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03 Jan 2014

Conbit Installs Shelter and Helideck Offshore Libya

Mabruk Oil Operations ordered a shelter and helideck from a Dutch manufacturer in 2012. The contract involved delivery Free on Board Rotterdam. From this point, Conbit was assigned to arrange transport to Libya and installation on the BD-1 platform, off the coast of Libya. The project was awarded in two parts. The engineering contract was awarded in April, while the transport and installation contract was awarded at the beginning of September 2013, just three weeks before the scheduled transport date.

16 Feb 2011

This Day in U.S. Coast Guard History-February 16

1804 - Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketchIntrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses. England's Lord Nelson calls this "the most daring act of the age."   1815 - USS Constitution captures British Susannah   1967 - Operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta   (Source: Navy News Service)

14 Feb 2011

This Day in U.S. Naval History - February 15

1804 - Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses. England's Lord Nelson calls this "the most daring act of the age."   1815 - USS Constitution captures British Susannah   1967 - Operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta   (Source: Navy News Service)

16 Feb 2010

This Day in Naval History – Feb. 16

1804 - Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses. England's Lord Nelson calls this "the most daring act of the age." 1815 - USS Constitution captures British Susannah 1967 - Operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta (Source: Navy News Service)

14 Feb 2008

This Day in Naval History - Feb. 14

From the Navy News Service 1778 - John Paul Jones, while commanding the American vessel Ranger, receives the first official salute to the U.S. Stars and Stripes flag by a European country, at Quiberon, France. 1804 - Lt. Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli Harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to destroy the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur succeeds without American losses. 1813 - USS Essex becomes first U.S. warship to round Cape Horn and enter the Pacific Ocean. 1814 - USS Constitution captures the British ships Lovely Ann and Pictou. 1840 - Officers from USS Vincennes make the first landing in Antarctica on floating ice.