Second Wave Announces Tableland Farmout Update

Second Wave Petroleum Ltd. ("Second Wave" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:SCS.A)
(TSX VENTURE:SCS.B) is pleased to announce that the drilling of the second and
final horizontal earning well has been completed on the Company's Bakken/Sanish
prospect at Tableland, Saskatchewan. The well was drilled under a previously
announced farmout to a private US-based oil and gas company (the "Farmee"), who
has entered into a participation arrangement with a Canadian company to operate,
pay 100% of well costs and share in the interests to be earned by the Farmee,
upon completing and equipping the well for production. A single lateral section
measuring 1,434 metres has been drilled in the Sanish formation at a sub-surface
depth of 2,250 metres. An un-cemented liner, fitted with expandable packers
("Packers Plus"), has been run in the hole and will permit well completion with
11 sequential fracture stimulation operations over the length of the horizontal
section. The completion is scheduled to commence after spring break-up and a
meaningful evaluation of results is not expected until late May.


The Lower Bakken Member is a fractured, over-pressured, oil-generating source
rock. The Dolomitic Sanish Sandstone is a fractured, low permeability,
oil-saturated unit that lies conformably below the Lower Bakken Shale Member and
provides a stable pathway for horizontal drilling.


A successful well will confirm an extension to a developing light oil resource
play pioneered by the Farmee on adjacent lands in North Dakota and could set up
a multi-well development program on Second Wave's lands at Tableland. Initial
production rates for recent North Dakota Bakken/Sanish wells have been as high
as 250 barrels per day.


After the well has been completed and equipped for production, Second Wave will
hold a 5% Gross Overriding Royalty in the well before payout and a 30% working
interest when payout has been reached. The Company will hold a 30% working
interest in the remainder of the Farmout Lands comprising approximately 45
sections of contiguous land at Tableland, Saskatchewan from surface to the base
of the Three Forks Group.


About Second Wave Petroleum

Second Wave Petroleum is a publicly traded, newly recapitalized junior oil and
gas company focused on exploration and development of oil and natural gas in
Alberta and south eastern Saskatchewan. Second Wave remains focused on organic
growth through the drill bit on its existing acreage while continuing a process
of adding accretive acquisitions in 2008.


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(barrel of oil equivalent) conversion rate of 6 Mcf per one (1) BOE is based on
an energy equivalency conversion method primarily applicable at the burner tip
and does not represent a value equivalency at the wellhead.