Louisiana
Louisiana serves as a major hub for coordinating and transporting personnel and supplies to bp’s offshore production platforms and contracted drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, and to bpx energy’s onshore oil and gas business in the Haynesville Basin.
Fast facts
- bp’s logistics base in Port Fourchon runs 24 hours a day, providing the food, supplies and tools needed to keep bp’s offshore facilities in the Gulf of Mexico running safely and efficiently.
- bp’s net production was around 314,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the Gulf of Mexico in 2023.
- bp America and the bp foundation donated $500,000 and 200,000 gallons of fuel to support disaster relief efforts in Louisiana after Hurricane Ida.
With more than three decades of experience in the Gulf of Mexico, we’re looking to our next wave of growth, with major projects already underway. We’re building capacity to produce above 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d).
In July 2024, we took a final investment decision on the Kaskida project, which will be our sixth operated hub in the region, featuring a new floating production platform with the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Production is expected to start in 2029.
bpx energy holds more than a half million acres and one of the deepest inventory bases in the Haynesville, ideally located near export terminals that help meet liquefied natural gas demand from countries trying to diversify their energy supplies.
Our Haynesville operations were bp’s first to receive a basin-wide MiQ grading, independently certifying our natural gas production there as having low methane intensity. Following that milestone, bp became the first energy major in America to verify the methane intensity of its entire US onshore portfolio of natural gas.
Across Louisiana, bp employs more than 830 people and supports more than 10,000 jobs. Offshore teams also receive 24/7 support – including constant communication and real-time data analysis – from bp’s Houston-based Remote Collaboration Center, a global monitoring center for offshore drilling rigs.
The city of Houma hosts our Houma Operations Learning Center and our Gulf of Mexico Aviation Logistics heliport.
In Port Allen, bp Lubricants USA has a regional manufacturing and distribution center that blends, packages and distributes Castrol motor oil and car care products.
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