Before the pipeline was completed, upwards of 70,000 men and women could say that they had had some hand in its construction. At the peak, 20,000 workers were directly employed by Alyeska and its subcontractors at one time. The biggest concentration was at the terminal in Valdez, where the construction of dock facilities, storage tanks, a ballast treatment system, control center, and the pipeline itself down from Thompson Pass kept as many as 4,000 workers busy.
