Holding(s) in Company

Enterprise Oil PLC
26 March 2002




1) Name of company:

Enterprise Oil plc

2) Name of shareholder having a major interest:

Legal & General Investment Management 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 above holder.

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

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 252605 - 479,600

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 360509 - 347,949

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 357206 - 9,642,575

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 904332 - 41,300

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/c 866203 - 364,000

5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:

249,225

6) Percentage of issued class:

0.05%

7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:

nil

8) Percentage of issued class:

n/a

9) Class of security:

Ordinary shares of 25p each

10) Date of transaction:

22 March 2002

11) Date company informed:

26 March 2002

12) Total holding following this notification:

14,510,278

13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:

3.016%

14) Any additional information:



15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Mark J. White - 020 7925 4305

16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making
this notification:

Mark J White, Company Secretary

Date of notification:

26 March 2002



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