Offshore Industry: Helicopters

(asked on 30th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many offshore oil and gas workers were transported (a) to and (b) from installations on the UK continental shelf in each year from 2001 to 2018.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 9th May 2019

The table below shows the annual number of flights and passengers between UK airports (those with an annual volume of more than 150,000 terminal passengers) and Oil Rigs, split by direction of travel. The Civil Aviation Authority does not collect data from smaller airports, as airports with an annual volume of more than 150,000 terminal passengers constitute the vast majority of flights.

Year

Direction

Flights

Passengers

2001

Arrival

29,800

327,729

2001

Departure

30,094

312,224

2001 Total

59,894

639,953

2002

Arrival

29,201

318,830

2002

Departure

29,722

309,835

2002 Total

58,923

628,665

2003

Arrival

26,561

284,493

2003

Departure

27,461

282,294

2003 Total

54,022

566,787

2004

Arrival

26,128

282,478

2004

Departure

27,269

281,707

2004 Total

53,397

564,185

2005

Arrival

28,996

313,999

2005

Departure

30,018

313,055

2005 Total

59,014

627,054

2006

Arrival

32,431

356,127

2006

Departure

33,462

357,031

2006 Total

65,893

713,158

2007

Arrival

34,801

385,649

2007

Departure

35,862

382,053

2007 Total

70,663

767,702

2008

Arrival

34,596

381,970

2008

Departure

35,658

381,337

2008 Total

70,254

763,307

2009

Arrival

34,404

376,235

2009

Departure

35,511

376,117

2009 Total

69,915

752,352

2010

Arrival

31,359

356,569

2010

Departure

32,407

357,908

2010 Total

63,766

714,477

2011

Arrival

32,775

379,441

2011

Departure

33,972

381,256

2011 Total

66,747

760,697

2012

Arrival

32,807

385,118

2012

Departure

34,653

395,457

2012 Total

67,460

780,575

2013

Arrival

37,797

414,549

2013

Departure

39,176

426,062

2013 Total

76,973

840,611

2014

Arrival

38,855

438,125

2014

Departure

39,879

448,112

2014 Total

78,734

886,237

2015

Arrival

35,549

409,674

2015

Departure

36,334

415,564

2015 Total

71,883

825,238

2016

Arrival

30,074

347,855

2016

Departure

31,014

353,065

2016 Total

61,088

700,920

2017

Arrival

27,384

302,219

2017

Departure

28,263

314,159

2017 Total

55,647

616,378

2018

Arrival

27,448

304,389

2018

Departure

28,455

315,827

2018 Total

55,903

620,216

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