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Egdon Resources plc (AIM:EDR) is pleased to announce the start of drilling operations at the Keddington oil field on Lincolnshire Licence PEDL005(Remainder).Egdon holds a 75% interest in and is operator of the PEDL005(Remainder) licence. The joint venture partners are Terrain Energy Limited ("Terrain"), holding a 15% interest and Alba Resources Limited ("Alba"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nautical Petroleum plc (AIM: NPE), with a 10% interest.The Keddington-4 well will be drilled as a re-entry and horizontal sidetrack from the Keddington-1Z "donor" well, which was drilled by Candecca Resources in 1998. This oil production well has been shut-in since the drilling of Keddington-3 and 3Z in April 2010. Keddington-4 is planned to penetrate approximately 200 metres of producing Unit 1 sandstone in a new horizontal section. The well is also planned to penetrate the deeper "Namurian" sandstones, which had gas indications in Keddington-3 to provide additional information on this potential gas bearing zone.The British Drilling and Freezing Limited BDF28 drilling unit began mobilising to the site on 1 April and operations began on 4 April. The plugging-back of the existing well has been completed and the drilling of the sidetrack commenced at 0700 hours on 9 April from a kick-off depth of 2080 metres. The well is intended to be drilled directionally to a total measured depth of around 2750 metres. Drilling and completion operations are expected to last a total of around three weeks.The well is expected to be completed for free-flowing or pumped production using the existing surface production facilities shortly after the rig is released from the site.Keddington-4 is designed to increase total field production at a time of high oil prices and provide additional reservoir information in an untested part of the structure to factor into the investment decision on the scale of the gas to electricity generation project planned for the field. This is expected to provide an important additional revenue stream and eventually will enable unconstrained production of oil from the field.Production from the adjacent Keddington-3z well has been suspended for safety reasons during the drilling operations and will resume once the rig has been demobilised from site and the flow characteristics of Keddington-4 has been determined.A further announcement will be made at the conclusion of operations.

Egdon Resources plc (AIM:EDR) is delighted to announce the appointment of Neil O’Brien as a Non-Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. Neil is Chief Executive Officer of Alkane Energy plc which holds 40,000,000 ordinary shares of Egdon, representing approximately 18 per cent. of Egdon’s issued share capital.

Neil is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ management experience within the UK and Europe. After qualifying at Coopers Lybrand, Neil joined Blue Circle Industries PLC where he held a number of senior financial roles including a period as Finance Director of Blue Circle’s French based Heating Products operations. More recently Neil was Finance Director at Speedy Hire PLC the UK’s largest rental company and a FTSE250 member. During Neil’s ten years at Speedy Hire the group was transformed from a generalist building group to focus on the Speedy brand which grew revenues to over £450m in 2008. Neil joined Alkane Energy plc as Chief Executive Officer in November 2008.

Neil Christopher O’Brien, aged 51, is currently a Director of, or during the past five years has been a Director of, the following companies:

Current directorshipsAlkane Energy plcAlkane Biogas LimitedAlkane Energy UK LimitedAlkane Pro2 Services LimitedCoalgas (Cymru) LimitedCoalgas (Europe) LimitedEastern Pegasus LimitedMW Renewables LimitedSeven Star Natural Gas LimitedRegent Park Energy Limited

Neil O’Brien has an interest in 749,000 ordinary shares of Alkane Energy plc.

There is no further information to be disclosed under Rule 17 or Paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules for Companies.

Philip Stephens Chairman of Egdon, commented:

"On behalf of the Board, I am delighted to welcome Neil O’Brien as a Non-Executive Director of Egdon. Neil brings a wealth of valuable experience to the Company, particularly in the UK energy sector. We all look forward to working with him as we continue to grow the business."

