Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
15 May 2006


For Immediate Release                                         15 May 2006

                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC

                                ('the Company')


                              Holdings in Company



The Company was notified on 15 May 2006 by Cantor Fitzgerald Europe that they
have an interest in 7,698,509 of the Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary
Shares') representing 5.99 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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