NOBLE ENERGY, INC. (a Delaware corporation) $850,000,000 6.000% Notes due 2041 UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • February 22nd, 2011 • Noble Energy Inc • Crude petroleum & natural gas • New York
Noble Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), confirms its agreement with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (“Merrill Lynch”) and Barclays Capital Inc. (“Barclays Capital”) and each of the other several underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”, which term shall also include any underwriter substituted as hereinafter provided in Section 10) for whom Merrill Lynch and Barclays Capital are acting as representatives (in such capacity, the “Representatives”), with respect to the issue and sale by the Company and the purchase, severally and not jointly, by the Underwriters of $850,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 6.000% Notes due 2041 (the “Notes”). The respective principal amounts of the Notes to be so purchased by the several Underwriters are set forth opposite their names in Schedule A hereto. The Notes will be issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of February 27, 2009 (the “Base Indenture”), between th
