Bond Aviation has signed a three-year contract with Irish energy firm PSE Kinsale Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of oil and gas company Petronas.
Bond will provide transport for Kinsale employees from its new facility at Cork airport in southern Ireland to the natural gas rigs off the Irish coast. Bond says it is using a Eurocopter EC135T2i for this role "the first time this type is being used in European oil and gas offshore operations".
Source: Flight International
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