RIL buys copters for offshore work

MUMBAI: Reliance Industries will begin operating its own helicopters in its hunt for oil from next month. The company will take deliveries of two Bell 412 machines in the second week of December. RIL has increased its oil exploration acreage over the years and is now prospecting for oil as well as developing oilfields on both coasts of India.
The Indian oil major joins several global majors like Shell and Qatar Petroleum who have their own aviation operations for offshore support.
RIL has floated a tender inviting bids to operate and maintain the machines. The two helicopters will be maintained by a third-party operator in the initial period, it is learnt.
Finding pilots and engineers to maintain aircraft has become very difficult because of the huge growth in oil exploration activity.
15/11/07 Cuckoo Paul/Economic times

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