Director Shareholding

Enterprise Oil PLC
15 March 2001





NOTIFICATION UNDER PARAGRAPH 16.13(C) OF THE LISTING RULES

We have today been notified by the Trustee of the Enterprise Oil Employee
Worldwide Benefit Trust of a purchase on 15 March 2001 of 603,489 ordinary
shares in the capital of the Company at a price of 583.7488 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 Trust (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 Trust. As a result, the Directors' deemed interest 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.