March 2, 2015 15:28 ET

PetroShare Corp. Announces Acquisition of Acreage in the Wattenberg Field

CENTENNIAL, COLORADO -- (March 02, 2015) — PetroShare Corp. announced today that under its strategic land and leasing services agreement with Kingdom Resources, LLC, it has accepted an assignment of approximately 309 net acres covering all depths in parts of Township 1 South, Range 67 West, Adams County, Colorado. The acreage is located in the southern end of the Greater Wattenberg oil and gas field. This area is actively undergoing horizontal development for the Niobrara and Codell formations by numerous operators. As of the date of this press release, the Company would have the ability to participate in an approximate 28.75% working interest behind an active DJ Basin operator in a series of Niobrara/Codell horizontal wells which are currently pending approval by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission. The Company expects that this assignment will represent the first of additional acreage assignments to be generated under the Company's services agreement with Kingdom Resources. The services agreement covers an area encompassing approximately 36 square miles in Adams County, Colorado.

Closing of the acquisition is subject to certain contingencies, including receipt of additional capital by the company.

Stephen J. Foley, CEO of PetroShare, remarked, "We are extremely pleased to see our agreement with Kingdom Resources bear fruit in an area that we believe represents one of the most attractive areas of Niobrara / Codell development in all of the DJ Basin. We believe that the Wattenberg Field provides one of the lowest unconventional resource development costs in the U.S.  Consequently, this area provides the potential of compelling oil and gas development economics even at current lower commodity prices."

OPERATIONS UPDATE

PetroShare, as operator, drilled and preliminarily completed two (2) Niobrara oil and gas wells in the Buck Peak Field located within the Sand Wash Basin of northwestern Colorado. The wells are awaiting fracture stimulation of the upper Niobrara zones on or about May 1^st of this year.

ABOUT PETROSHARE CORP.

PetroShare Corp. is a domestic oil and natural gas exploration and development company based in Centennial, Colorado. PetroShare targets capital deployment opportunities in established unconventional resource plays. Its current focus is in the Niobrara / Codell formations and adjacent oil and gas producing zones in the Rocky Mountain region with specific targets in the Wattenberg field within the DJ Basin of northeast Colorado.

 

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