HOUSTON-On April 16, LLOG Exploration Company LLC and its partners commenced production on one of the Gulf of Mexico's most efficient deepwater developments to date: the Delta House multiple-field project in the Mississippi Canyon Miocene play. First oil flowed to the new Delta House semisubmersible floating production system moored in 4,500 feet of water only about three years after the first of three anchor fields was discovered, ranking it among the best cycle times for a Gulf FPS-based development. The fast-track schedule included starting the FPS engineering work and the bidding of construction yards prior to even drilling the discovery well: the Son of Bluto 2 in Mississippi Canyon 431. The partners also utilized private equity funding to facilitate the abbreviated timeline for starting construction of the host platform and export lines. The first phase of operations at Delta House includes the three anchor fields, located between six and 14 miles from the FPS, an Exmar OPTI-11000™ semisubmersible design stationed at Mississippi Canyon 254. The fields produce from Miocene-age reservoirs in a channel levee turbidite depositional environment at subsurface depths of 12,000- 18,500 feet. The fields are produced through two in-field flow loops that tie the wet trees and subsea manifolds to steel catenary risers connected to the FPS. A 12-inch oil and a 16-inch gas pipeline export production. Production is scheduled to ramp up through the end of 2015 as the seven wells already drilled in the area are brought on line. Longer term, at least four more LLOGoperated fields eventually could tie into the host platform. JUNE 2015 89