Horn Petroleum Corporation: Drilling Operations Update on Shabeel Well in Puntland, Somalia

Horn Petroleum Corporation ("Horn Petroleum" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:HRN)
is pleased to update the market on the drilling operations on the Shabeel well
in Puntland, Somalia. Horn is the Operator and holds a 60% working interest in
the Dharoor and Nugaal Valley Production Sharing Agreements ("PSA's") along with
working interest partners Range Resources (20%) and Red Emperor (20%).


The Shabeel well is currently at a depth of 2703 meters and had just completed
the setting of the 9 5/8" casing. The well drilled through primarily tight
limestones and shales of Lower Tertiary to Upper Cretaceous age and encountered
a 355 meter section of Upper Cretaceous sands and shales of the Tisje / Jesomma
Formations at a depth of approximately 1660 meters. The sands in this interval
exhibited both oil and gas shows and petrophysical analysis of downhole
electrical logs indicates a potential pay zone of between 12 and 20 meters in
the section. Attempts to sample formation fluids using a wireline formation
tester were not successful and thus the zone will require cased hole testing to
confirm whether they are oil bearing. At a depth of 2015 meters a thick section
of tight limestones and shales was encountered extending to the present depth of
2703 meters which is believed to correspond to the Upper Cretaceous Gumburo
Formation.


The forward plan on the well will be to drill ahead to the originally planned
depth of 3800 meters to evaluate the primary and secondary reservoir targets in
the Lower Cretaceous and Jurassic intervals equivalent to the main productive
section seen in the analogous fields in Yemen. A testing program including the
zones of interest seen to date and any deeper potential pay zones identified
will be agreed with partners at that time. Upon completion of this well, the
Company plans to move the rig to the Shabeel North location on which
construction is nearing completion.


Horn President and CEO David Grellman stated, "We are encouraged by the results
to date and pleased that we have confirmed the presence of an active petroleum
system in the Dharoor Valley. We look forward to drilling ahead into the primary
objectives of the well and hope to confirm the shallow prospective zones by
testing in the near future."


Horn Petroleum Corporation is a Canadian oil and gas company with assets in
Puntland, Somalia. The Company holds a 60% interest and operatorship in the
Dharoor and Nugaal blocks encompassing a Jurassic Rift Basin on trend and
analogous to the large oil fields in Yemen. The Company's shares are listed on
the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "HRN".


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

David Grellman, President and CEO

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