SXE Strata X Energy Ltd

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STRATA-X ENERGY LTD - The directors and management of Strata-X Energy Ltd. (“Strata-X” or the “Company”) (TSX-V:SXE) (ASX:SXA) are pleased to announce that the Company’s Prospecting Licenses held in the Republic of Botswana, covering the Serowe CSG Project, have been re-issued until the end of 2025 opening the door to an active 2018 appraisal programme. The previous remaining term of the inherited prospecting licenses to the end of 2018 was insufficient and the Company sought and has been granted the reissuance primarily to protect shareholder investment.

With the goal to develop the 1.4 Tcf Prospective Resource(1) over 273,000 acres, the Company is moving forward with a Botswana environmental firm to seek the necessary environment approvals required before the appraisal programme can begin.  The environmental approvals are expected in the third quarter of 2018.

The proposed appraisal programme is designed to prove commercial completion methods and convert resources to reserves.  To achieve this, the Company plans to apply the latest completion and production methods to yield commercial gas flow rates from the 100% SXA owned 1.4 TCF CSG Prospective Resource deposit. Once that is achieved, the Company can rapidly convert resources into reserves.

Concurrently, SXA will be seeking conditional gas sales agreements with the various potential generation and industrial gas customers that are currently using more expensive fuels like diesel.

Ron Prefontaine, Chairman of the Board, stated: “Our team has been working with the Botswana government to develop a framework, including the extended tenure which allows for the planned successful development of the Company’s Serowe CSG Project. The new license terms combined with the acquisition of a 100% working interest offers long tenure and full control of the project.  Importantly, the Company is free from a restrictive farm-in arrangement while ensuring that its investment is protected with a much longer tenure. I am very pleased with our progress and believe this project will be a major growth driver for the Company over the next 12 months and beyond.”

Tenement Renewals Terms

The new prospecting licenses known as PL018-2018 and 019-2018 carry a primary term of 3 years with two, 2-year extensions. The Company’s reissued tenements are new issuances to replace coal seam gas prospecting licenses 352-353/2008 once held by Rhino CBM Pty LTD (“Rhino”). Strata-X Australia PTY LTD, owner of the Republic of Botswana subsidiary Rhino, created a new wholly owned Republic of Botswana subsidiary called Sharpay Enterprises Pty Ltd (“Sharpay”) to hold the new Prospecting Licenses.

About Strata-XStrata-X is a Denver, Colorado (USA) based company and is engaged in the business of oil and gas exploration and development with a variety of exploration opportunities in the States of California and Illinois in the United States of America and the Republic of Botswana. Strata-X has 89,825,208 common shares outstanding and trades under the symbol "SXE" on the TSX-V and "SXA" on the ASX.

For further information please contact:

Tim Hoops (USA)President+1 855-463-2400info@strata-x.com

(1) Prospective Resources figures are from an audit report prepared by MHA Petroleum Consultant dated 26 October 2016 following their audit of the available technical data including the geological interpretation, information from relevant nearby wells, analogous reservoirs and the proposed program for the Project, prepared and presented to MHA by Strata-X. There is no certainty that stated resources will be commercially viable to produce any portion of the resources. A high level of uncertainty exists with the Prospective resources given the lack of historical drilling, available data and other productivity factors that limit the economic viability of coal seam gas deposits. The Report reviewed only Prospective Resources as the project is not sufficiently developed to assign Contingent Resources or additional Petroleum Reserves to it. Stated Prospective Resource figures are Best Estimate – undiscovered natural gas quantities and net of a 6% royalty and are shown at a 100% working interest in the Project that Strata-X will only earn upon completing the farm-in program. The total costs associated with establishing the commerciality of this project are unknown at this time given the early stage of the Project’s development. For additional information see Strata-X November 2016 Presentation

This announcement was made in Canada for the TSX.V and in Australia for the ASX.

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