Comstock Resources plans to spend approximately $385.0 million in 2010 for development and exploration activities. Comstock expects to add an additional drilling rig in the second quarter of 2010 to the six rigs which the Company is currently utilizing in its Haynesville shale drilling program.

Comstock has budgeted to drill 59 (42.6 net) wells in 2010 as compared to the 52 (38.4 net) wells that it expects to drill this year. The 2010 drilling program will be focused primarily on its extensive acreage position in the Haynesville shale in North Louisiana. Comstock's East Texas/North Louisiana operating region accounts for the largest portion of the 2010 budget with forecasted expenditures of $368.0 million. Comstock has budgeted to drill 57 (41.7 net) wells in this region in 2010, which includes 56 (41.1 net) Haynesville shale horizontal wells. In 2009 Comstock expects to have drilled 41 (30.6 net) horizontal Haynesville shale wells. Comstock has budgeted to spend $12.0 million in its South Texas region to drill two (0.9 net) wells in 2010 and for other development activity. The remaining $5.0 million of expenditures in 2010 are budgeted for developmental activity on its other properties.

"Our 2010 drilling program is a continuation of our very successful 2009 drilling program which is focused on exploitation of our North Louisiana Haynesville shale acreage position," stated M. Jay Allison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Comstock. "We anticipate that our 2010 drilling program will continue to provide strong reserve and production growth. We will continue to defer most of our conventional drilling opportunities until we have a stronger outlook for natural gas prices."

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