Holding(s) in Company

Enterprise Oil PLC
23 April 2002


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 7,564,440

RBS Trust Bank 545,900

Bankers Trust 94,700

Nortrust Nominees Limited 92,417

BT Globenet Nominees Limited 32,100

MSS Nominees Limited 32,510

Citibank 64,600

Morgan Stanley 120,833

Bank of New York Europe 141,997

Bank of New York London 38,698

Northern Trust 220,400

HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited 15,765,508

JP Morgan 173,063

5 Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:

5,586,773

6 Percentage of issued class:

1.16%

7 Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:

nil

8 Percentage of issued class:

n/a

9 Class of security:

Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each

10 Date of transaction:

22 April 2002

11 Date company informed:

23 April 2002

12 Total holding following this notification:

24,887,166

13 Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:

5.17%

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:

23 April 2002





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