About Cairn

We are Cairn Energy, one of Europe's largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange and based in Edinburgh. Our business is divided into two key units: one focused on developing the Rajasthan resource base; the other exploring frontier basins in Greenland.

Cairn holds a 62.39% interest in Cairn India, which is a listed subsidiary of Cairn quoted on both the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India. Cairn India has interests in a number of blocks in India and Sri Lanka, which includes significant production capabilities being developed in Rajasthan.

Outside of India, our core exploration assets are in Greenland, where we have established a material position. We also have material operated interests in Albania, Bangladesh, Nepal and Tunisia.

A summary of the principal licence interests is provided in the 2009 Annual Report & Accounts.

Operations Lifecycle: How we Manage our CR Impacts

	Seismic Acquisition	Exploration Drilling	Development	Production
Maintain good relations with local communities
Work with contractors to meet health and safety, environmental and social standards
Comply with applicable law, rules and regulations
Proper disposal of waste
Minimise potential of spills
Seek to minimise emissions and other effluents
Conduct ESIAs
Implement Environmental and Social Management Plans
Community and Social Investment Plans

Cairn explores for oil and gas, constructs facilities to extract discovered oil and gas and sells produced oil and gas to local transmission networks, refineries and other industries. Cairn does not refine oil or sell petroleum products.

Activity Data

Cairn India

	2006	2007	2008	2009
2D seismic (km)	0	645	4,150	525.6
3D seismic (km2)	540	351	255	1,126
Wells drilled (number)	20	22	7	54
Metres drilled	29,919	39,728	1,287	84,078
Total hydrocarbon produced (thousand tonnes)	4,225	3,509	3,174	2,892
Staff in country				1,035

Cairn Energy (excluding Cairn India)

	2006	2007	2008	2009
2D seismic (km)	401	0	10,405	7,911
3D seismic (km2)	0	0	0	407
Wells drilled (number)	0	3	1	0
Metres drilled	0	12,163	3,850	0
Total hydrocarbon produced (thousand tonnes)	1,172	731	461	419

Of which...

Greenland	2006	2007	2008	2009
2D seismic (km)	-	-	10,405	7,911
3D seismic (km2)	-	-	0	0
Wells drilled (number)	-	-	0	0
Metres drilled	-	-	0	0
Total hydrocarbon produced (thousand tonnes)	-	-	0	0
Staff in country				0

Albania	2006	2007	2008	2009
2D seismic (km)	-	-	0	0
3D seismic (km2)	-	-	0	407
Wells drilled (number)	-	-	0	0
Metres drilled	-	-	0	0
Total hydrocarbon produced (thousand tonnes)	-	-	0	0
Staff in country				0

Tunisia	2006	2007	2008	2009
2D seismic (km)	-	-	0	0
3D seismic (km2)	-	-	0	0
Wells drilled (number)	-	-	0	0*
Metres drilled	-	-	0	0*
Total hydrocarbon produced (thousand tonnes)	-	-	0	0
Staff in country				5

Bangladesh	2006	2007	2008	2009
2D seismic (km)	401	0	0	0
3D seismic (km2)	0	0	0	0
Wells drilled (number)	0	3	1	0
Metres drilled	0	12,163	3,850	0
Total hydrocarbon produced (thousand tonnes)	1,172	731	461	419
Staff in country				66

Nepal*	2006	2007	2008	2009
2D seismic (km)	0	0	0	0
3D seismic (km2)	0	0	0	0
Wells drilled (number)	0	0	0	0
Metres drilled	0	0	0	0
Total hydrocarbon produced (thousand tonnes)	0	0	0	0
Staff in country				7