Bond wins UK flight services contract

Premier Oil plc awarded Bond Offshore Helicopters Ltd a new contract to provide crew change flights.

S-92 model (Image: Sikorsky)

The contract is for three years with options to extend. Services began on March 4 with Bond's new Sikorsky S-92 aircraft, the first of this aircraft type to be operated out of Aberdeen by Bond. 

The new aircraft was registered in Norway last month, before being flown to the UK. It will be operated under an arrangement with Bond’s sister company Norsk Helikopterservice (NHS). The aircraft is one of 16 ordered by Bond’s parent company Avincis Group in 2011. 

Richard Mintern, Chief Executive Officer, Northern Europe and Asia Pacific, Avincis Group said: “Bond has been able to draw on the central resources of both the Avincis Group, as well as its Norwegian sister company NHS, in order to provide the best solution for Premier. This is a great demonstration of the power of Bond being part of a global group such as Avincis.”

Premier Oil has equity interests in nine producing fields as well as a number of current and future development projects in the UK North Sea.