Louisiana Offshore Oil Port

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Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, also known as LOOP, is an operating LNG export terminal in United States.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Louisiana Offshore Oil Port	Port Fourchon, Louisiana, United States	28.8598185, -90.0220447 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Infrastructure details

mtpa = million tonnes per year

Name	Facility type	Status	Capacity	Total terminal capacity	Offshore	Associated infrastructure
Louisiana Offshore Oil Port	export	operating	–	–	False	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Louisiana Offshore Oil Port	export	–	–

Financing

No financing data available.

Table 4: Project timeline

FID = Final Investment Decision, used by some developers to indicate a project will move forward

Name	Facility type	Status	Proposal year	FID year	Construction year	Operating year	Inactive year
Louisiana Offshore Oil Port	export	operating	–	–	–	2018	–

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Louisiana Offshore Oil Port	export	operating	LOOP LLC [100%]	Shell PLC [46.1%]; MPLX LP [40.7%]; Marathon Petroleum Corp [10.0%]; small shareholder(s) [3.2%]	–

Background

The terminal was commissioned in February 2018, becoming the United States's first oil export terminal after the U.S. lifted an ban on oil exports in December 2015.

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Additional data

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