Offshore News

Pawan Hans Helicopters gets approval to buy seven AS365N3 Dauphins

Pawan Hans Helicopters gets approval to buy seven AS365N3 Dauphins

23-Dec-2009Source: PIB

The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has approved the proposal for purchase of seven number of Dauphin AS-365 N3 helicopters by Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited... Read more

Gazpromavia looks to buy five Eurocopter EC225s to support Shtokman gas field

Gazpromavia looks to buy five Eurocopter EC225s to support Shtokman gas field

1-Dec-2009Source: UA Tenders

To win the tender “Gazpromavia”, Eurocopter specially developed a new modification of helicopters to the volume of the fuel tank 800 liters.... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters EC225 North Sea ditching report delayed

Bond Offshore Helicopters EC225 North Sea ditching report delayed

26-Nov-2009Source: STV

An official report to determine why a helicopter with 18 people on board ditched into the North Sea has been delayed, the Government announced on Tuesday.... Read more

Survival suits could have been safer, Cougar S92 crash inquiry hears

Survival suits could have been safer, Cougar S92 crash inquiry hears

17-Nov-2009Source: CBC

Emergency breathing devices for suits worn by passengers during offshore helicopter flights weren’t installed until nine years after they were first recommended and only after a helicopter crashed off the coast of Newfoundland in March, killing 17 people, an inquiry heard Monday.... Read more

Gulf Helicopters win short-term offshore contract with Reliance Oil

Gulf Helicopters win short-term offshore contract with Reliance Oil

16-Nov-2009Source: Gulf Times

Gulf Helicopters Company (GHC), an associate of Gulf International Services, has entered into a service pact with Reliance Exploration and Production DMCC, a subsidiary of India’s private sector petroleum giant Reliance Industries.... Read more

Now is the safest time to fly in helicopter, says oil executive

Now is the safest time to fly in helicopter, says oil executive

4-Nov-2009Source: Press & Journal

An oil and gas industry leader says now is the safest time there has ever been to fly in a North Sea helicopter.  Bob Keiller feels there is still no room for complacency, however. Mr Keiller is chairman of Oil & Gas UK’s helicopter task group, set up earlier this year to look at helicopter... Read more

VIH Aviation Group and Helicopters NZ finalize joint venture

VIH Aviation Group and Helicopters NZ finalize joint venture

1-Nov-2009Source: VIH

VIH Aviation Group and HNZ Group of helicopter companies are pleased to announce their joint venture to specialize in the provision of offshore helicopter services in Australia and its coastal regions.... Read more

Bel Air ready for 2010 introduction of new offshore helicopter rules

Bel Air ready for 2010 introduction of new offshore helicopter rules

11-Oct-2009Source: EBAN

Denmark’s Bel Air, which has entered a “Call off” contract with Maersk Oil, says it has fully complied with the new European performance requirements for offshore helicopters that come into force in 2010.... Read more

Upgrade of drillship Neptune Explorer includes helipad for Sikorsky S92

Upgrade of drillship Neptune Explorer includes helipad for Sikorsky S92

6-Oct-2009Source: Scandinavian Oil & Gas

Neptune Marine Oil & Gas has completed a US$340 million upgrade of its deepwater drillship, the Neptune Explorer. The Pelican Class drillship, acquired in April 2005, has undergone major upgrading and reactivation works at the Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore... Read more

Pilot sues after trip and fall from helicopter

Pilot sues after trip and fall from helicopter

26-Sep-2009Source: South East Texas Record

A helicopter pilot has filed suit against the owners of a platform and the company that maintains the platform, alleging he tripped while attempting to get out of a helicopter.... Read more

Bond Aviation Group secures five long-term contracts, adds 80 jobs

Bond Aviation Group secures five long-term contracts, adds 80 jobs

25-Sep-2009Source: BBC

Eighty new jobs have been created at a Gloucestershire-based helicopter specialists after it secured five new long-term contracts worth £153m... Read more

New Platform Approach System Offers Enhanced Safety, Reduced Pilot Workload in Sikorsky S-92®

New Platform Approach System Offers Enhanced Safety, Reduced Pilot Workload in Sikorsky S-92®

24-Sep-2009Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky announced the introduction of a new functionality offered on the S-92® helicopter to provide offshore oil operators with an automated approach that reduces cockpit workload and allows safer operations under challenging weather and operating conditions.... Read more

