Oilsands Quest has provided the following update on its reservoir test program.

Exploration Programs During the three months ended July 31, 2009, we focused on developing our 2009-2010 oil sands exploration plans for the Axe Lake, Raven Ridge, Wallace Creek and Eagles Nest areas and our oil shale exploration plans for the Pasquia Hills area. These planning activities included scouting seismic and exploration drilling targets, preparing regulatory applications and initiating consultation processes for approval of the winter drilling program. Specific activities we have been planning on our Axe Lake permits include an overburden core drilling program on permits 208 and 210 and 2-D seismic on the permits to the north and south of Axe Lake in Saskatchewan. Both of these programs will further our geological knowledge of the deposits while meeting work commitments required to extend the exploration permits until May 31, 2010.

We are also continuing with the additional processing and interpretation of the 1,847 kilometres (1,149 miles) of 2-D and 3-D seismic data collected and initially processed in the 2007-2008 winter program. This interpretation is proving valuable in planning for the specific reservoir tests this year and in assessing the geological structures across our permits. We expanded our baseline environmental programs in the Axe Lake and the Raven Ridge areas in anticipation of a comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment report required as part of the application for regulatory approval for development of Axe Lake. Other environmental work included initiating baseline environmental studies in the Wallace Creek and Eagles Nest areas. We commissioned an active (continuous) air quality monitoring station at Axe Lake during the period, the first of its kind in northwest Saskatchewan, in addition to our passive (periodic) air monitoring activities which have been ongoing since 2005.

In early 2009, we drilled an additional 23 exploration and delineation test wells in Raven Ridge. The Raven Ridge drilling program has demonstrated continuity of bitumen characteristics extending from Axe Lake in Northwest Saskatchewan westward into Alberta and we are in the process of updating our resource estimates based on the results of this drilling program. We expect to release these results in October of 2009.

Axe Lake Area -- Reservoir Development Activities At Test Site 3, the electric downhole heating program was continued. The objectives of the field test are to reliably measure pressure and temperature changes within the reservoir and adjacent formations as a result of heating and use those measurements to calibrate numerical simulation calculations to the field measurements in order to reduce uncertainty in future reservoir planning. The electric downhole heater in well 1OBS 5-29-94-25 provided heat to the reservoir and pressure and temperatures were measured and recorded continuously at ten locations in the hot heater well, 1OBS 5-29-94-25, and the cold observation well, INJ 5-29-94-25. The heater was removed from the well on June 26, 2009, pressures and temperatures were and are being measured and recorded during the post-heating period, and an application for perforating and continued testing of 1OBS 5-29-94-25 and INJ 5-29-94-25 is being prepared.

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