| FILED PURSUANT TO SECTION 28 OF THE COMPANIES ACT THE COMPANIES ACT COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF ROWAN US HOLDINGS (GIBRALTAR) LIMITED 1. The name of the Company is Rowan US Holdings (Gibraltar) Limited. 2. The registered office of the Company will be situate in Gibraltar. 3. The objects for which the Company is established are:- (1) To do all such things as are lawful to be done by a Company registered under the Companies Act of Gibraltar. (2) To establish, maintain, support and operate shipping and drilling services including both offshore exploratory and development drilling, testing and completing, working over, side tracking and deepening of wells and all ancillary services and for these purposes or as independent undertakings, to import, export to and from any part of the world, purchase, take in exchange, charter, hire, build, construct, or otherwise acquire, and to own, work, manage, man, provide or contract personnel, contract and trade with mobile offshore drilling platforms, motor and other vehicles, steam, sailing, motor and other ships, trawlers, drifters, tugs and vessels, and aircraft with all necessary and convenient equipment, engines, tackle, gear, furniture and stores, or any shares or interest in platforms, rigs, ships, vessels, aircraft, motor and other vehicles, including shares, stocks or securities of companies possessed of or interested in any platforms, rigs, ships, aircraft or vehicles and to maintain, repair, fit out, refit, improve, insure, alter, sell, exchange or let out on hire or hire purchase, or charter or otherwise deal with and dispose of any of the platforms, rigs, ships, vessels, aircraft and vehicles, shares, stock and securities or any of the engines, tackle, gear, furniture, equipment and stores of the Company. (3) To undertake and carry on all or any of the trade and businesses of shippers, ship owners, ship brokers, shipping agents and insurance brokers, underwriters, ship managers, tug owners, loading brokers, freight contractors, carriers by land, air and water, transport, haulage and general contractors, barge owners, lightermen, railway and forwarding agents, dock owners, engineers, ice merchants, refrigerators, store keepers, ships' store merchants, ships' husbands, stevedores, warehousemen, wharfingers, salvers, ship builders, ship repairers, manufacturers of and dealers in rope, tarpaulins, waterproofs, machinery, engines, nautical instruments and ships' rigging, gear, fittings and equipment of every description, importers and exporters of and dealers in goods, provisions, live and dead stock, commodities, articles, chattels, merchandise and property of every kind. |