re: Space City, LA - space X proposing a whole city in Vermillion Parish

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That 'airport' in Laffy isn't going to cut it. And Moisant is too far away.

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The new airport still has at least one gate maybe two gates that can be added. They also mainly seevice small commuter jets but larger 737s and A300s can easily operate there.

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That 'airport' in Laffy isn't going to cut it. And Moisant is too far away.

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I’ll file this under you have no idea what you’re talking about. C-17’s and 747’s have landed at LFT. Also, Acadiana Regional in New Iberia has landed Antonovs.

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They are looking at massive dredging of inlet to Freshwater city and inlets past the locks to their docks. Airplane runways, massive docks and miles of rock jetties and seawalls.

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I wonder what the buffer zone is going to be. We probably won’t be able to fish some of that area ever again.

Does New Iberia have a longer runway than LFT?

The runway at Chennault International Airport in Lake Charles, Louisiana, was historically designated and approved by NASA as an alternative emergency landing site for the Space Shuttle program. It stretches an impressive 10,700 feet in length and spans 200 feet in width.

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Does New Iberia have a longer runway than LFT?

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I am pretty sure it does. That airport inNew Iberia was a Naval Air Station in the distant past. It is a military - grade runway that is still used for military training sometimes.

Going to be wild to see these on Hwy 82

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This would be awesome but I just don’t see a possibility where Louisiana politicians don’t complete;y frick this up.

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Don’t forget our stupid arse constituents. Already seeing posts on Facebook about “how do we make sure this is the right thing for Acadiana and this doesn’t interfere with our lifestyle/ culture/ environment?

We are destined to be last in everything forever. If it isn’t our grifter politicians it’s our idiot residents.

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Questions for O&G folks. Each Starship launch will consume about 4,500 metric tons of methane. Projected 30 launches per week will require about 135,000 metric tons of methane.

How much natural gas does it take to produce that amount of methane and how does that compare with our current Louisiana natural gas production?

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Roughly 1,000–1,300 metric tons of methane (CH4) per Starship launch (not 4,500), so ~55–65 million standard cubic feet (MMscf) of natural gas equivalent per launch after accounting for liquefaction. At 30 launches/week that is on the order of 0.24–0.28 Bcf/d—material but still only a few percent of Louisiana’s current natural gas production.
Methane per launch
Starship + Super Heavy uses methalox (liquid methane + liquid oxygen) at roughly a 3.6:1 O2:CH4 mass ratio. Total propellant is in the ~4,600–5,250 metric ton range depending on the version/block:

Typical published breakdowns put methane at ~1,000–1,300 metric tons per full stack (older figures nearer 1,000–1,100 t; some V3-oriented estimates around 1,140 t).
The user’s 4,500 t figure is closer to total propellant mass (or total propellant + some margin), not the methane portion alone.

Natural gas is mostly methane. Converting liquid methane mass to pipeline gas volume yields ~50–62 MMscf of CH4 per launch. Industry analyses that include liquefaction energy/losses commonly use ~55 MMscf of natural gas per launch.
Scaled demand at 30 launches/week

30 launches/week ˜ 4.3 launches/day.
At ~55 MMscf/launch ? ~0.24 Bcf/d.
Using the higher ~62–65 MMscf end ? roughly 0.26–0.28 Bcf/d.

(For context, longer-term SpaceX ambitions of thousands of flights per year would push this into the 1+ Bcf/d range, comparable to a mid-sized LNG train, but 30/week is still modest.)
Comparison to Louisiana natural gas production
Louisiana state (onshore + state waters, excluding most federal OCS) production has been running in the ~3.6–3.8 Tcf/year range recently:

2025: ~3.77 Tcf (up modestly from 2024), driven overwhelmingly by the Haynesville Shale in northwest Louisiana.
That equates to roughly 10–10.5 Bcf/d on average.

Haynesville production itself (which straddles Louisiana and East Texas) has been in the mid-teens Bcf/d recently. Louisiana is a major gas state and a key LNG export hub, so its production is large relative to the Starship numbers above.
Bottom line: 30 launches/week would require on the order of 2–3% of Louisiana’s current statewide natural gas production. It is noticeable in a local/regional sense (especially if concentrated near a launch site and liquefaction plant) but easily within the scale of existing production and the growth already expected from Haynesville and Gulf Coast demand (LNG, etc.). Pipeline, liquefaction, and cryogenic logistics would be the practical constraints long before raw supply. SpaceX is already pursuing dedicated gas infrastructure (e.g., the “Starpipe” concept near Starbase) precisely for this reason.