Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rockhopper Exploration plc
07 July 2006

                                                                              
For immediate release: 7 July, 2006

Rockhopper Exploration plc (the 'Company')

                               Director Dealings

Rockhopper Exploration plc ('the Company') announces that it was notified on 6
July 2006 that Mr Richard Visick, Non-executive Director, purchased the
following 1p ordinary shares in the Company:

Name                Shares     Price per share        Number of       Percentage
                 purchased             (pence)      shares held     interest (%)

Richard Visick      66,300               37.75       18,897,309             26.3


These shares were purchased in the name of Legal and Commercial Trustee
Retirement Benefit Scheme (pension fund), of which Mr Richard Visick is a
trustee and one of the beneficiaries.

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For further information, please contact:

Rockhopper Exploration
Sam Moody, Managing Director     01722 414 419

Aquila Financial Limited
Peter Reilly                     020 7202 2601
    







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