Nabors to Deploy OpenPages SOX Express for Sarbanes-Oxley Act Compliance

May 16, 2005

Waltham, Mass. - May 16, 2005 - OpenPages, the leading provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance management (GRCM) solutions, today announced that Nabors Industries Ltd. (AMEX: NBR) has selected OpenPages Sarbanes-Oxley Express (SOX Express) for its Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiatives. Nabors will deploy SOX Express to automate the company’s ongoing test and review of its internal controls documentation in order to reduce the time and resource costs associated with Section 404 and 302 compliance.

The Nabors companies own and operate almost 600 land drilling and approximately 870 land workover and well servicing rigs worldwide. Offshore, Nabors operates 43 platform rigs, 19 jack-up units, and three barge rigs in the United States and multiple international markets. Nabors markets 28 marine transportation and support vessels, primarily in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. In addition, Nabors manufactures top drives and drilling instrumentation systems and provides comprehensive oilfield hauling, engineering, civil construction, logistics and facilities maintenance, and project management services. Nabors participates in most of the significant oil, gas and geothermal markets in the world.

OpenPages SOX Express is an enterprise compliance management solution that reduces the time and resource costs associated with ongoing compliance for Sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. SOX Express combines powerful document management, business process management and flexible reporting capabilities in an extremely easy-to-use environment that enables an organization to document financial controls and automate the ongoing test and review process. Completely web-based, SOX Express maximizes end-user participation with little training. Its dashboards can be used by project managers, documentation team members, internal auditors and external auditors to plan, document and test the internal controls framework of the company, and to attest to the financial statements.

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