Director Shareholding

Regal Petroleum PLC
06 February 2004


For  Immediate Release                                          6 February 2004


                      Regal Petroleum plc ('the Company')

                             Director's Shareholding



The Company was notified on 6 February 2004 that Mr W H Humphries, a
non-executive director of the Company, has today sold 500,000 ordinary 5p shares
of the Company ('Ordinary Shares') at a price of 235p per Ordinary Share.



As a result of this sale, Mr W H Humphries no longer has a beneficial interest
in the issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company.



For further information, please contact:


Regal                                                       Tel: [phone]
Stephen West, Company Secretary

Buchanan Communications                                     Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse








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