Sundance Energy Corporation Announces Completion of Business Combination with Ceno Energy Limited

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - June 19, 2014) -

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Sundance Energy Corporation ("Sundance") (TSX VENTURE:SNY)(OTCQX:SNYXF) is pleased to announce that further to its press release dated May 16, 2014, it has successfully completed an amalgamation (the "Amalgamation") with Ceno Energy Limited ("Ceno") to form a new company, Ceno Energy Ltd. ("New Ceno" or, the "Corporation"), pursuant to the Business Corporations Act (Alberta). The Amalgamation was approved by the shareholders of Sundance and Ceno at the respective meetings of Sundance shareholders and Ceno shareholders held on June 13, 2014. The Amalgamation constitutes a Reverse Take-Over (as such term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV")) of Sundance. In connection with the Amalgamation, New Ceno also completed a financing for gross proceeds of $10,000,000 (the "Financing") via the issuance of 21,717,758 common shares of New Ceno at a price of $0.46 per share.

As a result of the Amalgamation and the Financing, New Ceno has 50,000,000 common shares issued and outstanding and pursuant to the terms of an escrow agreement among New Ceno, Olympia Trust Company, and certain escrowed security holders, an aggregate of 25,869,214 of these shares have been placed in escrow, whereby 25% will be released on issuance of the Final Exchange Bulletin, and the balance of such shares will be released in tranches over the next 18 months.

In connection with the completion of the Amalgamation, the common shares of Sundance will be delisted from the TSXV and the common shares of the new company, Ceno Energy Ltd., will be listed on the TSXV under the new trading symbol "CUX". Trading in the common shares of New Ceno will commence upon the filing of final materials and the satisfaction of certain conditions with the TSXV.

As a result of the Amalgamation, Douglas Carter and Nhan Le have ceased to be directors of Sundance, and the board of directors of New Ceno now consists of Jeffrey Standen, Zhouliang (Nick) Zhang, Feng Jin, Fang Chen and Hai Zhou. The new management team is comprised of Jeffrey Standen as President and Corporate Secretary, Zhouliang (Nick) Zhang as Chief Executive Officer and Robert Gillies as Chief Financial Officer. An aggregate of 4,650,000 stock options to purchase New Ceno common shares exercisable at $0.25 for a period of 10 years have been issued to the directors and officers of New Ceno in connection with the Amalgamation.

As a condition to the completion of the Amalgamation, the Corporation has also assigned its interests in leases and permits pertaining to its interest in the Alexander property to a company controlled indirectly, by Jeffrey Standen and Douglas Carter (the "Alexander Transfer"). The Alexander Transfer was approved at the meeting of Sundance shareholders by a simple majority of disinterested Sundance shareholders.

New Ceno will be a Calgary-based oil and gas company incorporated with assets in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, principally in the Baxter Lake, Kidney, Sturgeon Lake, and Panny areas of Alberta, and in the Gull Lake and Standard Hill areas of Saskatchewan. Additional information regarding New Ceno is disclosed in the joint management information circular of Sundance and Ceno filed on www.sedar.com on May 20, 2014.

The TSXV has in no way passed upon the merits of the proposed Amalgamation and has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.

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