is a
Norwegian helicopter company that transports crew to
Oil Installations in the
North Sea . It has headquarters in
Stavanger and has additional operations out of
Bergen ,
Brønnøysund ,
Hammerfest and the oil platform
Heidrun . The company operates a fleet of 12 helicopters and has 197 employees.
The company has contract for crew flights with
Statoil ,
ExxonMobil ,
BP ,
Talisman Energy ,
TotalFinaElf , and
ConocoPhillips . In addition it has one
AWSAR (All Weather Search and Rescue) Eurocopter Super Puma helicopter stationed on the Statoil platform Heidrun.
The company started operations from the Norwegian oil capital Stavanger in 1993. The company was a joint venture between the Ugland shipping family and the
Aberdeen based
Bristow Group , who operate helicopters to oil installations on the
British sector of the North Sea. Bristow Group is partially owned by the
American Offshore Logistics , and in total the three companies operate 420 helicopters.
The first new base was opened at
Bergen Airport, Flesland in 1999. Later Norsk Helikopter has opened bases at
Brønnøysund Airport, Brønnøy (
2002 ) and at
Hammerfest Airport (
2004 ). In 2001 it also opened a base on the oil platform Heidrun.
In March
2005 the company bought the helicopter operator
Lufttransport and its Swedish subsidiary with the same name from
Norwegian Air Shuttle . Lufttransport was previously a subsidiary of the main competitor
CHC Helikopter Service .
