Holding in Company

Enterprise Oil PLC
22 October 2001

Schedule 10 - Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1 Name of company:

Enterprise Oil plc

2 Name of shareholder having a major interest:

Mr Edward C. Johnson 3rd, Fidelity International Limited and its direct and
indirect subsidiaries including Fidelity Pension Management and Fidelity
Investment Services Limited

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:

Chase Nominees Limited 8,615,976

RBS Trust Bank 1,198,200

Bankers Trust 642,652

Nortrust Nominees Limited 337,500

BT Globenet Nominees Limited 129,500

MSS Nominees Limited 84,710

Citibank 118,200

Morgan Stanley 186,833

Bank of New York Europe 347,397

Bank of New York - London 21,500

Northern Trust 364,370

HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited 11,285,508

JP Morgan 4,652

5 Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:

n/a

6 Percentage of issued class:

n/a

7 Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:

1,497,689

8 Percentage of issued class:

0.30%

9 Class of security:

Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each

10 Date of transaction:

19 October 2001

11 Date company informed:

22 October 2001

12 Total holding following this notification:

23,336,998

13 Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:

4.82%

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 October 2001