OREANDA-NEWS. August 20, 2012. The shares purchased by DNB on behalf of Statoil ASA (OSE:STL, NYSE:STO) on 15 August 2012 for use in the group's share saving plan have been distributed to the employees in accordance with their savings amount, reported the press-centre of Statoil.  

Following this, the share saving plan has 7,531,475 shares.

As a participant in the share saving plan, the primary insider below has been allocated shares at an average share price of NOK 149.12.

Name                     Allocated shares                    New share holding
Mellbye, Peter       3,017                                      27,149

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