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16 Jul 2010, 8:35 am by Carrie Levine
Transocean Ltd., the offshore drilling company involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, spent $110,000 lobbying through Capitol Hill Consulting Group in the second quarter of 2010, disclosure reports show. [read post]
27 May 2010, 7:47 am by David Ingram
Two weeks ago, Transocean Ltd., the company that owns the sunken Deepwater Horizon oil rig, filed a motion in federal court seeking to limit its courtroom losses to $26.7 million. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 3:38 pm
Houston-based Transocean Ltd has issued a final report on the explosion, fire and sinking of the oil drilling platform, the Deepwater Horizon, at the infamous Macondo well site in the Gulf of Mexico, April 2010 Deepwater Horizon was owned by Transocean and leased and operated by British Petroleum, Plc (BP). 11 men lost their lives and environmental damage to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and local economies of the coastal states was vast. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 2:11 pm by Maritime Law Staff
HOUSTON, TX – On June 22, 2011 Houston-based Transocean Ltd issued a final report on the events of April 2010 involving the explosion, fire and sinking of the oil drilling platform, the Deepwater Horizon, at the infamous Macondo well site in the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 6:47 am
The report found:" Flaws in Transocean Ltd's emergency training and equipment and a poor safety culture contributed to the deadly Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion that led to the Gulf oil spill. [read post]
28 May 2010, 9:26 am by Dwayne Clark
May 26 (Bloomberg) -- Transocean Ltd. can’t use a 150-year- old statute to cap its liability against claims arising from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, lawyers for victims of the disaster said at a hearing in federal court in Houston. [read post]
1 Nov 2011, 11:06 am by Joe Palazzolo
Transocean Ltd. filed a motion in federal court Tuesday to force BP PLC to indemnify it against damages related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 7:01 am by Maritime Law Staff
NEW ORLEANS, LA – On April 20, 2011, one year after the explosion, fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent oil spill, BP (British Petroleum) is suing Transocean Ltd, the owner of the oil rig involved in the disaster. [read post]
13 May 2010, 8:03 am by Ashby Jones
Lawyers at Transocean Ltd., the Swiss company that owns the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that burned and sank last month in the Gulf of Mexico, have stumbled over an obscure maritime law, and are using it to claim Transocean's liability should be capped at $27 million. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 1:29 pm by Paul Caron
Following up on my prior post, Transocean: Better at Tax Planning Than Oil Drilling: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus announced today that he has launched an investigation into the tax practices of Transocean Ltd., the owner of the offshore drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and... [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 10:37 am by Maritime Law Staff
Transocean logo Three workers for Transocean, Ltd., the company that owned The Deepwater Horizon, are refusing to testify at hearings which are part of a joint investigation conducted by the U.S. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 10:00 pm
Cameron International Corporation the second-largest United States maker of oilfield equipment, provided the blowout preventer for the Transocean Ltd. rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire and sank last week. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 12:40 pm
NEW ORLEANS, LA - On April 20, 2011, one year after the explosion, fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent oil spill, BP (British Petroleum) is suing Transocean Ltd, the owner of the oil rig involved in the disaster. [read post]
6 May 2010, 1:20 pm by Dwayne Clark
The chief executive of Transocean Ltd., whose drilling rig exploded last month in the Gulf of Mexico and triggered the largest oil spill in North American history, on Thursday defended the company's safety policies. [read post]
25 May 2010, 2:24 pm by Goldberg Segalla LLP
  On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon rig owned by Transocean Ltd. and under contract to BP PLC exploded, causing a massive oil leak that has resulted in more than 130 lawsuits by property owners, shareholders, workers, and the commercial fishing industry, $800 million spent on cleanup and $30 million in paid claims. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 2:48 am by tracey
Russell and others v Transocean International Rescources Ltd and others: [2011] UKSC 57;  [2011] WLR (D)  356 “Employees working on oil and gas installations in the North Sea whose contract of employment provided for a repeating shift pattern of two weeks’ work on the rig, followed by two weeks onshore on non-working ‘field break’, were not entitled to take their statutory holiday entitlement during time when they had been scheduled… [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 7:52 am by Thomas Econometrics
My grandmother always reminded us that it’s not what you say but how you say it… In a regulatory filing last Friday, Transocean, Ltd. announced it had paid bonuses to top executives for achieving the “best year in safety performance in our company’s history”, despite the explosion of its Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 people and spilled 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]