Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
03 March 2005


For Immediate Release                                           3 March 2005


                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC
                                ('the Company')


                              Holdings in Company


The Company was notified on 2 March 2005 by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ('GS
Inc') that, following a sale of the Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary
Shares'), GS Inc no longer has a disclosable interest in the issued Ordinary
Share capital of the Company.


For further information, please contact:

Regal                                                       Tel: [phone]

Roger Phillips, Finance Director

Buchanan Communications                                     Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse


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