Deep Well SAGD Steam Update

EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - May 6, 2014) - Deep Well Oil & Gas, Inc. (and its subsidiaries - "Deep Well" or "Company") (OTCQB:DWOG) wishes to announce that the SAGD steam plant and water handling facility is mechanically complete and has been turned over from the Construction Management Team to Operations for start-up. We have been informed by the operator that the first start-up steam circulation phase to establish communication between the injector well and the producer well is imminent.

Steam will circulate for up to three months with production from the Bluesky oil sands reservoir around the end of July 2014. For further information about the SAGD project visit our website at http://www.deepwelloil.com/op_sagd.htm.

Deep Well and its Canadian subsidiaries, Northern Alberta Oil Ltd. and Deep Well Oil & Gas (Alberta) Ltd., have a 90 per cent working interest in 51 contiguous square miles of oil sands leases, an 80 per cent working interest in 5 contiguous square miles of oil sands leases and a 25 per cent working interest in 12 contiguous square miles in the Sawn Lake oil sands area in North Central Alberta. The leases cover 17,408 gross hectares (43,015 gross acres) of land.

Deep Well Oil & Gas, Inc. is fully committed to best practices in Environmental Stewardship to assure sustainable development of its in-situ heavy oil holdings. Deep Well is a Nevada corporation based in Edmonton, Canada.

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