November 2, 2011

Harvest Natural Resources (ticker: HNR) reported it had commenced drilling the Mafraq South-A (MFS-A) exploration well onshore Oman, the first of a two-well exploratory program. HNR also announced that the mean prospective resources for the targeted south segment total 1.25 Tcf of gas with 46 million barrels of condensate. The MFS-A well will test the Mafraq South structure, which is