Robbiman - lots of past threads - worth searches on BP, Bond and CHC.
Coalface - I've heard what you have heard, but with a twist: any SAR contracts Bond get are not compensation for a cut in crew change work, but because the massive penalty clauses the Bond brothers put in the original 10 year 6 aircraft contract mean it is the only way BP can avoid any of the penalties.
Sadly Apache are not widely known in the oil industry for being too picky about quality or safety - you will remeber a fatal R44 (!) accident in the Gulf of Mexico earlier in the year supporting an Apache rig
autosync - The recent Bristow contract win (for G-JSAR) is a seperate deal in Holland.