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  • All North Sea helicopters equipped with EBS

    1 September 2014
    Equipment

    Every helicopter flying for the offshore oil and gas industry in the UK is now equipped with a new CAT-A Emergency Breathing System, the Step Change in Safety has revealed.

  • Eight Dead In North Sea Helicopter Crash

    2 April 2009

    Eight people have been killed and another eight are missing after a helicopter crashed in the sea off the north east Scottish coast. The Bond Super Puma aircraft was returning from an oil platform, just before 2pm, when it went down 35 miles from Aberdeenshire. A spokesperson for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said: “We […]

  • SonAir to Support Offshore Oil Operations in Angola with 7 New Sikorsky Helicopters

    7 March 2011
    Business & Finance

      Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and SonAir Servico Aereo, S.A. (SonAir)  announced the signing of a contract for six S-76C++™ helicopters in a ceremony held at Heli-Expo. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. SonAir has been flying Sikorsky products for more than 15 years in support of offshore oil operations in Angola. Currently, SonAir […]

  • Era Group Buys Four Sikorsky S92 Helicopters

    20 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Era Group Inc. announces it has signed a multi-year agreement with Sikorsky Global Helicopters, Inc. for the purchase of four Sikorsky S92 heavy helicopters for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $129 million. The aircraft are scheduled for delivery commencing the first quarter of 2016. Era also has an option to acquire five additional S92 […]

  • CHC Grounds All Flights After Helicopter Crash Off Shetland

    25 August 2013

    Step Change in Safety’s Helicopter Safety Steering Group (HSSG) yesterday held a meeting in response to the CHC helicopter ditching off Shetland on Friday evening. HSSG has taken the precautionary measure of recommending temporary suspension of all Super Puma commercial passenger flights to and from offshore oil and gas installations within the UK.  This does […]

  • Zuhai Contracts Sikorsky Helicopters to Support Offshore Operations in China

    21 June 2011
    Business & Finance

    Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. announced today at the Paris Air Show that China Southern Airlines Company’s Zhuhai Helicopter Branch has contracted for a S-76C++™ and two S-92® helicopters to support the company’s offshore oil customers operating in the South China Sea. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. Zhuhai is the largest and oldest operator […]

  • Coast Guard Rescues Man from Cable Layer Rene Descartes

    4 September 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew medevaced a Frenchman reportedly suffering from a heart attack aboard a vessel, 80 miles west of Coos Bay. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station North Bend safely transferred the 55-year-old man to emergency medical personnel, Thursday at 6:33 a.m., who transported him to Bay Area […]

  • Angola offshore crash: Chopper type ‘revealed’

    28 September 2016

    Following a fatal helicopter accident offshore Angola on Monday in which four people died and two were missing, the helicopter’s type has been revealed.  When it crashed, the helicopter was bound for Chevron-operated Tombua-Landana platform, offshore Cabinda, carrying five passengers and a pilot. Angola’s Angonoticias reported on Tuesday that all the six people had died; two expatriates […]

  • Sikorsky Delivers 6 Helicopters to SonAir for Support of Offshore Operations in Angola

    21 June 2011
    Business & Finance

    Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced the baseline delivery of six S-76C++™ helicopters to SonAir Servico Aereo S.A. (SonAir) for support of offshore oil operations in Angola. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. SonAir has been flying Sikorsky products for more than 15 years. Currently, SonAir owns 15 S-76® aircraft for offshore oil missions […]

  • UK: Helicopter Safety Steering Group Discusses Helicopter Ditching Incident

    15 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Helicopter Safety Steering Group (HSSG) met yesterday, Monday 14 May, to share preliminary information on the recent helicopter ditching incident in the North Sea.  Making up the HSSG are helicopter operators, oil and gas operators and contractors, offshore trade unions, the pilots’ union BALPA, the regulators HSE and CAA and Oil & Gas UK. […]

  • Update: 13 presumed dead in heli crash off Norway

    29 April 2016

    A CHC-operated helicopter carrying offshore workers crashed near Bergen, offshore Norway on Friday. According to Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Norway, eleven bodies have been found. The helicopter was on its way from Statoil’s Gullfaks B platform when it crashed. The production at Gullfaks B has been temporarily shut down. Search for the remaining two workers was […]

  • CHC Expands Fleet with Nine Sikorsky Helicopters

    24 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.  has announced that CHC Helicopter has signed a multi-year contract to purchase nine S-92(R) helicopters, with options to acquire up to 15 more, for use in transporting offshore oil workers and for possible search and rescue operations. CHC, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is among the world’s largest helicopter transportation services […]

