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Transocean Ltd. Announces $181 Million Contract Extension for Harsh Environment Semisubmersible Transocean Spitsbergen
STEINHAUSEN,
The estimated firm backlog excludes revenue associated with performance incentives, additional services, and option periods provided for in the contract.
About Transocean
Transocean is a leading international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells. The company specializes in technically demanding sectors of the global offshore drilling business with a particular focus on deepwater and harsh environment drilling services, and believes that it operates the highest specification floating offshore drilling fleet in the world.
Transocean owns or has partial ownership interests in, and operates a fleet of 37 mobile offshore drilling units, consisting of 27 ultra-deepwater floaters and 10 harsh environment floaters. In addition, Transocean is constructing two ultra-deepwater drillships.
For more information about Transocean, please visit: www.deepwater.com.
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