OREANDA-NEWS. UTair – Helicopter Services, part of UTair Group, has completed contracted aviation works for Ukhta Burenie, a branch of Gazprom Burenie located in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region. The contract was signed in June 2015.

Under that agreement UTair helicopters transported diesel fuel to the Severo-Tambeiskoye deposit near the remote village of Sabetta. These operations were performed with heavy Mi-26T helicopters.

The Mi-26 helicopter is the world’s largest rotorcraft with the highest lifting capacity, able to transport external loads of up to 20 tons. With 25 Mi-26T helicopters in its fleet, UTair – Helicopter Services is the largest operator of Mi-26T rotorcraft in the world today.

UTair – Helicopter Services President Alexey Vinogradov said that years of successful operations on the helicopter services market gave UTair – Helicopter Services the status of a market powerhouse and a reliable partner. “Our expansive fleet allows us to perform air transport operations of any degree of complexity in the widest possible range of geographical and climate conditions, including the environs of the Far North,” stated Mr Vinogradov. He added that UTair – Helicopter Services is also involved in a number of other large-scale infrastructure projects in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region.

UTair Group is the world’s largest helicopter operator 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.