New concepts and designs have pushed class societies to anticipate and develop rules for the next generation of offshore installations. Floating production advances are calling for class design review to be conducted in a truly holistic manner. lass design review at ABS was prompted by some recent innovative floating production units ABS is classing, one of which is ATP Oil & Gas Corp.'s Cheviot floating production unit (FPU), a Moss Maritime Octabuoy design, which is headed for the UK North Sea.
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