BNK Petroleum says that its wholly owned subsidiary Trofagas Hidrocarburos, S.L., has been awarded an oil and gas concession in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria, Spain totaling approximately 61,470 acres. This concession brings the Company's total acreage in Europe to about 3.6 million net acres in 5 separate basins.

This new concession located in the Cantabrian basin of Spain was acquired for a shale gas target. The Concession contains certain minimum requirements, which must be fulfilled by BNK to retain its interest. Some of the more significant minimum requirements consist of conducting geological work in the first year, drilling one vertical well each in years two, four, five and six.

Wolf E. Regener, BNK's President and CEO commented, "We are very pleased that we have been granted our first concession in Spain and are encouraged by the data we have gathered over the last two years. The shale gas data collected in Spain looks very promising. We look forward to developing shale gas in Spain both for our shareholders and the country of Spain."

Poland The Company also announced that the Lebork S1 well on the Slupsk Concession is currently drilling at 3,517 meters, with over 220 meters of core taken. The core will be analyzed over the coming weeks. The Company anticipates that it will complete drilling and logging in the next week, at which time it will release an update with the available data. The majority of the analysis of the sidewall cores from the Wytowno #1 well are expected back from the subcontractor in May. The 1st well on the Starogard concession is expected to begin drilling sometime in June.

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