The Keith Companies Announces Preliminary Engineering for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company of Anchorage, AK

The Keith Companies Announces Preliminary Engineering for Alyeska
Pipeline Service Company of Anchorage, AK 


IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 20  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Keith Companies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:TKCI), an engineering and consulting services company, announced today
that it has been selected by Alyeska Pipeline Service Company of Anchorage,
Alaska to perform preliminary engineering for three projects related to the
Strategic Reconfiguration program that Alyeska is conducting at the Valdez
Marine Terminal (VMT).

Alyeska representatives stated, "The proposed VMT strategic reconfiguration
projects will simplify the VMT facilities and help Alyeska reposition the
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System to efficiently handle the current and predicted
production of Alaska North Slope crude-oil."

The preliminary engineering effort will be handled by The Keith Companies'
divisions of ESI Engineering Services in Walnut Creek, CA and Pacific
Engineering Corp in Portland, OR.  Projects involve reconfiguration of the
marine vapor control system, new electrical power generation and distribution,
and design of an innovative hydraulic turbine -- electrical generation system.

Aram Keith, CEO and Chairman of The Keith Companies commented, "These are
continuing examples of the energy and industrial projects in which TKCI is
participating.  The Company's offices in Walnut Creek, CA and Portland, OR are
also servicing projects for our clients involving cogeneration, renewable
energy, wood waste, and wind power."

About The Keith Companies

The Keith Companies, Inc. is a fully integrated, multi-disciplined engineering
and consulting services company, with offices located throughout the Western
and Midwestern United States.  The Keith Companies' professionals provide a
wide spectrum of skilled resources including land planning, engineering,
surveying, mapping, environmental studies, and water and cultural resources
that are needed to effectively plan, engineer, and design state-of-the-art
private and public facilities.  Additionally, the Company provides mechanical,
electrical, chemical, power/energy engineering, and other industrial
engineering services to design and improve the efficiency and reliability of
automated and manufacturing processes, production lines, and fire protection
systems.  The Keith Companies benefits from a diverse public and private client
base varying from residential and commercial real estate projects to
institutional, manufacturing, and processing facilities.  For more information
visit the Company's website at http://www.keithco.com/.

Certain statements in this news release may include forward-looking statements
that express our expectation, prediction, belief, or projection. These
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors
that may cause the actual results, performance, and achievement of The Keith
Companies to be materially and adversely different from any future results,
performance, or achievement expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements.  Factors that may cause actual results to differ from the
forward-looking statements contained in this release and that may affect the
Company's prospects in general include, but are not limited to: the impact of
oil prices or the ongoing demand for production, regulatory restrictions
related to our work, the influence of international oil suppliers, changes in
the economic growth in the United States and other major international
economies, our ability to sustain our growth and profitability, our ability to
implement our acquisition strategy and to successfully close and integrate
acquired companies on a timely and cost-effective basis, changes in the
carrying value of our goodwill and other long-term assets, our failure to
accurately estimate costs on fixed-price contracts or contracts with
not-to-exceed provisions, the uncertain timing of awards and contracts,  the
ability to maintain acquired companies' profit margins and/or client base,
outcomes of pending and future litigation, the ongoing financing of public
works and infrastructure enhancements and refurbishment, our ability to attract
and retain employees, the demand for electricity and the impact on power
providers' plans for expanding generation facilities, increasing competition by
foreign and domestic companies, a downturn in the real estate market, risks
inherent in doing business outside the United States, including the difficulty
of enforcing contracts, political instability and foreign currency fluctuations
and potential exchange restrictions, the short- and long-term impact of
terrorist activities and resulting political and military policies, and other
factors as are described in the Company's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.  The forward-looking information set forth in this press
release is as of the date indicated above and we undertake no duty to update
this information.

For further information, please contact:  Aram Keith, Chairman and CEO of The
Keith Companies, Inc., [phone]; or Tricia Ross, Investor Relations of
Financial Relations Board, [phone], for The Keith Companies, Inc. 

DATASOURCE: The Keith Companies, Inc.



CONTACT:  Aram Keith, Chairman and CEO of The Keith Companies, Inc.,

[phone]; or Tricia Ross, Investor Relations of Financial Relations

Board, [phone], for The Keith Companies, Inc.



Web site:  http://www.keithco.com/ 

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