14-Feb-2010Source: Chronicle Herald
The regulators of Newfoundland’s oil industry have ordered a faster emergency response after the head of an inquiry into offshore helicopter safety made an urgent call for improvement.... Read more
10-Feb-2010Source: Vancouver Sun
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5-Feb-2010Source: Upstream Online
Oil & Gas UK today announced that personal locator beacons on helicopter flights are to be reintroduced to the North Sea from next Monday.... Read more
2-Feb-2010Source: Oilweek
“The events of March 12th changed my life forever, there´s no doubt about that,” said Burt, who is also a vice-president of Cougar´s parent company, VIH Aviation... Read more
29-Jan-2010Source: Bristow Group
Bristow Group Inc. (NYSE: BRS), a leading provider of helicopter services to the offshore energy industry, today announced that the Company will be presenting at the 2010 Credit Suisse Energy Summit to be held in Vail, Colorado on February 1 – 5, 2010. William E. Chiles, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bristow Group, is... Read more
22-Jan-2010Source: Blue Sky Network
Blue Sky Network, a leading global provider of GPS tracking and communication solutions for land, sea, and aviation assets, announced today that the largest oil and gas producer in Peru, Pluspetrol, is utilizing Blue Sky Network’s GPS-based aviation tracking devices to follow and stay in contact with its contracted helicopter fleets. The portability and easy... Read more
18-Jan-2010Source: Aberdeen Press & Journal
Industry body Oil and Gas UK has met the UK Civil Aviation Authority to pave the way for the return of PLBs. Its helicopter task group has overseen a redesign of the beacons and that PLBs would be issued to all workers on all flights for the first time.... Read more
15-Jan-2010Source: Scotsman
More than £300,000 raised in memory of the 16 men killed in a Super Puma helicopter crash in the North Sea last year is to be distributed to 11 charities chosen by the bereaved families. Funds have also been set aside for a “symbol of remembrance” in a public garden in Aberdeen... Read more
12-Jan-2010Source: Toronto Sun
Oil company executives at an offshore helicopter inquiry said safety is their top priority — even as a lawyer representing workers pushed to question them on why it took nine years to introduce underwater breathing devices onboard.... Read more
12-Jan-2010Source: FAA
WASHINGTON — Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Randy Babbitt announced today that Houston air traffic controllers are beginning to use an improved satellite-based system – Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) — to more efficiently and safely separate and manage aircraft flying over the Gulf of Mexico. “Safety is our highest priority at the U.S. Department of... Read more
12-Jan-2010Source: AgustaWestland
AgustaWestland , a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the VIH Cougar Helicopters Inc. of USA has taken delivery of an AW139 medium twin helicopter during an official ceremony recently held at Vergiate plant (Italy). This 12 seat-configured helicopter will be operated for offshore transport missions in the Gulf of Mexico. Emilio Dalmasso, Senior... Read more
11-Jan-2010Source: IBA
IBA has completed the sale of two Agusta AW139 Helicopters on behalf of Copterline OY, a rotary wing operator based in Helsinki. The helicopters were purchased by PHI Inc. in the USA, for immediate deployment within its expanding rotary operations. IBA was awarded the remarketing contract by Copterline OY in April 2009 against stiff competition.... Read more
10-Jan-2010Source: Bond Aviation Group
(HeliHub.com editor note – this contract was previously run by CHC using a Eurocoptper AS365N Dauphin) Bond Aviation Group, one of Europe’s leading twin engined helicopter service providers, has returned to Ireland after winning a three year contract with Irish energy firm, PSE Kinsale Energy Limited – a wholly owned subsidiary of Petronas. The contract,... Read more
8-Jan-2010Source: Daily Comet
Refers to accident 04-Jan-2009 – HeliHub record of the accident is here.... Read more
6-Jan-2010Source: HeliHub.com editorial team
To start the new year, Bond Offshore Helicopters took over the rig support contract out of Blackpool Airport for gas firm Centrica. Bond have now moved in with two brand new bright red AS365N3 Dauphins, registered G-REDE and G-REDF, operating initially from temporary accommodation at this UK airport. They had won the contract from CHC... Read more
6-Jan-2010Source: Winnipeg Free Press
The families of passengers who died in the crash of a Sikorsky helicopter off the coast of Newfoundland last year, as well as the sole survivor of the tragedy, have reached a settlement in their lawsuit against the U.S. company.... Read more
29-Dec-2009Source: EDP24
Aberdeen-based Bond Offshore Helicopters has won a five-year deal with global energy company Perenco, which will see Bond provide helicopter services to Southern North Sea rigs from Norwich International airport.... Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
29-Jul-2009Source: Street Insider
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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
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
24-Jun-2009Source: CAA
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23-Jun-2009Source: Guardian
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19-Jun-2009Source: Miami Herald
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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
17-Jun-2009Source: Rotorhub
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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
3-Jun-2009Source: CAA International
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14-May-2009Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090514.wxcopter14art2237/BNStory/National/home
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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
11-May-2009Source: CBC
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8-May-2009Source: Vertical
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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
28-Apr-2009Source: Scotsman
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22-Apr-2009Source: Eurocopter
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11-Apr-2009Source: Energy Current
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11-Apr-2009Source: Scotsman
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11-Apr-2009Source: Globe and Mail
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11-Apr-2009Source: C-NLOPB
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