OREANDA-NEWS. UTair – Helicopter Services, part of UTair Group, has won a tender for helicopter operations issued by Rosneft. For a period of one year, UTair will perform employee shift and cargo transport works for Rosneft Group using Mil Mi8-T, Mi-8AMT/MTV, Mi-26T, Mi-8P, Mi-8PS, Robinson R44, Airbus Helicopters H125 and AS355 helicopters in the Komi region and in Western and Eastern Siberia.

UTair – Helicopter Services is currently concluding agreements with Rosneft subsidiaries, including RN-Severnaya Neft, RN-Burenie, RN-Purneftegaz, RN-Yuganskneftegaz, RN-Nyaganneftegaz and RN-Uvatneftegaz.

UTair – Helicopter Services President Aleksey Vinogradov emphasized that UTair and Rosneft share many years of productive cooperation. “Many years of successful collaboration on a wide range of projects in air transport have allowed UTair-Helicopter Services to once again successfully pass tender procedures,” said Mr Vinogradov. “I am assured that UTair – Helicopter Services, Russia's leading provider of helicopter services, especially for companies of the Russian oil and gas industry, will provide quality service and execute thoroughly all contracted flight operations.”

UTair Aviation is the world’s largest airline by fleet size and capacity with more than 300 helicopters of various types, primarily of the Mil and Airbus Helicopters families. UTair helicopters serve customers on four continents. For over 40 years UTair has maintained cooperation with leading Russian oil and gas companies, who continue to constitute the airline's main portfolio of customers for helicopter operations.

Since 1991, UTair has provided air transport services for the humanitarian missions of the United Nations and has remained the largest air transport service provider for the UN since 2001. The capabilities of the UTair fleet and the professionalism of its crews guarantee safe, high quality air transport operations of any degree of complexity in all geographical and climate zones of the world.