Noble will get 'ever pickier' on M&A after Diamond deal: CEO
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Oil driller Noble Corp (NE) is set to acquire Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO) in a stock-plus-cash deal valued at $1.6 billion. Noble Corp. CEO and President Robert Eifler sits down with the Market Domination team to talk more about the acquisition and Noble's drilling operations amid recent forecasts on crude oil (CL=F, BZ=F) demand.
"We drill for some of the largest companies in the world, and they have a lot of needs. And in order to meet those needs globally, we need to have enough assets so that we can spread our investments, around technology and innovation across a bigger base," Eifler says on the company's push to increase its scale.
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This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.
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