Energy News June 2004


Company	Products & Services	Rules & Guides	News & Events	Regulatory Information

Products & Services • Offshore / Energy • E-News


A Publication of ABS Energy Project Development

Dajiu Jiang, ABS Sr. Engineer	William Sember, VP ABS Energy Development
Dajiu Jiang, ABS Senior Engineer (left) addresses a technical session discussing the feasibility of offshore concrete LNG terminals at the annual Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston...read more

William J. Sember, Vice President of ABS Energy Development (right), participates in a panel discussion on novel concepts in CNG transport at an OTC breakfast forum. Sember also chaired a special OTC session discussing safety issues for offshore LNG terminal design....read more


ABS is providing classification services to projects in the challenging Caspian Sea in northwest Asia, bordered by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Russia and Iran. Unusually shallow at its northern end, very deep on its southern end, and subject to fierce winters, this landlocked body of water also is environmentally sensitive as the breeding ground of caviar-producing sturgeon...read more


William J. Sember, ABS Vice President of Energy Development, discusses the Trend Toward Larger LNG Carriers with panelists James MacHardy, General Manager, Society of International Gas Terminal Operators (SIGTTO) and Tim Protheroe, Vice President, Americas Marine Business, Lloyd's Register at the Third Annual LNG North America Summit held in Houston.



	ABS Joins Think Tank of Gas Storage Innovators
	ABS Signs Kazakstan MOU
	New CNG Guide Speeds Approval of Pioneering Gas-to-Market Strategies


	Scooter Yeargain
	Constitution


	Ultimate Strength Assessment Improves Safety in Offshore Design
	New Subsea Guides Provide Clarity, Depth


	Caspian Sea Round-Up
	ABS Participates in Expansion of Southeast Asia Development


	Concrete Expands Options for Offshore LNG Terminals

	ABS surveyors provided on-site support for the building of the Rowan Scooter Yeargain new build jackup at the LeTourneau yard in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Effective communications between ABS and LeTourneau led to a record review timeframe for the classification of Scooter Yeargain.
Classed as an XA1 Self-Elevating Drilling Unit, the Scooter Yeargain is the first of four newly designed units called Tarzan, all which will be built at the LeTourneau yard. ABS has already begun the design review process for classing the second Tarzan unit, dubbed Bob Keller...read more