US & Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil & Gas Production News

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.

The demand for offshore floating production systems is exhibiting strong growth, according to a recent report by International Maritime Associates, Inc (IMA).

The 15-week dockside maintenance program for the Terra Nova FPSO, operating offshore Newfoundland, has been postponed until 2012, according to Suncor Energy.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. reports finalizing a unitization agreement with Exxon Mobil Corp. and co-owners to develop the Lucius field.

Production from the Buzzard field in the UK central North Sea was restricted to114,000 boe/d during the 2Q 2011.

Shell Offshore Inc. has contracted BMT Scientific Marine Services Inc. to provide a marine instrumentation system to the Olympus TLP in the Mars B development in the Gulf of Mexico.

EXMAR says that the OPTI-EX floating production system has been successfully delivered to LLOG Deepwater Development Co. for its Mississippi Canyon project in the Gulf of Mexico.

Production has started from Eni’s Appaloosa field in the Gulf of Mexico.

GE Oil & Gas says it will supply three aeroderivative gas turbine electricity generators to Chevron for the Jack and St. Malo FPSO in the Gulf of Mexico.

Iona Energy has farmed into 20% of the Trent and Tyne gas fields in the southern UK North Sea.

Alaska’s Cook Inlet holds more oil and gas than previously estimated, according to a new study by the US Geological Survey.

The costs of building and operating upstream oil and gas facilities continues to increase, says IHS.

Mexico’s state oil company Pemex has announced that it will acquire eight new offshore oil drilling platforms and other equipment worth $1.2 billion.

Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC says it will acquire 40 fields with current production of approximately 8,200 net boe/d.

Leni Gas & Oil (LGO) has resumed production from the Eugene Island-184 (EI-184) platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

BHP Billiton has started production from its Shenzi field in the Gulf of Mexico, thus becoming the first operator with new deepwater production since the moratorium imposed during the Macondo incident.

The semisubmersible Sedco 704 has drilled and cased the final production well on the Athena field in the UK central North Sea.