Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP)

LOOP is the single largest point of entry for waterborne crude oil coming into the U.S.
LOOP receives and temporarily stores crude oil supplies from two sources:
- Tankers carrying foreign and domestic crude oil
- Domestic crude oil produced in the Gulf of Mexico
The oil is stored in eight underground caverns leached out of a naturally occurring salt dome, which are capable of storing approximately 59 million barrels of crude oil
Domestic crude is supplied via the Mars Crude Oil Pipeline which connects at the terminal at Clovelly
There are direct connections to:
- Capline Oil Pipeline, Garyville Refinery, Convent Refinery, Baton Rouge Refinery and Placid Refining

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