Kulczyk Oil Ventures Inc.: Ukraine- Olgovskoye-14 Well Encounters Gas

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - July 18, 2011) -

Kulczyk Oil Ventures Inc. (WARSAW:KOV) ("Kulczyk Oil", "KOV" or the "Company"), an international oil and gas upstream company, is pleased to announce the O-14 well in the Olgovskoye Field, in north-eastern Ukraine, has been cased to total depth ("TD") after encountering eight potential gas bearing reservoirs.

O-14 Exploration Well

The O-14 exploratory well was drilled to a TD of 2,800 metres. The eight potential gas-bearing zones where encountered in the Middle and Lower Bashkirian portions of the well. The well was drilled to further increase the gas production capability of the Olgovskoye Field and was drilled into a separate fault block which had not previously produced gas. Production testing of the O-14 well is expected to commence in late August / early September.

Next Well

The drilling rig will now be moved to a new location at O-12 which lies at the north end of the Olgovskoye license area. The new well is located 500 metres northeast of the O-7 well and 7,000 metres northeast of the recently drilled O-14 location. The O-12 well is designed to test gas-bearing reservoirs in the Muscovian and Middle Bashkirian and to further develop the gas production capability of the Olgovskoye Field. The O-12 well is expected to commence drilling in late July.

Olgovskoye Field

The O-14 well is the third new well drilled on the Olgovskoye license since the Company acquired its 70% interest in KUB-Gas in June 2010 and is part of a larger development program on the KUB-Gas assets through 2011 and 2012.

Kulczyk Oil completed drilling of the Olgovskoye-8 well in early January 2011. This well is expected to be tested and completed later in the third quarter of 2011. The O-8 well was drilled to a TD of 2,780 metres and wireline logging of the open hole identified several potential hydrocarbon-bearing zones. Another well on the Olgovskoye license, the O-9 well, reached its TD of 2,638 metres in mid-April and was cased to total depth as a potential multi-zone gas well. Completion and testing of the O-9 well indicated a gas discovery in a new zone known as the R37 unit.

The Olgovskoye Field currently produces from 4 wells (O-3, O-4, O-5 and O-7) with each well producing from a separate horizon.

Through its interest in KUB-Gas, one of the largest private gas producers in the Ukraine, KOV has an effective 70% interest in the Olgovskoye Field.

Assets of Kulczyk Oil

Kulczyk Oil is an international upstream oil and gas exploration company with a diversified portfolio of projects in Brunei, Syria and Ukraine and with a risk profile ranging from exploration in Brunei and Syria to production and development in Ukraine.

In Brunei, KOV owns working interests in two production sharing agreements which gives the Company the right to explore for and produce oil and natural gas from Block L and Block M. KOV owns a 40% working interest in Block L, a 2,220 square kilometre (550,000 acre) area covering onshore and offshore areas in northern Brunei and a 36% working interest in Block M, a 3,011 square kilometre (744,000 acre) area onshore in southern Brunei.

In Ukraine, KOV owns an effective 70% interest in KUB-Gas LLC. The assets of KUB-Gas consist of 100% interests in five licenses near the City of Lugansk in the northeast part of Ukraine. Four of the licenses are gas producing.

In Syria, KOV holds a participating interest of 70% in the Syria Block 9 production sharing contract which provides the right to explore for and, upon fulfillment of certain conditions, to produce oil and gas from Block 9, a 10,032 square kilometre (2.48 million acre) area in northwest Syria. The Company has agreements to assign an aggregate of 25% in ownership interests to third parties which are subject to the approval of Syrian authorities and which, if approved, would leave the Company with a remaining effective interest of 45% in Syria Block 9.

The main shareholder of the Company, Kulczyk Investments S.A. owns almost 50% of the issued common shares. Kulczyk Investments S.A. is an international investment house founded by Polish businessman Dr. Jan Kulczyk.

For further information, please refer to the Kulczyk Oil website (www.kulczykoil.com) or see the contact information.

Translation: This news release has been translated into Polish from the English original.

Forward-looking Statements This release contains forward-looking statements made as of the date of this announcement with respect to future activities of KUB-Gas and related to some or all of its five license areas (Vergunskoye, Krutogorovskoye, Makeevskoye, North Makeevskoye and Olgovskoye) in Ukraine and to the specific wells within those license areas that are not historical facts. Although the Company believes that its expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date hereof, any potential results suggested by such statements involve risk and uncertainties and no assurance can be given that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements. Various factors that could impair or prevent the Company from completing the expected activities on its projects include that the Company's projects experience technical and mechanical problems, there are changes in product prices, failure to obtain regulatory approvals, the state of the national or international monetary, oil and gas, financial , political and economic markets in the jurisdictions where the Company operates and other risks not anticipated by the Company or disclosed in the Company's published material. Since forward-looking statements address future events and conditions, by their very nature, they involve inherent risks and uncertainties and actual results may vary materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statement. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements in this announcement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this announcement, unless required by law.