Petroforte Provides an Operational Update

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Dec. 30, 2013) -

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Petroforte International Ltd. ("Petroforte" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:PFI) reports that it has sold its non-producing Lloydminster heavy oil properties to a private Saskatchewan-based company. The sale closed on December 17, 2013 for net proceeds of $561,000.

Allan King, President and CEO, commented, "The selling of the non-core non-producing Lloydminster properties allows us to concentrate on the development of the Flood assets early in the new year which will add to the excellent results we have experienced at our Brazeau River properties."

At Flood, Petroforte will commence development of the Montney oil property in Q1, 2014.
A water disposal well will be drilled in January 2014 and an application for water injection will be submitted to the Alberta Energy Regulator. The drilling of a total of four new oilwells and the reactivation of three existing shut-in oilwells is planned through Q2, 2014.

At Brazeau River, the 9-5 well was recompleted in the Cardium Formation in October coming on production at 220 barrels of oil and condensate per day and continues to free flow 100 barrels of light oil and condensate per day plus 800 mcf/d of sales gas. In November, Petroforte installed a gas compressor to improve operational efficiency and remove third party compression fees. At 2-5 Petroforte confirmed the presence of oil in two separate Belly River zones that do not have offsetting production. In total, the Company sees four separate Belly River intervals that are prospective for horizontal well, multi-stage frac development on its lands. In Q1, the 2-5 well will be recompleted in the Cardium Formation to offset the successful 9-5 well. At the December 18, 2013 Alberta land sale, Petroforte successfully acquired an additional quarter section of land to its Brazeau River inventory. The company is actively pursuing further lands in the area.

In total, Petroforte is now producing 430 BOE/D, 40% of which is light oil and condensate.

At Wapiti in west-central Alberta, the farm-in earning development well at 8-21-67-8W6 is expected to spud the second week of January 2014. The target is the Cardium Formation and the horizontal development well is planned to have a 1400m reach.

The first tranche of the Corporation's recently announced Private Placement closed on December 23^rd. Pursuant to the offering a total of 17,875,000 equity units at a price of $0.20 per unit were issued. Each unit consists of one common share and one-half (1/2) of one common share purchase warrant. Each full Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one common share of the Corporation at $0.40 per share until March 31, 2016. Gross proceeds of $3.575MM were received. The Offering is expected to close on or before January 23, 2014, or such other earlier or later date as the Corporation determines and the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") allows.

As approved by the shareholders at the AGM on December 17^th, on January 30, 2014 or such earlier or later date as the Company determines and the Exchange allows the:

1. Company's issued and outstanding Shares will be consolidated on the basis of one (1) new common share of the Company for every six (6) existing Shares and;
2. name of the Company will be changed from "Petroforte International Ltd." to "Canamax Energy Ltd."

About Petroforte

Petroforte is a junior oil and gas company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta engaged in the exploration, development and production of hydrocarbons within Alberta.

Forward Looking Statements

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