Particle Drilling Technologies to Present at the IPAA 2006 Oil & Gas Investment Symposium in New York

HOUSTON, April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Particle Drilling Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PDRT) ("PDTI") today announced that the Company will be presenting at the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) Oil and Gas Investment Symposium New York to be held at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers on April 10-12, 2006.

Jim B. Terry, Particle Drilling's President and Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to present on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 2:00 pm Eastern Time. The presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet and is expected to last approximately twenty minutes. The webcast link will be available on the Company's website at /. A replay of the presentation will be archived on the website shortly after the presentation is concluded.

Particle Drilling Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a development stage oilfield service and technology company owning certain patents and pending patents related to the Particle Impact Drilling technology. The Company's technology is designed to enhance the rate-of- penetration function in the drilling process, particularly in hard rock drilling environments.

Certain statements made during the presentation announced above that are not historical but are forward-looking are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause PDTI's actual results in future periods to be materially different from any future performance that may be suggested in this press release. Such risks and uncertainties may include, but are not limited to, PDTI's ability to raise equity capital, if necessary, and its ability to obtain equity financing on acceptable terms, if at all, a severe worldwide slowdown in the energy services sector and working capital constraints. Further, PDTI is a development stage company that operates in an industry sector where securities values are highly volatile and may be influenced by economic and other factors beyond PDTI's control such as announcements by competitors and service providers.

J. Chris Boswell, SVP & CFO
Particle Drilling Technologies, Inc.
713-223-3031 ext. 204

Ken Dennard, Managing Partner
Jack Lascar, Partner
DRG&E / 713-529-6600