Bowen Coking Coal Limited announced the completion of the maiden drilling program at its 100% owned Hillalong Coking Coal Project ('Hillalong or the Project') located in close proximity to the Glencore, Marubeni and Sumitomo owned Hail Creek mine in the Northern Bowen Basin, Queensland. The 99 km2 Project comprises EPC 1824 and EPC 2141 which is currently the subject of a farm in agreement with Sumitomo Corporation (the 'Sumitomo FarmIn'). Exploration expenditure for Hillalong is covered under the Sumitomo FarmIn Agreement wherein Sumitomo will spend up to $7.5m to earn up to 20% of the Project. Hillalong South is one of four target areas within the Project. The objective of this program was to test the seam continuance towards the South from the previous intersection of the Elphinstone and Hynds coal seams (Leichhardt and Vermont seam equivalents) found by Rio Tinto in their drill hole HILL003 in the Southern part of the Project. The main target seams (Elphinstone and Hynds) were encountered between 116m and 167m deep in this program with an average thickness of 5.6m for the Elphinstone seam and 2.5m for the Hynds Upper seam. Seismic data from Rio Tinto suggest that these seams could potentially be encountered at shallower depths in the Northern part of the Hillalong South Project area, which will be the subject of the next drilling program. The data also confirms the existence of geological structure in the area which could be responsible for the upthrow or downthrow of coal seams.