Dec 14 (Reuters) - Sterling Resources Ltd:

* Announces a gas discovery from the first exploration well in pelican block

offshore Romania

* Prelim log analysis indicates a total of 22 metres of gas-bearing late

cretaceous sandstones at eugenia-1

* Gas discovery following the drilling of the eugenia-1 well drilled in the

black sea offshore Romania

* Eugenia-1 well reached a total measured depth at 2,276 metres

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