Form 6-K STATOIL ASA For: May 23

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 23, 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 23, 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: Announcement of dividend per share for fourth quarter 2015 in NOK

STAVANGER, Norway, May 23, 2016 -- Statoil (OSE:STL, NYSE: STO) announced 4 February 2016 dividend per share of USD 0.2201 for fourth quarter 2015. The NOK dividend per share is based on average USDNOK fixing rate from Norges Bank in the period plus/minus three business days from record date 13 May 2016, in total seven business days.

Average Norges Bank fixing rate for this period was 8.2277. Fourth quarter 2015 dividend per share is consequently NOK 1.8109.

Under the two-year scrip dividend programme ("Scrip Dividend Programme") approved by the Annual General meeting 11 May, shareholders will have the option to receive dividend in newly issued dividend shares. Further information about the timeline for the Scrip Dividend Programme will be published in due course.

Cash dividend (net of any costs of newly issued dividend shares elected under the Scrip Dividend Programme) will be paid to shareholders on Oslo Børs on or around 24 June 2016.

Please note that Statoil published its Annual Report on form 20-F for 2015 on March 18th 2016, and it is available on the Statoil website at http://goo.gl/ikNsXI

Printed copies may be requested free of charge from the website at http://goo.gl/KjfvN3

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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