# Noble Corp plc

Summary updated: 2026-10-02T15:32:54.8255Z
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## Overview

Noble Corporation plc is an offshore contract-drilling company serving the oil and gas industry. It provides drilling services through a single Contract Drilling Services segment, operating mobile offshore rigs for customers rather than selling manufactured products. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P69797774) At year-end 2025, its 36-rig fleet comprised 25 floaters and 11 jackups, supporting ultra-deepwater and harsh-environment drilling. [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P61884451) [3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P4141617)

Noble’s operations span Africa, Far East Asia, the North Sea, Oceania, South America and the US Gulf. [3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P4141617) The company reported 2025 operating revenue of $3.29 billion and 4,500 employees at year-end. [4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T9697502) [5](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1895262/000189526226000076/ne-20251231.htm) Its stated mission is “Drilling to power the world responsibly,” and the company traces its drilling-contracting history to 1921. [6](https://noblecorp.com/our-company/) [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P61884451)
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## Products & services

Noble’s principal offering is contract offshore drilling using mobile offshore drilling units. Its 2026 second-quarter filing described a fleet of 30 rigs: 24 floaters and 6 jackups. The floater fleet includes drillships and semisubmersibles; Noble’s drillships are rated for 10,000–12,000 feet of water depth, while semisubmersibles use submerged pontoon hulls and maintain position by mooring or dynamic positioning. [7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P143917693)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P8546283)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P92931993)

The jackups are designed for water depths from under 100 feet to 500 feet, with hook loads of up to 2.5 million pounds, and can be used for open-water or fixed-platform drilling. Contract services include providing the rig, crew and operating supplies, as well as mobilization, demobilization, contract preparation and rig modifications. [10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P67725759)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P119511514)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P51724532) Noble also offers NobleAdvances®, a training and collaboration program covering drilling, well control, managed-pressure drilling and marine operations. [13](https://noblecorp.com/our-people/noble-advances/)
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## Geographic presence

Noble’s offshore rig operations are geographically dispersed. Its 2025 fleet table lists active rigs in the US Gulf, Guyana, Brazil, Suriname, the UK, Norway, Nigeria, Bulgaria, Ghana, the Philippines, Colombia, and South America (region not further specified). It also lists rigs available in Malaysia and Australia, and rigs held for sale in the US Gulf and Spain; these are not active operating locations in that table. [14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T8762489) Noble publishes later fleet-status reports, so rig locations may have changed since the 2025 year-end snapshot. [15](https://noblecorp.com/our-investors/reports-filings/fleet-status-report/)

For 2025, the company identified the US Gulf as 27.1% of consolidated operating revenue, Guyana as 19.7%, and the North Sea as 16.9%; it does not provide a complete country-by-country revenue breakdown in the cited disclosure. [16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P69745429) Noble lists offices in Houston, Texas, and Stavanger, Norway. [17](https://noblecorp.com/contact/)
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## Business segments

Noble reports one operating segment, **Contract Drilling Services**, which provides mobile offshore drilling services worldwide to large integrated, independent, and government-owned or controlled oil-and-gas companies. It does not report geographic or rig-type segments separately; accordingly, this is 100% of its reported operating-segment business, with no company-reported revenue contribution split by rig category. [18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P143917846)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P143917693)

Within that business, Noble groups its fleet into **floaters** (drillships and semisubmersibles serving deepwater and ultra-deepwater projects) and **jackups** (bottom-supported rigs for shallower-water drilling). Its latest reported fleet comprised 24 floaters and 6 jackups. These are fleet categories, not reportable segments, so their relative rig counts should not be read as revenue contributions. [18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P143917846)[1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P69797774)
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## Company history

Noble’s operating roots date to 1921, when founder Lloyd Noble began in the oil business in Oklahoma; the company traces its contract-drilling history to that period. In 1985, Noble Affiliates spun off its contract-drilling business as Noble Drilling. [6](https://noblecorp.com/our-company/)[19](https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1985/09/20/noble-affiliates-to-spin-off-contract-drilling-operation/62751488007/)

Noble expanded its deepwater operations in 2010 by acquiring Frontier Drilling, adding six rigs and an FPSO. In 2013, it changed its corporate parent from a Swiss-incorporated company to a UK-incorporated one. After filing for Chapter 11 in July 2020, the company completed a financial restructuring and emerged in February 2021 under a new parent; it also completed its combination with Pacific Drilling that April. [20](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1169055/000095012310071277/h74823exv99w1.htm)[21](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1458891/000119312515095334/d842749ddef14a.htm)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P14349214)[23](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1458891/000119312521032043/d109435dex992.htm)[24](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1458891/000119312521118586/d103700dex991.htm)

Noble completed its combination with Maersk Drilling in October 2022 and acquired Diamond Offshore in September 2024. In January 2026, it completed the sale of five jackups to Borr Drilling. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P9854115)[26](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1895262/000095014224002324/eh240525915_ex9901.htm)[27](https://noblecorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/NOBLE-CORPORATION-PLC-COMPLETES-SALE-OF-FIVE-JACKUPS-TO-BORR-DRILLING-2026.pdf)
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