Statoil US Employee Share Savings plan allocates shares 

As participant in the Statoil US Employee Share Savings plan, the Statoil ASA primary-insider Mr. William Maloney has been allocated the following number of shares in September 2011:

Date of allocation	Allocated shares*	New share holding*
02 September	107.586828	4194.336093

*American Depositary Receipts (ADR)

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl (Norwegian Securities Trading Act)