Port officials said it was the strongest hurricane to hit Port Fourchon since its creation. That includes Hurricane Katrina, which pummeled Louisiana 16 years earlier but came ashore 60 miles east.

When Hurricane Ida made landfall at Port Fourchon on Aug. 29, it ravaged the service hub for almost all of the Gulf of Mexico oilfield. At the southern tip of Lafourche Parish, the port is a ...

Port Fourchon is a multi-use coastal port that functions primarily as a land base for multiple offshore energy support service companies. A ...

Port Fourchon serves as a base of operations for about 250 oil and gas companies. So when oil prices are down – like they are now – the 1,200 acre port feels the effects.

Getting the port operational is integral to the nation’s fuel supply. Sami Yahya, an energy analyst for S&P Global Platts, said more than 90% of the U.S. Gulf oil supply goes through Port Fourchon.

That parish is home to Port Fourchon, one of the biggest ports in the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, over 90% of the Gulf of Mexico's deep-water oil production goes through there.

The port, a docking site for multi-million-dollar ships that supply and support about 90% of the Gulf of Mexico's platforms, was ground zero for the Category 4 storm. It made landfall there Aug ...

An $800 million liquefied natural gas plant and export terminal is being planned at Port Fourchon, officials said today. The Greater Lafourche Port Commission says and one of the port’s tenants, ...

Debbie Elliott speaks with Ted Falgout, the director of Port Fourchon, La., a gateway for much of the oil and gas production in the western Gulf of Mexico. The highway leading to the port is ...

Port officials said it was the strongest hurricane to hit Port Fourchon since its creation. That includes Hurricane Katrina, which pummeled Louisiana 16 years earlier but came ashore 60 miles east.

PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana, Oct 14 (Reuters) - On Louisiana’s south coast, in a key port servicing the U.S. offshore oil industry, a huge shipyard sits idle and in tatters.