Nearly 90 percent of all deepwater Gulf oil and gas production passes through Port Fourchon. The port sits at the end of Highway 1, where Bayou Lafourche meets the Gulf, handling hundreds of supply vessels, helicopters, and crew boats daily. When the Deepwater Horizon exploded, the cleanup staged from here.
The port is built on disappearing land. Highway 1, the only road in, floods regularly. A direct hurricane strike would disrupt American energy production more than any single event short of war. You are looking at the most vulnerable piece of critical infrastructure in the United States — a working port that services the offshore rigs that keep the lights on, sitting on ground that is washing away beneath it.
This is where the stakes are. This is what vulnerability looks like when you can't afford to move it.
- ·Primary service port for deepwater Gulf oil and gas operations — nearly 90% of all deepwater Gulf production passes through here.
- ·Handles hundreds of supply vessels, helicopters, and crew boats daily.
- ·One of the most vulnerable pieces of infrastructure in the United States — sitting on disappearing land, serviced by a highway that floods regularly.
- ·The Deepwater Horizon cleanup staged from Port Fourchon.
- ·A direct hurricane hit here would disrupt American energy production more than any single event short of war.
- ·Located at the end of Highway 1, where Bayou Lafourche meets the Gulf.
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