Remaining work includes site clean-up and system testing. The West Hackberry storage facility in Cameron Parish is approximately 22 miles southwest of Lake Charles, Louisiana. The site has 22 storage caverns, a combined storage capacity of 222 million barrels and an inventory of 193 million barrels. It is available for both fill and drawdown operations. Upgrading of the crude oil refill and metering systems, and closing of the existing brine pond.
Construction is essentially complete.
Remaining work includes site clean-up and system testing. The Bayou Choctaw storage facility in Iberville Parish is approximately 12 miles southwest of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The site has six storage caverns, a combined storage capacity of 76 million barrels, and an inventory of 72 million barrels. The site is currently available for both fill and drawdown operations. Construction to upgrade most of the major systems at Bayou Choctaw, including instrumentation and controls, piping reconfiguration, electrical system, valves and new water intake pumps, was completed in May 1999.