Drillmar encounters pay in second North Francitas well  
 

Georgetown, Cayman Islands - March 28, 2008

The Carrin Patman B#1 well in North Francitas Field in Jackson County, Texas reached a total depth of apprx 9,000 feet on March 27th 2008. The well was targeting and found sands present in offset well.  The well is currently awaiting flow test and completion. Drillmar has a 50 percent working interest and operates the well. The well is the second discovery well drilled by the Company in field.  A salt water disposal well will be drilled before hooking the field up for production.

For further information contact Haavard Strommen, Chief Financial Officer 345-925-1768 or visit the Company's website at www.drillmar.com

Drillmar Energy Inc is an oil and gas exploitation and production company. In the US, Drillmar Energy Inc is operating through its wholly owned subsidary Drillmar Oil & Gas Inc. Drillmar's strategy is to exploit the use of non-traditional drilling techniques and technologies.  These techniques and technologies include casing drilling, managed pressure drilling and certain petrophysical/geophysical reprocessing and remapping.  We have consistently made significant improvements in the efficiency and cost of developing oil and gas reserves for BP, Shell, PDVSA, PEMEX and Apache as well for our own account. We are currently qualified operator in Texas and Louisiana and have established appealing production and/or acreage positions in those states.

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