Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
24 January 2007



Immediate Release                                               24 January 2007
                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC
                                ('the Company')

                              Holdings in Company

The Company was notified on 24 January 2007 by Cantor Fitzgerald Europe that as
of 19 January 2007 they had an interest in 3,939,467 of the Company's ordinary
5p shares ('Ordinary Shares') representing 3.06 per cent. of the issued Ordinary
Share capital of the Company.



For further information, please contact:

Regal                                                Tel: [phone]
Neil Ritson, CEO
Frank Scolaro, Non-executive Chairman




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