SES, Hai Hua Joint Venture Completes Financing for Gasification Plant in China


HOUSTON, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 27, 2007 -- Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. ("SES" or the "Company") (OTC: SYMX) announced that SES (Zaozhuang) New Gas Company, Ltd., its 95%-owned joint venture (the "Joint Venture") with Shandong Hai Hua Coal & Chemical Company Ltd. ("Hai Hua"), completed the funding of a loan for its first coal gasification facility currently under construction in Shandong Province, China (the "Project"). The loan of China Yuan Renminbi (RMB) 92 million (US$12 million) is being provided by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ("ICBC") and represents approximately one half of the Project's projected construction costs.

"This represents the first successful bank financing of a U-GAS® gasification facility in China, and evidences the strength of this project and its partners," explained Donald Bunnell, President and CEO of SES - Asia Pacific. "We are extremely pleased to have achieved this financial closing with ICBC which further validates the U-GAS® technology as a reliable and efficient alternative source of energy and chemical products to manufacturers worldwide."

"It's an important step forward for SES as it brings us closer to our strategic vision. We are pursuing similar investment opportunities in China, as well as in the United States, and plan to replicate our U-GAS® designed facility to meet our business partner's needs for clean and sustainable energy and chemical products," concluded Bunnell.

The Joint Venture was formed in August 2006 to construct, own and operate this Project, which will use SES' licensed U-GAS® technology to convert low cost waste coal to synthesis gas ("syngas"). Hai Hua will use the product syngas produced from the coal gasification facility as a feedstock for its newly constructed methanol plant, and as fuel in its coke ovens and for its internal power generation facility.

Construction is currently about 60 percent complete with start-up anticipated in the third quarter of this year. Upon successful start-up, the Company expects to begin commercial operations, which should be less than one year from the Project's initial ground breaking in December 2006. Future expansion plans would increase capacity up to 100,000 Ncum per hour and would accommodate Hai Hua's planned increase in methanol production and meet the gas demands of other Xuecheng industrial park tenants.

About Synthesis Energy Systems

Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. is an energy and technology company that deploys proprietary systems and technology to gasify low value fuels to replace high cost energy and chemical products sold to major global markets. The U-GAS® technology, which the Company licenses from the Gas Technology Institute, is designed to turn waste coal products into high value synthesis gas for use in power and chemical applications. The technology performs this gasification without many of the harmful emissions normally associated with coal fired energy production. SES currently has offices in Houston, Texas, Shanghai and Beijing, China. For more information on SES, visit www.synthesisenergy.com or call (713) 579-0600.

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Contact Information: Contact: Synthesis Energy Systems, Houston, Texas Suzanne M. McLeod Manager, Investor Relations (713) 579-0602 suzanne.mcleod@synthesisenergy.com