Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rockhopper Exploration plc
28 June 2006


For immediate release: 28 June, 2006

Rockhopper Exploration plc (the 'Company')


                               Director Dealings


Rockhopper Exploration plc ('the Company') announces that it was notified on 28
June 2006 that Mr Samuel Moody, Managing Director and Mr Richard Visick,
Non-executive Director, today purchased the following 1p ordinary shares in the
Company:

Name              Shares     Price per share        Number of       Percentage
               purchased             (pence)      shares held     interest (%)
Samuel Moody      50,000               32.25          783,428             1.09
Richard Visick    86,200               30.39       18,831,009            26.25


Mr Richard Visick's shares were purchased in the name of Legal and Commercial
Trustee Retirement Benefit Scheme (pension fund), of which Mr Richard Visick is
a trustee and one of the beneficiaries.


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For further information, please contact:

Rockhopper Exploration
Sam Moody, Managing Director, 01722 414 419

Aquila Financial Limited
Peter Reilly, 020 7202 2601


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