UNITED
STATES
   SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
  Washington, D.C.
20549
   FORM
8-K
   CURRENT REPORT
   Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
   Date of Report (Date of earliest
event reported): December 10, 2008
  
  NOBLE
ENERGY, INC.
 (Exact
name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
 Delaware
              
              001-07964
              
              73-0785597(State
      or other jurisdiction of
              
              (Commission
              
              (I.R.S.
      Employerincorporation
      or organization)
              
              File
      Number)
              
              Identification
      No.)100 Glenborough,
      Suite 100Houston,
      Texas
              
              
              
              77067(Address of principal executive offices)
              
              
              
              (Zip
      Code)
  Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code: (281) 872-3100
     (Former
name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last
report)
  Check the
appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously
satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
provisions:
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pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
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(17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
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(17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
  
    
  Item 8.01
              Other
      Events.
  Attached
as Exhibit 100 to this Current Report on Form 8-K are the following materials
from the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September
30, 2008, of Noble Energy, Inc., filed on October 29, 2008, formatted in XBRL
(eXtensible Business Reporting Language): (i) the Consolidated Statements
of Operations, (ii) the Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iii) the
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, (iv) the Consolidated Statements of
Shareholders’ Equity, and (v) certain notes to these financial statements tagged
as blocks of text.  These XBRL-formatted documents are not readable in
HyperText Markup Language (HTML).  Users of this data are advised
pursuant to Rule 401 of Regulation S-T that the financial information contained
in the XBRL documents is unaudited and these are not the official publicly filed
financial statements of Noble Energy, Inc. The purpose of submitting these XBRL
formatted documents is to test the related format and technology and, as a
result, investors should continue to rely on the official filed version of the
furnished documents and not rely on this information in making investment
decisions.
  In
accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, the information in this Current
Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, shall not be deemed to be “filed” for
purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and
shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other
document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange
Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such
filing.
  Item 9.01
              Financial Statements and
      Exhibits
  (d)
              Exhibits
  100
              The
      following materials from the Noble Energy, Inc. Quarterly Report on Form
      10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2008, filed on October
      29, 2008, formatted in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language):
      (i) the Consolidated Statements of Operations, (ii) the
      Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iii) the Consolidated Statements of
      Cash Flows, (iv) the Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity, and
      (v) certain notes to these financial statements tagged as blocks of text.
 
  
   SIGNATURE
   Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly
caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly
authorized.
  NOBLE
      ENERGY, INC.Date:
      December 10, 2008
              By:
              /s/Chris
      TongChris
      TongSenior
      Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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  EXHIBIT
INDEX
  Exhibit
                Number
              
              DescriptionExhibit 100.INS
              
              XBRL
      Instance DocumentExhibit 100.SCH
              
              XBRL
      Taxonomy Extension Schema DocumentExhibit 100.CAL
              
              XBRL
      Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase DocumentExhibit
      100.LAB
              
              XBRL
      Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase DocumentExhibit
      100.PRE
              
              XBRL
      Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase
  Document
  
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