Article: Murphy Oil Provides Drilling Update and First Quarter Earnings Guidance.

EL DORADO, Ark. -- Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR) announces successful appraisal wells at its Kakap discovery in Malaysia and its Thunder Hawk discovery in the Gulf of Mexico and dry holes at Jangas and Makalu. Murphy also expects net income for the first quarter of 2005 to be between $1.10 and $1.15 per diluted share.

DRILLLING UPDATE

In Block K offshore Sabah, Malaysia, the Kakap #2 appraisal well encountered significant oil pay in three reservoirs. Subsequent drill stem testing of one zone flowed high quality crude oil at 5,580 barrels of oil per day on a 40/64 inch choke with a gas/oil ratio of 940. The Kakap #2 well was drilled 948 feet downdip ...

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