The shares purchased by DNB on behalf of Statoil ASA (OSE: STL, NYSE:STO) on 13 October 2017 for use in the group's Share Saving Plan have on 18 October 2017 been distributed to the employees in accordance with their savings amount.

Following this, the share saving plan has 10,758,998 shares. 

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5 -12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.