CALGARY, ALBERTA–(EMWNews – Aug. 6, 2008) – Pure Energy Services Ltd. (“Pure Energy”) (TSX:PSV) today announced that it has been approved by Mergent Inc.’s editorial board for listing and was published in Mergent Industrial and Mergent International Manuals and News Reports. Pure Energy’s corporate profile, which includes descriptive text data, as well as news and financial statements, is accessible via Mergent’s online and print products. As part of Mergent’s listing services, Pure Energy’s descriptions will be highlighted separately on the Mergent website with an active hyperlink back to Pure Energy’s website.

The Mergent Manuals are recognized securities manuals in 38 states in the United States for the purposes of the Blue Sky manual exemption allowing market trading in those states. First published in 1918, and formerly know as Moody’s Manuals and News Reports, the publications were re-branded as Mergent’s Manuals and News Reports when Mergent acquired Moody’s financial information services division in 1998.

Pure Energy’s listing will aid the U.S. brokerage community in making a market for Pure Energy’s common shares by facilitating the trading of Pure Energy’s common shares under permissible local regulations. However, it is recommended that brokers confirm with their compliance/legal department concerning Blue Sky laws in specific states and other regulatory laws that may affect them.

Pure Energy Services Ltd. intends to release its second quarter 2008 results on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 before the market opens.

Pure Energy is an oilfield services company that provides logging and perforating, production testing, multiline, drilling, drilling rental and pressure transient analysis services to customers in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pure Energy Services (USA), Inc., provides production testing, logging and perforating, and fracturing services to customers in the US Rocky Mountain region.