Annual Report and Accounts

Rockhopper Exploration plc
20 June 2006


Rockhopper Exploration plc ('the Company')

For immediate release: 20 June 2006


                        Annual Report and Accounts 2006


Copies of the Rockhopper Exploration plc Annual Report & Accounts 2006 are
available for collection from the Company's registered office at:

Rockhopper Exploration plc
Hilltop Park
Devizes Road
Salisbury
SP3 4UF

Alternatively, a pdf of the Report is available to download from the Company's
website www.rockhopperexploration.co.uk . 

The Company will be exhibiting at the Growth Company Investor Show on Wednesday
21 June 2006 at The Barbican in London, Stand 16.


For further information, please contact:

Rockhopper Exploration plc,                      www.rockhopperexploration.co.uk 
Sam Moody, Managing Director,                                      01722 414 419

Aquila Financial Limited,                               www.aquila-financial.com 
Peter Reilly,                                                      020 7202 2601
Yvonne Fraser,                                                     020 7202 2609







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