Salamander Energy announces that following a successful drill stem test (DST) in the top of the Upper Berai, the West Kerendan-1 exploration well is being suspended as a potential future production well.

The final cased hole DST in the top of the Upper Berai zone flowed at a maximum rate of 32.1 MMcfgpd and 296 bcpd from a 199 m interval between 2570m and 2769m true vertical depth sub-sea. The combined flow rate from the Upper Berai zone achieved from this and the earlier DST (announced March 11th) exceeds 50 MMcfgpd and 477 bcpd making this by far the most productive well to date on the Kerendan trend.

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