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Supplier day in Ghana

As part of Noble’s start-up activities in Ghana, our Supply Chain department and Operations co-hosted a Supplier Day to support the development of a strong and responsible local supply chain.

The event brought together 25 potential local suppliers and introduced Noble, our business values, and our Supplier Code of Conduct. Participants received guidance on our expectations related to ethics, health and safety, and sustainability, as well as practical insight into the qualification process for becoming a Noble supplier.

Supplier Day was an important step in expanding local procurement, enabling local companies to engage more directly with our operations. Increasing the share of local sourcing supports economic development in local communities, which contributes to reduced transport distances and associated greenhouse gas emissions. Through early engagement and transparent dialogue, we aim to build long-term, mutually beneficial supplier relationships that strengthen local supply networks and support our broader sustainability objectives

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Spotting weak signals: How Noble helps build offshore resilience

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Danish job activation program supports workforce reentry

Noble is proud to participate in a Danish job activation program that supports individuals facing physical, psychological, or social challenges as they reenter the workforce.

In close collaboration with the local JobCenter, the company offers a structured 12-week (or longer) process that helps participants identify their skills, capacities, and sustainable career paths.

At the Tinglev warehouse, the program has created a supportive environment where interns are able to gradually increase working hours, take on new responsibilities, and rebuild confidence at a pace suited to their needs. The warehouse team emphasizes that the purpose goes far beyond daily tasks: it is about creating room for people to grow and rediscover what they are capable of.

The warehouse manager notes that the collaboration is “a reminder of why our work matters – because it gives people space, support, and the chance to move forward.”

Noble’s focus on inclusive employment once again earned the company the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Diploma, highlighting our dedication to creating meaningful opportunities. We believe this initiative is a powerful expression of Noble’s culture of inclusion, responsibility, and belief in giving people a genuine chance to succeed.

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Supplier day in Ghana

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Noble aligns key safety program with IOGP Life‑Saving Rules

Noble is updating the Management by Walking Around (MBWA) program as part of our transition to the IOGP Life‑Saving Rules, enhancing alignment with globally recognized safety expectations.

This shift strengthens Noble’s focus on preventing serious incidents in high-risk operations and aims to support consistent safety behaviors across the organization.

The Noble Life-Saving Rules provide a simple, industry-standard set of critical safeguards proven to reduce severe incidents. By embedding these rules across our operations, Noble reinforces clear expectations, strengthens consistency in how critical risks are managed, and supports a shared understanding of safety priorities across our workforce.

Examples of IOGP Life-Saving Rules

Dropped objects

Stop work

Lift safe

Environment

“Aligning with the IOGP Life-Saving Rules sharpens our focus on the risks that matter most and helps everyone – from leaders to front-line teams – speak the same safety language.”

— Kirk Atkinson Senior HSE Director, Noble

The MBWA program incorporates updated Life-Saving Rule icons, expanded fields to better assess Control of Work, and a new validation and verification step to confirm that critical safeguards are in place.

Updating this program marks an important step in aligning Noble’s safety practices with international best practices while maintaining our strong culture of operational excellence.

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Noble Stanley Lafosse achieves ISO 14001 certification

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Spotting weak signals: How Noble helps build offshore resilience

At Noble, our offshore crews are at the center of everything we do. To support them, we focus on building resilience into daily operations so safety remains a priority.

A key part of this effort is helping teams recognize and act on weak signals, small signs indicating that something in the system may not be working as intended. Responding to these subtle cues can prevent small issues from becoming major events. Examples include a missing step in a procedure, tools staged in an unexpected place, unplanned simultaneous operations, a colleague expressing uncertainty, or a safety device that doesn’t fully function. This approach is closely aligned with Noble Peak, which reinforces the behaviors, tools, and mindset needed to recognize early indicators of risk and act before they escalate. 

Noble strengthens resilience by providing crews with the tools, systems, and support needed to identify weak signals. Our emphasis on human performance encourages people to balance fast, routine thinking with deliberate, slow thinking and pausing to ask, “What could go wrong?” and “Are we truly set up to do this safely?”

Through training, leadership engagement, and a strong reporting culture, Noble aims to empower crews to escalate concerns, challenge assumptions, and learn from everyday work, not just from incidents. This approach is designed to add capacity to the system and prepare teams to handle the unexpected safely.

Our goal is to prevent harm by strengthening our ability to recognize and act on weak signals early. Through Noble Peak, Noble and our offshore crews build the capability, mindset, and shared ownership needed to anticipate risk, reinforce safe behaviors, and strengthen safety in every operation.

