Install Fortran 11.1 without Visual Studio, is it possible? Yes, it is. In other words, Intel Visual Fortran 11.1 comes with VS 2008 shell included. I did NOT buy/install VS separately. I just let Fortran 11.1 install it's own VS shell. So, I have to make changes/additions to the Win7 system variables.

I added a SYSTEM VARIABLE  

MSVS_9.0 = C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0

I added to the path  

%IFORT_COMPILER11%bin\\ia32  #to find IFORT.EXE 

%MSVS_9.0%\\VC\\Bin  #to find LINK.EXE

I moved form the PATH to USER VARIABLES 

%IFORT_COMPILER11%lib\\ia32  #bec it does not help being in the PATH

I added USER VARIABLES

LIB = %IFORT_COMPILER11%\\Lib\\ia32;%MSVS_9.0%\\VC\\Lib;%MSVS_9.0%\\VC\\PlatformSDK\\Lib 

INCLUDE= %IFORT_COMPILER11%\\Include;%IFORT_COMPILER11%\\Include\\ia32

I do not need to modify the abaqus_v6.env

Done.