Result of EGM

Cairn Energy PLC
22 March 2007


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                                                                   22 March 2007
                        CAIRN ENERGY PLC ('the Company')

                 Voting Result of Extraordinary General Meeting

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

The proxy votes received prior to the meeting in respect of the resolution are
detailed in the table below:


For           Discretionary     Against           Abstain/             Total
                                               Vote Withheld

76,545,559        333,576       320,808             275,696        77,475,639



A copy of the special resolution will shortly be available for inspection at:


The Document Viewing Facility
UK Listing Authority
25 The North Colonnade
London E14 5HS



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