- Taylor Energy
Taylor Energy is an independent American oil company that drills in the
Gulf of Mexico based inNew Orleans, Louisiana . The company was founded in 1979 byPatrick F. Taylor . Since his death in 2004, his wife Phyllis Taylor has assumed ownership and is the chairman and CEO — making her the wealthiest woman in Louisiana. Taylor has been actively supporting the reconstruction of New Orleans since its destruction duringHurricane Katrina .The company's founder,
Patrick Taylor , grew up inBeaumont, Texas , was kicked out of his home by his father, and attendedLouisiana State University under a free tuition program. He married Phyllis Miller in 1965, who had grown up inAbbeville, Louisiana and had been one of the first women to graduate fromTulane Law School .After achieving success, Taylor became a champion for free college education. He achieved some press in 1988 for promising a group of 183 middle school students that he would provide for their college education if they could maintain their grades; the follow-through was later covered on "
60 Minutes ".He would also join with Texas State Senator
Royce West in 1998 to form what is now known as theTEXAS Grant program [http://www.collegefortexans.com ¹] , which pays for college tuition and fees for students from low and middle-income families.Circa February 1, 2008, Taylor Energy Company, one of the largest privately owned oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico, has agreed to sell all its energy assets to a joint venture between Korea National Oil and Samsung.
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*cite web|accessdate=2007-05-10|url=http://www.taylorenergy.com/
title=Taylor Energy Company LLC — company website
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