Ryder Scott Reports Unrisked Prospective Resource Best Estimates of 19 Billion Barrels of Oil and 64 Trillion Cubic Feet of Gas in Australian Beetaloo

DENVER, Aug. 18 /CNW/ -- Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. (TSXV: FO) ("Falcon" or the "Company"), a global energy company focused on acquiring, exploring and developing large acreage positions of unconventional and conventional oil and gas resources, today announced the results of the recently completed Ryder Scott Company-Canada Resource Analysis Report ("Report") on the Company's Beetaloo Basin Project in the Northern Territory (NT), of Australia as of July 1, 2009.

Based on all available data, Ryder Scott has prepared an evaluation of the hydrocarbon resource potential pertaining to Falcon's interests in the Beetaloo Basin which consist of four Exploration Permits comprising approximately 28,200 square kilometres (7 million gross acres), covering the majority of the Beetaloo Basin and basin margin highs. Through its wholly owned Australian subsidiary, Falcon Oil & Gas Australia Pty Ltd, the Company owns an undivided 75 percent working interest in the Permits, and is the operator of the Permits.

The Report on the hydrocarbon resource potential of the Beetaloo Basin describes a possible distribution of the unrisked prospective (recoverable) portion of unrisked "Undiscovered in-place Resources," as defined by the Canadian Oil and Gas Evaluation Handbook (COGEH) and does not represent an estimate of reserves or contingent resources. The Report has been prepared in accordance with the Canadian standards set out in the COGEH and is compliant with National Instrument 51-101 "Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities."

Read the complete resource estimates at CNW Group