Oil and gas companies contract for helicopters within an industry that has generally been under funded and, arguably, complacent in the past 15 years. Regulatory change has been insufficient, and regulators globally are not harmonized in their approach to helicopter operations and safety.
Which industry do they refer to here?
The Helicopter Industry or the Oil Industry?
If the emphasis was on continuity, investment in captial improvements, modernization of equipment, enhancing of training, and perhaps not just getting the cheapest rates some of this lack of progress could have been avoided.
The Helicopter Industry has always been a cut throat business re competition.
So who steps up to the plate first.....the oil companies who will advertise and fund this magical solution or the helicopter industry who will refuse to do it the "old" way and demand the oil companies fund the contracts as needed to provide for the improvements?
Never mind the regulators.....they are too busy worrying about losing their paychecks if they pitch a stone in someone's mill pond.