The US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is no stranger to adversity.

Petrobras expects to start production of the Cascade/Chinook fields, in the Gulf of Mexico in January, according to a report by the company.

US and Latin American acquisition moves drove the total global upstream capital spending for 221 oil and gas companies up by 47% to $558 billion in 2010 says an IHS report.

DORIS Engenharia Ltda. has chosen Intergraph SmartMarine Enterprise solutions to design the topsides of eight floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units for Petrobras.

Shell’s Perdido spar development in the Gulf of Mexico is going into its second year of production, and lessons still are being learned.

Chevron USA has contracted BMT Scientific Marine Services to provide an environmental and facilities monitoring system (EFMS) to be installed in the Gulf of Mexico’s Jack & St. Malo FPSS.

ATP Oil & Gas Corp. reports first oil produced from its Mississippi Canyon block 941 A-2 well to the Telemark Hub using the ATP Titan floating drilling and production platform.

Buccaneer Energy Ltd. reports that a jackup liftboat is doing wireline workovers on both well in the Pompano field, Gulf of Mexico.

Canadian Natural Resources (CNR) has reinstated production at the Olowi field offshore Gabon.