Port Fourchon officials are moving along with expanding the port’s ability to service the oil and gas industry, The Courier reports.
The Greater Lafourche Port Commission is working on a plan to deepen the Belle Pass entrance into Port Fourchon from 26 feet to 50 feet, as well as deepen part of Bayou Lafourche to 50 feet.
A draft Environmental Impact Statement is expected to be released in April for public comment, the Port Commission says, with a final statement to be released this summer.
“What’s so exciting to us about this deeper water development is that it will allow us to truly service the entire industrial life cycle of the assets for our tenants and their customers in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico,” says Chett Chiasson, executive director of the Greater Lafourche Port Commission.
Once completed, the feasibility study will have to be approved by the secretary of the Army and authorized by Congress for actual work to begin.
