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Introduction

This Guide provides guidance for converting Self-Elevating Units (SEUs) to Offshore Installations (OIs) for Hydrocarbon Production and/or Processing service

Where a SEU is converted to an OI, the classification requirements of this Guide are to be complied with, and the ABS Offshore Installation notation will be granted when found satisfactory.

If the marine and safety systems serving the entire installation are requested to be classed by the Owner, ABS's scope of classification work is to include the marine and safety systems and compliance with applicable ABS Rules and/or Guides, as referenced in 7-2-A3/3 of ABS Rules for Building and Classing Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODU Rules), is required.

If non-structural items of the installation are excluded from ABS's scope of classification, and if the jacking system is only to be used during the initial jacking of the unit on site, the jacking system at a minimum is to be restricted to an examination to confirm the system's ability to elevate the unit to the required elevation at the final location in accordance with Section 5. A calculation is to be submitted confirming that the unit's final total load to be lifted does not exceed the jacking unit rated capacity.

Upon satisfactory review and survey, ABS will issue documentation to the unit for a single voyage from the conversion yard to the installation site. After the installation is completed and the Surveyor is satisfied, a report will be submitted to the Class Committee requesting issuance of a full term Class Certificate.