http://www.gulfkeystone.com/ The firms exploration programme in Algeria is going well and "the shares look good value", say the Investors Chronicle. Your comments please. goal.

required field, I don't agree, BG has an impressive chart patten but GKP is the better value. I cant see BG triple its share price, I think GKP can, although they are the riskier of the two. Please dyor.

Possibly Goal, but look at BG. today, it is going great guns while GKP is static !

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd, Sonatrach and BG Group said the HBHN-1 exploration well on the Hassi Ba Hamou gas field in Algeria was spudded on Feb 21, and drilling at this second well has started.

Gulf Keystone said three appraisal and three exploration wells are to be drilled back to back in the first exploration phase of the licence which expires in September 2008.

Gulf Keystone owns a 38.25 pct stake in the project, while BG Group holds 36.75 pct and Sonatrach 25 pct.



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LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd said it has started seismic acquisition in the Shaikan block of Kurdistan.

The seismic programme, which began on March 2, consists of a minimum of 159 km of 2D seismic to be acquired using a combination of vibrator and dynamite sources, the company said.

The programme is scheduled to last for 60 days and could be extended to a total of 206 km if more data is required, it added.

Gulf Keystone Petroleum slips to FY pretax loss
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LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited slipped to a full-year pretax loss, but said it is confident that 2008 will prove to be a year of 'historically unparalleled activity'.

The oil-and-gas exploration company, which operates in Algeria and Kurdistan, reported a pretax loss of $29.5 million for the year to end-December, compared with a profit of $46.4 million a year earlier. The loss follows a charge of $20.6 million as a result of an impairment test on Block 126a, following the failure to find commercial levels of hydrocarbons in GRJ. Its revenue came in at $5.4 million.

Gulf Keystone Petroleum said it expects development at Block 126, in the south east Constantine basin, North Algeria, to be self-financing, adding the work programme on the HBH Permit in Algeria is progressing at a steady pace.

The company said it expects to drill an exploration well on the Shaikan Block in the Kurdish Region of Iraq soon.

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23 May 2008







GULF KEYSTONE PETROLEUM LIMITED

('Gulf Keystone' or 'the Company')







Appointment of Lord Truscott as Non-Executive Director





Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited (AIM: GKP), an independent oil & gas exploration company with interests in Algeria and Kurdistan, is pleased to announce the appointment of Lord Truscott (49) as a Non-Executive Director.



Lord Truscott of St James's was appointed a Labour member of the House of Lords in 2004. Between 2006 and 2007, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy at the Department of Trade and Industry ('DTI') and the DTI Government Spokesperson in the House of Lords. He represented Hertfordshire in the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999.




Lord Truscott is currently Parliamentary British Council Ambassador, Russian Federation and republics of the former Soviet Union ('FSU'). He has extensive contacts in Russia and the FSU, and is widely regarded as a world expert and author on the region. He is a member of the House of Lords European Union Select Committee, Sub Committee C (Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy).




Following his doctorate from Oxford University, he has written extensively on foreign, energy and security policy, including a recent Royal United Services Institute report on political risk management in the energy and defence sectors. He has also participated in an Industry and Parliament Trust placement including with ConocoPhillips and KPMG, to assess different commercial approaches to risk management. He was subsequently elected a Fellow of the Industry and Parliament Trust. He was visiting Research Fellow with the Institute for Public Policy Research from 1999 to 2000 and is currently an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.






Todd Kozel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented:



'Lord Truscott is a welcome addition to the Gulf Keystone board. He brings with him an assured and widely acknowledged expertise in international affairs, and political and commercial risk management, all essential to a growing resources company'.



Information in relation to Lord Truscott's appointment required pursuant to Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM rules for Companies:




Current directorships




African Minerals Limited

Eastern Petroleum Corporation Limited

Energy Enterprises Limited

'Gulf Keystone' or 'the Company')

DRILLING UPDATE RM-1 WELL, ALGERIA

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd (AIM: GKP), an independent oil and gas exploration company with interests in Algeria and Kurdistan, is pleased to announce that drilling of the RM-1 exploration well on the Hassi Ba Hamou Permit (HBH Permit) in Algeria has been completed and tested.




The RM-1 well, which was started on 7 May 2008, reached a total depth of 1,111 metres on a separate prospect some 50 kilometers to the southeast of the HBH gas field. Gas shows during drilling and logging results indicate a 61 meter gas column has been encountered in sands of Siegenian age. During a production test the well flowed gas at a stabilised flow rate of 10,266 cubic meters per hour (8.7 mmscf per day) through a 94/64-inch choke.

With the success of RM-1, GKP has agreed to go into the second prospecting period of the HBH Permit with a work programme obligation of 500 km2 of 3D seismic, 1 exploration well and 2 appraisal wells.


The drilling rig will now move to drill well FEG-1, the third and final exploration well to be drilled, and the fourth well in the current six well drilling campaign. This well is expected to spud within a month. No further announcement on the FEG-1 well is planned until the well has been completed.




The HBH Permit, which contains the HBH gas field, was awarded in April 2005. It comprises five blocks within an area of 18,380 square kilometres in the Bechar Basin in Algeria's Western Desert.




Christopher Garrett, the Company's Vice President of Operations, who has over 29 years relevant experience within the sector and who has been involved with this project for over 2 years, has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this announcement. Mr Garrett is a Fellow of the Geological Society, a member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain, and a Certified Petroleum Geologist (American Association of Petroleum Geologists). He meets the criteria of a qualified person under the AIM guidance note for mining, oil and gas companies.



Mr. Todd Kozel, Executive Chairman, Gulf Keystone, commented:

'This is our first exploration success on the HBH Permit and the RM-1 well follows our successful appraisal well, HBH-4, earlier this year. The results so far have already given us the confidence to progress to Phase 2 of the HBH Permit.'

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Massive find by Heritage today in Kurdistan ,very near where Gulf Keystone are drilling could be very exciting,topped up 150k

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I bought a few on adviceof my broker.

Well done

A few days back a distressed seller took it to lows, turned out to be RAB.

Their loss.

Hold tight for drilling in Kurdistan, their plot is near to Heritage and similar geology.

Due to start Q2.

Hold Hoil too so hedged my bets.

AFR and GKP both winners today.

Times write up on drilling today topped up another 100k now holding 300k,could be big,good luck.

Biggest riser on the Risers today but no interest it seems.

Hoil seems to be dipping at the mo??

Sterling Energy's large acerage in Kurdistan is closer to Heritage Oil than is Gulf Keystone, and also between Heritage acerage and the Kirkuk oIl fields.
Sterling have farmed out drilling to Addax, which will commence drilling later this year. Sterling says seismic surveys are very encouraging. with several surface sepages.

SEY could find one billion barrels ( possible ) ?
If oil rises towards $60 / barrel as OPEC want when the Economy improves ?
Oil in the ground valued at around $7 - $8 / barrel ( P2 Sweet light ) as usual ?
Sterling will take off.

Sterling like Gulf Keystone is a small co. and at 1.70p / share has great potential. I think SEY is a good risk to take over the next few months.

silly question .... if GKP's interim figures were published 25/9/08, why is there no announcement as to when finals will be released?