Director Declaration

12 Mar 2008 16:53

Desire Petroleum PLC12 March 2008 Desire Petroleum plc (the "Company") Director Shareholding The Company announces the following purchases of ordinary shares by ByronHoldings Limited, a company of which Lewis Clifton, a non-executive director ofthe Company, is a director and shareholder: Date No. of shares Price per share 3 September 2007 35,000 31.33p19 November 2007 140,000 25.5p22 January 2008 100,000 24.5p5 February 2008 100,000 29.5p8 February 2008 100,000 28.87p Mr Clifton is currently beneficially interested in 1,612,500 ordinary shares inthe Company, representing 0.7 per cent. of the issued share capital of theCompany. 1,000,000 of these shares are held by Byron Holdings Limited. END This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange