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Storm Cat Energy Corporation Provides Corporate Update
DENVER andCALGARY, Alberta, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Storm Cat
Energy Corporation (Amex: SCU; TSX: SME) today provided a corporate update on
the Company's acreage inWyoming'sPowder River Basin (PRB) and its operations
inArkansas' Fayetteville Shale play.
Powder River Basin
Storm Cat has successfully closed the purchase of 14,091 net undeveloped
acres inSheridan County, Wyoming. The acquisition is located in proximity to
our current operations. The transaction closed on April 15, 2008. As stated
in our earlier press release, the acquisition increases our PRB acreage
position to approximately 50,000 net acres. The acquisition adds an
additional two years of drilling inventory in the PRB, increasing our total
drilling inventory to four years based on current development plans.
Furthermore, our internal engineers estimate that the acquisition adds an
estimated 50 Billion cubic feet (Bcf) of resource potential to our
approximately 60 Bcf of existing proved, probable and possible (3P) reserves
in the PRB.
Fayetteville Shale
The high pressure pipeline connecting ourFayetteville acreage to the
Ozark interstate pipeline is in service and fully operational. We achieved
first sales from two of our three 2007Fayetteville wells on April 12, 2008.
The Kamalmaz 1-13H is currently producing approximately 1.6 million cubic feet
per day (MMcf/d) and the Vaughn 1-18H, still undergoing well cleanup, is
producing between 0.4 - 0.7 MMcf/d. Tie-in of the third well, the Files 1-12H,
is expected shortly.
About Storm Cat Energy
Storm Cat Energy is an independent oil and gas company focused on the
exploration, production and development of large unconventional gas reserves
from fractured shales, coal beds and tight sand formations and, secondarily,
from conventional formations. The Company has producing properties in
Wyoming'sPowder River Basin andArkansas' Arkoma Basin and exploration and
development acreage inCanada. The Company's shares trade on the American
Stock Exchange under the symbol "SCU" and inCanada on the Toronto Stock
Exchange under the symbol "SME."
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains certain "forward-looking statements", as
defined inthe United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
and within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation, relating to
additional reserves upon completion of the acquisition of the PRB acreage, the
completion of the proposed acquisition, proposed drilling activity and
infrastructure improvements affecting the Company's operations.
Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts; they
are generally, but not always, identified by the words "expects," "plans,"
"anticipates," "believes," "intends," "estimates," "projects," "aims,"
"potential," "goal," "objective," "prospective," and similar expressions, or
that events or conditions "will," "would," "may," "can," "could" or "should"
occur. Forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs, estimates and
opinions of Storm Cat's management on the date the statements are made and
they involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Consequently, there can be
no assurances that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual
results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in
such statements. Storm Cat undertakes no obligation to update these
forward-looking statements if management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or
other factors, should change. Factors that could cause future results to
differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements
include, but are not limited to, the volatility of natural gas prices, the
possibility that exploration efforts will not yield economically recoverable
quantities of gas, accidents and other risks associated with gas exploration
and development operations, the risk that the Company will encounter
unanticipated geological factors, the Company's need for and ability to obtain
additional financing, the possibility that the Company may not be able to
secure permitting and other governmental clearances necessary to carry out the
Company's exploration and development plans, and the other risk factors
discussed in greater detail in the Company's various filings on SEDAR
(http://www.sedar.com) with Canadian securities regulators and its filings
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Form
10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007.
The SEC has generally permitted oil and gas companies, in filings made
with the SEC, to disclose only proved reserves that a company has demonstrated
by actual production or conclusive formation tests to be economically and
legally producible under existing economic and operating conditions. We use
the terms "probable" and "possible" to describe volumes of unproved reserves
potentially recoverable through additional drilling or recovery techniques
that the SEC's guidelines may prohibit us from including in filings with the
SEC. These estimates are by their nature more speculative than estimates of
proved reserves and accordingly are subject to substantially greater risk of
being actually realized by the company. While we believe our calculations of
unproved drill sites and estimation of unproved reserves have been
appropriately risked and are reasonable, such calculations and estimates have
not been reviewed by third party engineers or appraisers.
SOURCE Storm Cat Energy Corporation
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