Holding in Company

Enterprise Oil PLC
22 May 2001


Schedule 10 - Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1 Name of company:

Enterprise Oil plc

2 Name of shareholder having a major interest:

Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) Limited, Allied Zurich Holdings Limited,
Zurich Group Holding, Allied Zurich plc, Zurich Scudder Investments Inc, ZKI
Holding Corporation, Zurich Holding Company of America Inc, Zurich Insurance
Company and Zurich Financial Services

3 Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding
of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest
or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's
spouse or children under the age of 18:

In respect of the shareholders named above

4 Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them:

Littledown Nominees Limited Account 07207 1,500,000

Littledown Nominees Limited Account 03449 995,000

Littledown Nominees Limited Account 02891 11,724,257

Littledown Nominees Limited Account 07198 253,023

Littledown Nominees Limited Account 07205 2,350,000

Littledown Nominees Limited Account 21688 1,120,000

Littledown Nominees Limited Account 07199 97,021

Littledown Nominees Limited Account 09890 285,188

Littledown Nominees Limited Account 02642 663,601

Littledown Nominees Limited Account 07201 634,030

Littledown Nominees Limited Account 11121 20,000

RBSTB Nominees Limited 580,193





5 Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:

4,893,274



6 Percentage of issued class:

0.9908%

7 Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:

n/a

8 Percentage of issued class:

n/a

9 Class of security:

Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each

10 Date of transaction:

22 May 2001

11 Date company informed:

22 May 2001

12 Total holding following this notification:



20,222,313

13 Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:

4.09%

14 Contact name for queries:

M J White

15 Contact telephone number:

020 7925 4305

16 Name of company official responsible for making notification:

M J White

17 Date of notification:

22 May 2001