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Blackpool acquires lands at Progress

CALGARY, Feb. 7 /CNW/ - Blackpool Exploration Ltd. (BPX.A: TSX Venture
Exchange) has acquired a 75% working interest in a section of Petroleum &
Natural Gas Rights offsetting productive company lands in the Progress area of
northwestern Alberta. This land is prospective for oil and natural gas in a
variety of zones including the Triassic age Montney, Doig, Halfway, and
Charlie Lake Formations. Blackpool has plans to drill a test well on this
acreage during the last half of 2006.
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