WellPoint Adds Fortune 500 Company to Client List for WellPoint Rig Scheduler

CALGARY, Alberta - Source: WellPoint Systems Inc. ("WellPoint") (TSX-V:WPS) today announced that a "top ten" oil company has agreed to become the next major client of the WellPoint Rig Scheduler product. While WellPoint has been enjoying considerable success with the product in Canada over the past few months, this client represents the first WellPoint Rig Scheduler customer in the United States.

"The addition of this particular client to our customer base for WellPoint Rig Scheduler lends considerable support to our positioning of this product as an international solution that can scale to satisfy the needs of even the largest companies within the oil & gas industry," says Tom Mawhinney, President of WellPoint Systems.

WellPoint Rig Scheduler is designed to optimize the scheduling process through the entire range of oil well and rig activity. Built on the Microsoft Dynamics AX(R) platform, WellPoint Rig Scheduler comes equipped with the integration and configuration capabilities that companies require to maximize the efficiency of their Upstream teams.

WellPoint Rig Scheduler is the first application in a series of modules that will make up WellPoint's much-anticipated Wellsite Vault portfolio. The next module of the series is expected to be released in the second quarter of 2006.