Irvine, Calif., June 29, 2009

New Western Energy Corp., an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, development, production, and exploration of oil, gas and minerals in North America, today announced that it has negotiated the rights to acquire a land lease for a property near Middlebury Township in Tioga County, Penn.

“The Wellsboro Lease is a world-class property with several potential revenue streams,” said Javan Khazali, President of New Western Energy Corp.

The lease includes approximately 23-acres located on a glacial aged kame terrace. According to a 1985 study, the property was inferred to contain roughly 900,000 cubic yards of borrow material. The terrace sands, gravels and finer sediments were deposited in response to blockage by glacial ice. The potential usable deposit conceivably may be significantly larger. However, detailed closely spaced drilling and testing would be required to determine the bottom configuration to prove reserves. The study also corroborated the field observation that the deposit is well-graded, without dominance of any size fraction.

This property is also believed to be part of the Marcellus Shale formation that has shown favorable characteristics for the discovery of a large reserve of natural gas. Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale natural gas producers operate approximately 50,000 wells to deliver more than 158 billion cubic feet of gas to the market.

Pennsylvania independents produce enough natural gas to satisfy approximately 25 percent of the state’s annual demand. Pennsylvania consumes more than 660billion cubic feet of natural gas every year, and has an estimated 2.8 trillion cubic feet of proved natural gas reserves in the ground awaiting development. Natural gas is produced in all 31 counties in Pennsylvania.

About New Western Energy Corporation

New Western Energy Corp. is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, development, production, and exploration of oil, gas and minerals primarily in North America.

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