A Noble Corp. newbuild jackup destined to work for Statoil in the North Sea sustained damage earlier this week at the Sembcorp Marine Tanjong Kling shipyard in Singapore, is expected to be delivered on time. Illustration of the Noble Lloyd Noble…
Noble Corp. has announced the resignation of James A. MacLennan, senior vice president, chief financial officer (CFO), and treasurer, effective 26 February 2016. Dennis L. Lubojacky, vice president and controller, will serve as interim CFO until a permanent replacement can be found…
Noble Corp. will retire two offshore drilling units, jackup Noble Charles Copeland and former Shell Arctic drillship, Noble Discoverer, the company announced this week. The retirements bring Noble’s full fleet to 30 units. The Noble Discoverer contract…
Noble Corp. is expected to lay off 100-120 people that work on the Noble Danny Adkins semisubmersible drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. According to a letter from Noble’s director of personnel, to the Texas Workforce Commission, Noble…
Drilling contractor Noble Corp. is relocating its drillship Noble Discoverer to Singapore where it will be stacked after Shell terminated its contract on the rig. Shell had been using the Noble Discoverer for its failed arctic exploration in the Chukchi Sea alongside the Polar Pioneer…
BG Group secured 35% stake from Houston-based Noble Energy in Block 12 offshore Cyprus in a US$165 million farm out deal, which gives the UK deepwater and LNG focused company a piece of the Aphrodite natural gas discovery. Map of Cyprus…
Noble Energy’s Aphrodite in the Eastern Mediterranean has been deemed commercial, according to the Delek Group. Map of Cyprus. From Noble. Aphrodite is located offshore Cyprus…
Israel’s Delek Group is proposing a US$155 million deal to acquire 19.9% stake in Block 12, offshore Cyprus, from Houston-based Noble Energy. Map from Noble. Block 12 covers approximately 2684sq km in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea…
The Israel Anti-trust Authority advised Noble Energy and its Leviathan field partners of its decision to not submit the Consent Decree to the Anti-trust Tribunal for final approval. Maps from Noble. Noble…
Houston-based Noble Energy elected David L. Stover as president and chief executive officer. Stover. From Noble. Stover previously served as the company's president and chief operating officer…
Noble Energy and Singapore-based Ezra Holdings’ subsea division EMAS AMC, finalized three subsea tieback contracts worth approximately US$300 million. Image from Ezra. The scope of work includes engineering…
Noble Energy announced successful results for the Katmai exploration well and the Dantzler-2 appraisal well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Katmai exploration well Noble is reporting great news at Katmai with total gross resources for the well estimated between 40 and 100MMboe…
Noble Corp.’s drilling rig, Noble Paul Wolff (pictured), experienced a “ballast control incident” off Brazil at 1 a.m. local time, the company reported 28 Feb 2014. The rig’s crew has secured the well, and Noble said that measures are underway to resolve the matter…
Noble Corp. today reported Q4 2013 net income of US$174 million, and for Q3 2013, the company reported net income of $282 million. Net income for the full year 2013 totaled $783 million, on revenues of $4.2 billion, compared to net income of $522 million on revenues of $3…
Noble Corporation has announced plans to spin off its standard specification drilling units into a new separate company. The new company will own and operate standard specification drilling units from the Noble fleet, with the new company focusing on high-specification assets…
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