Westcore Announces Appointment of New Director and Chief Operating Officer, New Corporate Secretary, Option Grant

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - July 12, 2011) - WESTCORE ENERGY LTD. (TSX VENTURE:WTR) (the "Corporation" or "Westcore") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Shane W. Shircliff of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as a Director and as Chief Operating Officer of Westcore, effective July 15, 2011.

Mr. Shircliff is the founder of Clinworth Management Corp. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Clinworth Management services the junior resource industry with focus on management and corporate development. Mr. Shircliff is currently a director of Kenna Capital Corporation (MMG.P: TSX.V). Mr. Shircliff was most recently employed with Cameco Corporation as Director of Corporate Development and Power Generation, where he was responsible for growing the company's uranium business through merger and acquisition activities and led project teams on deals valued at over $1.0 billion. Since 1998, Mr. Shircliff has held increasingly senior roles within Cameco's marketing and corporate development groups. Before joining Cameco, Mr. Shircliff was a commercial account manager with the Hong Kong Bank of Canada. Mr. Shircliff has a Bachelor of Commerce degree with majors in Finance and Economics as well as an MBA from the University of Saskatchewan.

Paul Conroy, President and CEO of Westcore, stated "We are most fortunate to have someone with Shane's proven background and expertise join our Company. Shane's appointment ensures that the Company continues to have a strong management team focused on our long term goals and objectives and we are excited about moving forward with Shane as an integral part of the Westcore team".

Westcore is also pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Paul Bolger as the Corporate Secretary of the Corporation. Paul Bolger is a partner with Tingle Merrett LLP, a Calgary-based corporate and securities law boutique firm, with a practice focused on corporate securities, corporate finance and commercial transactions involving emerging, growth and mid-capitalization companies. Mr. Bolger has extensive experience acting for public and private companies in a range of matters including equity and debt financings, public and private corporate acquisitions and business combinations, continuous disclosure obligations, share and asset acquisitions and dispositions, corporate restructurings, amalgamations, reorganizations and other business transactions.

Westcore also announces the grant of an aggregate of 1,200,000 options to acquire common shares in the capital of Westcore at a price of $0.55. Such options (and the common shares issuable upon exercise) are exercisable for a period of 5 years from the date of grant and will be subject to applicable securities law hold periods.

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