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Latest Edition of ABS Activities
The latest Activities reports on several landmark occasions for ABS, including another year of record fleet size, the awarding of the first Parametric Roll notation in the industry, and the delivery of the first LNG Carrier and largest containership built in China. Read Activities

Offshore Market Highlights
Global jackup demand continues despite slow down in Gulf of Mexico, a drilling success story from Romania and ABS classes a trio of Q-Flex LNG carriers. Find out how you can get a complimentary floor pass to the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in this latest edition of Energy News. View edition.

New Offshore Developments
This issue of Surveyor magazine looks at some of the new ideas, new technologies and relatively new operators now making their mark on the offshore world. View edition.

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ABS Announces Offshore Structure Assessment Program for Semisubmersibles
With major new deepwater discoveries being made by floating mobile offshore drilling units or MODUs, semisubmersibles have become a strong choice for some operators. Class society ABS, who at the end of 2007 had received more than half of the new construction orders for semisubmersibles, has developed an offshore structural assessment program specifically designed for this MODU type. ...more

ABS Introduces New Requirements for the Evaluation of FPSO Structures
Leading offshore classification society ABS has announced it is adopting new structural requirements for the analysis of floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSOs). ...more

ABS Evaluating New Teekay Floating Offshore Gas Concept
Class society ABS has been selected by Teekay Corporation to provide its technical evaluation to the basic design concept of a floating offshore gas liquefaction unit. ...more

ABS Reports Continuing Success, Record Fleet
Calling 2007 “a truly remarkable year,” ABS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Robert D. Somerville reported a record fleet size and record orderbook to the 146th Annual Members Meeting of the classification society, held today in New York. ...more

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