Offshore staff
(Norway)- CHC Helikopter Service has been awarded two contracts from Statoil for transport services and a third for search and rescue services in the Norwegian North Sea.
If all options are exercised, the three contracts have a combined value of roughly NOK 1.6 billion.
One transport contract is for Sola outside Stavanger, and includes flights to Sleipner, Volve, Glitne and Draupner in the North Sea. The other transport contract for Bronnoysund in northern Norway covers flights to the Norne production ship in the Norwegian Sea.
Both transport service contracts will include flights to exploration rigs and vessels in the relevant areas.
The all weather search and rescue contract is a key element of the emergency response procedures for the Halten/Nordland area. The contract will also include other oil companies with operations in this area.
Statoil will largely use the same helicopter types as today in connection with the new contracts. From Bronnoysund, however, the new Sikorsky S-92 helicopter will be used.
"Under the new contracts Statoil will get a separate standby helicopter in Kristiansund," says Trude Jakobsen Haugland, manager for air transport in Statoil. "This will increase the regularity from Kristiansund in mid-Norway and Bronnoysund, at the same time as the technology for the AWSAR service in Halten/Nordland will be upgraded."
The Sola contract runs until 2010, while the Bronnoysund and Heidrun contracts will remain in force until 2012. All three contracts include options to extend the contracts three times, for one year at a time.
05/13/2006
