Gulfsands Petroleum PLC
31 October 2007

GULFSANDS PETROLEUM PLC (the "Company")


Total Voting Rights


For the purposes of the Financial Services Authority's Disclosure and
Transparency Rules, the Company notifies the market that as at the date of this
announcement, the Company's issued share capital consists of 111,178,750
ordinary shares with a nominal value of 5.7142865 pence each ("Ordinary 
Shares"), with voting rights. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in
Treasury.



The above figure of 111,178,750 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.



Enquiries:

  Gulfsands Petroleum (Houston)                             + 1-713-626-9564
  David DeCort, Chief Financial Officer

  Gulfsands Petroleum (London)                              020-7182-4016
  Kenneth Judge, Director of Corporate Development          07733-001-002

  Landsbanki Securities (UK) Limited                        020 7426 9000
  Jeff Keating / Tom Hulme, Corporate Finance




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