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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
391,073
Summed over 11 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Transocean Ltd. is a Swiss offshore drilling company. It is the world's largest offshore drilling contractor based on revenue. The company has offices in 20 countries, including Canada, the United States, Norway, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
The primary business of Transocean is contracts with other large companies in the oil and gas industry. In 2019, Royal Dutch Shell, Equinor and Chevron accounted for 26%, 21% and 17% of the company's revenues respectively.
In 2010, Transocean was found partially responsible (30% of total liability) for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulting from the explosion of its offshore drilling rig (which was named Deepwater Horizon) in the Gulf of Mexico.
The company's principle executive offices are located in Steinhausen, Switzerland.
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 11 vessels this registry attributes to Transocean. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By shipbuilder
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 10 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 10 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 10 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 10 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 10 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 10 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 10 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 10 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 10 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 10 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9386122 | Rig / offshore unit | Marshall Islands | 2009 | 65,573 | 10,100 | 254.0 m | Hanwha Ocean | |
| 9203679 | Rig / offshore unit | Vanuatu | 2000 | 59,632 | — | 230.5 m | Samsung Heavy Industries | |
| 9633604 | Rig / offshore unit | Norway | 2015 | 43,621 | 4,000 | 116.0 m | Hanwha Ocean | |
| 9633599 | Rig / offshore unit | Norway | 2015 | 43,621 | 4,000 | 116.0 m | Hanwha Ocean | |
| 8769121 | Unclassified | Liberia | 2009 | 37,981 | 23,513 | 117.0 m | Keppel Ltd. | |
| 8764597 | Rig / offshore unit | United States | 2001 | 32,588 | — | 121.0 m | HD Hyundai Heavy Industries | |
| 8765515 | Unclassified | Vanuatu | 2005 | 30,236 | — | 116.0 m | PPL Shipyard Pte Ltd (primary) | |
| 8764781 | Rig / offshore unit | Vanuatu | — | 29,051 | — | 114.0 m | HD Hyundai Heavy Industries | |
| 8756320 | Rig / offshore unit | Marshall Islands | 1983 | 17,580 | — | 92.8 m | — | |
| 7816070 | Unclassified | Marshall Islands | 1982 | 15,765 | — | 102.0 m | Ferguson Marine | |
| 8752025 | Unclassified | Vanuatu | 1982 | 15,425 | — | 85.6 m | — |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 11 vessels attributed to it here, Transocean is the 81st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
Switzerland is the country of registration for 10 commercial operators in this directory, among which Transocean ranks 3rd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 81 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Switzerland.
Founded in 1973, Transocean is 53 years old. This directory holds 118 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q686785, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Transocean on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.