Offshore driller Transocean Ltd. RIG has achieved another significant milestone by signing a one-year contract for its ultra-deepwater drillship, Deepwater Conqueror. The new operator remains ...

The others include the semisubmersible rig Development Driller III and the drillships Deepwater Champion and Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 (owned by a joint venture company with Pacific Drilling Limited).

The Transocean drillship Deepwater Champion is contracted to ExxonMobil under a five-year deal signed last year. The newbuild’s first stop was in the Black Sea off Turkey, where it began ...

Transocean (NYSE:RIG) +4.3% pre-market Wednesday after announcing a 365-day contract for the Deepwater Atlas ultra-deepwater drillship with BP in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as well as a 365-day ...

Transocean has announced a significant contract for a high-specification seventh-generation, ultra-deepwater drillship in the Gulf of Mexico offshore Mexico.

RIG's ultra-deepwater rig begins drilling for BP in the Gulf of America under a 3-year contract worth over $500 million.

Offshore drilling contractor Valaris Ltd., Houston, announced it has secured a pair of drillship contracts with Anadarko ...

The sixth-generation ultra-deepwater drillship, which is capable of drilling to a depth of 12,190 metres and operating in a maximum water depth of 3660 metres, is being built at Hyundai Heavy ...

Ultra-deepwater drilling has acted like a reinforcing loop for the industry. The more drilling takes place the more oil is found, which leads to more drilling and more oil discoveries.

One of 25 Ultra-Deepwater Floaters in the Transocean fleet, the Discoverer Inspiration features Transocean's patented dual-activity drilling technology, which allows for parallel drilling ...

Transocean Ltd. RIG, an offshore drilling contractor, has secured another significant contract extension for its Deepwater Asgard drillship with Hess Corporation HES, a U.S. oil and gas ...