Fourchon's primary service markets are domestic deepwater oil and gas exploration, drilling, and production in the Gulf.

[3] Sixteen years after Katrina, the center of category 4 Hurricane Ida made landfall in Port Fourchon at 11:54 am CDT, August 29, 2021, with sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h).

Having been designated as a "High Priority" corridor by Congress in 2001, a solution was needed to replace the road prone to flooding and natural disaster being outside the hurricane levee system.

In 2007, a seven-mile (11-km) section of the project from Leeville to Port Fourchon, including a higher bridge across Bayou Lafourche, began construction and was completed in December 2011.

The next phase in the LA-1 Project looked to extend the elevated highway from within the flood gates of Golden Meadow to Port Fourchon.