Port Fourchon

(Courtesy Greater Lafourche Port Commission)
Port Fourchon spans 1,700 acres to service the offshore energy industry.
Port Fourchon

Port Fourchon champions offshore energy, the environment

June 1, 2021
For 61 years, Port Fourchon has been the Gulf of Mexico’s premier service station for the offshore oil and gas industry.
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Vessels

No easy task: Getting there from here

March 1, 2011
To lend a different take to the theme song for the 1977 Burt Reynolds film, “Smokey and the Bandit,” it appears that, when it comes to the fortunes of the U.S. deepwater E&P industry...
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Port Fourchon

Report shows enormity of GoM decommissioning market

March 1, 2010
It may come as a surprise, but for some Port Fourchon companies one of the hottest markets in the Gulf of Mexico these days has nothing to do with drilling or production. Quite...
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Port Fourchon

Storms, deepwater combine to make inspections healthy business in Port Fourchon

March 1, 2010
Add a few hurricanes to the intrinsic nature of the deepwater and you have the ideal scenario for companies specializing in checking the integrity of topsides and downhole paraphernalia...
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Port Fourchon

New lock keeps bayou cargo flowing; LA 1 again seeks funding

March 1, 2010
A waterway that some contend is as vital to the offshore as its more popularized overland counterpart received a major boost late last year with the long-awaited opening of a ...
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Port Fourchon

Yes, they have no bananas

March 1, 2010
Determined to corner the lucrative banana trade, Louisiana Gov. Jimmie Davis on July 7, 1960, put his signature to Act 222 that created the Greater Lafourche Port Commission, ...