Black Bayou plans six headquarters jobs in Lafayette

Black Bayou Energy Hub plans to add six jobs at its Lafayette headquarters as part of a larger natural gas infrastructure project in southwest Louisiana. Louisiana Economic Development’s September 10, 2026 announcement separates that office expansion from the company’s planned work around the Black Bayou salt dome in Cameron Parish.

For Lafayette, LED reported an average annual salary of $195,000 for the six proposed positions and retention of five existing jobs. The headquarters would support administrative, engineering and operational work. LED separately estimated nine indirect jobs in Acadiana.

The announced $1.6 billion investment spans the headquarters expansion and infrastructure development. LED placed 17 proposed direct jobs in Cameron Parish, with infrastructure extending into Calcasieu. Construction was expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026, followed by commercial operations in late 2028.

The company’s project description, checked September 15, 2026, identifies the physical development as a gas blending, balancing and transfer facility at the salt dome. It describes plans for connections to major pipelines and a dual pipeline arrangement permitting gas injection and withdrawal at the same time.

Those features concern moving and managing natural gas supplies. The company describes access to gas supply basins and LNG export facilities as an advantage of its location; it does not describe the Lafayette office as the storage site.

The state’s September announcement therefore represents two different kinds of proposed employment: corporate and technical work in Lafayette, and infrastructure operations farther west. The six headquarters positions are a hiring target, not a report that those jobs have already been filled.