Forest Gate Energy Mobilizes Rig to Drill for Oil and Gas in Utah

    SHARES OUTSTANDING:  25 MILLION
    SYMBOL & EXCHANGE:   FGE-V

MONTREAL, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Forest Gate Energy Inc. reports that it has mobilized a rig to drill for oil and gas on its Crescent Junction property in Grand County, Utah, and is expected to spud on or before January 31st, 2010.

Forest Gate is drilling a 3,600-foot well, targeting the Wingate formation, which is an eolian (sand dune) sandstone of Jurassic age with a potential thickness of 800 ft. The Wingate formation target has been defined by 3D seismic.

Drilling results on this well, located in Section 3, T22S-R19E, located approximately 29.8 miles East of Green River, Utah, are expected by the end of February, 2010. The operator is Tidewater Oil & Gas Company, LLC, Denver, Colorado.

The target has three-way closure with truncation against a salt wall and is up-dip of a recently completed well with oil reported in the Wingate formation. Cost of a completed producer is US$733,288 while the dry hole cost is at a turnkey price of $400,000 and will earn Forest Gate 37.5% interest in 2,160 gross acres. The program is financed with proceeds from the company's recent financing.

"We are extremely pleased to be working with Tidewater to drill Forest Gate's first target on our recently acquired property," said Don Vandergrift, Forest Gate's President and Chief Operating Officer. "Success on this well will open a vast opportunity to explore and develop Forest Gate's substantial property in Utah."

In a previous news release, dated January 19, 2010, Forest Gate had announced that it had enhanced its originally acquired 5000 gross acres with an additional 116,000 gross acres, bringing its total land holding in the area to 121,000 gross acres and 31,335 net acres in Utah.

About Forest Gate Energy

Forest Gate Energy Inc. is a publicly listed oil & gas exploration and production company trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol FGE with 25 million shares outstanding. The Company is seeking to increase shareholder value through participation and development of oil & gas exploration and production projects in Canada and internationally.

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Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Service Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or the accuracy of this release. This transaction is subject to TSX Venture Exchange Approval.

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