Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
21 March 2006


For Immediate Release                                       21 March 2006


                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC

                                ('the Company')


                              Holdings in Company



The Company was notified on 20 March 2006 by Cantor Fitzgerald Europe that they
have an interest in 5,138,717 of the Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary
Shares') representing 4.00 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the
Company.


21 March 2006



For further information, please contact:

Regal                                   Tel: [phone]
Roger Phillips, Finance Director

Buchanan Communications                 Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse







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