Sugarloaf-1 Update

Empyrean Energy PLC
12 March 2007




                              Empyrean Energy PLC

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


                     Sugarloaf Hosston Prospect, Texas USA
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AIM quoted Empyrean Energy PLC today announces that fracture stimulation of the
Hosston Formation was successfully carried out but on flow-back, only minor gas
was recovered at a rate too small to measure. The Hosston Formation will now be
plugged off to enable the testing of the shallower Cretaceous carbonates to
proceed.

The most significant gas indications in the well were obtained in Cretaceous
carbonates above 14,000 feet, where gas shows during drilling and wire-line log
interpretation suggest the presence of potential gas pay. The timing for testing
of these indications will be advised as soon as possible.


The information contained in this announcement was completed and reviewed by the
Technical Director of Empyrean Energy Plc, Mr Frank Brophy BSc (Hons) who has
over 40 years experience as a petroleum geologist.


For further information
Laurence Read/ Ed Portman
Conduit PR
Tel: [phone]

Empyrean Energy plc
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Rod Venables/ Cecil Jordaan
HB Corporate
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