Exporter awards.

Gov. Frank H. Murkowski recently congratulated two Alaska companies, VECO and Udelhoven Oilfield System Services, for winning the Governor's Exporter of the Year Awards. The awards are based on 2005 activity. Company executives accepted the awards at the annual export banquet organized by the Export Council and held at the Hotel Captain Cook.

VECO provides engineering, procurement, construction, project management, and operations and maintenance services to mining, oil and gas, petrochemical, refinery and pharmaceutical industries in more than 30 countries. The company was awarded a consulting contract in 2005 with Rosneft, a Russian oil company, for a multi-billion-dollar Siberian field development and export pipeline.

Udelhoven Oilfield System Services has been in business for more than 35 years with employees in Anchorage, Nikiski, Prudhoe Bay, Houston, Beijing, Tennessee and Louisiana. Employees in Alaska market the company's services to potential overseas customers and are stationed overseas in support of projects. Udelhoven personnel provide construction supervision on ongoing projects in China, developing gas field quality assurance and audit programs in 2005 for Royal Dutch Shell's Bohai Bay project.