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     240.14a-12

                     PENNZOIL COMPANY
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     (Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)

                     GUY WYSER-PRATTE
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(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant)


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CONTACT:
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Eric Longmire
Senior Managing Director
Wyser-Pratte & Co., Inc.
(212) 495-5357


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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WYSER-PRATTE SAYS COURT ORDER LIKELY TO LEAD TO DISCLOSURE OF PENNZOIL STRATEGIC
PLAN
 
     New York, New York, January 27, 1998 -- Guy P. Wyser-Pratte, a Pennzoil
Company (NYSE:PZL) stockholder who beneficially owns 454,200 shares and is
waging a proxy contest to introduce corporate governance reforms at Pennzoil,
said today that a federal court had issued an order that was likely to lead to
public disclosure of Pennzoil's Strategic Plan.
 
     'The Pennzoil board has been saying that the 'Strategic Plan' justified
their rejection of UPR's $84 per share offer for Pennzoil,' Mr. Wyser-Pratte
said, 'but they have been fighting to avoid disclosure of the Plan. Now we will
find out if the board has been telling the truth when it says that the Plan
justified their position on the UPR offer.'
 
     Mr. Wyser-Pratte also called upon the Pennzoil board to refrain from
further efforts to prevent disclosure of the 'Strategic Plan.'
 
     While the UPR offer was outstanding, UPR had asked the court to order
disclosure of the strategic plan. The publication, Corporate Control Alert,
reported in its December 1997 issue that on October 28th the judge had told the
lawyers for UPR and Pennzoil that 'he had 'tentatively concluded,' based on the
parties' filings, that Pennzoil had violated the Williams Act and would have to
make additional disclosures.'
 
     The UPR Pennzoil litigation ended in November, when UPR withdrew its offer,
but the court continued to consider a petition by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
to make a transcript of the October 28 hearing public. The court granted the
newspaper's motion on January 23, ordering the preparation of a 'redacted'
transcript of the hearing from which certain statements would be deleted.
 
     Mr. Wyser-Pratte said that he presumed that the judge wanted to delete
commercially sensitive information, but believes that the redacted transcript
would allow shareholders for the first time the opportunity to evaluate the
'Strategic Plan' for themselves.
 



 




     The court ordered the transcript to be kept confidential for ten days after
the January 23rd filing date, giving Pennzoil an opportunity to appeal the court
order.
 
     Mr. Wyser-Pratte called upon Pennzoil not to appeal the court order. 'It is
time for the board to stop wasting the shareholders' money on a relentless legal
battle to prevent disclosure of the 'Strategic Plan.' If the Strategic Plan
really supports a value in excess of $84 per share,' he said, 'the board has an
obligation to let shareholders see the evidence for that valuation.'
 
     Participant information: Mr. Guy Wyser-Pratte owns beneficially 454,200
shares of Pennzoil common stock. Mr. Eric Longmire of Wyser-Pratte & Co., Inc.
is also a participant.






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