HOUSTON, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Particle Drilling Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PDRT) (the "Company") today announced that it has moved its equipment and is in the process of rigging up on the drilling location for its next field trial operation. The field trial will be conducted with the Company's existing customer at a location in the Deep Bossier trend of East Texas. As before, the target interval for applying Particle Impact Drilling will be the Travis Peak formation which overlays the Deep Bossier.

The Company is unable to predict the duration of the trial or provide a defined time-frame for disclosing results from the trial. Further, the Company does not expect to release any information regarding the results of the field trial until after the Company and its customer have fully evaluated the operation.

Particle Drilling Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a development-stage oilfield service and technology company owning several patents and pending patents related to its Particle Impact Drilling technology. The Company's technology is designed to enhance the rate-of-penetration function in the drilling process, particularly in hard rock drilling environments.

Certain statements in this press release that are not historical but are forward-looking are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause PDTI's actual results in future periods to be materially different from any future performance that may be suggested in this press release. Such risks and uncertainties may include, but are not limited to, PDTI's ability to raise capital, if necessary, and its ability to obtain financing on acceptable terms, if at all, a worldwide downturn in the energy services sector, working capital constraints and other risks described in PDTI's filings with the SEC. Further, PDTI is a development stage company that operates in an industry sector where securities values are highly volatile and may be influenced by economic and other factors beyond PDTI's control such as announcements by competitors and service providers.



     Contacts:  J. Chris Boswell, SVP & CFO
                Particle Drilling Technologies, Inc.
                713-223-3031

                Jack Lascar / Sheila Stuewe
                DRG&E / 713-529-6600

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