Holding(s) in Company

Cairn Energy PLC
12 December 2005


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                           12 December 2005


                           Cairn Energy PLC ('Cairn')

   Notification of Shareholding - Companies Act 1985 ss.198-202 (as amended)

On 12 December 2005, Cairn was notified by AEGON Asset Management UK plc that it
and its subsidiary companies no longer have a notifiable interest in Cairn's
current issued ordinary share capital.


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