24th Licensing Round Awards

Tullow Oil PLC
02 February 2007

News release



Tullow Oil Plc - Awarded six blocks in UK 24th Licensing Round


2 February 2007 - Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that it has been awarded six
exploration blocks in the 24th offshore Licensing Round.  The licence awards,
announced yesterday by Alistair Darling, the Secretary of State of Trade &
Industry, all lie in Tullow's core areas of the Southern North Sea.  A breakdown
of the awards to Tullow is given in the table below.


Block                               Operator                     Equity                  Core Area
48/28b (Split)                       Tullow                       100%                 Thames-Hewett
52/3 (Part)                          Tullow                       100%                 Thames-Hewett
52/4b (Part)                         Tullow                       100%                 Thames-Hewett
52/5b                                Tullow                       100%                 Thames-Hewett
44/13 (Split)                     Gaz de France                   25%                       CMS
44/21e                               Tullow                       100%                      CMS



Tullow plans to acquire seismic data as a part of a full evaluation of the
potential of this acreage and anticipates that exploration wells on this acreage
will form part of the 2008 drilling programme in the UK.

For further information contact:
Tullow Oil plc                     Citigate Dewe Rogerson              Murray Consultants
([phone])                 ([phone])                  ([phone])
                                   Martin Jackson                      Joe Murray
Tom Hickey

Angus McCoss
Chris Perry




Notes to Editors


Tullow is a leading independent oil & gas, exploration and production group,
quoted on the London and Irish Stock Exchanges (symbol: TLW) and is a
constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The Group has interests in over 100
exploration and production licences across over 20 countries and focuses on
three principal core areas: NW Europe, Africa and South Asia.

Tullow's NW Europe interests are primarily focused on gas in the UK Southern
North Sea where it has significant interests in the Caister-Murdoch System and
the Thames-Hewett areas and operates over 60% of its production.

In Africa, Tullow has exploration and production in Gabon, Cote d'Ivoire, Congo
(Brazzaville), Mauritania and Equatorial Guinea and a large gas field
development and appraisal programme in Namibia. Tullow also has exploration
programmes in Mauritania, Senegal, Cameroon, Uganda, Congo (DRC),Tanzania,
Madagascar, Angola and Ghana.

In South Asia, Tullow has exploration and production in Pakistan and Bangladesh
and high impact exploration activities in India.

Following the recently completed acquisition of Hardman Resources Limited,
Tullow also has high impact exploration interests in French Guiana, Suriname and
the Falkland Islands.

For further information please refer to our website at www.tullowoil.com

                                      ENDS


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