Issue of Equity

Rockhopper Exploration plc
11 March 2008


11 March 2008


Rockhopper Exploration PLC ('the Company')


Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights


Rockhopper Exploration plc (the 'Company') announces that, following receipt of
a Notice of Exercise, options have been exercised in respect of 238,095 new
ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') at a price of 42p
per Ordinary Share.


The option to purchase Ordinary Shares was granted on 9 August 2005.


Application has been made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading
on AIM on or around 17 March 2008. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu
with the existing ordinary share capital of the Company and have been allotted
and issued credited as fully paid.


Following admission, the total issued share capital of the Company with voting
rights will increase to 75,908,330 Ordinary Shares.


The above figure of 75,908,330 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in
the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine
if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest
in, the share capital of the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency
Rules.


For further information, please contact:


Rockhopper Exploration plc       www.rockhopperexploration.co.uk
Sam Moody - Managing Director    01722 414 419


Aquila Financial Ltd             www.aquila-financial.com
Peter Reilly                     0118 979 4100



Landsbanki Securities (UK) Limited
Tom Hulme 0                      020 7426 9000





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