Holding(s) in Company

Tullow Oil PLC
12 January 2005



                         Tullow Oil plc (the 'Company')

                               Holding in Company


Tullow Oil plc was notified on 10 January 2005 that Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc and
all of its subsidiary companies no longer have a notifiable interest in the
issued share capital of the Company.


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