The Lake Charles yard is built for industrial scale. Westlake, Sulphur, and the Calcasieu Ship Channel run on continuous turnarounds, expansions, and LNG capex — and we run the cranes that move the steel. The yard carries 40 to 500 ton capacity, with crawler and all-terrain mix biased toward refinery and petrochemical work. NCCCO operators are pre-badged at Phillips 66, Citgo, Sasol, Westlake Chemical, and the LNG operators on the channel.
We were on the ground for Calcasieu Pass and Cameron LNG mods and have stayed there for ongoing operations and maintenance. Turnaround season means dispatch runs at sustained tempo: pre-stage cranes the week before, rotate operators on 12-hour shifts, return cranes for inspection between units.
After Hurricane Laura we ran emergency lifts across the parish for sixty consecutive days. Storm response is part of the muscle memory of this yard.
Cranes available from this yard. Other yards within reach if a specialty pick needs a different rig.
4WD rough-terrain crane for off-road jobsites, refinery yards, and tight industrial pads where a truck crane will not fit.
Hydraulic truck crane for mid-weight commercial, light industrial, and downtown picks where 40T is short and 90T is overkill.
All-terrain crane that drives at highway speed and works off-road on the same day. Most-requested crane in our fleet.
Long-boom all-terrain class for heavy commercial, marine, and refinery picks needing reach plus capacity.
Heavy-lift class for transformer sets, vessel work, structural sets, and critical industrial picks.
Industrial heavy-lift class for refinery turnaround, LNG, marine topside, and substation work.
Large-class all-terrain for LNG modules, refinery vessel sets, and major industrial picks.
Top of the CDH fleet. Engineered heavy lift for refinery vessels, LNG modules, and critical structural picks.
Routine coverage runs roughly 70 miles from yard. We mobilize farther when the project supports it.
350,000 lb reactor head removal during a planned turnaround with engineered tail crane and night curfew.
92,000 lb module set on schedule despite weather hold and channel traffic coordination.
Seven-day rolling rebuild with rigging plans approved by the unit superintendent and zero recordables.
I-210 loops the city and keeps heavy loads off the I-10 Calcasieu River bridge, which has weight and lane constraints that will decide your route before anything else does. Westlake and Sulphur plants come off LA 108 and LA 27.
the Citgo Lake Charles refinery · Phillips 66 Lake Charles · Sasol and Westlake Chemical in Westlake · Cheniere Sabine Pass LNG · Venture Global Calcasieu Pass · the Port of Lake Charles · Chennault International Airport
Dispatch answers 24 hours a day and the Lake Charles yard covers roughly a 70-mile radius. For a planned lift, booking a few days out gets you the exact crane and operator you want. For a breakdown or an emergency, we mobilise the nearest suitable unit the same day wherever the route and permits allow.
It depends on where the crane sits and how it gets there. A lift entirely inside a private plant or yard usually needs no public permit, only the site's own work authorisation. Anything that occupies a public street, a sidewalk or a lane, or that moves an oversize load on I-10 or another state route, needs a permit and often traffic control. We handle the oversize load permits for our own equipment and will tell you plainly which street-closure permits are yours to pull.
Both. Most work in this area goes out operated, meaning an NCCCO-certified operator and, where the pick needs one, a rigger come with the crane and stay under our insurance. Bare rental is available to contractors who carry their own certified operators and the insurance to match.
There is no useful list price, because the number moves with crane class, how long the pick takes, mobilisation distance, counterweight and mat requirements, and whether the work is straight time or after hours. Give dispatch the load weight, the radius, and the site, and you get a real quote rather than a range.
Four things get you a number quickly: what the load weighs, how far the hook has to reach from where the crane can legally set up, the date, and the site address. Photographs of the setup area and any overhead obstructions help more than almost anything else, because they answer the questions we would otherwise have to ask.
More than most people expect. The footprint is set by the outrigger spread, not the truck, and it grows with the tonnage. Ground bearing matters as much as area: soft or filled ground needs mats, and mats need somewhere to go. If you can send a photograph of the setup area we will tell you before the day whether it works.
Every operator is NCCCO certified and current. We maintain OSHA compliance, and we are registered with ISN and Avetta, which is what most refineries and plants in this region check before they will badge anyone through the gate.
Yes, and a good deal of our work is exactly that. Turnarounds, road closures and set work in built-up areas usually have to happen outside normal hours. Dispatch is staffed around the clock, so an after-hours job is scheduled the same way a daytime one is.
The Lake Charles yard routinely covers Calcasieu Parish, Cameron Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish and the surrounding parishes and counties, out to roughly 70 miles. Beyond that we still quote the work; it simply becomes a question of mobilisation cost and whether another CDH yard is closer.
Yes. We carry general liability, and operated rentals are covered under our policy while the crane is under our control. Certificates of insurance naming your company or the site owner as additional insured are issued on request before mobilisation, which most plants require anyway.
Wind is the usual culprit, and every crane has a published wind limit that falls as the boom goes up and the load gets larger. If conditions exceed the chart the lift stops, which is not negotiable. We watch the forecast ahead of scheduled picks and will call it early rather than mobilise into a day that will not work.
Yes. LNG construction and maintenance around Cameron Parish is a steady part of the Lake Charles yard's work, alongside the refineries and chemical plants in Westlake and Sulphur. That work is contractor-screened and schedule-driven, which is what the yard is set up for.
Often, yes. It has clearance and lane constraints that shape the route for anything oversize, so we plan around it using I-210 and LA 108 where the destination allows. It is one of the first things we check once we have your site address, because it can change which crane makes sense.
Dispatch is staffed 24/7. Two-minute call to scope the pick, same-day quote in most cases.