Keith Taylor

Experience

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  Air Liquide

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2000

  Operations Analyst & Business Analyst

  Tonnage Business Analyst (1999 – 2000)Assisted VP of Sales with oversight of Tonnage Sales group and assisted Commercial managers with business development, customer relations, and contract dispute resolutions. Developed gross margin study that quantified natural gas price risk, still utilized, and led to the basis of product pricing in the deregulation electricity market Led project team with Operations, Commercial managers and project engineers in a new plant, capacity expansion studyOperations Analyst (1998 –1999)Responsible for daily, weekly and monthly compliance with electricity tariffs for Gulf Coast (GC) area and Mississippi River (MR) area for Operations, assisted Commercial Managers, Business Analyst in contract renegotiations, negotiated operational arrangements with power providers for optimal flexibility with the Air Separation Units (ASU). Negotiated arrangements with electricity providers to optimize firm and interruptible tariffs in GC and MR. Resulted in savings of approximately $8.4 million over 2 years Identified areas of improvement in commercial contract for cogeneration plant that resulted in an increase 20% in revenues Successfully negotiated Business Interruption claims to recoup approximately $4 million in lost sales Managed energy consumption and estimated energy costs on monthly basis for both GCA and MRA (combined $10 million) and coordinated with real time operations and energy management on extracting maximum value from power provider contracts Developed plan for cogeneration plants in operating portfolio to sell excess power to local power provider with realized sales approximately $12 million Project Manager to compute customer’s reliability of consumption, and their projections with potential savings approximately $1 million Show less

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  Calpine

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  Asset Manager

  Manager – Asset OptimizationManaged two 800 megawatt cogeneration plants in Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) control area, including project development from ground up, profit and loss accountability, contract negotiations, customer relations, coordination of merchant power sales, and developing annual operating budgets of $20 million each. Arranged financing of these plants with approximate $400 million value each, and insured compliance with all terms and conditions of credit agreement Negotiated with TVA that led to creation of new standardized interconnection agreements for all Independent Power Producers (IPP) interconnecting with TVA Realized tax savings of approximately $10 million for each 800 megawatt plant Assessed economic opportunity for power plants against the forward price curve for greenfield projects Determined regulatory strategy and managed filings and interventions that protected and optimized the assets Provided oversight and direction to public relations and governmental affairs Reduced Operations and Maintenance budgets by 15% Show less

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  HTS Engineering - Heat Transfer Solutions

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  Business Owner Sales

  Sales Engineer – Owner Sales Executed sales/marketing program for start-up company to promote chillers, air handlers and other HVAC and energy recovery savings to its customers

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  NuStar Energy L.P.

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2013

  National Accounts Manager

  National Accounts Manager and Joint Venture Manager (2008 – 2013)Negotiated private terminal service agreements for Central West region for improved services for customer with increased profitability Provided new logistic services for a particular retail customer at a refined products terminal with a guaranteed net present value of $12MM over 10 years that improved the ranking of this terminal from bottom quartile to top 5 terminals within the company in a year Negotiated various pipeline contracts with new and existing customers to increase profitability ranging from a million to tens of millions of dollars Identification and development of long range marketing and business strategies for company and customers Identification and development of potential acquisitions through business dealings to support Corporate Development group Represented company in joint venture business for portfolio management, customer account management, and capital improvement projects Successful negotiation of a pipeline expansion with a joint venture partner that increased EBITDA approximately 5% a year over 5 yearsEnergy Optimization Manager (2003 – 2008)Provided directions to Operations, Accounting and Executive branches for system optimization Implemented new real-time energy optimization strategy for Control Center Operations for the pipelines for $2.9 million savings with continuing annual savings achievable Initiated negotiated new contracts with electricity, natural gas suppliers, and Drag Reducing Agent for aggregate $1.1 million savings Initiated and implemented company’s Energy Management Strategy annually Lead in filings and/or interventions with state agencies on regulatory affairs Assisted Tax group for reimbursement of paid Sales and Use tax recoveryDeveloped hydraulics for Engineering, Business Development and Control Center Operations to define optimal operating conditions Show less

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  San Antonio Water System

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2003

  Energy Engineer

  Energy Engineer – Office of Energy Management (OEM)Development of energy efficiency programs within organization to provide cost-effective energy solutions to organization. Developed operating strategies for company to optimize energy efficiencies for $300,000 savings in two months Led OEM for development of Demand Side Management energy cost-saving strategies for company

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  Tesoro

  Nov 2013 - Jan 2014

  Director Logistics Development

  Commercial lead for developing crude oil gathering services, expanding existing pipeline system in company’s flagship system in North Dakota’s Bakken shale

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  RiverRock Energy

  Feb 2014 - Jun 2015

  VP Commercial Development

  Co-founder and VP Commercial Development (2014 – 2015)Start-up of midstream energy logistic services company, backed by EnCap Flatrock Midstream, focusing on providing services in crude oil gathering, NGL logistics, fresh/produced water logistics, services with focus in Eagle Ford, Permian, Bakken, Rockies and Mid-Continent basins Prepared in-house competitive analysis, feasibility studies and economic analysis Created master plan to locate and develop green field projects in various basins for crude oil gathering Lead negotiations in new build crude oil opportunity in the mid-continent that precipitated merger with Tall Oak Show less

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  Tall Oak Midstream LLC

  Jun 2015 - Sept 2016

  Director Crude Business Development

  Director Commercial Development (2015 – 2016)Merged RiverRock with Tall Oak, backed by EnCap Flatrock Midstream, to provide energy logistic services company focusing on providing services in crude oil gathering, NGL logistics, fresh/produced water logistics, NG treating, gathering services Shareholder of Tall Oak Over 300 miles of gathering pipelines with two NG processing plants Over 40 miles of crude gathering pipeline with expansion up to 200 miles of gathering and trunkline pipelines Negotiated multiple agreements to sell condensate from pipeline drip stations and cryogenic processing plants Successful sale of Tall Oak I assets (noted above) to EnLink Midstream in January 2016 Identified an improvement in salt water disposal service fees of +180% for an acquired 600-mile NG gathering and crude oil/produced water asset for “Tall Oak II” Show less

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  DIBAK Energy Advisors, LLC

  Sept 2016 - now

  Principal

  Providing expertise for logistic services including crude oil gathering, fresh/produced water logistics and refined products gathering and terminaling. Services include contract negotiations, upstream and midstream economics, operations in liquid pipelines.

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  EnLink Midstream

  Nov 2016 - Nov 2019

  • VP Commercial Development

    Nov 2018 - Nov 2019

  • Director Commercial Development

    Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
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  Max Midstream

  Dec 2019 - now

  Chief Commercial Officer