Eurocopter keeps on expanding in the United Kingdom

Eurocopter keeps on expanding in the United Kingdom

24-Sep-2009Source: Eurocopter

The company exhibits the EC135 “L’Hélicoptère par Hermès” as centre piece, as well as a large array of eight state-of-the-art helicopters: a London “Met” EC145, an EC135 by Suffolk Police, the UK’s first helicopter – an EC135 – dedicated to offshore wind farm maintenance, a utility AS355 NP used by National Grid for powerline inspections,... Read more

Bristow Group Signs An Agreement For Three AW139s

Bristow Group Signs An Agreement For Three AW139s

22-Sep-2009Source: AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland is pleased to announce that the Bristow Group Inc. has signed an agreement for three AW139 medium twin engine helicopters to be used to perform offshore transport missions. The purchase further strengthens the relationship between AgustaWestland and Bristow Group and also includes options for additional AW139 purchases by the Bristow Group which would reinforce... Read more

Bristow vacates hangar at Sumburgh after 36 years

Bristow vacates hangar at Sumburgh after 36 years

22-Sep-2009Source: PPRuNe

After a 36 year presence at Sumburgh Airport in Shetland, Bristow  gave up the lease on the hangar and handed the keys back to the airport owners.... Read more

Eurocontrol warns North Sea pilots of kites at 1000' agl

Eurocontrol warns North Sea pilots of kites at 1000' agl

18-Sep-2009Source: Eurocontrol

EUROCONTROL Agency has been informed of an incident that happened on 15 September 2009 over the Southern North Sea:... Read more

TUC joins BALPA call for North Sea air safety summit

TUC joins BALPA call for North Sea air safety summit

18-Sep-2009Source: BALPA

The TUC, meeting in Liverpool threw its weight behind a call from the pilots’ union BALPA (British Airline Pilots’ Association) for a North Sea oil and gas Safety Summit.... Read more

Gulf Helicopter signs three-year Bell 212 contract with Saffer

Gulf Helicopter signs three-year Bell 212 contract with Saffer

16-Sep-2009Source: Peninsula

Gulf Helicopters has entered into a service agreement with Saffer Company for exploration and production in order to use one Helicopter type (Bell 212) to support petroleum operations for 3 years... Read more

New helicopter surveillance system boosts North Sea offshore flight safety

New helicopter surveillance system boosts North Sea offshore flight safety

9-Sep-2009Source: Oil & Gas UK

The new system enables air traffic controllers to see helicopters on their radar screens at Aberdeen Airport at a far greater range from the shore than has previously been possible using solely shore-based radars.... Read more

Helicopter potential as South Carolina Committee Recommends Offshore Drilling

Helicopter potential as South Carolina Committee Recommends Offshore Drilling

28-Aug-2009Source: RotorNews

A South Carolina feasibility study committee will give a go-ahead this week for offshore natural gas and oil exploration while federal regulators in September are expected to put some protections of thousands of square miles of the potential drilling area where valuable deep sea coral is found.... Read more

Bond retires flight number assigned to Super Puma in offshore accident

Bond retires flight number assigned to Super Puma in offshore accident

14-Aug-2009Source: Aberdeen Press & Journal

Bond Offshore Helicopters has confirmed that it has retired the flight number given to the aircraft involved in one of the oil industry’s worst disasters earlier this year.... Read more

Two Super Puma helicopters in North Sea near-miss

Two Super Puma helicopters in North Sea near-miss

14-Aug-2009Source: Evening Express

The near-miss happened on March 20 when an air traffic controller gave a pilot the okay to climb – not realising a second helicopter was above him.... Read more

Abu Dhabi Aviation looks further afield

Abu Dhabi Aviation looks further afield

30-Jul-2009Source: The National

The company has leased helicopters to air operators or to oil and gas firms in Ethiopia, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and recently signed new alliances with India’s Heligo, for the use of one Agusta Westland 139, and an offshore support firm for Petrobras... Read more

Eurocopter delivers first EC225 to Vietnam's Southern Service Flight Company

Eurocopter delivers first EC225 to Vietnam's Southern Service Flight Company

23-Jul-2009Source: Eurocopter

Eurocopter is pleased to announce the delivery of the first EC225 to Southern Service Flight Company (SSFC) based in Vung Tau City, Vietnam. Founded in 1985, SSFC belongs to the Service Flight Corporation of Vietnam (SFC VN), a long-standing partner of Eurocopter.... Read more

