Drilling Update

Regal Petroleum PLC
10 November 2005


Immediate Release                                              10 November 2005

                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC
                           ('Regal' or the 'Company')

                  Drilling Commenced on Suceava Block, Romania

The Directors are pleased to announce that Regal has commenced the drilling of
an exploration well, RSD-1, on the Suceava Block, Romania.

The Suceava Block is one of the largest exploration blocks in Romania with an
area of 4,103 square kilometres and is located in the Moldavia Platform, which
contains several large commercial gas and condensate fields. The Suceava Block
is located adjacent to and on the same geological trend as the largest
commercial gas field in Romania, operated by Romgaz (the Romanian national gas
company).

This, the second Regal operated well in Romania, is in the northwest of the
Suceava Block, and has now commenced drilling. It is scheduled to be drilled to
its target depth of 1100 metres by the middle of December 2005, with a budget of
$1.5 million. The well has reservoir objectives within the Sarmatian sandstones.
All target intervals will be logged with complete logging suites, and if
appropriate, flow tested.

For further information, please contact:

Regal                                                        Tel: [phone]
Roger Phillips, Finance Director

Buchanan Communications                                      Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse / Ben Willey




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