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The company was formed in 2001 by the merger of Global Marine and Santa Fe International Corporation. [2] In March 2003, the company temporarily suspended operations in Kuwait ahead of the Iraq War. [3] [4] In May 2004, the company sold its worldwide land drilling assets to Precision Drilling for $316.5 million. [5] [6]
Robert E. Rose, who was non-executive chairman of GlobalSantaFe, was made Transocean's chairman. Rose had been chairman of Global Marine prior to its 2001 merger with Santa Fe International Corporation. [17] In 2008, the company moved its headquarters to Switzerland, resulting in a significantly lower tax rate. [18]
Icahn claims that management "destroyed approximately $11 billion of shareholder value," primarily through its 2007 acquisition of fellow driller Global Santa Fe.
Global Marine, a drilling contractor which merged with Santa Fe International Corporation to form GlobalSantaFe Corporation. Now part of Transocean. Glomar Challenger, the drillship used for the Deep Sea Drilling Project; Glomar Explorer, a large salvage vessel built by the CIA
Global Santa Fe was scheduled to present Livia Link-Raviv, the Israeli consul general to the Southwestern U.S., on Tuesday at the Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado Santa Fe. Link-Raviv, based ...
G-BJVX, a Norwich-based commercial Sikorsky S-76A helicopter operated by Bristow Helicopters, crashed in the evening of 16 July 2002 in the southern North Sea while it was making a ten-minute flight between the gas production platform Clipper and the drilling rig Global Santa Fe Monarch, after which it was to return to Norwich Airport.
Apr. 12—The state wants a Santa Fe judge to dismiss a major lawsuit that alleges oil and gas production and pollution allowed by New Mexico violates the Constitution. Arguments to allow the ...
On 16 July 2002, G-BJVX, a Sikorsky S-76A helicopter operated by Norwich-based Bristow Helicopters, crashed into the southern North Sea while it was making a ten-minute flight between the gas production platform Clipper and the drilling rig Global Santa Fe Monarch, after which it was to return to Norwich Airport. The 22-year-old helicopter was ...