{"id":24624,"date":"2026-02-09T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=24624"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:02:20","slug":"transoceans-play-for-valaris-forging-17-billion-offshore-drilling-giant-with-73-rigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=24624","title":{"rendered":"Transocean\u2019s play for Valaris forging $17 billion offshore drilling giant with 73 rigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Transocean\u2019s play for Valaris forging $17 billion offshore drilling giant with 73 rigs<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Transocean has made a multibillion-dollar merger move on Valaris to breathe life into a combined company with a diversified offshore fleet of 73 rigs, including 33 ultra-deepwater drillships, nine semi-submersibles, and 31 modern jack-ups, to meet emerging growth opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/transoceans-play-for-valaris-forging-17-billion-offshore-drilling-giant-with-73-rigs\/\">Transocean\u2019s play for Valaris forging $17 billion offshore drilling giant with 73 rigs<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/\">Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Melisa Cavcic<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/transoceans-play-for-valaris-forging-17-billion-offshore-drilling-giant-with-73-rigs\/\">Go to offshore energy biz<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transocean\u2019s play for Valaris forging $17 billion offshore drilling giant with 73 rigs Transocean has made a multibillion-dollar merger move on Valaris to breathe life into a combined company with a diversified offshore fleet of 73 rigs, including 33 ultra-deepwater drillships, nine semi-submersibles, and 31 modern jack-ups, to meet emerging growth opportunities. The post Transocean\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2809,224,3108,818,2810,537,188,431,7145,699,581,2256],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-24624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consolidation","category-headline","category-market-consolidation","category-merger","category-mergers-and-acquisitions","category-offshore-drilling","category-offshore-energy-biz","category-oil-and-gas","category-rig-market-consolidation","category-rigs","category-transocean","category-valaris","tag-offshore-energy-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}