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): March 19, 2009
 
 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)
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  Item 8.01
              Other
      Events.
  Attached
as Exhibit 100 to this Current Report on Form 8-K are the following materials
from the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, of
Noble Energy, Inc., filed on February 19, 2009, 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) Notes to the Financial Statements, Supplemental
Oil and Gas Information, and Supplemental Quarterly Financial Information 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. Annual Report on Form 10-K
      for the year ended December 31, 2008, filed on February 19, 2009,
      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) Notes to the
      Financial Statements, Supplemental Oil and Gas Information, and
      Supplemental Quarterly Financial Information 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:
      March 19, 2009
              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
    DocumentExhibit
      100.DEF
                  
                  XBRL
      Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
Document
  
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