Annual Report and Accounts

Tullow Oil PLC
24 May 2005

                                 TULLOW OIL PLC

                             Document Availability

Copies of the following documents have been submitted to the UK Listing
Authority and the Irish Stock Exchange:

     -     Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2004;

     -     Notice of the Annual General Meeting to be held on 29 June 2005;
           and

     -     draft Rules of the Tullow Oil 2005 Performance Share Plan for
           which approval is being sought at the AGM.

These documents will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing
Authority's and the Irish Stock Exchange's Document Viewing Facilities which are
situated at:

The Financial Services Authority,
25 The North Colonnade,
Canary Wharf,
London E14 5HS,
England.

Tel: + 44 207 066 1000

Company Announcements Office,
The Irish Stock Exchange,
28 Anglesea Street,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.

Tel: + 353 1 617 4200

24 May, 2005


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