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Premier Oil PLC6 January 2005 SCHEDULE 10 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES 1) NAME OF COMPANY PREMIER OIL PLC 2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST MORGAN STANLEY SECURITIES LTD 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 2. ABOVE 4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them. SEE BELOW 5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired. N/A 6) Percentage of issued Class (any treasury shares held by company should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) N/A 7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed UNDISCLOSED 8) Percentage of issued Class (any treasury shares held by company should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) UNDISCLOSED 9) Class of security ORDINARY 10) Date of transaction 24.12.04 11) Date company informed 05.01.05 12) Total holding following this notification UNDISCLOSED 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification (any treasury shares held by company should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) BELOW THE NOTIFIABLE INTEREST 14) Any additional information SEE BELOW 15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries LISA PARSONS 020 7730 1111 16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification Date of Notification ..06 JANUARY 2005.............. Letter to Premier Oil Plc30 December 2004 PREMIER OIL PLC (THE "COMPANY") This notification relates to the ordinary shares of the company (the "shares")and is given in fulfilment of the obligations imposed under section 198Companies Act 1985 (The "Act"). We hereby notify you that on 24 December 2004 Morgan Stanley Securities Limited("MSSL") disposed of an interest in the shares with the result that MSSL, andthe group companies which are direct or indirect holding companies of MSSL, nolonger hold a notifiable interest in the shares in accordance with Section 198of the Companies Act 1985. MSSL is a member of the Morgan Stanley group of companies. Those group companieswhich are direct or indirect holding companies of MSSL are, under the terms ofsection 203 of the Companies Act 1985, each interested by attribution in anyshares in which MSSL is interested. Letter from Morgan Stanley Securities Limited SCHEDULE 10 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES 1) NAME OF COMPANY PREMIER OIL PLC 2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST LANSDOWNE PARTNERS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP 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 AS 2 ABOVE 4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them. AS ABOVE 5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired. N/A 6) Percentage of issued Class N/A 7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed UNDISCLOSED 8) Percentage of issued Class UNDISCLOSED 9) Class of security ORDINARY 10) Date of transaction 04.01.05 11) Date company informed 06.01.05 12) Total holding following this notification UNDISCLOSED 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification BELOW THE NOTIFIABLE INTEREST 14) Any additional information SEE BELOW 15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries LISA PARSONS 020 7730 1111 16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification Date of Notification ....6 JANUARY 2005........... Letter to Premier Oil Plc I am writing to advise you that as a result of a sale of shares on the 4 January2004, Lansdowne Partners Limited Partnership, on behalf of client funds that itmanages, now controls 6,686,206 shares of Premier Oil Plc (sedol number 3356001). This now represents less than 3% of the shares in issue. Letter from Stuart Roden Lansdowne Partners Ltd This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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