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Listed are Lafourche Parish’s top 10 taxpayers in 2014 as compiled by the parish’s Assessor’s Office.
Hornbeck Offshore Services
Hornbeck Offshore Services provides marine transportation services to exploration and production, oilfield service, offshore construction and military customers. Its focus is on meeting the needs of the deepwater and ultra-deepwater energy industry in domestic and, more recently, foreign locations.
The company has one of the youngest fleets of new generation, deepwater-capable OSVs in the industry that are compliant with new CO2 emission standards.
So far, they’ve placed 17 of them in service and they built seven more in the backend of the last work year.
Company officials said much more growth is expected in the future.
ASSESSED VALUE: $40,154,480
TAXED AMOUNT: $5,229,647.58
Nautical Solutions LLC
As a subsidiary of Edison Chouest of Galliano, Nautical Solutions LLC 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: $27,423,080
TAXED AMOUNT: $3,578,807.36
Chevron Texaco Exploration
In 2001, Chevron and Texaco merged, positioning itself to be one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. Chevron is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry: exploration for, producing and transporting crude oil and natural gas; refining, marketing and distributing transportation fuels and lubricants; manufacturing and selling petrochemical products; generating power and producing geothermal energy; providing renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions; and developing future energy resources.
Last year, Chevron’s average net production was nearly 2.571 million oil-equivalent barrels per day. It closed the year with a global refining capacity of 1.9 million barrels of oil per day.
Gulfmark Americas Inc.
Gulfmark Americas has a long, rich history dating back to the 1950s.
But one thing that’s never changed is the company’s dedication to the community and its people. Gulfmark is a top marine company which employs several in the Houma-Thibodaux area. The company has greatly expanded since its roots.
ASSESSED VALUE: $18,149,580
TAXED AMOUNT: $2,369,246.04
LOOP LLC
The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port is the only U.S. port capable of offloading deep draft tankers carrying foreign and domestic crude oil. The Houston-to-Houma (Ho-Ho) Pipeline moves domestic crude produced in the U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico.
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 Clovelly facility provides interim storage for crude oil before it is delivered via connecting pipelines to refineries on the Gulf Coast and in the Midwest.
ASSESSED VALUE: $16,958,140
TAXED AMOUNT: $2,222,311
Otto Candies, LLC
Otto Candies, LLC’s fleet goes beyond the DP offshore supply vessel and ocean tug to include the new IMR dive support vessel. The Des Allemands-based company is an industry leader. Its fleet includes DP offshore vessels and ocean tugs, as well as the new IMR dive support vessel. Candies performs pipeline and sub-sea inspections, maintenance, repairs and installation with ROVIMR 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 a nearby patrollable access canal.
ASSESSED VALUE: $17,023,040
TAXED AMOUNT: $2,222,129.56
Motiva Enterprises, LLC
Headquartered in Houston, Motiva Enterprises is a leading refiner, distributor and marketer of fuels in the Eastern, Southern, and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. As a joint venture, Motiva is owned equally by subsidiaries of Saudi Aramco and Shell Oil Company.
Motiva owns and operates three refineries – located within a 120 mile radius of each other – in Convent and Norco, and Port Arthur, Texas.
The combined refining capacity of the three sites is approximately 1.1 million barrels per day, which is among the most for a company of its kind.
ASSESSED VALUE: $16,067,900
TAXED AMOUNT: $1,097,503.67
Legacy Leader, LLC
A branch off the powerful Edison Chouest Offshore company, Legacy Leader, LLC is an industry leader in a variety of marine-related service. The company specializes in commercial air, rail and water transportation equipment, while also offering special and affordable rental and leasing options for clients.
ASSESSED VALUE: $15,965,040
TAXED AMOUNT: $2,084,076.16
Halliburton Energy Services
Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. With over 50,000 employees, representing 140 nationalities, and operations in approximately 70 countries, the company serves the upstream oil and gas industry throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir – from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction, completion and production optimization.
Halliburton’s fascinating and proud history reveals a continuous focus on innovation and expansion that began with the company’s founder, Erle P. Halliburton. After borrowing a wagon, a team of mules and a pump, he built a wooden mixing box and started an oil well cementing business.
ASSESSED VALUE: $14,667,690
TAXED AMOUNT: $1,901,519.38
Mars Oil Pipeline Company
A joint venture between Shell Oil Company and BP, Mars Oil Pipeline Company is situated in the Gulf of Mexico about 130 miles southeast of New Orleans. Initially, it was designed to recover about 500 million barrels of oil equivalent. Oil is transported 116 miles in the $135 million Mars system. The project parallels the LOOP Pipeline to Clovelly’s storage facilities and eventually feeds any of five major pipelines serving the nation’s refineries.
ASSESSED VALUE: $12,019,800
TAXED AMOUNT: $1,585,772
A Hornbeck ship sails through the water en route to its destination. The shipping company is annually among the top taxpayers in Lafourche Parish.
