Columbia Petroleum LLC

 PRESS RELEASE

Date: July 29, 2008

Information:  Chester F. English
Investor Relations
Tel:  (601) 713-4011

Fax:  (601) 713-4013

E-mail: cenglish@columbiapetroleum.com

Website: www.columbiapetroleum.com

Columbia Petroleum LLC Provides Update on its Baxterville Field

COLUMBIA, MS –  Columbia Petroleum LLC announces the completion of the Tim Hurst #1 well in the Baxterville Field (Lamar County, Mississippi).  The well was drilled to a total depth of 3763 feet and completed in the Wilcox Sandstones.  Current production is 400 MCF of gas per day at a flowing pressure of 1300 psi from the first of five pay sections identified by log analysis.  Total reserves are estimated at 2 BCF. 

This well is particularly important as it is the first commercially successful well to be completed in the Wilcox within the field, opening the opportunity for further Wilcox exploration in a field historically dominated by deeper production.

Additional prospects similar to the Tim Hurst #1 are in various stages of the development process.   “We are particularly pleased with the log analysis identifying multiple pay sections of the Wilcox formation thereby supporting our belief that meaningful hydrocarbon reserves - that have historically been overlooked by others, remain to be recovered within known fields,” said Bill Simmons, Managing Member for Columbia Petroleum. 

Columbia Petroleum LLC is an independent company engaged in the development and production of, and exploration for, crude oil and natural gas.  The Company’s oil and gas assets and activity are concentrated primarily in Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

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