Director Dealing

RNS Number : 7602Y

Rockhopper Exploration plc

10 July 2008

Rockhopper Exploration PLC ('the Company')

Director Dealing

The Company announces that on 9 July 2008 it received notification from Richard Visick, a non-executive director of the Company, that on the same day he acquired 200,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') at a price of 58 pence per Ordinary Share.

Mr. Visick now has an interest in 17,982,443 Ordinary Shares representing 22.43 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company. 192,500 of these Ordinary Shares, representing 0.24 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company, are held in the name of Legal and Commercial Trustee Retirement Benefit Scheme (pension fund), of which Mr. Visick is a trustee and beneficiary. In addition, 464,808 of these Ordinary Shares, representing 0.58 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company, are held in Mr. Visick's IPS pension fund, of which he is the sole beneficiary.