Bristow Nigeria working with local schools in CSR programne
Source: Daily Trust, 05-Feb-13
Bristow Helicopters has distributed school kits to 400 pupils from four community schools as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility programme (see full story)
Nigerian CAA commits to work towards approval of night flying
Source: HeliHub.com, 21-Feb-12
The Nigerian CAA have rejected a recent application from helicopter operators to commence night flying in the West African cuontry. Director-General, Dr Harold Demuren, confirmed the situation during a meeting with major oil companies and helicopter operators in his office in Lagos – including representatives from the Directorate of Petroleum Regulations, Total, Chevron Oil, ConOil, [...]
Bristow Nigeria appoints two Directors
Source: Bristow Nigeria, 10-Oct-11
Bristow Helicopters Nigeria Ltd has announced the appointment of Lawrence Fubara-Anga and Andrew Magowan into its Board of Directors. A graduate of Yale University, Fubara-Anga is one of the founding partners at LEX, a full service law firm and one of the largest law firms in West Africa. Fubara-Anga heads the firm’s Transportation, Banking and [...]
Nigeria’s NCAT to start helicopter school
Source: AllAfrica, 29-Aug-11
The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria, is to commence the training of rotor craft pilots in Q3. The organisation is purchasing two B206s from Canada. (see full story)
BATS – new maintenance company created by Bristow Nigeria
Source: HeliHub.com, 28-Jun-11
After our previous reports of Bristow divesting themselves of Pan African Airlines, HeliHub.com has now heard that their maintenance department has been hived off into a separate company. This will allow them to provide maintenance at arms-length to PAA, as well as their own operations – Bristow Helicopters (Nigeria) Ltd. The new organisation, BGI Aviation [...]
Bristow Nigeria recruiting pilots
Source: Bristow Nigeria, 04-Mar-11
Bristow is one of the world’s largest providers of helicopter services. The first civil helicopter company to work in the oil and gas industry, Bristow has earned an international reputation for speed of response and quality of service.Bristow is a truly global organization, working together from facilities around the world to offer a wide-ranging array of services. [...]
Bristow Helicopters Nigeria completes $2m hangar
Source: The Nation, 16-Feb-11
The $2 million facility saves for the company about $1.5 million that would have been spent in overseas maintenance
Bristow Nigeria lost $1m to bird strikes
Source: Independent Online, 06-Feb-11
This was made known by the Managing Director of Bristow Helicopters, Capt Akin Oni, briefing journalists on efforts at repositioning the company and the aviation safety conference tagged, “Target Zero,” in Lagos recently.
