Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rockhopper Exploration plc
07 April 2008


7 April 2008

Rockhopper Exploration PLC ('the Company')


Directors' Dealings


The Company announces that it received notification from Mr. Richard Visick, a
non-executive director of the Company, on Monday 7 April 2008, that on the same
date he transferred 121,000 ordinary shares of GBP0.01 each in the Company
('Ordinary Shares') at a price of 84.04p per Ordinary Share to his IPS pension
fund. Mr. Visick's beneficial interest in the Company has not changed as a
result of this transaction.

The Company also announces that on 4 April 2008 it received notification from
Mr. Visick, that on that date he transferred, by way of a gift, 625,000 Ordinary
Shares at a price of 83.25p per Ordinary Share to a trust in the name of
Falklands Islands Settlement. In addition, on the same date Mr. Visick
transferred by way of a gift 625,000 Ordinary Shares at a price of 83.25p per
Ordinary Share to a trust in the name of Falklands 2008 Trust. Both the
Falklands Islands Settlement and the Falklands 2008 Trust have a charitable
object, with the power to add other beneficiaries. Neither Mr. Visick nor any of
his family are potential beneficiaries of either the Falklands Islands
Settlement or the Falklands 2008 Trust and, therefore, as a result of these
transactions, Mr. Visick's beneficial interest in the share capital of the
Company has changed.


Mr. Visick now has an interest in 17,782,443 Ordinary Shares representing 23.43
per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company. 192,500 of these
Ordinary Shares, representing 0.25 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share
capital of the Company, are held in the name of Legal and Commercial Trustee
Retirement Benefit Scheme (pension fund), of which Mr. Visick is a trustee and
beneficiary.


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                                  0118 979 4100

Landsbanki Securities (UK) Limited
Tom Hulme / Sebastian Jones 020 7426 9000






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