Company Website: http://www.armadaoil.us
DALLAS -- (Business Wire)

Armada Oil, Inc. (the “Company”)(OTCBB: AOIL), an oil and gas exploration and production company, today announced that it has commenced drilling the Bear Creek # 1 well in Carbon County, Wyoming.

The Bear Creek #1 will be drilled to a total vertical depth of approximately 8,457 feet to test a number of deep conventional zones with significant potential as well as to gain valuable information on the quality and potential of the Niobrara Shale on the project acreage. The Company holds a 100% working interest in the project and expects drilling time to be approximately 15 days. As a result of the commencement of drilling, we have complied with our drilling obligations under the farmout agreement with Anadarko and, thus, retain our rights to the balance of the farmout acreage.

The Anschutz Ranch #1 well, which is located about 3/4ths of a mile southwest of the Bear Creek #1 location, has produced approximately 970,000 barrels of oil out of the Sundance on a subsurface structure that shows similar traits to the Bear Creek #1 target.

“We are pleased to be getting this project underway and look forward to a successful effort,” said Randy M. Griffin, CEO of Armada Oil, Inc.

The Company also announced that it has sold its remaining acreage position in Oklahoma in order to focus on its Kansas and Wyoming projects as well as to continue to pursue additional producing property acquisitions.

About Armada Oil, Inc.

Armada Oil, Inc. (OTCBB: AOIL), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a growth-oriented oil and gas Exploration and Production (E&P) company with a focus on growing reserves and net asset value per share, primarily through the acquisition, development and enhancement of multiple onshore oil and natural gas producing properties as well as the development of highly diversified developmental drilling opportunities, both conventional and unconventional. The Company currently has producing oil properties in Plaquemines and Lafourche Parishes in Louisiana and in Woodson County, Kansas. In addition, the Company has developmental properties in Wyoming County, NY and controls a strategic acreage position in southern Wyoming in the liquids-rich Niobrara Play.

More information about Armada Oil may be found at http://www.armadaoil.us.

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Contacts:

Armada Oil, Inc.
972-490-9595
investorrelations@armadaoil.us

Source: Armada Oil, Inc.