Eurasia Drilling Company Limited ("EDC" or the "Company" - LSE: EDCL), the leading onshore & offshore drilling service provider in the CIS, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held on September 22, 2014, Alexander Djaparidze, CEO, Earl Clanwilliam, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Alexander Shokhin, Member of the Board of Directors, were re-elected for a three year term as Class III members of EDC's Board of Directors.

ZAO KPMG were re-appointed as auditors of the Company.

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EDC is the largest provider of onshore drilling services in Russia, as measured by the number of metres drilled, providing onshore integrated well construction services and workover services.  The Company also provides offshore drilling services in the Caspian Sea and is the largest provider of such services in the sectors where it operates based on the number of jack-up drilling rigs. The Company offers its onshore integrated well construction services and workover services to local and international oil and gas companies primarily in Russia and its offshore drilling services to Russian and international oil and gas companies in the Russian, Kazakh and Turkmen sectors of the Caspian Sea. In addition, the Company provides onshore drilling services in Iraq. The Company is traded on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol "EDCL".

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For further information, please contact:

Tom O'Gallagher, VP Marketing and Investor Relations
Evgeniya Bitsenko, Head of Investor Relations
+44 (0) 207 717 9707
investors.relations@eurasiadrilling.com

Hudson Sandler
Andrew Hayes/ Maria Ignatova 
+44 (0)20 7796 4133

September 24, 2014 

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