ZUG, Switzerland, Jan. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) today announced that David W. Williams, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a panel discussion at the Goldman Sachs Global Energy Conference being held at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. The panel discussion is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, January 11, 2011. While panel discussions from this conference are not being webcast, Noble will post a corporate update presentation on the Company's Web site at the time of the event.

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Noble is a leading offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry. Noble performs, through its subsidiaries, contract drilling services with a fleet of 71 offshore drilling units (including six drilling rigs currently under construction), located worldwide, including in the Middle East, India, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, the Mediterranean, the North Sea, Brazil, West Africa and Asian Pacific. Noble also owns and operates a dynamically positioned floating production, storage, offloading vessel. Noble's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "NE". Additional information on Noble Corporation is available via the worldwide web at http://www.noblecorp.com.

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