Offshore drilling contractors Noble Corporation and Pacific Drilling will combine in an all-stock transaction that will see Noble will acquire Pacific Drilling. A definitive merger agreement was unanimously approved by...

Offshore drilling contractor Noble has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy after completing a financial restructuring to eliminate $3.4 billion in bond debt. Noble emerges with a substantially delevered balance sheet...

By Anshuman Daga and Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE, May 15 (Reuters) – Just seven years ago, Noble Group was a $11 billion-plus Asian commodity powerhouse, trading everything from soybeans to oil....

SINGAPORE, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Crisis-wracked commodity trader Noble Group said on Friday said proposed agreements to sell four dry bulk carrier vessels have fallen through after the buyers failed...

By Jasmine Ng and Lianting Tu (Bloomberg) — Noble Group Ltd. suspended its shares from trading in Singapore on Friday pending the announcement of a major transaction, with the commodity...

By Jasmine Ng (Bloomberg) — It’s the end of an era for Noble Group Ltd. Some three decades after its founding, and from a perch among the world’s top commodity traders, the...

By Anshuman Daga and Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE, July 27 (Reuters) – Noble Group is slimming down drastically to its core Asian coal-trading business, but that may not be enough to...

Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has confirmed that a newbuild jack-up rig nearing completion at the Semcorp Marine Jurong shipyard in Singapore has been damaged after it was hit by a collapsing...

  By Anshuman Daga and Rujun Shen SINGAPORE, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Noble Group’s Chief Executive Yusuf Alireza sought to draw a line under a long-running accounting dispute after a...

Noble Corporation plc (NYSE: NE) has announced today it’s new standard specification offshore drilling company will be named Paragon Offshore and led by 38-year offshore industry veteran, Randall D. (Randy) Stilley,...

Noble Corporation’s (NYSE: NE) 4th quarter and 2013 earnings release today revealed the offshore drilling contractor earned $783 million, or $3.05 per diluted share in net income last year, representing a full 50 percent gain over their...

The Noble Bob Douglas drillship has moved into position over an exploratory well off the coast of the New Zealand and will continue with its planned drilling operations, despite the continued presence of an encroaching Greenpeace protest sailboat.

Switzerland-based Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) announced today that it will be splitting up its drilling business into two distinct offshore drilling companies, one focused on high specification and deep/ultra-deepwater drilling,...

Switzerland-based drilling contractor Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) announced today plans to reincorporate from Zug, Switzerland to the United Kingdom.  The company’s shareholders will be asked to vote to approve the proposed...

Two Noble drillships under construction at HHI will go to Gulf of Mexico under three-year contracts.

By Kristin Jones Noble Corp.’s (NE) fourth-quarter earnings were roughly flat from a year earlier as the offshore-oil driller’s higher revenue from contract drilling services was offset by repair costs and other...

Noble Corp. (NE) said it is working to rectify deficiencies and maintenance issues the U.S. Coast Guard found with its Noble Discoverer drillship, located offshore Alaska. Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSB, RDSA.LN,...

ZUG, Switzerland, Dec. 10, 2012  — Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) today reported that it has entered into two separate Definitive Agreements for the sale of two standard jackup drilling units.  The first agreement, for...

gCaptain has just received these exclusive photos of this week’s jack-up rig accident at Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. Monday’s incident left 89 workers injured but amazingly did not result in...

Noble Corp. (NE) said it expects its third-quarter revenue to be hurt by about $50 million due to operational delays and other developments around returning its rigs to work. Noble...