Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (“Transocean”) today announced contract awards for two of its harsh environment semisubmersibles. In aggregate, the fixtures represent approximately $185 million in firm contract backlog.

The Transocean Norge was awarded a five-well contract with Harbour Energy in Norway. The estimated 300 days of work is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2028 in direct continuation of the rig’s current program and contribute approximately $149 million in backlog, excluding mobilization and additional services. The contract also includes three one-well options.

The Transocean Equinox was awarded a two-well contract with Santos in Australia. The estimated 90 days of work is expected to commence in the second quarter of 2027 and contribute approximately $36 million in backlog, excluding mobilization and additional services. The contract also includes five one-well options.

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 ultra-deepwater and harsh environment drilling services and operates the highest specification floating offshore drilling fleet in the world.

Transocean owns or has partial ownership interests in and operates a fleet of 27 mobile offshore drilling units, consisting of 20 ultra-deepwater floaters and seven harsh environment floaters.

About Harbour Energy

Since its creation in 2014, Harbour Energy has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies.

Today, Harbour is producing more than 450,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina and North Africa. Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, and a broad set of growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia. With low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, Harbour remains committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly to help meet the world’s energy needs.

About Santos

Santos is a leading supplier of natural gas, a fuel for the future providing clean energy to improve the lives of people in Australia and Asia.
Santos is already Australia’s biggest domestic gas supplier and aims to be a leading Asia-Pacific LNG supplier. For more than 65 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing Australian jobs and business opportunities, safely and sustainably developing Australia’s natural gas resources, and powering Australian industries and households.

With its origins in the Cooper Basin, Santos has one of the largest exploration and production acreages in Australia and extensive infrastructure and is committed to supplying the domestic markets, unlocking resources and driving value and performance.