It is imperative that Eurocopter get the EC225 back in service.
It is intolerable to customers to have Sikorsky have a monopoly and a simultaneous shortage of airframes as that will just drive cost up for the oil companies at a time of low oil price.
Ignore the petitions! With oil workers putting up with 30% pay cuts and more time offshore they will take whatever helicopter their company aviation advisor deems safe enough, just as they have done before after past accidents.
Obviously the advisors have to play being let-down with Eurocopter for the moment, to divert attention from their own past aircraft selections, but the world goes on.