Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
18 February 2005


For Immediate Release                        18 February 2005



                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC

                                ('the Company')

                              Holdings in Company



The Company was notified on 17 February 2005 by Fidelity Investments Limited and
its direct and indirect subsidiaries, ('Fidelity') that, following a sale of the
Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary Shares'), Fidelity no longer has a
disclosable interest in the Ordinary Share capital of the Company.




For further information, please contact:


Regal                                                       Tel: [phone]
Chris Phillips, Company Secretary

Buchanan Communications                                     Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse







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