Holding(s) in Company

Sterling Energy PLC
25 April 2008


                      Sterling Energy PLC (the 'Company')

                                Holding in Company

The Company has received notification that Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, as
Trustee of the Merrill Lynch UK Special Situations Fund, no longer has a
notifiable interest in the Company.

BlackRock Inc. currently holds approximately 5.56 per cent. of the issued
ordinary share capital of the Company.


25 April 2008






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