Holding(s) in Company

Regal Petroleum PLC
16 March 2005


Immediate Release                            16 March 2005


                              REGAL PETROLEUM PLC

                                ('the Company')


                              Holdings in Company


The Company was notified on 15 March 2005 by Morgan Stanley Securities Limited,
('MSSL') that, following a sale of the Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Ordinary
Shares'), MSSL has an interest in 6,918,392 Ordinary Shares representing 5.93
per cent. of 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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