Transocean Appoints New President, COO
Transocean Inc. has named Jean P. Cahuzac as president and Steven L. Newman as chief operating officer. Cahuzac, who previously served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of the company, will report to Robert L. Long. Long was president and CEO but will now continue as CEO and as a director of the company. Cahuzac joined a predecessor company of Transocean in 1979 and has held various international technical and senior management positions in the oil and gas industry during the past 27 years. Newman, who previously served as senior vice president of human resources and information process solutions, joined Transocean in 1994. Transocean also appointed David J. Mullen as senior vice president of marketing and planning and Robert "Rob" J.
Transocean Sedco Forex Merger Establishes World's Largest Offshore Driller
Transocean Offshore Inc. has completed its merger with Sedco Forex, which was spun-off from Schlumberger Limited. The resulting company, Transocean Sedco Forex Inc., is now the world's largest offshore drilling contractor and third-largest oilfield services company in terms of equity market capitalization, based on closing market prices on Dec. 30. In the merger, approximately 109.6 million ordinary shares of Transocean Offshore are being issued to stockholders of Schlumberger. The number of new shares issued is equivalent to 0.1936 shares of Transocean Sedco Forex for each outstanding Schlumberger share. Following the merger, Schlumberger stockholders hold about 52% of the approximately 210.1 million outstanding shares of Transocean Sedco Forex.