The Board of Egdon Resources plc (EDR:AIM) today provides an update on the progress of operations at three key UK projects.Following weather related delays through December, the Company can report that all civil, mechanical and electrical construction has now been completed at Egdon's operated Kirkleatham gas development in PEDL068 where the Company holds a 40% interest. Final snagging and pre-commissioning activity is nearing completion and we anticipate commissioning and first gas within the next few weeks. We will provide a further update to shareholders once first gas is achieved.As previously reported the prolonged maintenance shut-down of the BP Cleeton Platform and associated infrastructure has meant that the Ceres Gas Field (of which Egdon holds a 10% interest) has been shut-in since June 2010. Egdon is pleased to advise that these works are now approaching completion. However, during recent testing of the Ceres/Eris production systems anchor damage was discovered to the Eris umbilical and a repair is underway to allow gas flows from the fields to be resumed. The operator, Centrica, is progressing these repairs as a priority and has advised that work should be completed around mid-April. Assuming a successful conclusion to other outstanding works it is therefore anticipated that gas production from Ceres will resume a few weeks afterwards.The Company also advises that it expects to commence further drilling operations at the Keddington oil field, in Lincolnshire licence PEDL005 (Remainder), in early April. The planned Keddington-4 well will be a horizontal sidetrack from the Keddington-1Z donor well at a kick-off depth of 2080 metres and will be drilled to a total depth of around 2750 metres, which will include a horizontal section of up to 500 metres. This well is designed to increase total field production at a time of high oil price and provide additional reservoir information in an untested part of the structure to enable the investment decision on the scale of the gas to electricity generation project. This is expected to provide an important additional revenue stream and eventually enable unconstrained production of oil from the field. We will provide further details of the well at commencement of operations. Production from site will be shut-in for the duration of these operations which are expected to last around 30 days.Commenting on the update Egdon's Managing Director Mark Abbott said:

"We share our shareholders' frustrations with the delays to production at Kirkleatham and Ceres. With the anticipated start-up of production at Kirkleatham, further drilling at Keddington and the eventual restoration of production at Ceres expected towards the end of April we can look forward to a significant increase in production and revenues within the next two months."

Egdon Resources plc (AIM:EDR) the UK-based onshore exploration and production company primarily focused on the hydrocarbon-producing basins of the UK and Europe, announces that its Interim Results for the 6 months ended 31 January 2011 will be announced on 19 April 2011.An analyst meeting will be held at 9.30am on 19 April 2011 at Buchanan Communications, 3^rd Floor, 107 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6DN.

Egdon Resources plc (AIM:EDR) is pleased to report that further to the announcement of 28 January 2011 it has now completed the acquisition from Valhalla Oil and Gas UK Limited (“Valhalla”) of their entire 50% interests in UK Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences (“PEDLs”) 180 and 181.The consideration for the acquisition is the grant to Valhalla of a Net Profit Interest (“NPI”) of 10% of the assigned 50% interest in each of the licences.PEDL’s 180 and 181 are located in the county of Lincolnshire and are operated by Europa Oil and Gas. They are situated adjacent to Egdon’s operated licences PEDL182 and PEDL241 where the Company holds a 50% interest. PEDL180 contains the Wressle Prospect which extends into PEDL182 where the Broughton oil discovery is located. This oil prone trend of structures is bounded to the north-west by the Crosby Warren producing oil field and the Brigg oil discovery to the south-east. PEDL181 contains a number of potential leads defined on 3D seismic data which will be further evaluated.Both licences are subject to a drill or drop decision later this year.Commenting on the acquisition Egdon’s Managing Director Mark Abbott said:

“We are pleased to have completed this acquisition which is in line with our UK onshore growth strategy. We are currently developing plans for possible 3D seismic acquisition over the Broughton-Wressle structures during 2011 to firm up potential drilling locations in this highly prospective trend.“

Egdon Resources plc (the "Company") was informed today that as a result of the recent open offer the beneficial shareholdings in the Company of Mr Ken Ratcliff and Mr Walter Roberts, Non-executive Directors, have increased by 3,259 shares and 22,743 shares respectively.Mr Ratcliff’s total beneficial shareholding in Egdon Resources plc is now 159,759 ordinary shares, representing 0.07% of the issued and voting share capital of the Company. Mr Roberts’ beneficial shareholding in Egdon Resources plc is now 1,114,493 ordinary shares, representing 0.50% of the issued and voting share capital of the Company.

The Company was notified today that, as a result of a disposal of 130,000 ordinary shares in Egdon on 14 March 2011, Andrew Hindle now holds 6,529,232 ordinary shares (with an equivalent amount of voting rights) in the Company which represents approximately 4.99 per cent. of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.