ABB Awarded Wellhead Platform Contract; Partnership Will Build and Install Deepwater Platform Off Angolan Coast.Business and Technology Editors ZURICH, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2001 ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s , the global power and automation technology group, in partnership with Heerema of Holland, has been awarded a contract by Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited (Esso) - a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corporation - to design, build and commission a deepwater tension leg platform Tension leg platforms (TLPs) are wind turbines attached to floating platforms with steel cables tethered from the corners of the floating platform to a concrete-block or other mooring system on the ocean floor. for the Kizomba A Project located in the deepwater Block 15 offshore Angola. "We are extremely pleased with this contract in West Africa West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. , a region that is crucial for future oil and gas development," says Gorm Gundersen, executive vice president and head of ABB's oil, gas and petrochemicals division. "Developments in West Africa are evolving at the limits of current industry deepwater technology, experience and skill. This contract underscores ABB's expertise, which is perfectly matched to West Africa's unique logistical lo·gis·tic also lo·gis·ti·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to symbolic logic. 2. Of or relating to logistics. [Medieval Latin logisticus, of calculation challenges." The contract will be executed by ABB from its Houston office and will also draw on resources from ABB operations in Africa, Europe and Asia, and key components will be manufactured in Angola. Scheduled for completion in the third quarter 2003, the Kizomba tension leg platform will be anchored in water 1,250 meters deep. It's the next generation of tension leg platform (TLP TLP Tension Leg Platform TLP Thread-Level Parallelism TLP Transactional License Program (Adobe software license program) TLP Transitional Living Program TLP The Learning Partnership TLP Transmission Level Point TLP Tanzania Labor Party ) design, a four-legged concept which allows customers to adjust surface wellhead well·head n. 1. The source of a well or stream. 2. A principal source; a fountainhead. 3. The structure built over a well. wellhead Noun 1. solutions to local conditions. It can be built and commissioned onshore, installed in one piece and anchored to the seabed using a specially designed tethering system. The hull and topsides will be integrated in Holland, and the completed unit transported to Angola for final installation. ABB (www.abb.com) is a global leader in power and automation technologies enabling utilities and industries to improve their performance while minimizing environmental impacts. ABB has 160,000 employees in more than 100 countries. |
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