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Edison Chouest is the founder of Edison Chouest Offshore. Edison Chouest, a commercial shrimp fisherman who turned one utility vessel into a major shipbuilding and offshore petroleum service company, died Wednesday. He was 91.
His death was announced by Lonnie Thibodeaux, a spokesman for his company, Edison Chouest Offshore. The cause was not
released.
Edison Chouest Offshore had its beginnings in 1960 when Mr. Chouest, who owned shrimp boats, bought a steel-hulled 65-foot utility vessel that had six months to go in a contract with the Humble Oil Company to supply a petroleum rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
