Taipan Resources Inc.

Badada-1 Well Drilling Update

NAIROBI, KENYA--(Marketwired - Feb. 23, 2015) - Taipan Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:TPN)(OTCQX:TAIPF) ("Taipan", "the Company") provides the following update with respect to the Badada-1 well, Block-2B, onshore Kenya.

Lion Petroleum Inc. ("Lion"), Taipan's wholly-owned Kenya-based subsidiary, and Operator of Block-2B (Taipan 30%, Premier Oil 55% and Tower 15% working interests) announces that the Badada-1 well has been drilled to a total depth of 3,500 metres MDBRT (Measured Depth Below the Rotary Table) and following completion of logging operations will be plugged and abandoned as a dry hole.

The well has taken a total of 46 days to date, and is expected to have been completed within the prescribed budget of $25.8mln.

The well encountered a thick and previously untested Neogene age succession in the Anza Basin, of similar age to that encountered in the Lokichar and Albertine Basins, confirming the pre-drill geological model for this basin. Excellent quality reservoirs of Neogene and possibly older Tertiary age have been drilled. Although the well has failed to find commercial hydrocarbons, minor gas shows and traces of heavier gas molecules indicate the presence of a thermogenic source rock in this previously untested basin.

Commented Maxwell Birley, CEO of Taipan "clearly the results of the Badada well were not what management and the shareholders of Taipan had hoped for. However, Block 2B is extremely large at 5,458 sq km's, and other drill prospects exist within the Block. We will further evaluate results from the Badada well, and discuss next steps with our partners prior to making a decision with respect to future exploration activities in the Block".

About Taipan Resources Inc.: Taipan Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:TPN)(OTCQX:TAIPF) is an independent, Africa-focused oil exploration company with interests in Block 1 and Block 2B onshore Kenya through its wholly owned subsidiary Lion Petroleum Corp.

Taipan operates and holds a 30% working interest in Block 2B (1.35 million acres / 5,464 km2) and a 20% working interest in Block 1 (5.497 million acres / 22,246 km2) which is operated by East Africa Exploration (Kenya) Ltd, a subsidiary of Afren plc.

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