode about the Remote Gate Valve 72 replacement that took place in June 2008. The show is scheduled for Thursday, June 11 at 5 p.m. Alaska time on channel 54 in Anchorage, Valdez and Fairbanks on GCI Cable Network.

Worlds Toughest Fixes is an ongoing engineering series that highlights complicated and intense industrial repairs. Most episodes highlight work that occurs in a tight timeframe. TAPS’ RGV 72 replacement fit the bill.

A television crew from the Nat Geo Channel spent several weeks in June 2008 in the Fairbanks area, filming preparations for the valve replacement, and staying for the duration of the shutdown. More than 100 TAPS employees were on scene for the project and share the spotlight with the show’s host, Sean Riley. Many others from TAPS worked behind the scenes to make the filming possible.

“We knew the show would be a great way to tell the story of the people both out in the field and in the office who prepared for and carried out the shutdown work,” said Matt Carle, External Affairs Manager for Alyeska. “A lot of background work had to happen so the camera crew could be onsite safely and without interrupting the work. It was really a team effort across the company.”

Check out the following link to preview the valve replacement show and learn more about the World’s Toughest Fixes’ series: http://natgeotv.com/fixes.