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Form 6-K STATOIL ASA For: May 20

May 20, 2016 7:32 AM EDT
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of May 2016.

Commission File Number: 1-15200

Statoil ASA
(Translation of registrant's name into English)

FORUSBEEN 50, N-4035, STAVANGER, NORWAY
(Address of principal executive office)

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 May 20, 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 May 20, 2016


SIGNATURES

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.

    Statoil ASA
(Registrant)

Date: May 20, 2016   /s/ HANS JAKOB HEGGE
Hans Jakob Hegge
Chief Financial Officer

EXHIBIT 99.1

Statoil ASA: Statoil's share saving plan allocates shares

STAVANGER, Norway, May 20, 2016 -- The shares purchased by DNB on behalf of Statoil ASA (OSE: STL, NYSE: STO) on 13 May 2016 for use in the group's Share Saving Plan have on 19 May 2016 been distributed to the employees in accordance with their savings amount.

Following this, the share saving plan has 9,156,260 shares.

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the 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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