CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - June 1, 2012) - Bayshore Petroleum Corp. ("Bayshore" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:BSH) is pleased to announce today it has commenced drilling of an exploratory well, Bayshore Radville 8-5-6-17W2, in Radville, Saskatchewan. The 1,935 meter exploratory well is expected to encounter Midale, Forbisher, Bakken, Torquay and Birdbear formations. Prospective zones will be tested for hydrocarbon potential. It is anticipated it will take 10 days to reach the target depth and another 3 days for formation tests. A second well in section 4 has been licensed and, depending on the results of the first well, will be drilled after the completion of the first well. Bayshore currently owns 100 percent of sections 4 & 5 in the area.
Bayshore is also pleased to announce it has entered into a Memorandum of Understand with CCC CanSino Corp. ("CanSino"), a Canadian private research & development company in Calgary, for a 10 year license agreement to utilize CanSino's proprietary catalyst in the oilsand upgrading application. The proprietary catalyst and the upgrading technology, which is patent pending and laboratory tested using Athabasca oil sands, is capable of upgrading bitumen oilsands directly into diesel quality light oil and high heating value synthetic gas. The process is conducted at normal pressure in a low temperature environment and leaves only clean residue sand, in addition to the light oil and synthetic gas, after the upgrading process. The scalability to commercial application and a pilot oil sand processing test in Alberta are being investigated by CanSino and Bayshore.
Bayshore is a Calgary, Alberta based corporation engaged in the exploration, development and production of petroleum and natural gas. The Common Shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the trading symbol "BSH".
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Peter Ho
President and Chief Executive Officer
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