Top 10 O&G Taxpayers in Lafourche

Listed are the top 10 taxpayers in 2012 in Lafourche Parish as compiled by the parish’s Assessor’s Office.

1. Nautical Solutions LLC

As a subsidiary of Edison Chouest of Galliano, Nautical Solutions LLA is part of a larger family that includes the operation of more than 200 vessels, ranging from 87 to more than 360 feet in length, serving an expanding global customer base as offshore service providers.

Assessed Value: $24,838,540

Taxed Amount: $3,318,428.90

2. Hornbeck Offshore Services

Hornbeck Offshore Services focuses on exploration and production activities, including deepwater and other logistically demanding projects. The company also transports petroleum through its tug and tank barge segments, operating primarily in the northeastern United States and Puerto Rico. Customers include major oil companies, large independent oil and gas exploration, development and production companies and large oil service companies.

Assessed Value: $23,775,000

Taxed Amount: $3,143,383.63

3. Chevron Texaco Exploration

Since the year 2000, Chevron Texaco Exploration & Production Co. has offered a combination of two of the best-known petroleum company names ever. The corporate grouping is active from oil exploration to retail services in the United States and 180 other countries. The company employees more the 62,000 people worldwide.

Based in the United States, the company operates as a subsidiary of Chevron U.S.A. Inc.

Assessed Value: $20,653,920

Taxed Amount: $2,744,971.18

4. Mars Oil Pipeline Company

Oil is transported 116 miles in the $135 million Mars Oil Pipeline system. The Mars Oil Pipeline consists of an 18-inch line extending about 40 miles to connect with a 24-inch line that comes ashore in Port Fourchon. From there, the line parallels the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port pipeline and eventually feeds any of five major pipelines serving the nation’s refineries.

Assessed Value: $17,325,850

Taxed Amount: $2,300,872.90

5. LOOP LLC

The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port is the only U.S. port capable of offloading deep draft tankers. The port consists of three single-point mooring buoys used for the offloading and a marine terminal consisting of a two-level pumping platform and three-level control platforms. The facility provides interim storage for crude oil to be delivered by pipeline to Gulf Coast and Midwestern refineries.

Assessed Value: $15,834,560

Taxed Amount: $2,101,491.03

6. Discovery Producer Services

Discovery Producer Services LLC is an onshore and offshore service provider for wellhead to market operations of natural gas producers. The Tulsa, Okla.-based company holds assets in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and Lafourche Parish. The company operates in Larose and is a subsidiary of Williams Partners L.P.

Assessed Value: $13,735,520

Taxed Amount: $1,603,484.61

7. Entergy Louisiana LLC

Entergy Louisiana Inc. fully or in part provides electric service to 59 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes. With residential and business accounts, Entergy has prided itself as being active in economic and community development. Establishing itself as a Top 10 business in Louisiana, Entergy has partnered with other companies to enhance overall service opportunities.

Assessed Value: $12,225,170

Taxed Amount: $1,456,794.99

8. Offshore Service Vessel

Offshore Service Vessel is among the Edison Chouest companies recognized for diversity in marine transportation. With its parent company, Galliano-based OSV supports the Gulf of Mexico deepwater operations and an expanding global market with a fleet of highly specialized, new generation offshore service and supply vessels.

Assessed Value: $10,826,990

Taxed Value: $1,446,485.82

9. Otto Candies LLC

Candies’ fleet goes beyond the DP offshore supply vessel and ocean tug to include the new IMR dive support vessel. The Des Allemands-based company has the capability to perform pipeline and sub-sea inspections, maintenance, repairs and installation with ROV-IMR equipped vessels certified for saturation diving.

Capt. Otto B. Candies entered the market in 1942, when he was asked to provide small craft support to an oil rig to clear water lilies from an access canal.

Assessed Value: $10,390,490

Taxed Amount: 1,388,014.47

10. LOCAP Inc.

A limited liability company, LOCAP’s primary business is offloading foreign crude oil from tankers, and storing and distributing the inventory via connecting pipelines to refineries throughout the Gulf Coast and Midwest. It also serves as the storage and terminaling facility for the Mars and Endymion pipeline systems and their supply of offshore domestic crude oil.

Assessed Value: $10,970,560

Taxed Amount: $1,365,067.77