Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
16 June 2005


Immediate Release                                                 16 June 2005

                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC
                                ('the Company')

                              Holdings in Company

The Company was notified on 15 June 2005 by Fidelity Investments Limited and its
direct and indirect subsidiaries, that they have an interest in 10,120,844 of
the Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary Shares'), representing 7.87 per
cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital.

For further information, please contact:

Regal                                              Tel: [phone]
Roger Phillips, Finance Director

Buchanan Communications                            Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse




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