South Australia based oil exploration and production company Stuart Petroleum has entered into an agreement to farm Vic/P53 permit in the offshore section of the Victorian Gippsland Basin.

Stuart will earn a 50% interest in the relevant discovery area. It may later choose to take 50% and operatorship in the VIC/P53 permit as a whole. Stuart will begin its involvement in the block by committing to the drilling and sole funding of an exploration well, Bazzard-1, to test a four-way dip closure that the company believes could hold 30-50 million barrels of oil.

The approximately 129,483 acres Bazzard 3D, recorded from early March 2005, has provided the newest dataset that Stuart used to identify and rank prospects for drilling by 2008, assuming the JV receives approval to extend year three of the permit to facilitate this.

The 3D was aimed at providing finer delineation of a number of pre-existing leads, including Cod West, Updip Veilfin, Catfish, Bazzard, Spineback and Hake, with a secondary objective of identifying any additional Latrobe Group targets that may exist.

The Approximately $180 Billion Dollar Neighborhood That Surrounds VIC/P53

When purchasing Real Estate you are always told: Location, Location, & Location. Guess what, when purchasing oil & gas ORRI's it is the same principle, Location, Location, & Location. ACOR management feels that VIC/P53 is located in a fantastic location.

ACOR's ORRI under VIC/P53 consists of 182,858 gross acres. VIC/P53 is also called the "Hole of the Doughnut" as it is surrounded by 9 giant producing oil & gas fields, leaving VIC/P53 in the middle. For example, some of the very best oil production in the world is found in the Gippsland Basin in the Halibut Oil Field. The Halibut Oil Field is approx. 1.8 miles west of ACOR's VIC/P53, where the average well has produced 60,000,000 bbls of oil or $3,600,000,000 worth of oil per well, at today's prices of $60.00 per barrel.