Holding(s) in Company

Tullow Oil PLC
13 October 2006

                         Tullow Oil plc ('the Company')

                              Holding in Company


Tullow Oil was notified on 13 October 2006 that Columbia Asset Wanger
Management, L.P.  no longer has a notifiable interest in the share capital of
the Company.


13 October 2006




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