Calgary, Alberta, June 2nd, 2008: Montello Resources Ltd. (TSX Venture Exchange Symbol "MEO") ("Montello") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Phil Emrich as the new president of our wholly owned private operating subsidiary Montello Resources Ltd. USA, and Mr. Peter Brown as COO of Montello Resources Ltd in addition to his duties as VP of Exploration-Geology. We are also pleased to announce the new appointments of Mr. Wes Hansen of Remote Directional Services in the new position of Consulting VP of Drilling Operations -Domestic, and Mr. Ross Moulton as our new Consulting Manager of Geology for the Sarcee Project -Southern Alberta.

Mr. Emrich, "Phil", is in Tennessee presently with outgoing MEO USA President Dwayne Tyrkalo arranging for seamless transition. Mr. Tyrkalo will be available on an on-call consulting basis to the JV Partnership going forward. Dwayne's private Alberta business requires more of his time and given Phil was initially recruited by Dwayne to be the Drilling Manager/ Advisor for our Highpoint Project, this is the best scenario for all parties going forward.

Prior to his work with Montello, Phil was Drilling Supervisor for ConocoPhillips Canada Foothill & Mountain Division from September 2006 to March of 2007 while from June 2003 to September 2006 he was with Smith Services in Abu Dhabi. Phil spent from approx. July 1996 -- June 2003 with Tesco Drilling Technology. His duties included in no particular order: starting up the Algeria Office and project in Hassi Massoud with local company "Sonatrac", 2 years as a Regional Manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, 4 years as an "Offshore" Top Drive Supervisor, and finally 1 year as Operations Superintendent (Electric Top Drive Division). From 1984 to July 1996 he worked with Nabors Drilling Ltd. Canada and Nabors Drilling Intl. While with Nabors Drilling Intl. from April 1992 - July 1996, 3 years as Rig Manager (Tool Pusher) and 6 months Driller, he worked on a Multiple Well, long reach horizontal project for Shell and Elf in Gabon, West Africa. His drilling experience in Canada was with directional or horizontal wells drilling mostly deep, high pressure, sour gas wells in the Canadian Foothills on projects for Shell and Petro-Canada.

In the winter of 2006 and spring of 2007, prior to joining us for the drilling of the John Bowen #2 Test Well, Phil was the Drilling Supervisor on 3 wells drilled in the Foothills as well as two Kaybob wells west of Fox Creek, Alberta. Varying depths on these 5 wells was anywhere from 2500 metres to 4000 metres total depth. Phil operates his personal company, Bilsar Oilfield Consulting and has spent many years with Nabors Drilling in the Canadian Foothills (N.W. Alberta) as well as overseas in West Africa and until last winter, he spent four years in the Middle East specializing in down-hole fishing, whipstocks, and remedial work in the United Arab Emirates.

Mr. Peter C. Brown is taking on the added duties of COO for Montello Resources Ltd. and has over 28 years experience in the Oil and Gas Industry, both internationally and domestically. He is a Structural Geologist/Basin Evaluator. Peter has extensive knowledge at "Sarcee-Jumping Pound" and at "Pincher Creek", both of which are well-known gas producing fields in Alberta. His initial work at Montello has focussed solely on Tennessee reviewing all geological, drilling and logging data recently acquired as well as other information he is sourcing for anticipated benefit of our JV Partnership. He will now be heading up our Sarcee and Pincher Creek Projects for example, the planned commencement of the Sarcee recompletion of the 10,957 foot 12-13-23-4 W5M cased Mississippian/ Rundle Gas Well where Peter will consult closely with Ross Moulton and the pending testing and evaluation of the 17 feet of interpreted pay on the John Bowen #2 well working closely with Phil Emrich.

Mr. Brown "Peter", began his career as a Geochemist with Robertson Research and later specialized in structural geology and basin dynamics, and has always concentrated in creating a tangible asset base. He has worked in areas as diverse as the North Sea and the foothills of the Andes and with such companies as Petro Canada, Lasmo, Bow Valley Resources, Crestar and Gulf Oil. Between 1997 and 2001, Mr. Brown was the Vice President, Exploration for Crestar Energy International, a division of Crestar Energy Inc. He is a proven oil finder as evidenced while at Crestar where he helped them build their international asset base from 0 to 5000 boepd in a space of 3 years and up to 50 million barrels of reserve base. Peter has also recently been responsible for opening up a new condensate playfairway at Pincher Creek in the southern Alberta Foothills. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK and a Masters of Science from the University of London. Mr. Brown has a reputation as a pragmatist and a problem solver.

Wes Hansen - our new Consulting VP of Drilling Operations, who is the founder and President of Remote Directional Services, was introduced to Montello by Phil Emrich, our new Montello USA President. Wes subsequently was responsible for all aspects of directional drilling operations on the John Bowen #2 Well at Highpoint and will be looking at our planned drill and completion programs at Sarcee, Grouard and Pincher Creek.

From 2006 to 2008, Wes was VP of Operations and a Director at Canadian Integrity Drilling Inc. He negotiated a contract for the position of project lead which provided directional drilling expertise to Pason Systems Inc. The expertise provided, allowed Pason Systems Inc. the opportunity to develop a directional drilling module add-on to their existing data acquisition systems. Pason Systems is a world leader in drilling data management. Pason Systems presently have 99% market share in Canada and 65% in the US. From 2005 through 2006, his primary responsibilities were as Well Site Supervisor which included safety, logistics, environmental and financials while from 2003 - 2005 he was a Directional Supervisor for Sperry-Sun Drilling Services in Columbia and Ecuador where the deepest well in South America was drilled to 27,000 feet and from 1998- 2003 he was the New Technology Manager, for Sperry-Sun Drilling Services in Calgary Alberta. Wes worked on leading edge drilling projects for such clients as Bissett Resources- multi-tapered casing string for the deepest re-entry horizontal project in North America, and other technology used by companies like Anadarko Canada Bucking Horse River Crossing Project.

The experience from 1998 - 2006 provided him the knowledge and experience in greater detail of the processes necessary to manage drilling oil and gas wells. During 1993 -1998, Wes commenced his career at Sperry Sun Drilling Services, Canada as a Directional Drilling Supervisor and finished as a Lead Supervisor by 1998. Other positions include from 1991-1993 being an MWD Operator and Directional Supervisor with Smith International, Canada and from 1979-1989 as a Drilling rig driller with Adeco and Badger Drilling of Canada. Wes is a graduate of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, (NAIT), in Edmonton Alberta. (www.remotedirectional.com)

Mr. Ross Moulton - Consulting Manager of Geology, Sarcee Project

While acting as the Geologist for Extreme Energy and subsequently Arapahoe Energy, Ross organized the opportunity for the high impact deep drilling play on the T'su T'ina Indian Reserve with the initial drilling of the 10,957 foot 12-13-23-4 W5M cased Mississippian/ Rundle Gas Well. Bill Cawker and Dwayne Tyrkalo worked with Ross at the commencement of the project as well as on and off over the past 5 years.

The Company has also granted 4,275,000 incentive stock options to officers, directors and consultants at a price of $0.10 per share with a 5 year term.

About Montello Resources Ltd.

Montello Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: MEO), www.montello.com, is an emerging, publicly traded company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada. Montello is pursuing shallow oil and gas opportunities in Alberta and engaged in drilling high impact oil and gas exploration prospects "hunting for elephants" in the Tennessee Appalachians and in Alberta.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

"William R. Cawker"
William R. (Bill) Cawker
President-CEO Montello Resources Ltd.

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