re: Taylor Energy and 14 years of leaking oil

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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

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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 Corporation and Samsung C&T Corporation.

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In 2015 the Associated Press reported that Taylor Energy's well has been leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico since Hurricane Ivan struck the Gulf of Mexico off of Louisiana in 2004, and that Taylor Energy currently has only one full-time employee.[5] By October 2018, the continuing spill was approaching the level of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill,[6] the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.

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