Director Shareholding

3 Apr 2007 12:00

For immediate release: 03 April 2007

Northern Petroleum Plc ("Northern" or "the Company") Director's Shareholdings

The Company has been informed that Derek Musgrove, Managing Director of Northern, yesterday transferred 97,795 ordinary shares of the Company from his personal holdings to his SIPP at a price of 96.50p per share, being the prevailing mid market price at close of business. This transfer does not alter Mr Musgrove's total beneficial shareholding of 950,000 ordinary shares, which represents 1.35 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company.

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For further information please contact:

Northern Petroleum Plc Tel: +44 (0) 20 7743 6080

Chris Foss, Finance Director

Bishopsgate Communications Limited Tel: +44 (0) 20 7562 3350

Nick Rome / Maxine Barnes

Notes to Editors:

Northern Petroleum Plc is an oil and gas production, development and exploration company with core interests under its management in The Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom. Before the Waalwijk acquisition from Wintershall Noordzee B.V. announced on 27 March 2007 which brought in further gas production, the Company had published proven and probable reserves of 56 and 4.5 million barrels of oil equivalent in the Netherlands and UK respectively and is currently working towards putting its six Netherlands oil and gas fields into production with financial support from Standard Bank. The Shell/ExxonMobil subsidiary Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschapppij B.V. participates in five of the six Netherlands fields by way of a net profits interest. Further information on Northern is available at www.northpet.com.