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Noble aligns key safety program with IOGP Life‑Saving Rules

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Training propels employee’s career

Technical training enabled Stephen Moonasar to turn his passion for mechanics into a job as a machinist at a Guyana sugar estate, and then to a drilling fluid operator on a Noble drillship.

Moonasar adapted well to the new way of life 200 kilometers offshore on the Noble Tom Madden and rapidly progressed in his role managing fluid, chemicals, and pump maintenance. He credits his coworkers with showing him how to do the job safely and effectively.

Recognizing his talent and capabilities, Noble is preparing Moonasar for a promotion to derrickman with training on the cyber chair and well control level two. Moonasar hopes to pay it forward by sharing his skills and knowledge with young people joining the oil and gas industry.

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Noble Stanley Lafosse achieves ISO 14001 certification

In 2025, the Noble Stanley Lafosse became the first drillship in Noble’s fleet in more than a decade, and the first since recent integrations, to achieve ISO 14001 certification.

This globally recognized environmental management standard provides a structured approach to setting and meeting environmental objectives while maintaining regulatory compliance. 

The certification continues Noble’s long history with ISO 14001. Since 2000, multiple rigs and offices have earned this distinction, and in 2004 Noble became the first drilling contractor to certify its entire eligible fleet. 

Following the integration of legacy assets, the company is once again expanding certification efforts as all rigs and offices align under a unified management system. The Stanley Lafosse achieved certification on its first attempt with zero major nonconformities, demonstrating the crew’s expertise and commitment.  

“The Noble Stanley Lafosse’s ISO 14001 certification is a clear reflection of our crew’s professionalism and focus on environmental stewardship.”

— Caroline Alting SVP, Operational Excellence

This milestone continues Noble’s legacy of leadership in sustainability and reinforces operational excellence as the company strives to be the First Choice Offshore.

Today, 12 Noble sites hold ISO 14001 certification, with additional vessels scheduled for recertification. These efforts support Noble’s longstanding focus on environmental responsibility and our ambition to remain the First Choice Offshore. 

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Milestone: Noble introduces industry’s most high-tech simulator

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A new chapter in digital innovation

In 2025, Noble took another meaningful step toward data driven offshore operations through a new technology development agreement with Kongsberg Maritime.

The collaboration brings together Kongsberg’s advanced marine systems and Noble’s operational expertise to create solutions designed to enhance efficiency, strengthen risk management, and support our long-term sustainability goals.

The first pilot, now deployed on the Noble Sam Croft in the U.S. Gulf, integrates a suite of digital tools designed to optimize real time decision making. 

Enhanced Green Dynamic Positioning (EGDP), upgraded riser management capabilities, dynamic calibration tools, and full Riser Management System (RMS) DP integration work together to help reduce fuel use, improve well connection efficiency, and increase situational awareness in challenging offshore environments.

As the pilot progresses, our crews are gathering performance data, validating system behavior, and identifying opportunities for continual improvement. By embracing digital solutions and partnering with technology leaders, Noble is working to accelerate the industry’s shift toward smarter, lower impact offshore operations, demonstrating how data can meaningfully improve both sustainability and operational performance.

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Monitoring real-time BOP data for well control integrity

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How Noble uses predictive AI to strengthen safety

AI-driven predictive insight is helping to strengthen offshore safety and operational continuity. Improving work safety protects people, reinforces trust, and reduces disruptions that can raise emissions and cost.

Historically, the sector has relied on lagging indicators and reviewing incidents after they occur to guide decisions. Today, real time behavioral and operational data enable foresight that helps prevent events before they happen.

Noble’s multi-year digital transformation shows how AI can shift safety management from reactive to proactive. By digitizing the behavior-based safety program and capturing millions of structured observations across the fleet, advanced machine learning models are now capable of detecting meaningful patterns, distinguish early warning signals, and highlight emerging risks before incidents occur. This capability helps teams interpret complex datasets that would be impractical to analyze manually, revealing trends in crew stability, supervisory engagement, the quality of corrective actions, and other areas.

“Predictive safety isn’t about replacing judgment— it’s about equipping our people with clearer signals sooner. Turning real time data into foresight helps us direct attention where it matters most and keep our crews safe.”

— Dustin Stringer HSE Performance Director

These insights currently inform a predictive dashboard deployed in selected operations, providing an overview of potential risks. The dashboard is used as a decision‑support tool to help clarify where intervention may be needed, how resources can be prioritized, and which behavioral drivers warrant attention. While still being applied in limited instances, this approach demonstrates how AI‑enabled prediction can support decision‑making, reinforce safety culture, and inform more reliable operations as Noble evaluates broader adoption in an increasingly complex offshore environment.

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A new chapter in digital innovation

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Using data to optimize and operate more efficiently

Noble is continuing to develop and scale the use of data-driven tools to enhance operational efficiency, safety, and decision-making across the fleet, supporting sustainability objectives by working to improve energy efficiency and reduce environmental impact.

Marine operators, Dynamic Positioning (DP) personnel, marine engineers, instructors, and subject matter experts use the company’s high-fidelity Marine and Engine Room simulator, both of which are integrated with the Kongsberg Information Management System (KIMS), to analyze vessel behavior, operator interaction, and system performance under controlled, repeatable conditions. DP is the safe station keeping of a vessel using automated control of thrusters and propulsion to maintain position and heading. Insights from these exercises are incorporated into training and operational reviews to support more efficient offshore practices, consistent with the company’s emphasis on digital operational improvement.

Within this environment, Noble is exploring how simulator and KIMS data help evaluate application of the Well Specific Operating Guidelines (WSOG), vessel response, fuel consumption, and system loading. Long-duration scenarios will enable consistent comparisons across operating modes and configurations, offering a low-risk method to understand how procedures and technologies may perform before offshore deployment.

Operators may also train with deployed Electronic WSOG and Riser Management System (RMS), together with KIMS, as real-time decision-support tools, while analysts observe behaviors that may influence efficiency and safety – aligning with Noble’s practice of using digital insights to drive operational discipline.

“Simulation data gives our teams the clarity to explore new ideas, strengthen decisions, and uncover safer, more efficient ways of working that elevate our operations.”

— Brian Herbert Marine Simulation Training Supervisor

This controlled, data-rich approach is designed to produce more accurate estimates of fuel efficiency, support evidence-based validation of procedures and technologies, and improve decision quality supported by measurable operator data. By identifying practices that can lower fuel use for a given task profile and promoting operating modes that may reduce unnecessary engine loading, these insights are being developed to support Noble’s efforts to use energy more efficiently and reduce operational impacts on the environment. 

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How Noble uses predictive AI to strengthen safety

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Powering progress: Noble’s drive to eliminate energy waste

From mindset to impact: sustainability in action

At Noble, sustainability is more than a goal – it’s a mindset that shapes how we operate. Our aspiration is clear: Eliminate energy waste onboard rigs.

This ambition aligns directly with Noble’s 2030 carbon intensity reduction target, in supporting low-carbon, cost-efficient well delivery.

A key element of our Sustainable Energy Mindset is proactive thinking about energy use in every task. Crews are encouraged to make data-driven decisions, leverage real-time insights, and embed energy efficiency into daily operations. This mindset aims to foster accountability and innovation, empowering teams to identify opportunities for improvement and share ideas through platforms like EnergyWise. By integrating sustainability into routine actions, energy efficiency can become second nature across operations.

To turn this mindset into measurable impact, Noble implemented the Energy Management System (EMS). This system embeds Sustainable Operational Practices into rig operations, combining behavioral changes, structured planning, and advanced technology. These practices are documented in Energy Management Plans (EMP), which provide rig-specific strategies to track fuel use, identify significant energy users (SEUs), and guide continual improvement.

Key initiatives and tools include:

EnergyWise

A collaborative platform where crews share energy-saving ideas that are reviewed by Rig Sustainability Committees and implemented fleetwide.

Digital Dashboards

Real-time advisory systems are designed to optimize engine count based on load, highlight idle equipment, and provide actionable insights for immediate crew response.

Preventive Maintenance

Programs such as air leak detection designed to prevent hidden energy losses and maintain operational efficiency.

The impact is clear:

Reducing energy waste not only improves efficiency but also contributes significantly to our greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals – supporting a 20% reduction in carbon intensity, (measured as CO₂e MT per contracted day) by 2030. Our initiatives, from optimizing equipment to encouraging crew-driven ideas, help move us closer to this target.

At Noble, sustainability is not an add-on, it’s integrated into how we work. By aligning operational excellence with environmental responsibility, we aim to build a future where energy efficiency drives performance and progress. 

“The dashboards make it easy for us to see where we can cut unnecessary energy use. It’s satisfying to know that every adjustment we make can help Noble reduce emissions and operate more efficiently.”

— Adam Booth Assistant Rig Manager

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Energy efficiency achieved through collaborative optimization