Holding in Company

Enterprise Oil PLC
17 December 2001

Announcement Body Information:

We have today been informed that Legal & General Investment Management reduced
to below the notifiable interest in the company's ordinary shares of 25p each
threshold at the end of July 1999.

Following an acquisition of 451,908 ordinary shares of 25p each on 12 December
2001 (0.09% of the issued class), the current holding of Legal & General
Investment Management is now 14,701,219 ordinary shares of 25p each registered
as follows:

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 886603 - 1,290,833

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 775245 - 2,244,021

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 754612 - 100,000

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 766793 - 5,000

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 252605 - 479,600

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 360509 - 292,849

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 357206 - 9,840,639

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 130007 - 39,877

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 904332 - 37,400

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 866203 - 371,000



This represents 3.056% of the total percentage holding of issued class
following this notification.



ENDS.