Additional Listing

Regal Petroleum PLC
26 January 2004


For Immediate Release                                            26 January 2004


                      Regal Petroleum plc ('the Company')

                               Additional Listing


Pursuant to the Company's Executive Share Option Scheme, options over 811,000
Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each ('Ordinary Shares') have been exercised at an
average price of 60.61 pence per Ordinary Share.

Accordingly, the Board of the Company has today allotted 811,000 Ordinary Shares
of 5p each ('Ordinary Shares') as follows:


Recipient                                              Number of Ordinary Shares
Various employees of the Company and its subsidiaries                    311,000
Mr W H Humphries, a non-executive director of the Company                500,000

Application has been made to the Alternative Investment Market of the London
Stock Exchange ('AIM') for the admission to trading of these 811,000 Ordinary
Shares.  These shares rank pari passu with the Company's existing Ordinary
Shares and dealings are expected to commence on 2 February 2004 on AIM.

As a result of this share issue, Mr W H Humphries has a beneficial interest in
500,000 Ordinary Shares representing 0.49 per cent. of the Company's share
capital.

26 January 2004

For further information, please contact:

Regal                                                       Tel: [phone]
Stephen West, Company Secretary

Buchanan Communications                                     Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse



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