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BlackPearl Announces 2012 Year-End Reserves and Resource Estimates and Provides Operations Update

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Notes:

1.  BOE's may be misleading, particularly if used in isolation. In    accordance with NI 51-101, a BOE conversion ratio of 6 Mcf: 1 barrel is    based on an energy equivalency conversion method primarily applicable at    the burner tip and does not represent a value equivalency at the    wellhead.


Net Present Value of Reserves

                              Net Present Values of Before Tax Future Net                                               Revenue                                             Discounted at--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                  0%         5%        8%        10%     12%----------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                ($000)Proved  Developed producing        175,025    163,722   157,760    154,078 150,608  Developed non-producing     62,287     51,291    45,936     42,783  39,920  Undeveloped                 86,247     65,459    55,459     49,616  44,341----------------------------------------------------------------------------Total proved                 323,558    280,472   259,155    246,478 234,868Probable                   4,247,695  1,885,997 1,211,397    911,737 688,921----------------------------------------------------------------------------Total proved plus probable 4,571,253  2,166,469 1,470,552  1,158,214 923,789----------------------------------------------------------------------------Notes:Columns may not add due to rounding


Reconciliation of Changes in Reserves

The following table summarizes the changes in the Company's share of oil and natural gas reserves (before royalties) from December 31, 2011 to December 31, 2012.

                            Oil & NGLs             Natural gas           BOE----------------------------------------------------------------------------                      Proved Probable   Total Proved Probable  Total   Total----------------------------------------------------------------------------                     (Mbbls)  (Mbbls) (Mbbls) (MMcf)   (MMcf) (MMcf)  (Mboe)Balance, Dec 31, 2011 15,163   20,313  35,476    695    1,311  2,007  35,811  Production          -3,422        0  -3,422   -137        0   -137  -3,445  Extensions           3,111  180,068 183,179     10      -79    -69 183,167  Discoveries              0        0       0      0        0      0       0  Technical revisions -1,443   -1,549  -2,992   -149     -571   -720  -3,112  Improved recovery    2,277   -1,650     627     14     -603   -589     529  Acquisitions           199      228     427      0        0      0     427  Dispositions             0        0       0      0        0      0       0  Economic factors       -40       29     -11   -200      -56   -255     -54----------------------------------------------------------------------------Balance, Dec 31, 2012 15,846  197,438 213,284    234        2    236 213,324----------------------------------------------------------------------------


The pricing assumptions used in the Sproule evaluation are summarized below.

Pricing Assumptions

                                   Western             WTI Edmonton Par     Canadian         Cushing        Price       Select      Alberta      40 degrees   40 degrees 20.5 degrees       AECO-C Inflation   ExchangeYear         API          API          API         Spot      rate       rate--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------       (US$/bbl)   (CDN$/bbl)   (CDN$/bbl) (CDN$/MMBtu)    (%/yr) (US$/Cdn$)----------------------------------------------------------------------------2013       89.63        84.55        69.33         3.31       1.5      1.0012014       89.93        89.84        74.57         3.72       1.5      1.0012015       88.29        88.21        73.21         3.91       1.5      1.0012016       95.52        95.43        80.17         4.70       1.5      1.0012017       96.96        96.87        81.37         5.32       1.5      1.0012018       98.41        98.32        82.59         5.40       1.5      1.0012019       99.89        99.79        83.83         5.49       1.5      1.0012020      101.38       101.29        85.08         5.58       1.5      1.0012021      102.91       102.81        86.36         5.67       1.5      1.0012022      104.45       104.35        87.66         5.76       1.5      1.0012023      106.02       105.92        88.97         5.85       1.5      1.001                     Escalation rate of 1.5% thereafter

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