Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
01 October 2004


Immediate Release                                                01 October 2004



                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC

                                ('the Company')


                              Holdings in Company



The Company was notified on 30 September 2004 by Fidelity Investments Limited
and its direct and indirect subsidiaries ('Fidelity') that, following a purchase
of the Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary Shares'), Fidelity have an
interest in 5,810,655 of the Company's Ordinary Shares representing 5.03 per
cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital.


1 October 2004


For further information, please contact:

Regal                                              Tel: [phone]

Chris Phillips, Company Secretary

Buchanan Communications                            Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse








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