Director/PDMR Shareholding

Empyrean Energy PLC
23 March 2007



                              Empyrean Energy PLC

                  ('Empyrean' or the 'Company'; Ticker: (EME))

                             Director shareholding
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The Company has been notified pursuant to transitional provision 7 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules that the following directors are interested in
3% or more of the voting rights of the Company:

                       Number of                    Percentage of 
Name                   voting rights held           voting rights held

Thomas Kelly           3,500,000                    7%


The above percentages are based on 49,596,767 being the total number of its 
issued ordinary shares each carrying voting rights.

For further information
Laurence Read/ Ed Portman
Conduit PR
Tel: [phone]

Empyrean Energy plc
Tel : [phone]

Rod Venables/ Cecil Jordaan
HB Corporate
Tel: [phone]



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