Petroplus Holdings AG, Zug: Disclosure of Shareholdings



    Petroplus Holdings AG (SWX: PPHN), in accordance with Art. 20 of
    the Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading, received on
    December 11, 2006 the following information from a shareholder:

    FMR Corp., located at 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA 02109, USA,
    has acquired through its direct and indirect subsidiaries 3,765,470
    registered shares of Petroplus Holdings AG. This represents a total
    shareholding of approximately 6.17%. FMR Corp. is the parent holding
    company of Fidelity Management & Research Company, investment manager
    for US mutual funds, and Fidelity Management Trust Company, a US state
    chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment manager of
    various pension and trust accounts.

    About Petroplus Holdings AG:

    Petroplus Holdings AG is one of the largest independent refiners
    and wholesalers of petroleum products in Europe. Petroplus focuses on
    refining and currently owns and operates three refineries across
    Europe: the Cressier refinery in the canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland,
    the Teesside refinery in Teesside, United Kingdom and the Belgium
    Refining Company ("BRC") refinery in Antwerp, Belgium. Petroplus has
    entered into an agreement with ExxonMobil Central Europe Holding GmbH
    ("ExxonMobil CE") to purchase a refinery in Ingolstadt, Germany. The
    existing refineries have a combined crude oil volume processing
    capacity, known as throughput capacity, of approximately 295,000 bpd,
    and the Ingolstadt refinery has a throughput capacity of approximately
    110,000 bpd.