  • Report: Four dead as helicopter crashes en route to Chevron Angola platform

    27 September 2016

    At least four people died and two are missing after a helicopter bound for a Chevron offshore platform in Angola crashed, Reuters has reported. According to the news agency, the helicopter was en route to the Chevron-operated Tombua-Landana platform, offshore Cabinda, Angola, when it crashed. The California-based oil company told Reuters that five passengers and […]

  • The Curious Case of “Hijacked” Vier Harmoni

    17 August 2016

    A product tanker carrying 900,000 liters of diesel, initially believed to be hijacked off the coast of Malaysia, could have fled to international waters due to a commercial dispute, local media reported Adon Shalan, Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency’s (MMEA) Rear Admiral, as saying. Adon said that the tanker, MT Vier Harmoni, left Malaysian waters without paying a bond […]

  • Offshore helicopter traffic tumbles in 2020 but recovery in sight, Rystad says

    9 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy

    Global demand for offshore helicopter transport to offshore facilities plunged in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, a Rystad Energy report shows.

  • Offshore worker airlifted from North Sea platform

    12 August 2016

    An offshore worker has been airlifted from a UK North Sea platform due to a medical emergency.  Following reports that an offshore worker was evacuated from a North Sea platform on Friday, August 12, 2016, Offshore Energy Today reached out to UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) seeking more details about the case. The spokesperson for […]

  • Babcock to Back Walney Extension O&M

    10 January 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Babcock Mission Critical Services (MCS) has signed a five-year contract with DONG Energy to provide helicopter support for the Walney Extension wind farm. The multi-million pound contract will commence in 2018, when the offshore wind farm is scheduled to become operational, when Babcock will start transporting personnel and cargo to and from the wind farm with its H135/EC135 T3 […]

  • Chinese Cargo Ship Sinks, 12 Crew Rescued

    24 July 2017

    Chinese-flagged cargo ship Nan Hui 68 sank on July 23 near Huidong of Guangdong Province, east of Hong Kong taking its twelve crew members into the water. The cause of the sinking is believed to be shifting of the ship’s ore cargo amid high waves and gushing winds prompted by the Typhoon Roke, local media reported. Once […]

  • Milestone orders eight S-92 helicopters from Sikorsky

    28 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Milestone Aviation Group, and Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation announced at Helicopter Association International’s Heli-Expo that Milestone has increased its S-92 order book by eight units. Milestone is already one of the world’s largest S-92 owners and it has now increased its firm and option S-92 orders to 37 aircraft valued at more than US$ 1.2 billion. The forward […]

  • Wintershall Dea explores options for introducing new helicopter type in Norway

    30 January 2020
    Equipment

    Wintershall Dea and Bell have signed a non-binding collaboration agreement looking into the possibility of introducing a new helicopter on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

  • Angola heli crash: Search underway for missing workers, wreckage

    29 September 2016

    Search and rescue operations continue for two oil workers who went missing after a helicopter carrying six people crashed offshore Angola on Monday. Four other passengers have been confirmed dead. The accident happened on Monday, after the helicopter bound for the Tombua-Landana offshore platform, operated by Chevron’s subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, crashed. While Angola’s […]

  • Severely Damaged VOS Sailor Towed Ashore (UK)

    19 December 2012

    VOS Sailor standby vessel which was on Saturday severely damaged at Balmoral field, offshore Aberdeen, UK, has been towed ashore. The owner of the vessel, Vroon Offshore Services, informed via its website that the vessel had reached the port of Fraserburgh on Monday night at approximately  20.40 hrs local time, after being towed back by […]

  • Second LHD Hull Loaded onto Blue Marlin

    11 December 2013

    NAVANTIA loaded out the Royal Australian Navy’s second Canberra Class Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) “Adelaide” onto the “Blue Marlin” vessel of Dockwise yesterday at the Vigo inlet. The ships will remain docked at Vigo Port for a week, in order to complete the “Adelaide” bindings for securing its transport to Australia, a trip which will take […]

  • Injured Crewmember Hoisted from Bulker off Oregon

    20 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    A crewmember from the 46,896 dwt wood chips carrier Daio Papyrus has been medically evacuated after he reportedly suffered a severe laceration to his head, according to the United States Coast Guard (USCG). The seafarer, who sustained the injuries in the evening hours of March 18, was medevaced some 10 miles west of Coos Bay, Oregon. Due to the sea […]

  • USCG Medevacs Injured Chinese Sailor off Puerto Rico

    12 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    USCG medevacs injured Chinese crewmember from the bulk carrier Bunum Hero on April 10 off Puerto Rico.