# Three Other Transocean Oil Wells Had Safety Problems

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**Created:** [August 9, 2010, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/three-other-transocean-oil-wells-had-safety-problems/4513 "2010-08-09T07:35:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/three-other-transocean-oil-wells-had-safety-problems/4513/1 "2010-08-09T07:35:32Z")

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NEW YORK TIMES – According to an article in the New York Times, Transocean, the company that owned the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon, had safety concerns for several of its drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico prior to the April, 2010 disaster.

![](http://www.offshoreinjuries.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Deepwater-Horizon-Oil-Spill.jpg)  
Transocean oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo credit: Lyle W Ratliff/EPA

According to confidential internal reports, about a month before the explosion and subsequent loss of the Deepwater Horizon Transocean commissioned a risk management company, Lloyd’s Register, to investigate three other wells in the Gulf of Mexico plus Transocean’s Houston headquarters. [[B]Read more.[/B]](http://www.offshoreinjuries.com/blog/1205/three-other-transocean-oil-wells-had-safety-problems/)