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ADMIRAL BAY ANNOUNCES THE BEGINNING OF ADDITIONAL DRILLING AT SHILOH PROJECT IN KANSAS • Company acquires additional acreage at the Revloc Project in Pennsylvania

Denver, Colorado 15 December 2005, 11:00am PST


Admiral Bay Resources Inc. (TSX Venture: ADB) is pleased to announce that it has begun the drilling of five new wells at its Shiloh Project, in the Cherokee Basin, in eastern Kansas. The Cress 2-23, Cress 7-23, Cress 8-23, Kuhn 14-35 and the Hart 11-30 are new CBM wells that will be drilled at a depth of 1,200 feet. The Company has also begun opening additional zones in five existing wells.
At the Mound Valley Project the Company has begun testing the Froebe 4-27, Froebe 14-32, Johnson Trust 4-24, the Vaverka 10-31, and are opening the Riverton coal in the Tucker #1 well. These are new wells that have previously been drilled at the project and will be testing conventional and non-conventional zones. After testing, these wells will be completed as producing wells.

The Company is also pleased to announce it has acquired an additional 6,800 acres in Revloc Project, Cambria County. This brings the total acreage in the project area to 17,200 acres. The Company plans to begin drilling in the first quarter of next year. The initial two to four well program is designed to collect data that will assist Admiral Bay and its third party engineers in quantifying reserves and resource in the prospect. All wells from the test program will be completed as producers.

Admiral Bay also announces that it has closed a private placement through the issuance of 6,273,880 Units at US$0.67 per Unit for gross proceeds of US$4,203,999.98. Each Unit consisted of one common share and one half of one common share purchase warrant. Each whole warrant entitles the holder to acquire one common share at a price of US$1.20 until December 15, 2006. Each of the common shares and warrants issued are subject to a hold period that will expire on April 16, 2006 The funds raised in this placement will be used to reduce existing payables in preparation to a debt facility, working capital and the ongoing development of the Company's projects. A finders fee relating to this placement is payable to the following: Neidiger, Tucker, Bruner, Inc., of Denver Colorado - US$76,970.98, Main Street Advisors, Inc. of Vancouver, BC US$ $56,280.00 and to Taisun Enterprises Corporation in the amount of US$22,110.00.

Admiral Bay Resources Inc. (www.admiralbay.com) is an emerging coal bed methane (CBM) production company focused on the development of projects in the Cherokee Basin in southeast Kansas and the Appalachian Basin, in Pennsylvania. The Company's current gas production is approximately 1 MMcf/day. Admiral Bay is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol ADB.