Director Shareholding

Enterprise Oil PLC
12 March 2001





NOTIFICATION UNDER PARAGRAPH 16.13(C) OF THE LISTING RULES

We have today been notified by the Trustees of the Enterprise Oil Employee
Worldwide Benefit Trust and the Enterprise Oil United Kingdom Benefit Trust of
a purchase on 12 March 2001 of 290,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the
Company at a price of 580.2652 pence each.

The Directors, A R Armour, I G Craig, Sir Graham Hearne, P H Jungels, A B
Shilston and K P Watts, are potential beneficiaries of the Trusts (together
with all other employee share option holders) and are therefore treated under
the Companies Act 1985 as having a deemed interest in the total number of
shares held by such Trusts. As a result, the Directors' deemed interests in
the Trusts have been increased by the number of shares so acquired.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Company confirms that this notification does
not relate to an actual dealing in the Company's securities by the above-noted
Directors whose beneficial interests in the Company remain unchanged.