BlueWay Offshore

BlueWay Offshore Norge AS was an offshore helicopter airline based at Stavanger Airport, Sola in Sola, Norway. Established in 2009, it remained until 2014 when the group was sold to Noordzee Helikopters Vlaanderen.

History

The BlueWay Group had its basis in an ownership constallation for Airlift, a land-based helicopter operator. BlueWay was created when the Reitan Group bought part sixty percent of the stake in Airlift, with Helicopter Transport Group selling down from one hundred to forty percent.[1]

BlueWay Offshore was incorporated in 2009. Within two years it had reached a revenue of 59 million kr. Its first major contract came in 2012, when it signed with Royall Dutch Shell for transport to the fields Draugen and Ormen Lange. The latter required the company to establish a base at Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget. The same year it signed another agreement with Shell, this time in the Danish sector, with services commencing on 1 July 2014.[2]

BlueWay was taken over by Noordzee Helikopters Vlaanderen in 2014.

References

  1. "Airlift". Fylkesleksikon (in Norwegian). Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  2. Olsen-Hagen, Bernt Charles (2014). Offshore Helicopters: Helikopteraktiviteten på norsk kontinentalsokkel. Aviation Forlag. p. 94. ISBN 978-82-999547-0-9.
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