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Few months ago :
Helicopter operators set for take-off as oil drilling picks up | Reuters
Bristow Group Inc plans to invest $1 billion this year to procure just some of the 300 new helicopters that Barclays estimates will be needed by the oil and gas industry over the next five years.
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"We will invest more in this one year than in the last two-and-a-half years combined," said Jonathan Baliff, the chief financial officer of Bristow who will take over as CEO on July 31.
"To invest a third of our market capitalization in one year is one way of saying
we are optimistic of the future."
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