The shares purchased by DnB NOR on behalf of Statoil (OSE:STL, NYSE:STO) on 9 December 2005 for use in the group’s share saving plan have on 14 December 2005 been distributed to the employees in accordance with their savings amount.
Following this, the share saving plan has 766,327* shares.
As participants in Statoil’s share saving plan, the primary insiders below have been allocated shares in accordance with their savings amount at an average price of NOK 129.92 per share:
| Name | New shares | New share holding |
| Helge Lund |
1756
|
3256
|
| Eldar Sætre |
488
|
1478
|
| Jon Arnt Jacobsen |
488
|
1707
|
| Terje Overvik |
392
|
1217
|
| Margareth Øvrum |
488
|
2028
|
| Rune Bjørnson |
297
|
297
|
| Stein Bredal |
107
|
352
|
| Morten Svaan |
59
|
469
|
| Jacob S Middelthon |
430
|
1673
|
| Ola Morten Aanestad |
121
|
282
|
| Torgrim Reitan |
84
|
282
|
| Marit Bø Reitan |
23
|
187
|
| Kåre Thomsen |
364
|
2093
|
| Anne Margrethe Middelthon |
183
|
590
|
| Inge Eivind Sørvik |
107
|
847
|
| Ann-Elisabeth Serck-Hanssen |
44
|
394
|
| Sverre Serck-Hanssen |
70
|
839
|
| Ragnar Bulie |
43
|
524
|
| Stig H. Christiansen |
22
|
89
|
| Stein Egil Næss |
83
|
637
|
| Reidar Gjærum |
583
|
990
|
| May-Marie Thomsen |
22
|
534
|
*When Statoil was listed in 2001, 25 million shares were established for use in a bonus programme aimed at small shareholders. The number of unused shares remaining as of 14 December 2005 is 23,441,885. These shares are recorded in the share register as Statoil's own shares, but they cannot be used by the company without the approval of the annual general meeting.