Transocean Ltd. issued a quarterly Fleet Status Report that provides the current status of, and contract information for, the company’s fleet of offshore drilling rigs.

Since its last Fleet Status Report in October, Transocean added approximately $366 million in contract backlog, bringing total backlog to $10.2 billion.

This quarter’s report includes the following new contracts:

- Leiv Eiriksson. – Awarded a two-well contract, plus three one-well options in Norway;
- Discoverer Inspiration – Awarded a three-well contract, plus three one-well options in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico;
- Deepwater Asgard – Awarded an estimated 200-day contract, plus four 74-day options in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico;
- Development Driller III – Awarded a one-year contract in Trinidad;
- Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 – Awarded a 180-day contract, plus three one-well options in Myanmar;
- Leiv Eiriksson – Awarded a one-well contract in Norway;
- Deepwater Invictus – Customer exercised a one-year option in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico;
- Transocean Norge – Customer exercised two one-well options in Norway;
- Deepwater Nautilus – Customer exercised 180-day option in Malaysia; and
- Deepwater Asgard – Customer exercised a 74-day option in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
- The report can be accessed on the company’s website: www.deepwater.com.

About Transocean

Transocean (NYSE: RIG) 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 45 mobile offshore drilling units consisting of 28 ultra-deepwater floaters, 14 harsh environment floaters, and three midwater floaters. In addition, Transocean is constructing two ultra-deepwater drillships.