update-mauritania drilling programme

MAURITANIA DRILLING PROGRAMME
WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT
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Hardman Resources Limited (“Hardman”) provides the following progress report on its
Mauritania offshore activities:
PSC Area B: Tevét-2 ST1 Appraisal / Exploration Well
Since the last report on 11 October 2005 the ‘Stena Tay’ drilling rig has sidetracked the Tevét-2
borehole from 3,048 metres. An 8-1/2” hole section was drilled to the 7” casing point at
3,667 metres. At midnight on the 17 October preparations had begun to drill the 6-1/2” hole
through the Cretaceous section, inclusive of the lithology at 3,741 metres at which the original
borehole took a kick. The planned total depth (TD) of 3,965 metres remain unchanged.
The Tevét-2 well is located 2.5 kilometres to the South of the Miocene discovery well Tevét-1,
and lies in a water depth of 466 metres.