Joint Venture Development Operator Confirms Initial Timeline for Mutual Area of Interest

DENVER, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Grid Petroleum Corp. (OTCBB: GRPR) The Board of Directors are pleased to announce that Grid Petroleum has received from the Joint Venture Development Operator, Kidd Production Company of Texas, RRC Operator No. 458825 confirmation of the previously reported drilling timeline for Phase 1-A.

Subject to receiving the drilling permit from the Texas Rail Road Commission, which is under application, the initial drilling for Phase 1-A is expected to begin March 15, 2012.

The Joint Venture Agreement is for the development of a Mutual Area of Interest in the Northwest Premont Field in Jim Wells County, Texas. The Field covers 4,500 acres and is part of the Gulf Coast Trend in South Texas.

Phase 1-B of the Joint Venture Development Agreement the company recently announced will be a total of 5 wells, 2 of which will be drilled for production along the top of the reservoir, 1 well will be re-entered for production near the top of the structure; 2 wells for pressure maintenance, one water and one gas well.

These wells will be drilled to be produced only from a 2350' Miocene reservoir, which was very prolific to the south of the field. Earlier wells drilled in the 40's and 50's produced an average of 50,000 bbls of oil per well on only 10 acre spacing and had excellent rates of initial and average production. This same zone logged and cored oil in the Northwest Premont lease block, up-dip from the original wells.

The Miocene zone was produced as part of the Premont field to the south of the Northwest Premont and was developed northward up to the boundary of the east/west running County Road 425. Mapping of the Miocene zone from well logs drilled through the formation many years later indicated the formation continued northward and was getting thicker and higher on structure as it moved onto what is now the Northwest Premont lease block.  The estimated reserves of this structure is 750,000 bbls which we feel could be recovered with 7 to 10 wells with a good gas injection and pressure maintenance program.

As previously reported:

AP Yang, Petroleum Engineers of Houston, Texas, ran 45 days of open flow tests to draw down the pressure of each of the productive zones in the Guerra #2 well. The absolute open flow rate calculations indicated the lobe flow of the Laughlin pay zone, which is a Frio Sand formation found at the 3,300 to 3,420 ft depth. The lower lobe oil deposit tested at 15,541,000 cubic feet gas per day. The upper lobe flow tested at 5,063,000 cubic feet per day. The combined total of 20,604,000 cubic feet per day from 16 feet of net pay zone for this one well with multiple pay zones.

Preliminary Reserves Estimates for the Guerra #2 are 100,000 to 150,000 Barrels of oil and 1.5 Billion Cubic Feet to 2.5 Billion Cubic Feet of natural gas.

KREYENHAGEN TREND LEASES

The company anticipates the establishment of a development plan with its joint venture partners, and project operator, Solimar Energy of Australia. The plan's purpose is to identify and establish suitable drill sites for the Kreyenhagen Trend leases.

The development plan is expected to be completed within the near future as indicated by our joint venture partner, with no date specific as of yet.

Grid Petroleum Corp. is a development stage company focused on the acquisition and development of low cost high reward oil and gas prospects with infield drilling for proven potential reserves in the United States and Canada.

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