The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Energy Regulator (C-NLOER) is advising that on October 22, 2025, Transocean Canada Drilling Services Ltd. (Transocean) was sentenced after being convicted on July 10, 2025,  for breaching the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act., S.C.1987, c.3 and its regulations.

On September 6, 2019, a deck crew member working onboard the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) Transocean Barents was injured when he was pinned between a handrail on the main tubular feeding machine and the Aft Surface Flow Tree handling adaptor in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area.

Transocean was convicted for failing to comply with subsection 236(1) of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Marine Installations and Structures Occupational Health and Safety Transitional Regulations.

A fine of $50,000 was imposed for the charge under the Accord Act and Transocean was ordered to pay an additional $15,000 to the College of the North Atlantic to be used in the area of safety related programming.

The C-NLOER is the independent regulator of energy activities in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area, on behalf of the federal government and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Charges laid against Transocean Canada Drilling Services Ltd. in relation to the September 6, 2019 Injured Worker on the MODU Transocean Barents – C-NLOER

Media Contact

Lesley Rideout
Director, Government Relations and Communications
(709) 725-2900
lrideout@cnlopb.ca

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