Total Voting Rights

Cairn Energy PLC
18 January 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                                                                 18 January 2007

                        CAIRN ENERGY PLC (the 'Company')

                              Total Voting Rights

For the purposes of the transitional provisions of the Financial Services
Authority's Disclosure and Transparency  Rules, the total number of shares in
the capital of the Company in issue as at the date of this notice is as follows:

Class      Nominal value       Number in issue          Voting
           per share                                    rights attached

Ordinary   10 pence            160,295,392              160,295,392

The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.

The above figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the
calculations by which they will determine if  they are required to notify their
interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Disclosure
and  Transparency Rules.





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