Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
16 February 2005


Immediate Release                                              16 February 2005


                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC

                                ('the Company')


                              Holdings in Company


The Company was notified on 16 February 2005 by Lansdowne Partners Limited
Partnership, ('Lansdowne') that, following a sale of the Company's ordinary 5p
shares ('Ordinary Shares'), Lansdowne no longer has a disclosable interest in
the Ordinary Share capital of the Company.


For further information, please contact:

Regal                                              Tel: [phone]
Chris Phillips, Company Secretary

Buchanan Communications                            Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse







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