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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Transocean Barents offshore drill rig at sea. Photo courtesy Transocean
Offshore

Transocean Secures Offshore Drilling Contract in Black Sea at $465,000 Per Day

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) has announced a significant contract for its harsh-environment drilling rig, Transocean Barents, in

December 12, 2023
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
File photo of an offshore drillship
Offshore

Transocean Adds $745 Million to Contract Backlog

Transocean added $745 million to its contract backlog in the last quarter, reflecting continued demand for offshore drilling rigs. The new contracts were

October 18, 2023
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Thursday, September 14, 2023
Drillship Offshore Brazil
Offshore

Transocean Announces $486 Million Drillship Contract in Brazil

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has announced a three-year contract for its newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Aquila in Brazil. The contract

September 14, 2023
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
File photo of an offshore drillship
Offshore

Transocean Reveals $222 Million Drillship Contract in India

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean (NYSE: RIG) has announced a new $222 million contract for its drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1 in India. The contract

August 30, 2023
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Transocean Sees Increased Demand for High-Specification Floaters Amid Offshore Market Rebound
Shipping

Transocean Sees Increased Demand for High-Specification Floaters Amid Offshore Market Rebound

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean (NYSE: RIG) says it is seeing increased demand for its fleet of high-specification semi-submersible rigs and

August 1, 2023
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023
drillship
Offshore

Transocean Lands $518 Million Contract for Ultra-Deepwater Drillship in Mexico

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean (NYSE: RIG) gas announced a $518 million contract for one of its ultra-deepwater drillships off Mexico. Transocean said

July 18, 2023
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
offshore oil and gas rig
Offshore

Transocean Lands Latest Contract Award in Australia

Transocean Ltd., a leading offshore drilling contractor, has announced that its Transocean Equinox has been awarded a five-well contract in Australia by a

May 10, 2023
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
jack-up vessel Seajacks Zaratan installing wind turbines at the Akita and Noshiro offshore wind farms in Japan
Offshore

Eneti and Transocean Forming Offshore Wind Installation Partnership

Offshore wind turbine installation shipowner Eneti Inc. (NYSE: NETI) has announced plan to form a joint venture company with offshore drilling company

April 19, 2023
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
offshore rig north sea
Offshore

Transocean Reveals Additional Harsh Environment Contract Awards

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) has secured additional contract fixtures for two of its harsh environment semisubmersibles in what is the latest development in the

March 29, 2023
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Transocean Signs Offshore Drilling Contracts with Equinor
Offshore

Transocean Signs Offshore Drilling Contracts with Equinor

Equinor has awarded Transocean two major offshore drilling contracts for the harsh-environment Transocean Encourage and Transocean Enabler rigs, primarily in

March 28, 2023
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Sembcorp Marine Delivers Second 8th Generation Drillship
Offshore

Sembcorp Marine Delivers Second 8th Generation Drillship

Singaporean offshore shipbuilder Sembcorp Marine has delivered the world’s second 8th generation drillship, named Deepwater Titan, to a subsidiary of

January 3, 2023
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Tuesday, August 2, 2022
offshore rig
Offshore

Transocean Says Offshore Drilling Market Rebounding After ‘Extremely Challenging’ Eight Years

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean says the market for offshore drilling services is clearly recovering after eight “extremely challenging”

August 2, 2022
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Thursday, June 30, 2022
Deepwater Atlas drillship during sea trials
Offshore

Sembcorp Marine Delivers World’s First and Long-Awaited 8th Generation Drillship to Transocean

Singapore-based Sembcorp Marine (Sembmarine) delivered the world’s first 8th generation ultra-deepwater drillship, Deepwater Atlas, about five years

June 30, 2022
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Friday, May 27, 2022
offshore oil and gas rig
Offshore

Offshore Rig Dayrates ‘Quickly Heading’ to $400,000

By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO, May 27 (Reuters) – Rental rates for offshore oil and gas rigs have rocketed higher, boosted by a race to lift production

May 27, 2022
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Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Transocean Rig to Drill Injection Wells for Norway’s Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage Project
Offshore

Transocean Rig to Drill Injection Wells for Norway’s Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage Project

A semi-submersible drilling rig belonging to Transocean has been selected to drill the carbon injection well and another sidetrack well for the Northern Lights

January 18, 2022
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Offshore Driller Transocean to Sell Shares Amid Meme Stock Frenzy
Offshore

Offshore Driller Transocean to Sell Shares Amid Meme Stock Frenzy

By Allison McNeely (Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd. is planning to raise cash and cut debt by selling new shares, taking advantage of a surge in its stock

June 15, 2021
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Monday, June 7, 2021
drillship
Offshore

Transocean Reaches Deal for Delayed Delivery of New Ultra-Deepwater Drillships

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean announced today it has reached an agreement with Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard on the delayed delivery of the

June 7, 2021
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021
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Offshore

Lawsuit Sheds Light on Serious Drillship Incident in Gulf of Mexico During 2020’s Hurricane Zeta

A former senior engineer on board a Transocean drillship in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico has filed a civil lawsuit alleging the offshore drilling contractor and its

April 13, 2021
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Thursday, January 28, 2021
Ship Stonks
Blog

Shipping Stonks Like RIG Get Lifted In Rising Tide Of Troubled Companies Like Gamestop

by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) In May 2020 I wrote an article sharing the fact that Transocean ($RIG) was the biggest loser stock of the last decade. At the

January 28, 2021
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Monday, January 25, 2021
offshore rig
Offshore

BP Drastically Cuts Oil Exploration

BP ($BP) cuts in oil exploration could hurt struggling offshore exploration companies like Transocean ($RIG). UK oil major BP has drastically scaled back the

January 25, 2021
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