Holding(s) in Company

Petrel Resources PLC
04 September 2003





Petrel Resources plc announces that it understands that Scoti Company Limited
has recently disposed of its entire holding in the Company, being 1,765,000
ordinary shares which represented approximately 3.47 per cent. of the issued
share capital of the Company.


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