Angkor Resources Advances Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) For Oil & Gas Drilling Targets, Block VIII, Cambodia

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GRANDE PRAIRIE, ALBERTA (April 7,2026) – TheNewswire- ANGKOR RESOURCES CORP.(TSXV: ANK) (“ANGKOR” OR “THE COMPANY”) announces its Cambodian energy subsidiary, EnerCam ResourcesCo., Ltd. (“EnerCam”) is well advanced with its Khmer contractoron the Drilling Environmental Impact Assessment (“EIA”) study forBlock VIII.

The EIA is assessing four target areas for drillingincluding the Kirirom Basin, and the South, Central, and North Bokorsub-basins.   Multiple topics must be addressed and reported as partof the submission to the Ministry of Environment in May, 2026.

Mike Weeks, President of EnerCam, describes the EIA“These assessments are both in-depth and sophisticated, with severalhundred pages completed to describe each assessment in full.”  Concurrently, members of the EnerCam team including drilling engineersand management have been actively researching drilling equipment andrigs from various countries to undertake the task of drilling,completions, and production testing to be completed at each drillsite.   Equipment will have to be brought into Cambodia as there areno drilling rigs for this purpose in the country at this time.

Four locations have been identified in Block VIII forDrilling as mentioned in previous press releases.  Mike Weeksexplains that the actual environmental impact from the drillingprogram is expected to be very limited as each site will be a secured1-hectare location, secured and fenced off from the neighboring landwith all best industry practice environmental safeguards in place.

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Figure 1 A portion of the landscape inBlock VIII covered by the EIA.

As part of the work required, EnerCam’s contractor,Green Assessment Co. Ltd., looks at the drill targets and completesdata sampling of air, water, land; biodiversity studies of wildlife,flora and fauna; community socio-economic analysis, and publicconsultation at village, commune, provincial and national levels. And as the four targets for drilling are in different areas acrossthe 4095 square kilometre license area, the teamof seven professionals will be joined by additional enumerators at thepoint of data collection.

EnerCam contracted Green Assessment Co., Ltd. toperform the Drilling Environmental Impact Assessment Study and Reportfor Block VIII.  Licensed by the Ministry of Environment, GreenAssessment Co., Ltd., performed the Preliminary Environmental ImpactAssessment in Q2 of 2025 so is very familiar with the Block VIIIlicense.   Weeks has indicated his satisfaction that the ExploratoryProgram for Block VIII is progressing according to plan. At thecompletion of the Drilling EIA Study and Report with coordination andapproval from the Ministry of Environment, EnerCam will receivepermission from the Ministry of Mines and Energy to start the Drillingin Block VIII.

EnerCam is still on schedule to potentially startdrilling in calendar Q4 2026 or Q1 2027.

ABOUT ANGKOR RESOURCESCORPORATION:

ANGKOR Resources Corp. is a publiccompany, listed on the TSX-Venture Exchange, and is a leading resourceoptimizer in Cambodia working towards mineral and energy solutionsacross Cambodia.   The company’s Cambodian mineral subsidiary,Angkor Gold Corp. holds two mineral exploration licenses in Cambodiawith multiple prospects in copper and gold.  Both licenses are intheir first two-year renewal term.    

Angkor’s Cambodian energy subsidiary,EnerCam Resources, was granted an onshore oil and gas license of 7300square kilometres in the southwest quadrant of Cambodia called BlockVIII.   The company then removed all parks and protected areas andadded 220 square kilometres, making the license area just over 4095square kilometres.  EnerCam is actively advancing oil and gasexploration activities onshore to meet its mission to prove Cambodiaas an oil and gas producing Nation.  The Company completed seismic in2025, and has identified multiple drill targets with multiple targetzones.   As it now works to complete an Environmental ImpactAssessment on the drilling target areas, the Company plans to followwith drilling Cambodia’s first onshore oil & gas exploratorywells.

CONTACT:  DelayneWeeks - CEO

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Certain information set forth in thisnews release may contain forward-looking statements that involvesubstantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Theseforward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks anduncertainties, certain of which are beyond the control of the Company,including, but not limited to the potential for gold and/or otherminerals at any of the Company’s properties, the prospective natureof any claims comprising the Company’s property interests, the impact of generaleconomic conditions, industry conditions, dependence upon regulatoryapprovals, uncertainty of sample results, timing and resultsof future exploration, andthe availability of financing.  Readers are cautioned that theassumptions used in the preparation of such information, althoughconsidered reasonable at the time of preparation, may prove to beimprecise and, as such, undue reliance should not be placed onforward-looking statements. 

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