The Norwegian State is StatoilHydro's biggest owner with a holding of 62.5% of the shares in the company at year end 2007.
At year end, StatoilHydro had almost 97,700 other shareholders registered in the Norwegian Central Securities Depository.
Some of these shareholders are so-called nominee accounts, and the actual number of shareholders is therefore greater.
At year end 2007, approximately 9,743 employees of the company were participants in StatoilHydro's share savings programme, which was introduced in 2004.
For 2007, the board of directors has proposed an ordinary dividend of NOK 4.20 per share and an extraordinary dividend of NOK 4.30 per share.
