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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-15-016508
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20150304
ITEM INFORMATION:		Regulation FD Disclosure
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20150304
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20150304

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Ensco plc
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000314808
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	DRILLING OIL & GAS WELLS [1381]
		IRS NUMBER:				980635229
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-08097
		FILM NUMBER:		15672015

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6 CHESTERFIELD GARDENS
		CITY:			LONDON
		STATE:			X0
		ZIP:			W1J5BQ
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4402076594660

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6 CHESTERFIELD GARDENS
		CITY:			LONDON
		STATE:			X0
		ZIP:			W1J5BQ

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Ensco International plc
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20091223

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ENSCO INTERNATIONAL INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19950526

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ENERGY SERVICE COMPANY INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;">CURRENT REPORT</font></b></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;">PURSUANT TO SECTION&nbsp;13 OR 15(d)&nbsp;OF THE<br> SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</font></b></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">DATE OF REPORT (Date of earliest event reported):<b> March&nbsp;4, 2015</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Attached hereto as Exhibit&nbsp;99.1 and incorporated by reference in its entirety into this Item 7.01 is a copy of the press release issued by Ensco plc (the &#147;Company&#148;) announcing the commencement of a tender offer (the &#147;Tender Offer&#148;) by the Company to purchase for cash any and all of its outstanding 3.25% Senior Notes due 2016.&#160; The Tender Offer is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated March&nbsp;4, 2015, and the related Letter of Transmittal and Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The information furnished in this Item 7.01 shall not be deemed &#147;filed&#148; for purposes of Section&nbsp;18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall such information be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Press   Release dated March&nbsp;4, 2015, issued by Ensco plc</font></p>    </td>   </tr>  </table>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Date: March&nbsp;4, 2015</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">/s/ Brady K. Long</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">  </font></p>    </td>   </tr>
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<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit 99.1</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Ensco   plc </font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">6   Chesterfield Gardens </font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">London   W1J 5BQ </font></p>
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<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 1.0pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Press Release</font></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Ensco Announces Cash Tender Offer</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">LONDON &#151; 4 March&nbsp;2015 &#151; Ensco plc (NYSE:ESV) announced today that it has commenced a cash tender offer to purchase any and all of its outstanding 3.25% Senior Notes due 2016 (CUSIP No.&nbsp;29358QAB5).</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The tender offer is being made pursuant to an Offer to Purchase dated today and a related Letter of Transmittal and Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, which set forth the terms and conditions of the tender offer. As of March&nbsp;4, 2015, the aggregate principal amount of the notes outstanding is $1.0 billion.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The consideration for each $1,000 principal amount of notes validly tendered and accepted for payment pursuant to the tender offer will be determined in the manner described in the Offer to Purchase by reference to a fixed spread of 20 bps over the yield based on the bid side price of the 0.375% U.S. Treasury due March&nbsp;15, 2016, as calculated by Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. at 2:00&nbsp;p.m., New York City time, on March&nbsp;10, 2015. Holders whose notes are purchased will also receive accrued and unpaid interest thereon from the last interest payment date up to, but not including, the settlement date.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The tender offer will expire at 5:00&nbsp;p.m. New York City time on March&nbsp;10, 2015, unless extended. Holders of notes must validly tender and not validly withdraw their notes before 5:00&nbsp;p.m. New York City time on the tender offer expiration date to be eligible to receive the consideration. Tendered notes may be withdrawn at any time prior to the expiration time.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The tender offer is conditioned upon the satisfaction of certain conditions more fully described in the Offer to Purchase, including the completion of a contemporaneous notes offering by Ensco.&#160; The tender offer is not conditioned upon any minimum amount of notes being tendered.&#160; The tender offer may be amended, extended, terminated or withdrawn.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Following the closing of the contemporaneous notes offering and the expiration of the tender offer, Ensco intends to exercise its right to redeem any notes not purchased in the tender offer and that remain outstanding pursuant to the indenture governing the notes.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Ensco has retained Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. to serve as the Dealer Managers for the tender offer. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. may be contacted at (866) 627-0391 (toll free) or (212) 250-2955 (collect).</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Ensco has also retained Global Bondholder Services Corporation to serve as the Depositary and Information Agent for the tender offer.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The tender offer is being made pursuant to the terms and conditions contained in the Offer to Purchase, Letter of Transmittal and Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, copies of which may be obtained from Global Bondholder Services Corporation by telephone at (866) 470-3900 (toll free) or for banks and brokers at (212) 430-3774 or in writing at Global Bondholder Services Corporation, 65 Broadway, Suite&nbsp;404, New York, New York 10006.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Copies of the Offer to Purchase, Letter of Transmittal and Notice of Guaranteed Delivery are also available at the following web address: http://www.gbsc-usa.com/ESV/</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell any notes in the tender offer.&#160; In addition, this press release is not an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities issued in connection with any notes offering, nor shall there be any sale of the securities issued in such offering in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Any such securities will be offered only by means of a prospectus, including</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">a prospectus supplement relating to such securities, meeting the requirements of Section&nbsp;10 of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Ensco is not obligated to undertake any redemption of the notes, and there can be no assurance that it will consummate the tender offer or redeem the notes. The statements of intent herein with respect to the redemption of the notes does not constitute a notice of redemption under the indenture governing the notes.&#160; Any notice of redemption with respect to the notes, if made, will only be made in accordance with the indenture governing the notes.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) is a global provider of offshore drilling services to the petroleum industry.&#160; Ensco plc is an English limited company (England No.&nbsp;7023598) with its registered office and corporate headquarters located at 6 Chesterfield Gardens, 3rd Floor, London, United Kingdom W1J 5BQ.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Sean O&#146;Neill</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Vice President - Investor Relations and Communications</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">713-430-4607</font></p>
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