Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
05 April 2005


Immediate Release                                                   5 April 2005


                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC
                                ('the Company')

                              Holdings in Company


The Company was notified on 4 April 2005 by Cantor Fitzgerald Europe that,
following a sale of the Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary Shares'), Cantor
Fitzgerald Europe no longer has a disclosable interest in 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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