Telecommunications operator Tampnet Inc. is suing offshore drilling contractor Transocean Ltd. and some of its subsidiaries for allegedly hitting a fiber optic network cable with a deepwater drillship in 2020 during Hurricane Zeta.
The telecom operator is seeking almost $3 million in damages at the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas in the Oct. 13 complaint, claiming Transocean instructed one of its drillships in the Gulf of Mexico to continue operations despite being in the path of the hurricane in October 2020.
As a result, Transocean said the drillship hit the seafloor twice, the second time damaging ...
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