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Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP)
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Brief Description
- 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
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