-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, HATjE3AqWbw6DqxNyxPARCHT5bCTw3Ri3ceX823bsKvNq3vDMR4FDwT7YdwNQ2t/ OMAkTccTvhydfHEO6lvIHw== 0001451505-09-000032.txt : 20090522 0001451505-09-000032.hdr.sgml : 20090522 20090519174925 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001451505-09-000032 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20090515 FILED AS OF DATE: 20090519 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20090519 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GEORGE RICHARD L CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001144278 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-53533 FILM NUMBER: 09840541 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3015 CHAMPLAIN STREET SW CITY: CALLARY ALBERTA STATE: A0 ZIP: 00000 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Transocean Ltd. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001451505 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: DRILLING OIL & GAS WELLS [1381] IRS NUMBER: 980599916 STATE OF INCORPORATION: V8 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: BLANDONNET INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER STREET 2: BLDG F, 7TH FLOOR, CHEMIN DE BLANDONNET CITY: VERNIER STATE: V8 ZIP: 1214 BUSINESS PHONE: 41-58-792-9243 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: BLANDONNET INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER STREET 2: BLDG F, 7TH FLOOR, CHEMIN DE BLANDONNET CITY: VERNIER STATE: V8 ZIP: 1214 4 1 edgar.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0303 4 2009-05-15 0001451505 Transocean Ltd. RIG 0001144278 GEORGE RICHARD L BUILDING F, 7TH FLOOR CHEMIN DE BLANDONNET 2 VERNIER V8 1214 SWITZERLAND 1 0 0 0 Deferred Units 0 2009-05-15 4 A 0 3565 A Registered Shares 3565 3565 D Deferred Units, which are 1-for-1 registered share equivalents, acquired on May 15, 2009 pursuant to the issuer's long-term incentive plan. Deferred Units vest in equal installments on May 15, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The reporting person elected in 2008 for such Deferred Units to be payable in registered shares of the issuer upon the reporting person's death, disability or retirement from the Board. Chipman Earle by Power of Attorney 2009-05-19 EX-24 2 attach_1.htm 
POWER OF ATTORNEY

      Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Eric B. Brown, Chipman Earle, Walter A. Baker and Margaret Fitzgerald, signing individually, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of Transocean Ltd. (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-act, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

      The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

      This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 19th day of December, 2008.



By:    /s/ Richard L. George

Name: Richard L. George
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