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Gulfsands Petroleum PLC
20 December 2006


GULFSANDS PETROLEUM PLC (the 'Company')

Total Voting Rights

In conformity with the Transparency Directive's transitional provision 6, the
Company notifies the market that as at the date of this announcement, the
Company's issued share capital consists of 103,018,750 ordinary shares with a
nominal value of 5.7142865 pence each ('Ordinary Shares'), with voting rights.

The above figure of 103,018,750 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in
the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine
if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest
in, the share capital of the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency
Rules.


John Bottomley
Company Secretary


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