Clovelly, south of Houma, is a storage dome for petroleum, with eight caverns and a 50 million barrel capacity. It is an onshore terminal connected by pipeline to a tanker port in the Gulf, off Port Fourchon. The system is known as the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, or LOOP, and was built for imported oil, coming by ship. Its large surface pool holds super saturated liquid brine, used to push oil out with minimum degradation of the dome.
