Equinor — Share Issue/Capital Change 2010

May 19, 2010

Statoil's share saving plan allocates shares

The shares purchased by DnB NOR on behalf of Statoil (OSE:STL,NYSE:STO) on 14

May 2010 for use in the group's share saving plan have on 19 May 2010 been

distributed to the employees in accordance with their savings amount.

Following this, the share saving plan has 6,094,071 shares.

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl

(Norwegian Securities Trading Act)

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