0000919574-12-005553.txt : 20121002 0000919574-12-005553.hdr.sgml : 20121002 20121002172112 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000919574-12-005553 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 6-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20121031 FILED AS OF DATE: 20121002 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20121002 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SEADRILL LTD CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001351413 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: DRILLING OIL & GAS WELLS [1381] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: D0 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 6-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-34667 FILM NUMBER: 121124550 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: PAR-LA-VILLE PLACE, 14 PAR-LA-VILLE ROAD CITY: HAMILTON STATE: D0 ZIP: HM 08 BUSINESS PHONE: 14412956935 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PAR-LA-VILLE PLACE, 14 PAR-LA-VILLE ROAD CITY: HAMILTON STATE: D0 ZIP: HM 08 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: SeaDrill LTD DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20060127 6-K 1 d1321820_6-k.htm d1321820_6-k.htm
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of October 2012

Commission File Number 001-34667

SEADRILL LIMITED

P.O. Box HM 1593
Par-la-Ville Place, 4th Floor
14 Par-la-Ville Road
Hamilton HM 08 Bermuda
(441)295-6935
(Address of principal executive offices)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

Form 20-F [X]       Form 40-F [  ]

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Note: Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted to furnish a report or other document that the registrant foreign private issuer must furnish and make public under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the registrant is incorporated, domiciled or legally organized (the registrant's "home country"), or under the rules of the home country exchange on which the registrant's securities are traded, as long as the report or other document is not a press release, is not required to be and has not been distributed to the registrant's security holders, and, if discussing a material event, has already been the subject of a Form 6-K submission or other Commission filing on EDGAR.

 
 
 

INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM 6-K REPORT
 
Attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 is a copy of the press release of Seadrill Limited (the “Company”), dated September 24, 2012, announcing the resolutions passed at the Company’s 2012 Annual General Meeting that was held on September 21, 2012.



 
 
 

SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 

SEADRILL LIMITED
(Registrant)
 
Dated: October 2, 2012
 
By:  /s/ Georgina Sousa 
Georgina Sousa
Secretary
 

 
 
 


Exhibit 99.1
 

SDRL - Minutes from the Annual General Meeting 2012
 
 
Hamilton, Bermuda, September 21, 2012 - Seadrill Limited (the "Company") advises that the 2012 Annual General Meeting of the Company was held on September 21, 2012 at 9:30 a.m. at the Elbow Beach Hotel, 60 South Shore Road, Paget PG04, Bermuda.  The following resolutions were passed:
 
1)     To re-elect John Fredriksen as a Director of the Company.
 
2)     To re-elect Tor Olav Trøim as a Director of the Company.
 
3)     To re-elect Kate Blankenship as a Director of the Company.
 
4)     To re-elect Kathrine Fredriksen as a Director of the Company.
 
5)     To re-elect Carl Erik Steen as a Director of the Company.
 
6)     To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers AS as auditors and to authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration.
 
7)    That the remuneration payable to the Company's Board of Directors of a total amount of fees not to exceed US$800,000 be approved for the year ended December 31,  2012.
 
In addition, the audited consolidated financial statements for the Company for the year ended December 31, 2011 were presented to the Meeting.
 
This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.