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aving 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.
The buoys are the STL design, a type of single-point mooring system, from Advanced Production and Loading AS of Norway (APL). See earlier Energy News article ABS TO CLASS FIRST OFFSHORE LNG DEEPWATER PORT BUOY for background.
The Excelerate Energy's Northeast Gateway deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) port has a projected mid-2007 in-service date and is located offshore Massachusetts. As with the previous Excelerate project, ABS will class the buoy to include: technical review of the STL buoy and associated moorings, riser and PLEM for site-specific location in accordance with ABS Rules for Building and Classing Single Point Moorings as well survey of the STL buoy during construction, offshore installation of the piles, moorings, PLEM and STL buoy together with gas riser.
Australia’s Woodside Natural Gas Inc.’s project offshore California will use the same technology and transport system for its LNG project.
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