Loon Energy Inc.: Colombia- Update on Delta-1 Well

CALGARY, ALBERTA (TSX VENTURE: LEY) announces that the Delta-1 well will be sidetracked to target a new bottom hole location designed to intersect the target reservoir zone up-dip from the initial wellbore. Portions of the drilling assembly, which became stuck while the hole was being conditioned for logging and casing, have been left in the initial wellbore and the well has been plugged back to 2,515 feet (767 metres). The sidetrack will be drilled from approximately that depth when drilling operations resume.

The initial wellbore reached total depth of 8,183 feet (2,494 metres). The target zone, a limestone in the Caballos Formation, intersected in the initial wellbore had a gross thickness of 156 feet, was intermittently oil-stained throughout with the best oil shows and higher gas content in the top 80 feet of the zone. The initial wellbore of the Delta-1 well was directionally drilled to intersect the target zone approximately 250 metres from the surface location of the Gualanday-3 oil discovery drilled in 1957. The Gualanday-3 well had initial test rates of 100-393 barrels of 37 degrees API oil per day and produced approximately 300,000 barrels of oil during six years of sporadic production from a gross reservoir section of more than 170 feet within the Caballos Formation. The initial Delta-1 wellbore encountered the primary limestone objective in the Caballos Formation approximately 254 feet lower than in the Gualanday well.

The well, spud on December 9th, is located within a 60,817 hectare block of lands covered by the Buganviles Association Contract (the "Contract") between Holywell Resources S.A. ("Holywell") and Ecopetrol, the national oil company of Colombia. The well was drilled slightly deeper than the initial planned total depth of approximately 8,000 feet. In the event that the well is productive, fifty percent of the lands or approximately 75,000 acres will be retained for a period of two years. In the event that the well is not cased for commercial production, the lands will expire. Under the terms of an agreement with Kappa Energy Colombia Limited S.A. ("Kappa"), Loon participated through Kappa in an arrangement between Kappa and Holywell by paying 26.4% of the costs of the drilling and completion of the Delta-1 well to earn a 20% working interest in the well and any of the retained lands.

Ecopetrol, the national oil company of Colombia, has granted an extension until June 30th. Sidetrack operations are expected to commence once certain necessary repairs and improvements have been made to the drilling rig and once all equipment necessary to safely and effectively perform future operations has arrived on location.

Loon is an international oil and gas exploration and production company having direct interests in Brunei, Syria, Colombia, Peru and Slovenia with exposure to a major exploration and development program in Pakistan through its shareholding in Jura Energy Corporation. For further information, please refer to the Loon website (www.loon-energy.com) or contact the following:

Some of the statements contained in this release may be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements concerning estimates of recoverable hydrocarbons, expected hydrocarbon prices, expected costs, statements relating to the continued advancement of the Company's projects and other statements which are not historical facts. When used in this document, and in other published information of the Company, the words such as "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "potential," "should," and similar expressions are indicative of a forward-looking statement. Although the Company believes that its expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, the potential results suggested by such statements involve risk and uncertainties and no assurance can be given that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements. Various factors, which could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements, include the potential that the Company's projects will experience technical and mechanical problems, geological conditions in the reservoir which may negatively impact levels of oil and gas production and changes in product prices and other risks not anticipated by the Company or disclosed in the Company's published material. Since forward-looking statements address future events and conditions, by their very nature, they involve inherent risks and uncertainties.

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Contacts: Loon Energy Inc. - Calgary, Canada Norman W. Holton Executive Chairman (403) 264-8877 Email: nholton@loon-energy.com Loon Energy Inc. - Dubai, UAE Timothy M. Elliott President and Chief Executive Officer +971-4-339-5212 Email: telliott@loon-energy.com Loon Energy Inc. - Dubai, UAE Jock M. Graham Executive Vice President +971-4-339-5212 Email: jgraham@loon-energy.com Website: www.loon-energy.com Brisco Capital Partners Corp. (Calgary) Gordon Aldcorn Investor Relations (403) 262-9888 Email: galdcorn@shaw.ca

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