Drilling Update

Empyrean Energy PLC
16 February 2006



                              Empyrean Energy PLC
                  ('Empyrean' or the 'Company'; Ticker: (EME))

                                Drilling update
              Eagle Oil Pool Development Project - California, USA

AIM quoted Empyrean Energy PLC today announces the following update on the Eagle
North-1 well in California, USA.

Victoria Petroleum NL as operator for the Eagle North-1 well has advised that at
0900 hours on 16 February 2006, Perth, Australia Western Standard Time, Eagle
North-1 had been drilled to its total depth of 4219 metres and preparations were
being made to run electric wireline logs to evaluate the hydrocarbon shows
encountered in the well while drilling. The operator anticipates that results of
the wireline logs should be available in 12-18 hours time.

The primary zone of interest for the wireline log evaluation is the target sand
that was circulated up with an increase in gas to a peak of 42 units over a
background of 8 units at 4,167 metres accompanied by an increase in heavier C5
gases decreasing to background at 4,175 metres.



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