Disclosure of voting rights

Reference is made to the extraordinary general meeting in Det norske Oljeselskap ASA (”the Company”) in Trondheim on 2 February at 5 p.m.The Chairman of the board in the Company, Kaare Gisvold has as of 8 January received 4,643,248 power of attorneys to vote on the extraordinary general meeting. Gisvold has thus exceeded the 5% disclosure threshold in relation to the number of voting rights in the Company to be exercised without instruction.

Kaare Gisvold owns 473,635 shares in the Company, representing 0.73% of all issued shares. Including the power of attorneys, Gisvold has voting rights for 5,116,882 shares, which represents 7,88% of the votes in the Company.

The CEO of the Company, Erik Haugane, has as of 8 January 2009 received 131,421 power of attorneys to vote on the extraordinary general meeting. Erik Haugane owns 1,362,181 shares in the Company, which represents 2.1% of outstanding shares. Including power of attorneys, Haugane has voting rights for 1,493,602 shares, which represents 2,3% of the votes in the Company.

Contacts:
Finn Øistein Nordam, CFO tel. +47 98 28 93 82
Knut Evensen, VP IR, tel. +47 950 77 6 22