NOBLE ENERGY, INC. (a Delaware corporation) $1,000,000,000 8.250% Notes due 2019 UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • February 27th, 2009 • Noble Energy Inc • Crude petroleum & natural gas • New York
Noble Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), confirms its agreement with Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (“Deutsche Bank”), J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. (“J.P. Morgan”), Barclays Capital Inc. (“Barclays Capital”), Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. (“Greenwich Capital”) and UBS Securities LLC (“UBS”) 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 Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, Barclays Capital, Greenwich Capital and UBS 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 $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 8.250% Notes due 2019 (the “Notes”). The respective principal amounts of the Notes to be so purchased by the several Underwriters are set forth opposite the
