Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
02 February 2006


For Immediate Release                                   2 February 2006



                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC
                                ('the Company')

                              Holdings in Company

The Company was notified on 2 February 2006 by Cantor Fitzgerald Europe that
they have an interest in 5,451,906 of the Company's ordinary 5p shares
('Ordinary Shares') representing 4.24 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share
capital of the Company.

2 February 2006

For further information, please contact:

Regal                                   Tel: [phone]
Roger Phillips, Finance Director

Buchanan Communications                 Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse





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