In 1948, oilmen and fur trappers in Louisiana were in a dispute about the oilmens’ marsh buggies (used to reach drill sites) trampling muskrat breeding grounds ... and in turn the trappers’ livelihood. A very young Bell Helicopters brought in a demonstrator to show how the oilmen could bypass the breeding grounds by replacing marsh buggies with helicopters. Bob Suggs took that idea and ran with it, forming Petroleum Helicopters Inc (PHI).
From there, helicopters found still remains a strong presence in have been surpassed in size in the intervening decades by Bristow Group and CHC Helicopters.
Oil and gas companies spend outsourcing transportation of personnel. Energy research and consulting group Douglas- Westwood was forecasting
expenditures of $24 billion on the 5-year period between 2014 and 2018. This predicted a 57 helicopter service expenditures in comparison to the 2009–2013 period. The Douglas-Westwood prediction was made before oil production volume skyrocketed and oil prices fell dramatically. Since then the major operators have downsized while watching
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