Form 6-K STATOIL ASA For: Apr 27

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F [ x ]      Form 40-F [  ]

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):       

Note: Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted solely to provide an attached annual report to security holders.

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7):       

Note: Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted to furnish a report or other document that the registrant foreign private issuer must furnish and make public under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the registrant is incorporated, domiciled or legally organized (the registrant's "home country"), or under the rules of the home country exchange on which the registrant's securities are traded, as long as the report or other document is not a press release, is not required to be and has not been distributed to the registrant's security holders, and, if discussing a material event, has already been the subject of a Form 6-K submission or other Commission filing on EDGAR.

On April 27, 2016 the Registrant issued a press release, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.


(c)     Exhibit 99.1. Press release dated April 27, 2016

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

EXHIBIT 99.1

Statoil ASA: Information relating to first quarter 2016 dividend

STAVANGER, Norway, April 27, 2016 -- Key information relating to the cash dividend to be paid by Statoil (OSE:STL, NYSE: STO) for first quarter 2016.

Dividend amount: 0.2201
Declared currency: USD
Last day including right: 9 August 2016
Ex-date: 10 August 2016
Record date:  11 August 2016
Payment date: On or around 23 September. 2016
Date of approval: 26 April 2016

Other information:

Dividend per share in NOK will be communicated 17 August 2016.

Subject to approval of the proposed scrip dividend programme at the Annual general meeting (AGM) 11 May 2016, shareholders will get the option to receive the dividend for the first quarter in newly issued shares in Statoil at a 5% discount. Further information on the scrip programme for first quarter 2016 will be published in due course.

This information is published in accordance with the requirements of the Continuing Obligations.

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl (Norwegian Securities Trading Act)

CONTACT: Peter Hutton, SVP Investor Relations,
         mbl: +44 7881 918 792
         
         Morten Sven Johannessen, VP Investor Relations USA,
         mbl +1 203 570 2524

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