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2007 Press Releases

December 14, 2007
MegaWest Energy Announces Combined Independent and Management High Estimate of 2 Billion Barrels of Gross Original Resources (OOIP)
MegaWest Energy Corp today announced that GLJ Petroleum Consultants (“GLJ”), has completed an independent engineering report of the reserves and resources associated with certain of its key projects....

November 14, 2007
MegaWest to Present at the Houston Energy Financial Forum
MegaWest Energy Corp. announces that MegaWest Energy’s  presentation at the Houston Energy Financial Forum, presented by the Oil and Gas Financial Journal, in Houston, Texas on Thursday, November 15, 2007 has been rescheduled to 3:05 PM....

November 13, 2007
MegaWest Commences Construction of Deerfield, Missouri Enhanced Oil Recovery Project
MegaWest Energy Corp. is pleased to announce the start of facilities construction and the drilling of development wells at its Deerfield Project. MegaWest is embarking on the first phase of commercial production...

November 8, 2007
MegaWest Announces Encouraging Initial Drilling Results from Its Deerfield and Kentucky Reserves Projects
MegaWest Energy Corp. is pleased to announce the completion of the initial exploratory drilling programs at its Kentucky Reserves Project (Kentucky) and its Deerfield Project (Missouri) by its wholly-owned subsidiary, MegaWest Energy USA Corp.

November 8, 2007
MegaWest to Present at the Houston Energy Financial Forum
presented by the Oil and Gas Financial Journal, in Houston, Texas on Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 3:55 PM. President and CEO, George Stapleton will be presenting a corporate overview to investors.

October 25, 2007
MegaWest Acquires Big Sky Heavy Oil Project in Montana

Calgary, Alberta; October 25, 2007 – MegaWest Energy Corp., (the “Company” or “MegaWest”), an independent oil and gas company (OTC BB: MGWSF) (Cusip: #585168 107), specializing in non-conventional oil and gas projects with a focus on North American heavy oil, is pleased to announce the acquisition of an interest in over 33,000 acres of land, in Montana, USA from a group of private companies (the “Vendor”) that will form the Company’s Big Sky Project. The Big Sky Project will become an additional core focus area for the Company...

August 15, 2007
MegaWest Announces Encouraging Initial Drilling Results From Its Kentucky Reserves Project

Calgary, Alberta; August 15, 2007 – MegaWest Energy Corp., (the “Company” or “MegaWest”), a Calgary based oil and gas company (OTC BB: MGWSF) (Cusip: #585168 107), specializing in non-conventional oil and gas projects with a focus on North American heavy oil, is pleased to announce the commencement of an eight well drilling program...

July 18, 2007
MegaWest Increases Land Holdings by an Additional 10,000 Acres

Calgary, Alberta; July 18, 2007 – MegaWest Energy Corp., (the “Company” or “MegaWest”), a Calgary based oil and gas company (OTC BB: MGWSF) (Cusip: #585168 107), specializing in non-conventional oil and gas projects with a focus on North American heavy oil, is pleased to announce the acquisition of an additional 10,000 acres of land...

June 14, 2007
MegaWest Announces Chetopa First Oil

MegaWest Energy Corp., (the “Company” or “MegaWest”), a Calgary based oil and gas company (OTC BB: MGWSF) (Cusip: #585168 107), specializing in non-conventional oil and gas projects with a focus on North American heavy oil, has commenced production from the Chetopa, Kansas non-conventional oil project...

May 2, 2007
MegaWest Energy completes 28,000 acre Texas-Trinity Sands acquisition

MegaWest Energy Corp., (the “Company” or “MegaWest”), a Calgary based oil and gas company (OTC BB: MGWSF) (Cusip: #585168 107), specializing in non-conventional oil and gas projects with initial focus on North American heavy oil, announces the acquisition of the Trinity Sands non-conventional oil and gas project where MegaWest will earn a 66.67% working interest in 28,300 acres...

April 16 , 2007
MegaWest Energy completes 27,000 acre Kentucky acquisition

MegaWest Energy Corp., (the "Company" or "MegaWest"), a publicly held Canadian oil and gas company (OTCBB: MGWSF) (Cusip: #585168 107) announces the closing of the Kentucky Reserves non conventional oil and gas acquisition by its wholly owned subsidiary MegaWest Energy USA Corp. ("MegaWest USA")...

April 12 , 2007
MegaWest Energy Hires VP Land and Controller

Calgary, Alberta; April 12, 2007 – MegaWest Energy Corp., (the “Company” or “MegaWest”), www.megawestenergy.com, a publicly held Canadian oil and gas company (OTC BB: MGWSF) (Cusip:#585168 107) specializing in non-conventional oil and gas projects focusing on North American heavy oil, announces two key appointments to its Calgary office...

April 12 , 2007
MegaWest Energy completes acquisition of more than 8,000 acres in Kansas and Missouri

Calgary, Alberta; April 12, 2007 – MegaWest Energy Corp., (the “Company” or “MegaWest”), a publicly held Canadian oil and gas company (OTC BB: MGWSF) (Cusip: #585168 107) is pleased to announce the closing of the Deerfield (Missouri) and Chetopa (Kansas) non-conventional oil and gas acquisitions by its wholly-owned subsidiary, MegaWest Energy USA Corp. (“MegaWest USA”)...

March 5, 2007
Progress Report

MEGAWEST ENERGY CORP. (OTC BB: old symbol: BKCOF/new symbol: MGWSF), March 5, 2007 Calgary, Alberta. The Company has changed its name to MegaWest Energy Corp. from Brockton Capital Corp. to reflect the Company’s extensive acquisition program of non-conventional oil and gas projects in Western North America...

March 1, 2007
Brockton Completes US$27 Million Private Placement

MEGAWEST ENERGY CORP. (formerly "Brockton Capital Corp.") (OTCBB: BKCOF) - The Company is pleased to announce that it has completed a private placement of US $27,350,000 at a price of US $1.00 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one-half share purchase warrant, with each whole warrant entitling...

Jan. 10, 2007
MegaWest Energy Hires Impressive Technical and Corporate Team

MEGAWEST ENERGY CORP. (formerly "Brockton Capital Corp.") (OTCBB: BKCOF) - Mr. Bill Thornton is pleased to announce the following appointments to the new Calgary office: Mr. Gerry Hampshire (B.Sc. Petroleum Engineering) has joined MegaWest Energy as VP Exploitation. Mr. Hampshire will be responsible for all engineering and geoscience...

Jan. 5, 2007
MegaWest Energy Closes US$4.2 Million Private Placement

MEGAWEST ENERGY CORP. (formerly "Brockton Capital Corp.") (OTCBB: BKCOF) - The Company is pleased to announce that it has completed a private placement of 8.4 million units at a price of $0.50 per unit. The unit consists of one common share and...

Jan. 3, 2007
MegaWest Energy Corp.: Signs Letter of Intent for a Kentucky Non-Conventional Oil Prospect

MEGAWEST ENERGY CORP. (formerly "Brockton Capital Corp.") (OTCBB: BKCOF) - The Company is pleased to announce that MegaWest Energy has executed a Letter of Intent to acquire a significant tar sands prospect in the state of Kentucky. This is in addition to the three...

Dec. 21, 2006
MegaWest Energy Changes Management and Signs Letters of Intent for Non-Conventional Oil and Gas Prospects

MEGAWEST ENERGY CORP. (formerly "Brockton Capital Corp.") (OTCBB: BKCOF) - The Company is pleased to announce that MegaWest Energy has taken the first significant steps to become a non-conventional oil and gas company with initial focus on heavy oil. The Board of Directors have approved the following:...