Holding in Company

Enterprise Oil PLC
3 May 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 3rd, 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 2,406,300

RBS Trust Bank 1,816,000

Bankers Trust 1,360,052

Nortrust Nominees Limited 1,260,400

BT Globenet Nominees Limited 299,900

MSS Nominees Limited 170,900

Citibank 178,000

Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited 6,461,995

Morgan Stanley 179,700

Bank of New York Europe 464,297

Northern Trust 766,610

State Street Nominees Limited 137,500

HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited 9,333,033

5 Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:

4,600,457

6 Percentage of issued class:

0.93%

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:

2 May 2001

11 Date company informed:

3 May 2001

12 Total holding following this notification:

24,834,687

13 Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:

5.02%

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:

3 May 2001