Company: NE-WTA
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015025
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Company: Noble Corp plc
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
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We are committed to ongoing improvement and a sustainable energy future, supported by our efforts to protect the environment throughout our operations and safely provide reliable and efficient services to allow access to resources essential for human and economic prosperity. We actively look to collaborate with our customers to evaluate economic alternatives for reducing the carbon footprint of our drilling rigs. Oversight of our sustainability is at the Board level, with the safety and sustainability committee of the Board (the “Safety & Sustainability Committee”) assisting in that oversight role with respect to the Company’s sustainability policies and practices.

| Noble - First Choice Offshore                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 The Company’s strategy has been focused on delivering industry-leading shareholder returns, including executing on inorganic growth opportunities. The Company’s performance highlights for 2024 include:                            
 •Leadership position in shareholder returnsin the offshore drilling sector, with $300 million in share repurchases and $276 million in dividends paid in 2024.                                                                       
 •Strategic M&A and Highly Effective Integrations:                                                                                                                                                                                    
 •Created an industry leading deepwater fleet, including 14 7th generation drillships.                                                                                                                                                
 •Over $150 million of merger synergies realized from Maersk Drilling compared to $125 million target, and over half of the total estimated $100 million of merger synergies realized thus far from the Diamond Offshore acquisition. 
 •Relative Total Stock Return of 44thPercentile, Relative to our TSR Peer Groupmeasured from January 1, 2022 through to December 31, 2024.                                                                                            
 •Customer Satisfactionhigh satisfaction scores (ranging from 6.3 to 6.7 out of 7) from January 1, 2022 through to December 31, 2024 and averaging 6.37 out of 7 in 2024.                                                             
 •Seamless operation integrationhighlighted by 97% operational uptime and strong Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) performance across the fleet.                                                                                   |

#### 22025 Proxy Statement |Noble Corporation plc
Sustainability - Environmental ◆ Social ◆ Governance (ESG)

As a responsible drilling contractor with a comprehensive approach to sustainability, Noble remains committed to building on the Company’s strategy of enabling long-term sustainable value creation. Noble’s sustainability mission is to help provide affordable energy efficiently, safely and sustainably, by leveraging longstanding customer relationships and unique innovation capabilities. Noble continues leveraging sustainability as a driver of business resilience and value creation, helping to ensure that our approach to sustainability reporting not only meets regulatory expectations but