Offshore staff
PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana – The effects of Hurricane Ida on Louisiana’s oil and gas infrastructure are now being assessed, and Port Fourchon appears to have taken a direct hit from the storm.
On Tuesday, the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report said that crews had begun to clear the major debris from Louisiana Highway 1, so that assessments of the damage to Port Fourchon could be made.
Not only was Port Fourchon “badly damaged,” according to the report, but area refineries throughout the area were also “crippled.”
Other instances of storm damage included:
• Floodwaters spilled over a temporary levee erected near a Phillips 66 refinery in Plaquemines Parish.
• Almost two dozen barges unmoored by the hurricane’s winds damaged the dock at the giant Valero refinery in St. Bernard Parish.
• Shell’s refining and chemical complex in Norco appeared to have suffered extensive flooding.
Port Fourchon Executive Director Chett Chiasson told NPR on Tuesday that it will be weeks before the port is back up and running and reportedly added “there’s no way to know yet how many weeks that might be.”
08/31/2021
