While taking a deep dive into the floater rig market and top floating rig managers based on the current total backlog for 2026, Westwood Global Energy, an energy market research and consultancy firm, has spotlighted five offshore drilling players – Transocean, Noble, COSL, Seadrill, and Valaris – as the ones that share the largest slices of this year’s backlog cake.

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