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Variable Interest Entities

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2016

Variable Interest Entities

Variable Interest Entities

Note 4—Variable Interest Entities

Angola Deepwater Drilling Company Limited (“ADDCL”), a consolidated Cayman Islands company, is a variable interest entity for which we are the primary beneficiary.  The carrying amount of ADDCL, after eliminating the effect of intercompany transactions, was as follows (in millions):

		September 30,			December 31,
		2016			2015
Assets		$	819		$	859
Liabilities			31			46
Net carrying amount		$	788		$	813

Transocean Drilling Services Offshore Inc. (“TDSOI”), a consolidated British Virgin Islands company, was also a variable interest entity for which we were the primary beneficiary.  In July 2016, we completed the repurchase of the noncontrolling interest in TDSOI, and as a result, TDSOI became our wholly owned subsidiary and has been excluded from the above carrying amounts.  At December 31, 2015, the net carrying amount of TDSOI, after eliminating the effect of intercompany transactions, was $295 million, including assets of $298 million and liabilities of $3 million.  See Note 13—Noncontrolling interest.

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Disclosure of variable interest entities (VIE), including, but not limited to the nature, purpose, size, and activities of the VIE, the carrying amount and classification of consolidated assets that are collateral for the VIE's obligations, lack of recourse if creditors (or beneficial interest holders) of a consolidated VIE have no recourse to the general credit of the primary beneficiary. An enterprise that holds a significant variable interest in a VIE but is not the primary beneficiary may disclose the nature of its involvement with the VIE and when that involvement began, the nature, purpose, size, and activities of the VIE and the enterprise's maximum exposure to loss as a result of its involvement with the VIE.

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