Holding in Company

Enterprise Oil PLC
26 January 2001



Schedule 10 - Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1   Name of company:
Enterprise Oil plc

2   Name of shareholder having a major interest:
Mr Edward C. Johnson 3d, Fidelity International Limited and its direct and
indirect subsidiaries including Fidelity Pension Management and Fidelity
Investment Services Limited

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 shareholders named above

4   Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them:
Chase Nominees Limited                                 2,510,600
Gracechurch Nominees                                     114,800
RBS Trust Bank                                         2,545,600
Bankers Trust                                          1,568,052
Nortrust Nominees Limited                              1,496,900
BT Globenet Nominees Limited                             318,400
MSS Nominees Limited                                     196,700
Citibank                                                 229,200
Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited         5,061,084
Morgan Stanley                                           166,800
Bank of New York Europe                                  415,800
Northern Trust                                           564,260
State Street Nominees Limited                            193,100
HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited              4,852,934

5   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:
3,988,006

6   Percentage of issued class:
0.80%

7   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:
n/a

8   Percentage of issued class:
n/a

9   Class of security:
Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each

10  Date of transaction:
25 January 2001

11  Date company informed:
26 January 2001

12  Total holding following this notification:
20,234,230

13  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:
4.06%

14  Contact name for queries:
M J White

15 Contact telephone number:
020 7925 4305

16  Name of company official responsible for making notification:
M J White

17  Date of notification:
26 January 2001





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