Bel Air's First AW139 Helicopter Named "Spirit of Agusta" Enters Service

Bel Air's First AW139 Helicopter Named "Spirit of Agusta" Enters Service

9-Jul-2009Source: AgustaWestland

This AW139 is the first of several that will be delivered to Bel Air. Additionally, Bel Air has also been appointed as official AgustaWestland Service Centre for the AW139 in Denmark.... Read more

Eurocopter hands over EC155 to Dancopter, Marking the 100th EC155 and 900th Dauphin Family Delivery

Eurocopter hands over EC155 to Dancopter, Marking the 100th EC155 and 900th Dauphin Family Delivery

17-Jun-2009Source: Rotorhub

Eurocopter CEO, Lutz Bertling is proud to hand over the 100th EC155 B1 to Dancopter CEO Nils Skeby at the Paris Air Show today. The Scandinavian operator is a long-standing Eurocopter customer operating already 5 EC155s in the North Sea oil and gas market, and one of the launch customers of the EC175 with 2... Read more

Bel Air Takes Delivery Of Its First AW139

Bel Air Takes Delivery Of Its First AW139

17-Jun-2009Source: AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland announces that Bel Air of Denmark has taken delivery of the first of several AW139 medium twin turbine helicopters. This 12 seats configured aircraft will be used to perform offshore transport operations.... Read more

Oil and gas chiefs reveal PLBs set to be reinstated

Oil and gas chiefs reveal PLBs set to be reinstated

9-Jun-2009Source: Press & Journal

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Cougar Helicopters orders S-92 pilots to remain below 7,000 feet

Cougar Helicopters orders S-92 pilots to remain below 7,000 feet

14-May-2009Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090514.wxcopter14art2237/BNStory/National/home

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Bond Offshore Helicopters to resume rig support flights for BP after crash

Bond Offshore Helicopters to resume rig support flights for BP after crash

13-May-2009Source: BBC

Bond Offshore Helicopters will resume crew change flights for BP from Monday in the wake of the North Sea helicopter disaster, it has been announced... Read more

AgustaWestland’s Oil & Gas Seminar Brings Operators and Industry Together in Brazil

AgustaWestland’s Oil & Gas Seminar Brings Operators and Industry Together in Brazil

5-May-2009Source: AgustaWestland

The focus of the event, attended by over 60 delegates, was on oil and gas industry helicopter operations in South and Central America, particularly in the Gulf of Mexico, where a number of AgustaWestland helicopters including the AW119Ke and the AW139 models are largely used for offshore purposes.... Read more

Obituary: Alan Bristow 1923-2009

Obituary: Alan Bristow 1923-2009

30-Apr-2009Source: Telegraph

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Sikorsky S92 failed vital safety test, files reveal

Sikorsky S92 failed vital safety test, files reveal

11-Apr-2009Source: Globe and Mail

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Norsk Helikcopter becomes Bristow Norway

Norsk Helikcopter becomes Bristow Norway

1-Apr-2009Source: UpstreamOnline

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1 confirmed and 16 presumed dead in Cougar S-92 tragedy

1 confirmed and 16 presumed dead in Cougar S-92 tragedy

14-Mar-2009Source: CTV

The search for 16 missing passengers of a helicopter which crashed off the coast of Newfoundland was called off Friday evening, because officials said “the likelihood of finding survivors is no longer there.”... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters EC225 "crashed and was not ditched" in the North Sea

Bond Offshore Helicopters EC225 "crashed and was not ditched" in the North Sea

10-Mar-2009Source: Press & Journal

Leaked report suggests cloudbase significantly lower than expected... Read more

Sikorsky helps PHI Celebrate 60 Years in Industry

Sikorsky helps PHI Celebrate 60 Years in Industry

23-Feb-2009Source: Sikorsky

ANAHEIM, Calif., Feb. 23 — Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today celebrated the 60th anniversary of PHI, a longtime Sikorsky customer flying S-92(R) and S-76(R) helicopters, with a recognition ceremony at Heli-Expo. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp... Read more

Helicopter operators head for deeper waters

Helicopter operators head for deeper waters

16-Feb-2009Source: Flightglobal

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