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ABS
has been selected by Woodside Energy Ltd., Australia’s
largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration
and production company, to provide classification
and verification services across the Pan-Woodside
Energy Ltd. asset base for the next five
years. The multi-year, multi-million dollar
contract covers core operational requirements
of the company’s activities off Australia
and existing and future emerging projects
in Australia, the U.K., the U.S., Singapore
and Korea. Read
more.
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ABS will class Chevron’s Tahiti truss
spar, destined for deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Targeted for
4,200 feet of water, the Tahiti unit demonstrates
the industry’s latest innovations—including the
first spar with no drilling capability, no surface wellheads—and
is among the first spar projects to utilize ABS’ industry-first
guide for building and classing these specialized deepwater
floating production units.
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ABS has provided ExxonMobil/International
Marine Transportation (IMT) with approval for a full risk
and reliability based Classification scheme for the Yoho
FSO operating off the coast of Nigeria, West Africa.
ABS approved a risk-based inspection or RBI plan for the
hull structure and moorings which allows for greater flexibility
in handling the offshore inspection regimen while minimizing
tank entry through the use of an optimized inspection program. Read
more.
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ABS Project Manager Luiz Feijo reports
Chevron’s Blind Faith deepwater
semisubmersible will be built to ABS classification standards. Read
more. |
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ABS has been awarded the class
contract for the Agbami floating production, storage and offloading
unit (FPSO) by South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine
Engineering (DSME). Read
more. |
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Steel striking ceremony for B 272 jackup.
From
left, KeppelFels Senior Project Manager Jaya Kumar; ABS Senior Surveyor Mohd
Solo; ABS Senior Surveyor T. Tamiki; Director of Engineering,
ABS South Pacific Engineering, Singapore Tamiki Takagi;
ABS Senior Surveyor Richard Pride; ABS Country Manager, ABS
Singapore Thomas Tan; Odfjell Project Manager Ernst H. Hestnes,
and Adam Moilanen, Vice President, Southern Region, ABS Pacific. |
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Steel striking ceremony for B
279 West Berani semisubmersible under construction at KeppelFels
yard in Singapore.
From left,
ABS Surveyor and Project Manager Tan Whye Kiat, ABS Singapore
Country Manager Thomas Tan; Smedvig Offshore Singapore Construction
Manager Allan Hay; and ABS Vice President, Southern Region,
ABS Pacific Adam Moilanen. |
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The surge in liquefied
natural gas (LNG) carrier newbuildings and the accompanying
development of a new generation of these specialized ships
has generated interest in alternative propulsion systems. Read
more. |
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ABS will class five of
the 12 liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers ordered as part
of Qatar’s
RasGas III (Production Train 6) project. The five vessels
will be built to ABS Rules at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine
Engineering (DSME) in Korea. The vessels are part of Qatar’s
mega LNG shipbuilding program in support of its RasGas project.
Visit the new GAS
MARKETS section
of the ABS website to learn more about LNG, LPG, CNG and
emerging gas technologies. More than a dozen LNG related
Rules and Guides available for free download. |
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At the recent 4th International
Conference on Composite Materials and Structures for Offshore
Operations (CMOO-4) in Houston, Texas, ABS Principal Engineer
Jer Fang Wu, Corporate Technology chaired a session On Composite
Technology 1. ABS has been at the forefront of developing guidelines
for the use of composite materials on offshore structures
which is expected to facilitate industry consideration of
alternatives to costly steel in the development of mooring
systems and risers.
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ABS Chief Engineer
J. Andrew Breuer of the Offshore Engineering Department presented
the paper “Internal
Subdivison of Jackups: A New Standard to Resolve an Old Concern” at
the Tenth International Conference Design, Construction & Operation:
The Jackup Platform sponsored by City University, London,
UK. |
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The ABS paper "Challenges
in the Application of Risk in Classification"
was named the best technical paper at
a recent
joint Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) and The
Institute of
Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMAREST) Conference
in
Singapore. |
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ABS hosted a one day workshop
for operators interested in the latest developments surrounding
compressed natural gas (CNG) transport. ABS released this year
its Guide
for Vessels Intended to Carry Compressed Natural Gases in
Bulk and has worked closely with CNG developers
over the past few years to provide design review and ABS
Approval In Principle (AIP) for various CNG concepts. For
more information on CNG, contact ABS
Senior Staff Consultant Phil Rynn. |
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ABS Pacific Division President Jim Liebertz spoke at the International Conference
on Technology and Operations of Offshore Support Vessels hosted by the National
University of Singapore. Read full text of his presentation “Offshore
Support Vessels: A New Horizon.” |
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UFRJ
Design Team Receives Award at SNAME Conference
The student
design team from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
was named the winner of the 2005 International Student Offshore
Design Competition at this year’s
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
Maritime Technology Conference & Expo in Houston, TX. Read
more. |
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See
the wide range of project types and diverse locations of current
projects undertaken by ABS around the world. |
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ABS
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
relating to the offshore and energy industry. |
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