Allegations originating from Alyeska’s own staff were published in the UK daily, the Guardian, on 12 July.
The allegations include:
- Alyeska’s quality assurance programme is being deliberately undermined by middle management
- The company operates under “a culture of harassment, intimidation, retaliation and discrimination”.
- Alyeska executive management ensured that critical audit reports of TAPS safety and quality assurance compliance were not issued.
- Alyeska executive management instructed middle management to “disregard and/or circumvent” compliance manuals and codes of conduct”.
- Maintenance and inspection records before 1996 are lost and audit results were falsified to hide the fact.
- Alyeska executive management has failed to alert government regulators to problems of poor record keeping.
A spokesperson for BP Amoco told edie that the company expects Alyeska to respond to all the allegations contained in a letter sent by the six Alyeska employees to BP Amoco CEO Sir John Browne and three US congressmen.