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For generations Transocean and its legacy companies have led the offshore drilling industry with the most innovative and sophisticated technology, and the people that put it to record-setting use. From the first mobile jackup rig and the first drillship, both in the 1950s, to the 2016  drillships that incorporate our designed and patented Active Power Compensation® hybrid system, we're are still pushing the curve.

Transocean traces its roots to onshore drilling operations, where T.S. "Stoney" Stoneman began his career as a draftsman and then a landman before joining the Danciger Oil & Refining Company of Fort Worth, Texas in 1926.

Mr. Stoneman bought the company's first drilling rig, paying for it with a personal check and putting it on his expense report. He would later play key leadership roles in pioneering offshore drilling with The Offshore Company.

During the current decade, Transocean has continued to set world deepwater drilling records while upgrading our high-specification fleet.

• 2010 - A reminder of the over-arching importance of safety: the Macondo tragedy brought the loss of 11 crewmembers on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20 in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. We will never forget our lost colleagues.
• 2011
  • The Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 set the world water-depth record at 10,194 feet of water (3,107 meters) while working for Reliance in India.
  • In October, Transocean acquired Aker Drilling ASA
• 2012
  • Transocean announced plans to construct four, high-specification, ultra-deepwater drillships, backed by drilling contracts for the four rigs, each with a 10-year term. The 40 rig years represented the largest contracted period signed at one time in the history of the industry. The new drillships, two of which began operations in 2016, provide the most advanced offshore drilling technology available.
  • The company closed on the sale of 38 shallow-water drilling rigs to Shelf Drilling Holdings Ltd., further repositioning the company as a more focused operator of high-specification drilling rigs.
• 2013 - In July, India was the scene of another world record as the Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1 ultra-deepwater drillship (shown in photo) set the world water-depth record at 10,411 feet (3,174 meters) off the East Coast of the country while working for ONGC. That mark surpassed the prior record of 10,385 feet (3,165 meters) of water also achieved by the KG1 in February 2013.
• 2018
  • In May, Transocean Ltd. acquired Songa Offshore SE. The acquisition added seven floaters, four of which were high specification harsh environment.
  • In December, Transocean Ltd. acquired Ocean Rig UDW. The acquisition added 11 floaters, including four 7th gen UDW drillships.
• 2019 - In October, Transocean Ltd. successfully deployed the world's first hybrid energy storage system aboard a floating unit, the Transocean Spitsbergen.