Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
24 January 2006


For Immediate Release                                           24 January 2006


                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC
                                ('the Company')

                              Holdings in Company

The Company was notified on 24 January 2006 by C A Fiduciary Services Limited as
Trustees of The Timis Trust, that they have an interest in 11,377,387 of the
Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary Shares') representing 8.85 per cent. of
the issued Ordinary Share capital.

24 January 2006

For further information, please contact:

Regal                                   Tel: [phone]
Roger Phillips, Finance Director

Buchanan Communications                 Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse





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