The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, Inc. (LOOP) is America's first and only deepwater port  providing tanker offloading and temporary storage services for crude oil transported on some of the largest tankers in the world. Most tankers offloading at LOOP are too large for U.S. inland ports.

The satellite image shows Port Fourchon, the land based terminal. The Main Marine Terminal, pictured to the left, is about 20 miles offshore near the mooring stations. Pipelines connect this facility to the Clovelly Dome (salt cavern) storage facility near Galliano. Interstate pipelines take the oil from there to refineries across the nation.