Africa Oil updates operations

Africa Oil Corp. reports that mobilization of casing and camp construction equipment is underway in preparation for spudding the first of an initial two well program on the Nogal Block in Puntland, Somalia. The equipment is currently in Djibouti and is anticipated to arrive in Somalia within the next week. The first well is expected to spud in July, 2008.

The Company has farmed into an 80% interest in the Nogal and Dharoor blocks. The concessions encompass two highly prospective hydrocarbon basins and cover an area of 81,000 square kilometres or more than 20 million acres.

The two sedimentary basins were contiguous with the prolific Marib and Masila basins in Yemen during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Over 9 billion BOE have been discovered in Yemen but exploration has been limited to date in Somalia. Only 3 wells have been drilled in basinal settings in these concessions before operations ceased in the early 1990’s. Those wells confirmed thick sedimentary sequences, encountered oil in Cretaceous sandstones and proved the presence of active petroleum systems in both basins.