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Energy News Live Talks to ABS'
Bill Sember about LNG Terminals
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ABS CLASSIFICATION SPEEDS
WORLD'S FIRST AND SECOND
TRUSS SPAR PROJECTS
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Robert Major, ABS Project Manager for both truss spars(third from the left) and his team admire a model of the project. From left to right are: Liangzi Cong, Senior Engineer; Matthew Tremblay, Principal Engineer; Robert Major, Project Manager; Lars Samuelsson, Senior Engineer; Sarah Alaniz, Engineer; Marco Wigny, Senior Engineer. Richard Walts, Manager, Projects and Appraisal Services, ABS Consulting, also contributed significantly to the project with financial due diligence services.
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ABS is the classification society of record for Kerr-McGee's Nansen and Boomvang floating platforms located in the Gulf of Mexico. ABS provided class services as part of a lifelong process to ensure that a facility or vessel is built and maintained to ABS Rules.
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The Vastar Horn Mountain is one of the Gulf of Mexico's deepest truss spar floating production platforms. It will be ABS classed as an XA1 Floating Offshore Installation. The spar is 105 ft in diameter. Photo shows the spar hull aboard the Dockwise Mighty Servant I just departing Mantyluoto Works Oy, Pori, Finland. The anchor piles and moorings were installed in March this year. The hull was uprighted and hooked to the mooring on June 18, followed by the deck on June 22.
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Fire and Blast Considerations for Offshore Facilities
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Recently
ABS Consulting offered its expertise surrounding the issue of
explosions in offshore facilities at the "International
Workshop: Fire & Blast Considerations in The Future Design of
Offshore Facilities" held in Houston, Texas. Recent
development activity in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico coupled
with interest from the MMS and industry created this workshop
as a forum for sharing of knowledge and experience with regards
to the present state-of-practice and possible future developments
in Management Processes, Safe Design Practice and Fire and Blast
Engineering....more
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ABS Consulting Brazil Address Changes
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Brazil
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Macaé
ABS Group Services do Brasil Ltda
Estrada João Batista Quaresma,
No. 36 - Novo Cavaleiro
Macaé - RJ - Brazil
Tel.: (55-22) 2763-7018
Fax: (55-22) 2773-5997
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Rio de Janeiro (Principal Office)
ABS Group Services do Brasil Ltda
Av. Venezuela,
3 - 19º andar - Centro
20081-310
Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil
Tel. (55-21) 3232-1700
Fax: (55-21) 2263-8880
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