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YEMEN EAST SARR BLOCK 53 SHARYOOF FIELD

Dove Energy discovered, developed and now operates the Sharyoof Field with first oil achieved in December 2001 - an impressive 10 months from discovery to first oil. The facility is designed to process 25,000 bopd simultaneously with up to 150,000 bwpd and includes oil and water separation vessels and storage tanks with oil pumped through a dedicated export pipeline to the gathering point at the Nexen operated Masila CPF prior to loading onto tankers at the Ash Shihr terminal in the Gulf of Aden. The principles of our design for the facility included technical simplicity, safety and environmental responsibility and have allowed production uptime of over 99.5%.

Dove directly employs all operations and maintenance personnel on site.

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BLOCK 53 EXPLORATION

Exploration drilling has resulted in the discovery of the Bayoot fractured basement oil field some 10km south of the Sharyoof Field. Development of the field is ongoing through 2008 and 2009 with a rig fully committed to appraisal and delineation of the field. Present daily production potential is 6000bopd of sweet, dry oil.

An analagous structural feature 4km to the south is presently being drilled for the first time.

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YEMEN RAS HUWAIRAH BLOCK 73

Dove Energy was awarded operatorship in the 2004 Yemen onshore licensing round. The block is located in the Masila Seiyun basin, 15km south of Doves’ existing Block 53 licence, adjacent to the prolific Canadian Nexen Block 14 and close to the existing oil production and export infrastructure of the Masila oil province.

A 300km vibroseis seismic survey was acquired in late 2005/early 2006. On the basis of this survey, a well was drilled to basement, Dfiqa-1. The well was suspended with good interpreted indications of oil in a porous zone, possibly fractured, within the Madbi (Jurassic age) section.

An airborne gravity-gradiometry (FTG) and magnetic survey is presently being planned prior to additional seismic and the drilling of a second well during 2008/2009.

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