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ABS has been awarded the contracts for the first jackup drilling rigs to be built
in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
A total of four units will be built to ABS standards: two units for Thule Drilling ASA and two
units for Mosvold Drilling Ltd. Read more.
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Having classed the first offshore LNG deepwater port buoy for Excelerate’s
Energy Bridge Deepwater Port in the Gulf of Mexico, ABS has class contracts on four more buoys:
two for Excelerate’s Northeast Gateway project and two for Woodside Natural Gas Inc.’s OceanWay Secure Energy.
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ABS reviewed and approved the Suction Embedded Plate Anchor (SEPLA) mooring system for a floating production unit (FPU) in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Several jackups are being built at Dalian Shipyard in
China to ABS class. Among them is one of the longest legged jackups built in China.
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The hull of the Independence Hub
arrives from the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore to Gulf Marine Fabricators in Corpus Christi, Texas,
to continue work on the platform. Shown here the hull was successfully offloaded from the Mighty Servant 3,
an open deck heavy lift vessel from Dockwise that can move cargoes weighing up to 25,000 tons.
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ABS Chairman and CEO Robert D. Somerville visits with His Excellency Abdulla bin Hamad al-Attiyah,
Second Deputy Minister and Minister of Energy & Industry of Qatar during his recent visit to the United States.
To support maritime excellence in Qatar, ABS has established a multi-pronged approach to marine education consisting
of a scholarship fund, internship program and training classes for Qataris.
ABS has its Middle East regional headquarters in Doha, Qatar.
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ABS continues to review novel gas transport and storage technology with Approval In Principle (AIP)
given to Torp Technology’s HiLoad LNG Regas units. Read more. |
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ABS' Vice President of Energy Development William J. Sember was elected
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Centre of Marine CNG
located in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Sember (second from left) cuts the ribbon at the Centre's grand opening
celebration. Looking on are (from left) Center for CNG dignitaries Project
Engineer Grant Dedora, Board of Directors Chair Dr. Christopher Loomis and
Managing Director Michael Hanrahan.
Read more for CNG updates.
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The Centre for Marine CNG Inc. will host the Annual International Marine CNG Standards Forum,
7-9 November, St. John’s, Newfoundland. Conference discusses the advancement of CNG technologies.
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Asia’s largest oil and gas exhibition,
OSEA 2006, 5-8 December, Suntec Singapore,
will feature ABS Vice President of Energy Development William J. Sember
covering production as well as gas recovery issues.
Learn more about ABS offshore classification services
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At the recent 25 th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics
and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2006) in Hamburg, Germany, ABS Manager of Technology and Business
Development, Arturo Revenga, presented a paper “Design Aspects of Winterized
and Arctic LNG Carriers: A Classification Perspective.”
With vast reserves of oil and gas expected to be exploited in the Russian Arctic,
including the Barents Sea, much interest is being taken in the unique demands placed upon vessels
operating in the Arctic region. Revenga summarizes the latest classification technology initiatives
to support the development of standards for the design, construction and maintenance of an LNG carrier
operating in a harsh cold weather environment.
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Patrick L. Fallwell, Head of ABS’ Safety, Environment and Security Certification (SESC)
Program discusses the role of classification in auditing and verifying ship security programs at Platts
Fifth Annual Liquefied Natural Gas Conference in Houston, Texas. Download a
sample ship security plan.
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With the largest attendance since 1982, nearly 60,000 people attended the world’s premiere oil and gas show in Houston, TX, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC).
Kicking off the opening day topical lunch sessions was ABS President and Chief Operating Officer Robert E. Kramek with “Safe Development of the Energy Frontier”.
And ABS’ Director of Corporate Operational Safety & Evaluation Chris Serratella chaired a session on Structural Integrity Management of Fixed and Floating Structures. Serratella was also a co-author of the paper Flexible Approaches to Risk-Based Inspection of FPSOs (OTC 18364).
Offshore Rules and Guides are available for download from the ABS website.
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develops and verifies standards for design, construction
and operational maintenance of marine and offshore facilities.
Currently, ABS has more than 20 Rules and Guides available
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China's Dalian Shipyards Build ABS Classed Rigs 
