Zion O&G Reaches TD at Israel Well

- Zion O&G Reaches TD at Israel Well

Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Zion O&G Inc.

Zion O&G has reached its target depth of approximately 19,357 feet (5,900 meters) in drilling its Ma'anit-Joseph #3 well into the Permian geologic layer in Northern Israel. The Company is now preparing for open-hole logging operations, planned to commence this week.

Zion also announced that its shares of Common Stock were added to the preliminary list of both the Russell Global Index and the U.S. broad-market Russell 3000(R) on June 10, 2011. Russell Investments will publish the final inclusion lists of its indexes on June 27, 2011.

Zion's inclusion is part of the Russell's regular reconstitution of its U.S. equity indices each year. Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. An industry-leading US $3.9 trillion in institutional assets currently are benchmarked to them.

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Zion O&G Applies for Israel Exploration Permit

- Zion O&G Applies for Israel Exploration Permit

Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Zion O&G Inc.

Zion O&G announced that on June 13, 2011, the Company submitted an application to the Israeli Petroleum Commissioner's Office, requesting the grant of a new petroleum exploration permit area adjacent to Zion's Joseph License area. The new permit application has been named by Zion, the "Asher-Joseph Permit Application".

The Asher-Joseph Permit Application area covers approximately 80,000 acres of land and is to the west and south of Zion's Joseph License area. It is onshore Israel and traverses a section of land, adjacent to the coastline, between Haifa and Tel Aviv. The grant of a permit would allow us to conduct, on an exclusive basis through a specified period, preliminary investigations to ascertain the prospects for discovering petroleum in the area covered by the permit. Unlike a license area, where test drilling may take place, no test drilling is allowed on a permit area.

Zion's Chief Executive Officer, Richard Rinberg, said, "We have three applications for new exploration areas pending before the Israeli Petroleum Commissioner's Office: the Asher-Joseph Permit, the Zebulun Permit and the Dead Sea License.

"We continue to implement our exploration and drilling program and build on our progress to date. If granted the new exploration areas, we intend to acquire additional seismic and other geological and geophysical data, as we work towards refining potential drilling prospects.

"Currently, drilling operations at our Ma'anit-Joseph #3 well continue. We have reached our target depth of approximately 19,357 feet (5,900 meters), in the Permian geologic layer in Northern Israel, and are now preparing for open-hole wireline logging operations, planned to commence this week. Depending on the outcome of our wireline logging and subsequent interpretation, we may determine to drill this well deeper."

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Zion O&G Notified of New Exploration License in Israel

Zion O&G Notified of New Exploration License in Israel

Thursday, April 14, 2011
Zion O&G Inc.

Zion reported that the Israeli Petroleum Commissioner's Office, on behalf of the State of Israel, has notified Zion that it will be awarded a new petroleum exploration license on land within Zion's previous (and now expired) Issachar-Zebulun Permit area. The new license has been named by Zion, the Jordan Valley License. Zion expects to formally receive the license soon.

The Jordan Valley License area is to the east of Zion's Joseph license area and Zion's Asher-Menashe license area and to the south of the Sea of Galilee. It traverses south along the western Jordan River Valley.

Zion's Chief Executive Officer, Richard Rinberg, said, "We are truly excited and very pleased that the State of Israel will award us our new Jordan Valley License. We continue to implement our exploration and drilling program and build on our progress to date. In 2011, we intend to acquire additional seismic and other geological and geophysical data in our new license area, as we endeavor to refine our potential drilling prospects in this area. Meanwhile the drilling operations at our Ma'anit-Joseph #3 well continue, as we strive for our primary target in deep Permian age rock, expected at a depth of over 19,000 feet (5,790 meters). The Ma'anit-Joseph #3 well is already one of the deepest wells ever drilled onshore Israel."