Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
23 May 2006


For Immediate Release                                                23 May 2006



                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC
                                ('the Company')

                              Holdings in Company


The Company was notified on 23 May 2006 by Cantor Fitzgerald Europe that they
have an interest in 7,691,009 of the Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary
Shares') representing 5.98 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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