Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
24 March 2005


Immediate Release                                                24 March 2005



                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC

                                ('the Company')

                              Holdings in Company



The Company was notified on 23 March 2005 by Commerzbank AG, ('Commerzbank')
that, following a sale of the Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary Shares'),
Commerzbank has an interest in 5,807,112 Ordinary Shares representing 4.98 per
cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company.



For further information, please contact:


Regal                                                       Tel: [phone]
Roger Phillips, Finance Director

Buchanan Communications                                     Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse




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