Mr. Brian Reinsborough reports

RECONAFRICA ANNOUNCES INITIATION OF HORIZONTAL DRILLING AT KW1X - FLOW TEST RESULTS EXPECTED PRIOR TO YEAR-END

Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd., along with its partners BW Energy (20-per-cent working interest) and the National Petroleum Corp. of Namibia (10-per-cent carried working interest), have resumed drilling at Kavango West 1X (KW1X) ahead of final open hole horizontal flow testing.

KW1X horizontal drilling has commenced

The partnership has received all required permit approvals to resume horizontal drilling and flow testing activities at KW1X. New permit approvals include the environmental clearance certificate and the horizontal drilling permit amendment. Following the receipt of these final regulatory approvals, the whipstock has been set and sidetrack drilling at KW1X has commenced.

Production casing was removed to a vertical depth of 2,289 metres where the open-hole whipstock has been set in place. Drilling of the sidetrack has commenced and is scheduled to take approximately one month. The sidetrack well design targets a horizontal wellbore of up to 1,000 metres in the upper zone of the Huttenberg formation to optimally intersect the natural fractures across the Kavango structure. The horizontal well bore could potentially transect thousands of vertical, or near vertical, natural fractures. The well will be completed open hole, without casing or cement, to maximize the flow rate from the natural fracture system.

Flow testing will occur immediately following the well completion and will be tested after the wellbore has been swabbed to remove all drilling muds and cuttings but prior to an acid wash. Flow testing is intended to establish sustained flow rates, reservoir pressure response and the liquid yield and composition in the production flow stream. Additional fluid and gas samples will be collected for laboratory analysis. Testing could take up to one month with flow test results expected to be disclosed prior to year-end.

About Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd.

ReconAfrica is a Canadian oil and gas company engaged in the exploration of the Damara fold belt and Kavango Rift basin in the Kalahari Desert of northeastern Namibia, southeastern Angola and northwestern Botswana, where the company holds petroleum licences and access to approximately 13 million contiguous acres. The company also operates the Ngulu block in the shallow waters offshore central Gabon covering 1,214 square kilometres (equivalent to 54 Gulf of Mexico blocks), which is strategically located near producing oil fields and infrastructure. The Ngulu block includes the Loba oil field discovery and a large inventory of high-impact prospects in the presalt and postsalt plays. In all aspects of its operations, ReconAfrica is committed to minimal disturbance of habitat in line with international standards and implementing environmental and social best practices in its project areas.

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