Buru Energy Limited

ABN 71 130 651 437

Level 2, 97 William Street

Perth, Western Australia 6000

PO Box 7794, Perth

Cloisters Square WA 6850

Ph: 61-8 9215 1800

Fax: 61-8 9215 1899 www.buruenergy.com

ASX ANNOUNCEMENT (ASX: BRU) 24 January 2013 Weekly Drilling Report - Yulleroo 4 Appraisal Well


Buru Energy Limited ("Buru" or "Company") provides the following weekly update on drilling
operations at the Yulleroo 4 well as at 06:00hrs, 24 January 2013 (AWST).
Yulleroo 4 is the first well in the Buru - Mitsubishi Corporation ("MC") 2013 drilling program and is located in exploration permit EP 436. Buru and MC each have a 50% interest in this well and in EP 436. The well is located some 80 kilometres to the east of Broome and is some eight kilometres from the Great Northern Highway along the all weather Yulleroo access road.
The well has a programmed total depth of 3,800 metres and is expected to take some 52 days to drill and suspend.
Since the commencement of drilling operations on 19 January 2013, Yulleroo 4 has been drilled ahead in 17½" hole to the intermediate casing point at a measured depth of 888 metres, and at 06:00hrs today preparations are underway to run 13