EGM Statement

Cairn Energy PLC
17 November 2006





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE





                                                                17 November 2006






                  CAIRN ENERGY PLC ('Cairn' or 'the Company')


                Voting Results of Extraordinary General Meeting



At the Company's Extraordinary General Meeting held today at 50 Lothian Road,
Edinburgh, EH3 9BY, all resolutions put to the meeting were passed unanimously
on a show of hands.


The proxy votes received prior to the meeting in respect of each of the
resolutions is detailed in the table below:-

     For            Discretionary  Against      Abstain/              Total
                                                Vote Withheld

 1    114,216,744         21,756      133,897      1,296,189    115,668,586
 2    110,001,048         22,778    1,403,551      4,241,209    115,668,586
 3    114,360,834         22,778    1,019,798        265,176    115,668,586
 4    110,458,661         22,778    3,495,116      1,692,031    115,668,586
 5    108,804,770         22,778    4,959,571      1,881,467    115,668,586
 6    110,832,792         24,465    3,423,836      1,387,493    115,668,586


Following the voting, Sir Bill Gammell, Chief Executive, made a short
presentation, which can be viewed at www.cairn-energy.plc.uk








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