New Standard Energy Limited : Results of Meeting

ASX Announcement (ASX: NSE)

Date: 20 January 2014

NEW STANDARD ENERGY SHAREHOLDERS STRONGLY ENDORSE TRANSACTION AT GENERAL MEETING

New Standard Energy Ltd (New Standard) has received overwhelming support from shareholders at the company's Extraordinary General Meeting to progress a transaction that will transform the company into a diverse oil and gas explorer, developer and producer.
In excess of 95 per cent of shareholder votes were cast in favour of the transaction to purchase producing and prospective acreage in both the Eagle Ford shale in onshore Texas and in the Cooper Basin in South Australia, to add to the Company's frontier Western Australian assets.
New Standard Energy Chairman Arthur Dixon said he was pleased with the level of shareholder support at
today's meeting to endorse the change to the company's forward strategy and growth plan.
"It's not every day that we can present our shareholders with an opportunity such as this. Making the jump from an explorer to a producer and developer is a big one and I am pleased with the support for the Company's strategy," said Mr Dixon.
Drilling will commence in the Eagle Ford shale at the Company's Atascosa Project, Texas, USA, almost immediately, with two wells to be drilled on the same pad over the next two months. These wells are expected to be in production by May 2014. New Standard's new strategic alliance partner and shareholder, Magnum Hunter Resources, will act as operator of the acreage as part of the strategic alliance, using its existing technical skillset and local knowledge base to advance the production project. New Standard will also book the production and revenue from the Project's first five wells backdated to an effective date of 1 December 2013.
New Standard Energy Managing Director Phil Thick said the wells would generate immediate cashflow for the
Company.
"The Eagle Ford drilling campaign represents the first step in a changing landscape for New Standard. Not only will it be the first time we work alongside the team at Magnum Hunter but it also represents our shift from solely an explorer to also being a producer and developer," said Mr Thick.
A reserves study by completed by Cawley, Gillespie and Associates (CG&A) delineated 12.3 million barrels oil equivalent (BOE) of 3P reserves as at 1 December 2013 from the 5,182 net acres in Atascosa Project.
"This is a significant opportunity and the Company is focused on developing the Atascosa Project; working with Ambassador Oil and Gas to progress our Cooper Basin Project to take advantage of the domestic and export market opportunity in the Eastern States of Australia; and opening up the onshore Canning and Carnarvon Basins in Western Australia," Mr Thick said.
1
"I look forward to keeping New Standard shareholders regularly informed about the progress we are making in each of these areas."
The directors of New Standard advise that in accordance with ASX Listing Rule 3.13.2 and section 251AA of the Corporations Act, details of the resolutions and proxies received for the annual general meeting held today are set out in the proxy summary below. Where discretionary votes were directed to the Chairman, and were able to be validly cast for a particular resolution, these proxies were directed 'for'. The table below reflects this
allocation of discretionary votes.

	For	Against	Open (directed by Chairman in favour of resolution)	Abstain
Resolution 1	Acquisition of petroleum leases in Texas from Magnum Hunter Entities	103,687,044	5,685,471	13,357,619	306,000
Resolution 2	Acquisition of rights to Cooper Basin acreage	103,687,277	5,563,238	13,357,619	300,000
Resolution 3	Issue of consideration of shares (US Assets Purchase and Sale Agreement)	103,667,887	5,687,471	13,357,619	323,157
Resolution 4	Issue of consideration shares for the acquisition of Outback Energy Hunter	103,687,887	5,667,471	13,357,619	323,157
Resolution 5	Issue of deferred consideration shares for the acquisition of Pathfinder Onshore Energy	103,609,205	5,667,471	13,430,301	329,157
Resolution 6	Issue of Performance Rights to Sam Willis	94,460,058	4,765,486	13,363,619	10,446,971

Resolutions one through six were carried on a show of hands.

- ENDS -

For further information, please contact:

Phil Thick
Managing Director
Ph: + 61 8 9481 7477
Email: [e-mail]
Cameron Morse
FTI Consulting
Ph: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
2

About New Standard: New Standard Energy is an emerging hydrocarbon explorer, producer and developer with a mandate to explore for oil and gas. Its exploration and drilling program is active, well funded and extensive. The company's exploration program is underpinned and complemented by targeted corporate activity to take advantage of opportunities and to build an extensive pipeline of exploration projects. New Standard's Board has extensive technical and commercial experience in the oil and gas sector.

New Standard's Southern Canning Project has attracted world class partners in ConocoPhillips and PetroChina a nd the company has strong cash resources to explore and progress its broad project portfolio. The Company is primarily focused on aggressive ly progressing its oil and gas exploration portfolio focused on the onshore Canning and Carnarvon Basins in Western Australia and the Cooper Basin in South Australia while growing its production base in the Eagle Ford shale in the United States. The portf olio includes: