HOUMA, La. (AP) — With oil and gas companies thirsting for more supplies on deepwater platforms and rigs, orders for new ships to truck everything from drilling mud to macaroni and cheese have climbed. That demand has one old Houma shipyard roaring back to life.

Inside a metal hangar alongside the Prospect Street Overpass in Houma, sparks flew and hammers pounded echoes off of ships’ steel hulls on a recent Wednesday morning.