Issue of Equity & TVR

Rockhopper Exploration plc
22 November 2007


Press Release

For immediate release: 22 November 2007

Rockhopper Exploration PLC ('the Company')


                    Issue of equity and total voting rights


Rockhopper Exploration plc (the 'Company') announces that, following receipt of
a Notice of Exercise, options have been exercised in respect of 4,950 new
ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares').

The option to purchase Ordinary Shares was granted on 10 May 2005.

Application has been made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading
on AIM on or around 28 November 2007. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari
passu with the existing ordinary share capital of the Company and have been
allotted and issued credited as fully paid.

Following admission, the total issued share capital of the Company with voting
rights will increase to 75,670,235 Ordinary Shares.

The above figure of 75,670,235 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.


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
Yvonne Fraser                              020 7202 2609

Landsbanki Securities (UK) Limited - Corporate Finance
Tom Hulme                                  020 7426 9000




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