Holding(s) in Company

Enterprise Oil PLC
18 April 2002

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES:

1)Name of company:

Enterprise Oil plc

2)Name of shareholder having a major interest:

Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, The 'Shell' Transport and Trading Company p.l.c.,
The Shell Petroleum Company Limited and Shell Resources P.L.C.

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 holders and their subsidiaries.

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



Shell Resources P.L.C.                           137,166,036

Shell Trust (Bermuda) Limited as trustee for         401,712

Shell Overseas Contributory Pension Fund

Shell Trust (Bermuda) Limited as trustee for          43,000

Shell International Pension Fund

Shell Pensions Trust Limited as trustee for        1,578,848

Shell Contributory Pension Fund

Stichting Shell Pensioenfonds                        348,989



5)Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:

43,500,000

6)Percentage of issued class:

9.042%

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:

18 April 2002

11) Date company informed:

18 April 2002

12)Total holding following this notification:

139,538,585

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

29.00%

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:

18 April 2002





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