Top 49ers
The 2025 Top 49ers: Local Companies Ranked by Gross Revenue
October 2025
The Top 49ers are an elite class of Alaska businesses, all of which were founded within the state and continue to operate their headquarters here. Annually in the fall they voluntarily provide Alaska Business with their gross revenue figures, which we use to rank them.
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New Oil on the North Slope
August 2026
In mid-May it was 19°F and windy at the Aurora Hotel in Deadhorse. As I stood in the parking lot surveying the surroundings, I chatted with a gentleman from Texas who works for Nabors Alaska Drilling and was in town as part of a crew tasked with getting a previously inactive drill rig up and running. He said that, according to his supervisor, spring is the windy season on the North Slope. The gusts were bracing, numbing the fingers holding my camera, but most of my attention was focused on what I could capture through the lens: work trucks, shipping containers, buildings obscured by snow whipped up by the wind.