Transocean Stock Skyrockets After Insider Buys Millions and Wins $243M Deepwater Contracts
Insider Buying and New Deals Transocean’s recent rally was ignited by concrete news. As noted, Frederik Mohn’s $12M stock purchase was a signal to the market ts2.tech. Shortly before that, the company announced the two deepwater drillship extensions described above. The Atlas (U.S. Gulf) was booked for 365 days at a firm dayrate, and the Mykonos (Brazil) for 30 days deepwater.com. These awards alone add ~$243M to backlog, which management reports at about $6.7B deepwater.com. In context, this year’s backlog has held up well (versus ~$7.2B at Q2’25) – reflecting ongoing demand for modern deepwater rigs. The new contracts came