Largest in this registry
#11,360
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest rig / offshore unit
#98
of 856 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 8772075
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 258627000
- Call sign
- Flag state
- Norway
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Rig / offshore unit
In context
How Transocean Encourage compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 44,143 gross tons, Transocean Encourage is the 11,360th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 7.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 911 rig / offshore units held here, it ranks 98th by tonnage — larger than 89% of that group. Their median tonnage is 9,254 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 51,732 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (179 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Hanwha Ocean, with 27 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Transocean Encourage is the 243rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 21 rig / offshore units flying the Norway flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.
Transocean Encourage was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 397th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 116.0 m overall, Transocean Encourage is 42.0 m longer than the 74.0 m median for rig / offshore units on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8772075 this registry holds 31 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Hanwha Ocean
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
