RIG

Transocean Ltd.

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Is RIG Halal?

Offshore drilling services — fossil fuel extraction services.

What You Should Know

Transocean operates offshore drilling rigs and provides contract drilling services for oil and gas wells. Its March 2026 Form 10-Q reports $15,151 million of assets, $5,274 million of interest-bearing debt, $615 million of cash and restricted cash, $638 million of receivables and $1,081 million of quarterly contract-drilling revenue. Debt/assets is 34.81%, liquidity/assets is 4.06%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 8.27%, and disclosed interest income is 0.93%; end-use activity remains incomplete.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Fossil fuel extraction services
  • Debt/assets exceeds the examined 33.333% limits
  • Valaris acquisition and offshore fleet financing
  • Environmental and end-use concerns

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
34.81%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

5,274 / 15,151

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
4.06%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

615 / 15,151

Receivables + cash / assets
8.27%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,253 / 15,151

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.93%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

10 / 1,081

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 34.81%, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity/assets is 4.06% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 8.27%.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 34.81%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit; disclosed interest income is 0.93% of revenue, while activity classification remains incomplete.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is above the examined Malaysia 33% limit; this is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; the debt failure remains independently documented.

Business-activity disclosure

Transocean provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells. Drilling services are not the same as selling the underlying commodity, but fossil-fuel end use, environmental impact and acquisition-related activities require qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not break out a universal prohibited-activity numerator; contract and customer end uses are not fully classified.

Purification

Transocean discloses $10 million of interest income, but does not provide a complete prohibited-activity numerator; purification is not presented as a definitive percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Transocean's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Interest-bearing debt is $329 million due within one year plus $4,945 million of long-term debt.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are $330 million and restricted cash is $285 million; both are included conservatively in liquidity.
  • Accounts receivable are $638 million.
  • Contract drilling revenue is $1,081 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026; disclosed interest income is $10 million.
  • The filing describes offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells; it does not isolate a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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