Port Fourchon, Louisiana | |
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  Port Fourchon Location in Louisiana  Port Fourchon Location in the United States | |
| Coordinates: 29°06′21″N 90°11′40″W / 29.10583°N 90.19444°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Lafourche |
| Elevation | 1 ft (0.3 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 985 |
Port Fourchon is Louisiana’s southernmost port, located on the southern tip of Lafourche Parish, on the Gulf of Mexico. It is a seaport, with significant petroleum industry traffic from offshore Gulf oil platforms and drilling rigs as well as the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port pipeline. Fourchon's primary service markets are domestic deepwater oil and gas exploration, drilling, and production in the Gulf. Port Fourchon currently services over 90% of the Gulf of Mexico's deepwater oil production. There are over 600 oil platforms within a 40-mile radius of Port Fourchon. This area furnishes 16 to 18 percent of the US oil supply.[1]
Port Fourchon is part of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area.