HOUSTON, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bristow Group Inc. (NYSE: BRS), a leading provider of helicopter services to the offshore energy industry, today announced that the Company will be attending the Johnson Rice Energy Conference to be held in New Orleans on October 4-7, 2010.

Mark Duncan, Senior Vice President, Commercial, and Jonathan Baliff, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, are scheduled to present on Wednesday, October 6, at 11:15 a.m. Central Time (12:15 p.m. Eastern time).  A live broadcast of the presentation and the accompanying slides will be available in the Investor Relations section of the Bristow Group website at www.bristowgroup.com and will be archived there for approximately 90 days.

ABOUT BRISTOW GROUP INC.

Bristow Group Inc. is a leading provider of helicopter services to the worldwide offshore energy industry.  Through its subsidiaries, affiliates and joint ventures, the Company has major transportation operations in the North Sea, Nigeria and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, and in most of the other major offshore oil and gas producing regions of the world, including Alaska, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and Trinidad.  For more information, visit the Company's website at www.bristowgroup.com.

Contact:

Linda McNeill

Investor Relations

(713) 267-7622

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