Park Place Energy Corp Appoints New Directors, Private Placement and Provides Update on Exploration and Development Projects

VANCOUVER, Oct. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -

Directorship appointments

Parvez Tyab, -  Parvez Tyab has over 20 years' experience as a financier and corporate executive, having served as an officer and director of a number of public and private companies. Mr. Tyab has been involved in the acquisition and development of oil and gas properties and natural resource projects in Canada, the US as well as internationally with an emphasis on Africa. In 2006 he co-founded and served as Executive Vice President of a company developing oil and gas in Egypt. More recently Mr. Tyab was involved in the acquisition of, and initial $165 Million private placement financing for, an oil and gas project in the Republic of Chad. Mr. Tyab currently serves as director of a significant potash project in the Republic of Congo. In 2009, Mr. Tyab co-founded Griffiths Energy International Inc. and served as that company's corporate secretary and director until July 2011.

Dr. Art Halleran - Dr. Halleran is a geologist obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary, who has 31 years of international petroleum exploration experience. International experience includes countries such as Canada, Colombia, Egypt, India, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Pakistan, Peru, Tunisia, Trinidad Tobago, Argentina, Ecuador and Guyana. Dr. Halleran's experience includes work with Petro-Canada, Chevron, Rally Energy and Canacol Energy. Dr. Halleran founded Canacol Energy Ltd., a company with petroleum and natural gas exploration and development activities in Colombia, Brazil and Guyana, where he served as vice president of exploration, which was credited with the largest oil discovery in Colombia over the last fifteen years. Previously Dr. Halleran was a consulting geologist for Rally Energy Corp. (Egypt) which discovered prolific reservoirs in Egypt.  Dr. Halleran currently serves as chief executive officer of United Hunter Oil and Gas Corp., a company with oil interests in California, USA.

Dr. Halleran and Parvez Tyab's appointments to the Company's board of directors add experience and know-how in large scale international oil and gas projects and will be valuable in furthering the Company's gas exploration activities of the Vranino 1-11 claim in Bulgaria.

Private Placement

Effective September 30, 2011, the Company issued an aggregate of 9,975,000 shares of our common stock pursuant to private placement subscription agreements for aggregate proceeds of $748,125.00. We further issued 3,288,600 shares of our common stock pursuant to the conversion of a promissory note in the amount of USD$157,500. The Company has reserved $500,000 of the proceeds of the private placement to be used in the exploration of the Vranino 1-11 claim which includes paying for the first year work program commitment of USD $350,000.

Bulgarian Dobroudja basin gas exploration project update

Park Place was awarded the concession by the Bulgaria Counsel of Ministers in October 2010. Subsequently, a competitive bidder filed an appeal against the decision. The commencement of the work program is contingent upon the successful resolution of the appeal before the Bulgarian court. Park Place has retained local legal counsel to assist in achieving a resolution to the dispute issue.

Management believes there is a tremendous natural gas resource potential in the sandstone, coal beds and shale formations in the Vranino Block. Bulgaria has substantial undeveloped unconventional gas resources and is presently a net importer of natural gas at prices approximately 300% higher than in North America.

About Park Place

Since 2006, Park Place has undertaken oil and gas exploration activities in North America in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Canada Tennessee, USA. Internationally Park Place's claims have included the North Sea, (Norway) and most recently in Bulgaria.

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Disclaimer: Certain information regarding the Corporation contained herein may constitute forward-looking statements. These statements may include estimates, plans, expectations, opinions, forecasts, projections, guidance or other statements that are not statements of fact. Although Park Place believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. These statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and may be based on assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or implied. The Corporation is under no obligation to update or alter any forward looking statement. These risks include operational and geological risks, the ability of the Corporation to raise necessary funds for exploration and the fact that the Corporation does not operate all its properties. Park Place's forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

SOURCE Park Place Energy Corp.