Director's Notification of Dealing in Shares

Enterprise Oil PLC
2 May 2000


                     DIRECTORS' INTERESTS

    ANNUAL RELEASE UNDER THE ENTERPRISE OIL EMPLOYEE PROFIT SHARING SCHEME
                        ('the Scheme')

On 1 May 2000, following the termination of the three year vesting period,
the trustees of the Scheme transferred legal title to the undernoted ordinary
shares of 25p each in the capital of Enterprise Oil plc to the following
directors:

Name                        Shares

A R Armour                  1,302
I G Craig                   1,302
Sir G J Hearne              1,302
A B Shilston                1,302
K P Watts                   1,302

Each share has a locked-in value of 614p and was originally allocated on 1
May 1997. None of the above-noted directors' beneficial holdings have been
increased. The trustees of the Scheme vested a total of 221,796 ordinary
shares to the participants (including the above-noted directors) of the 1997
allocation under the Scheme consequently reducing by a like amount the
potential interests of A R Armour, I G Craig, Sir G J Hearne, P H Jungels, A B
Shilston and K P Watts in the share capital of the company.