Holding(s) in Company

Cairn Energy PLC
18 May 2006



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


                                                              18 May 2006





                           Cairn Energy PLC ('Cairn')


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



On 18 May 2006, Cairn was notified by Deutsche Bank AG that it and its
subsidiary companies no longer have a notifiable interest in Cairn's current
issued ordinary share capital.








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