PMI Energy Services runs two yards at Fourchon, Louisiana, about 1.5 miles apart: Yard 1 at 181 Anselmi Dr, home to the operations office and crew quarters, and Yard 2, the Super Dock, at 200 16th St. Fourchon runs 24/7 with immediate response. Dispatch: 888-229-3837, 24/7.
Address
181 Anselmi Drive (office and Yard 1) 200 16th Street (Yard 2) Fourchon, LA 70357
Where to find us
Yard 1 is the base of the Fourchon operation. It holds Station 1, the operations office, living quarters for the crews and a training center, along with the repair and maintenance work that keeps PMI's equipment running and the staging yard where that equipment waits for its next job. The Fourchon operation houses 60 to 80 people daily. Anyone who needs to meet the Fourchon team in person comes here.
Yard 2, about a mile and a half from Anselmi Drive, is the Super Dock. Supply vessels tie up at OSV cleaning Stations 2 and 3, offshore containers go through the CCU cleaning facility, and dry bulk is removed here. The two yards work as a single operation under one dispatch, and Yard 2 is PMI's only CCU cleaning facility, so equipment a customer sends in to be cleaned comes here, whoever owns it.
At this location
A supply vessel in from the deepwater Gulf of America usually has a short window at the dock, and PMI’s Fourchon work is organized around it. Fourchon has four dedicated OSV cleaning stations, so four vessels can be cleaned at once. At the Super Dock, crews clean a boat’s liquid mud and dry bulk tanks at OSV Stations 2 and 3 while the vessel is on its port call, and the dry bulk comes out by vacuum.
The cargo that rides back in gets washed at the Super Dock’s CCU cleaning facility: offshore containers, cuttings boxes and frac tanks. CCUs and cuttings boxes go through an automated cleaning unit on a covered slab, known around the yard as the flipper/dipper, which turns and dips each box through the wash so nobody has to climb inside. Wash water from all of it is recycled at Fourchon and reused instead of being trucked off the dock, and guzzler and hydro vac trucks take on the heavier loads.
Fourchon is also where PMI stores and maintains its offshore equipment packages, the gear that goes out for vessel cleaning, flushing, decommissioning, and rig and production cleaning offshore. Fourchon runs 24/7 with immediate response. Services not listed here, NORM surveys and lancing among them, can still be booked through Fourchon, and dispatch picks the nearest PMI crew with the gear for the job.
Who we work for
Fourchon is the supply base for deepwater work in the Gulf of America, so most of the yards’ traffic comes from offshore. Offshore operators and the owners of the vessels that serve them bring boats in for tank cleaning between charters. Drilling contractors send back the cuttings boxes, containers and frac tanks that rode out to the rig. Marine and barge companies can book tank work here as well, with barge jobs taken on request.
Onshore buyers reach PMI through the same call. Storage tank terminals, refineries and chemical plants, and pipeline and midstream operators can place work through Fourchon’s dispatch, and the job goes to whichever PMI location suits it best, whether that means the Fourchon yards for dockside work or the Midland crews in West Texas.
Coverage
Fourchon sits at the southern tip of Lafourche Parish, where Bayou Lafourche meets the Gulf of America, and LA 1 is the only road in. Most of the yards’ work arrives by water: supply vessels coming back from deepwater fields and platforms, loaded with containers and cuttings boxes that need washing. By land, trucks bring equipment in on LA 1 past Leeville, the highway that ties Fourchon to Galliano, Cut Off, Larose and the rest of the parish. Fourchon crews stay at the yards rather than traveling to jobs, so work along that corridor and across the coast toward Grand Isle is booked through the same dispatch and crewed from the PMI location that fits it. Weather governs a lot of coastal scheduling, so dispatch confirms timing when a job is booked.
On the record
PMI’s Super Dock overview video is an animated, top-down view of Yard 2 at 200 16th St. Supply vessels sit alongside the bulkhead at the OSV cleaning stations, lines run from the boats across the yard, and the CCU washing and dry bulk areas fill the ground in between, so the whole Super Dock reads as one connected operation.
On video
Rules and regulators
Vessel wash water discharged offshore has to meet the limits in its NPDES permit. At Fourchon, PMI recycles OSV wash water on site, which keeps that water from being trucked off the dock for disposal. Oilfield waste handled onshore in Louisiana falls under Statewide Order 29-B, which the Office of Conservation in the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy administers. Equipment returning from offshore can carry naturally occurring radioactive material in its scale and sludge, and PMI surveys and remediates that NORM under LDEQ NORM Specific License LA-7947-S01, with a PMI employee serving as Radiation Safety Officer. Every PMI employee carries a TWIC card, the federal credential for unescorted access to the secure areas of port facilities and vessels.
Questions we get
Equipment a customer sends in to be cleaned goes to Yard 2 at 200 16th St, whoever owns it, because the Super Dock is PMI's only CCU cleaning facility. PMI-owned and rented equipment goes to Yard 1 at 181 Anselmi Dr once any cleaning it needs is done. For a vessel or anything else, call dispatch at 888-229-3837 before arriving, and dispatch will name the yard.
Yes. Supply vessels tie up at OSV cleaning Stations 2 and 3 on the Super Dock, and crews clean the liquid mud and dry bulk tanks while the boat is in port. Fourchon runs 24/7 with immediate response, so the work isn't limited to daylight hours, which matters when a vessel has a tight turnaround.
They are washed at the Super Dock's CCU cleaning facility in Yard 2, where an automated unit, the flipper/dipper, does the work on a covered slab. It turns and dips each container through the wash, so a worker doesn't have to climb in. Frac tanks and other offshore containers are cleaned in the same yard.
It is recycled on site. OSV wash water from PMI's Fourchon cleaning is treated and reused instead of being trucked off the dock. Water a vessel discharges offshore is a separate matter, and it has to meet the limits of that vessel's NPDES permit.
Yes. Every PMI employee holds a TWIC card, the Transportation Worker Identification Credential, so Fourchon crews can work the secure areas of a port facility or a vessel. PMI's people are also trained in BasicPlus and certified in confined space rescue.
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