Noble Corporation Plc (NE)

Offshore driller, 4,500 employees, 77% offshore. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 34 of the 38 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 4,500 employees apart from 1,400 contract personnel, 77% offshore, in one drilling business, so one support activities pattern carries the workforce.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 15% now, 21% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 25% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 25% desk work, 12% people work and 64% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 65% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 27% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

4,500 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; rigs work in Guyana, the U.S. Gulf, Norway and other regions.

The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we had approximately 4,500 employees, excluding approximately 1,400 persons we engaged through labor contractors or agencies.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,500 employees, about 77% offshore; about 1,400 persons engaged through labor contractors or agencies are not counted; unions in Norway and Denmark; a training facility in Texas.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Support Activities for Mining, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Slb N.V. (SLB, 109,000 employees)16% now, 29% by 2028
• Baker Hughes Company (BKR, 56,000 employees)17% now, 31% by 2028
• Halliburton Company (HAL, 46,000 employees)15% now, 24% by 2028
• TechnipFMC plc (FTI, 23,089 employees)17% now, 29% by 2028
• Weatherford International plc (WFRD, 16,700 employees)16% now, 25% by 2028
• Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (HP, 15,700 employees)15% now, 24% by 2028
• Nabors Industries Ltd. (NBR, 13,900 employees)16% now, 25% by 2028
• Oceaneering International, Inc. (OII, 11,100 employees)17% now, 33% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

6 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI among the tools threat actors use that may increase the speed and sophistication of cyber threats, in its risk factors.

• “These risks include, but may not be limited to, human error, power outages, computer and telecommunication failures, natural disasters, fraud or malice, social engineering or phishing attacks, viruses or malware, and other cyber incidents or attacks, such as denial-of-service or ransomware attacks, including attacks that leverage artificial intelligence.”
• “Geopolitical tensions or conflicts and broader societal or technological developments may increase the frequency, sophistication, or severity of cyber security threats, and the evolving use of advanced technologies by threat actors, including the increased adoption of artificial intelligence technologies, may further heighten these threats.”
• “As threat actors adopt and deploy AI tools, the speed and sophistication of cyber threats and privacy risks may increase across our environment and those of our vendors and suppliers.”
• “As we and/or our service providers plan or work to integrate AI-enabled tools, those tools may be targeted or misused in ways that compromise data or enable harmful outputs.”
• “In addition, Noble is subject to a variety of continuously evolving and developing laws and regulations in the United States and abroad governing, or proposed to govern, cyber security, data privacy and protection, the development and use of AI, and the unauthorized disclosure of confidential or protected information, including the UK Data Protection Act, the EU General Data Protection Regulati...”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20231median 1
• Fiscal 20241median 4
• Fiscal 20256median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The 1,400 persons engaged through labor contractors or agencies are not counted (rule 8), as the filing states.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001895262-26-000076, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.