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Scope of Certification

Nothing contained in any certificate or report is to be deemed to relieve any designer, builder, Operator, Manufacturer, seller, supplier, repairer, other entity or person of any warranty express or implied. Any certificate or report evidences compliance only with one or more of the Rules, Guides, standards, or other criteria of the American Bureau of Shipping and is issued solely for the use of ABS, its committees, its clients, or other authorized entities. Nothing contained in any certificate, report, plan or document review or approval is to be deemed in any way a representation or statement beyond those contained in 1/1.5. The validity, applicability and interpretation of any certificate, report, plan or document review are governed by the Rules, Guides, and standards of the American Bureau of Shipping who shall remain the sole judge thereof. ABS is not responsible for the consequences arising from the use by other parties of the Rules, Guides, standards or other criteria of the American Bureau of Shipping, without review, plan approval and survey by ABS.

Applicability

This Guide specifies the technical documentation and provides guidelines for design, manufacturing, installation and maintenance of offshore fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) piping installations used in offshore topside modules. The principal objectives are to specify the minimum requirements for certification and continuance of certification by ABS. Pipes and piping components made of fiber reinforced plastics (FRP), which are thermosetting plastic materials with reinforcement, may be used in piping installations referred to in Section 2, Table 3, subject to compliance with the requirements specified in this Guide.

In this document, the term "certification" indicates that an FRP piping installation has been designed, manufactured, installed and surveyed in compliance with the existing Rules, Guides or other acceptable standards.

The continuance of certification is dependent on the fulfillment of requirements for surveys after construction.

This Guide supersedes the requirements for FRP piping installation specified in Appendix 1, "Plastic Pipe Installations," of the ABS Guide for Building and Classing Facilities on Offshore Installations (ABS Facilities Guide), and is to be used in conjunction with other parts of the ABS Facilities Guide.