Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Enterprise Oil PLC
20 April 2000

TO: COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENTS

NOTIFICATION UNDER PARAGRAPH 16.13(C) OF THE LISTING RULES

We have today been notified by the Trustee of the Enterprise Oil Employee
Worldwide Benefit Trust of a purchase on 19 April of 55,898 ordinary shares in
the capital of the company at a price of 422.4301 pence each, in which the
Directors, A R Armour, I G Craig, Sir Graham Hearne, P H Jungels, A B Shilston
and K P Watts have a potential interest.


FROM:  ENTERPRISE OIL PLC