KIEV, Feb. 1 - Britain's Regal Petroleum Corporation Ltd. has lodged an appeal with the Ukrainian Supreme Administrative Court against an earlier ruling to cancel the company's license to develop gas fields in the Poltava region, the company said.

"This ruling discouraged us,??? Victor Dmitriev, director of the company's office in Ukraine, said. ???We received the licenses for the commercial development of the two gas condensate fields in 2004 not from a private individual, but from a state body.???