Director/PDMR Shareholding

Regal Petroleum PLC
04 March 2008



                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC

                           ('Regal' or the 'Company')

                           Director/PDMR Shareholding


The Company has been notified that on 3 March 2008, Mr Francesco Scolaro, a
Non-Executive Director of the Company, purchased (a) 100,000 ordinary shares of
5 pence each in the capital of the Company ('Ordinary Shares') at a price of
£1.45 each and (b) an interest in an additional 185,000 Ordinary Shares at a
price of £1.45 each held through derivative or economic instruments. Mr
Scolaro's holding in the Company now stands at (i) 853,879 Ordinary Shares and
(ii) an interest in 1,633,067 Ordinary Shares held through derivative or
economic instruments, representing in aggregate approximately 1.23 per cent of
the Company's issued Ordinary Share capital.


For further information, please contact:

Regal                                   Tel: [phone]
David J Greer, Chairman & CEO

Strand Partners                         Tel: [phone]
Rory Murphy

Mirabaud Securities                     Tel: [phone]
Peter Krens / Pav Sanghera

Citigate Dewe Rogerson                  Tel: [phone]
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