Holding in Company

Enterprise Oil PLC
14 December 2000


Schedule 10 - Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1   Name of company:
Enterprise Oil plc

2   Name of shareholder having a major interest:
Mr Edward C. Johnson 3d, Fidelity International Limited and its direct and
indirect subsidiaries including Fidelity Pension Management and Fidelity
Investment Services Limited

3   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial
interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that
person's spouse or children under the age of 18:
In respect of the shareholders named above

4   Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them:
Chase Nominees Limited                                 2,000,000
Gracechurch Nominees                                      44,500
RBS Trust Bank                                           376,000
Bankers Trust                                          1,447,952
Nortrust Nominees Limited                                 53,000
BT Globenet Nominees Limited                             111,400
MSS Nominees Limited                                     174,400
Citibank                                                  64,500
Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited         4,819,812
MSS Nominees Limited                                   2,861,400
RBS Trust                                                281,000
Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited           232,700
BT Globenet Nominees Limited                             264,200
Nortrust Nominees Limited                                137,600
Morgan Stanley                                           166,800
Citibank                                                  49,500
Nortrust Nominees Limited                                593,500
Bankers Trust                                            115,700
Bank of New York Europe                                  123,900
Northern Trust                                           604,260
Chase Nominees Limited                                   480,200
RBS Trust Bank                                         1,243,900



5   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:
not disclosed

6   Percentage of issued class:
not disclosed

7   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:
n/a

8   Percentage of issued class:
n/a

9   Class of security:
Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each

10  Date of transaction:
13 December 2000

11  Date company informed:
14 December 2000

12  Total holding following this notification:
16,246,224

13  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:
3.26%

14  Contact name for queries:
M J White

15 Contact telephone number:
020 7925 4305

16  Name of company official responsible for making notification:
M J White

17  Date of notification:
14 December 2000


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