Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rockhopper Exploration plc
12 March 2007


Rockhopper Exploration plc


12 March 2007


                              Directors' dealings


Rockhopper Exploration plc (the 'Company') (RKH:AIM) announces that pursuant to
the conditional placing of 3,588,700 new ordinary shares in the Company as
announced on 6 March 2007 (the 'Placing'), it was notified today that various
Directors on 9 March 2007 purchased 189,189 new ordinary shares in the Company.


Following the Placing, the interests of the Directors of the Company in the 1p
ordinary shares of the Company ('Ordinary Shares') are as set out below:



Name        Previous     Options     Ordinary   Price    Resultant    Percentage
            Ordinary     over        Shares     per      Ordinary     interest
            Shares held  Ordinary    purchased  Ordinary Shares held  held (%)
                         Shares      under the  Share
                                     Placing    (pence)
P J M H        319,047   (1,850,000)   27,027       37       346,074       0.46
Jungels
S J Moody      858,428   (1,925,000)   27,027       37       885,455       1.17
P J
Dixon-Clarke   145,129   (525,000)          -        -       145,129       0.19%
R F Visick* 18,897,309           -    135,135       37    19,032,444      25.15
D Bodecott      91,000   (525,000)          -        -        91,000       0.12%
K J Crowle      23,809           -          -        -        23,809       0.03%
C J Walton      23,809           -          -        -        23,809       0.03%


* Following the Placing, 152,500 of these Ordinary Shares are held in the name
of Legal and Commercial Trustee Retirement Benefit Scheme (pension fund), of
which Mr Richard Visick is one of the trustees and one of the beneficiaries.



For further information, please contact:

Rockhopper Exploration plc www.rockhopperexploration.co.uk

Sam Moody - Managing Director 01722 414 419


Aquila Financial Ltd www.aquila-financial.com

Peter Reilly 020 7202 2601



Notes to editors

www.rockhopperexploration.co.uk

Rockhopper Exploration plc commenced trading in February 2004 to invest in and
carry out an offshore oil exploration programme to the north of the Falkland
Islands. The Company, floated on AIM in August 2005, is currently the largest
licence holder in the North Falkland Basin and has a 100 per cent. interest in
four offshore production licences which cover approximately 5,800 sq. km. These
licences have been granted by the Falkland Islands government.



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