Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
06 January 2006


For Immediate Release                                    6 January 2006


                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC
                                ('the Company')

                              Holdings in Company

The Company was notified on 5 January 2006 by Cantor Fitzgerald Europe that they
have an interest in 6,605,500 of the Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary
Shares') representing 5.14 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the
Company.


For further information, please contact:

Regal                                   Tel: [phone]
Roger Phillips, Finance Director

Buchanan Communications                 Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse





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