MENA Hydrocarbons Announces Changes in Board of Directors

MENA Hydrocarbons Announces Changes in Board of Directors
  
 

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Feb 3, 2014) - MENA Hydrocarbons Inc. ("MENA" or the "Company") (TSX-VENTURE:MNH) announced today that Messrs, Abby Badwi, Jason Bednar, Robert Cross and Merfyn Roberts have each resigned their respective positions as members of MENA's board of directors (the "Board") and, where applicable, as officers of the Company and its subsidiaries. MENA thanks Messrs. Badwi, Bednar, Cross and Roberts for their services and contributions to MENA.

MENA is pleased to announce the appointment of Messrs, David Parry, Mark Ross and Guirguis Ropheal as board members of MENA effective today to full to fill the vacancies created by the foregoing resignations.

In addition to being appointed a director, Mr. Ross has been appointed Chairman of the Board and Mr. Ropheal has been appointed Chief Financial Officer.

Mr. Parry, who is Vancouver based, has been in the oil and gas business for the last 25 years, is presently self-employed and serves on the board of directors of Abenteuer Resources Corp., a TSX-V listed oil and gas company whose operations are focused on the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, specifically south eastern Saskatchewan.

Mr. Ross, an attorney based out of Orange County in California, practiced law for over 20 years.

Mr. Guirguis Ropheal has been in the finance industry for over 28 years and he is licensed CPA. Mr. Ropheal is presently located in Cairo, Egypt and serves and the Chief Financial Officer of MENA International Petroleum and, prior to holding this position, was financial manager for Alliance International Petroleum Company from 2003 to 2010. Mr. Ropheal is also member of the board of directors of Petrosinai (Joint Venture company between MENA International Petroleum co. and Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation).

"We are excited to have Messrs. Parry, Ross and Guirguis join the board, which we expect will focus its efforts on continuing to develop our Lagia asset, targeting increased production and cash flow therefrom, while also working to stabilize MENA's financial position," said Mr. Magdy Bassaly, MENA's President and Chief Executive Officer. "The Company remains focused on operations in the Middle East and North Africa and MENA expects to provide further details regarding is goals and targets for 2014 and 2015 in the near future."

About MENA Hydrocarbons

MENA Hydrocarbons is an international oil and gas company focused on growing an asset base of production, development and high impact exploration in the Middle East and North Africa region. In Egypt, MENA owns and operates the development lease for the Lagia oil field, a 32 square kilometer onshore block located on the Sinai Peninsula, directly adjacent to the Gulf of Suez. In Syria, MENA owns a 30% participating interest in Block 9 in Syria, a 10,032 square kilometer onshore block prospective for crude oil, natural gas and condensate. In the United States, MENA owns 6,242 gross acres (with an 81.2% average working interest) in Northwestern Montana with light/medium oil reserves MENA's shares currently trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "MNH".

Forward-looking Information

This news release contains forward-looking information relating to planned development and exploration activities on the properties in which the Company has interests and our financial position. Such forward-looking information is subject to important risks, uncertainties and assumptions. The results or events predicated in this forward-looking information may differ materially from actual results or events. As a result, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking information.

Forward-looking information is based on certain factors and assumptions regarding, among other things, the Company maintaining its stock exchange listing; the availability of financing on acceptable terms or at all and the timing such financing is needed; the general stability of the economic and political environments in which the Company operates or owns interests; the timely receipt of any required regulatory approvals; the ability of the Company to obtain qualified staff, equipment and services in a timely and cost efficient manner; drilling results; the ability of the operator of the projects which the Company has an interest in to operate the field in a safe, efficient and effective manner; field production rates and decline rates; the timing and costs of pipeline, storage and facility construction and expansion and the ability of the Company to secure adequate product transportation; future oil and natural gas prices; currency, exchange and interest rates; the regulatory framework regarding royalties, taxes and environmental matters in the jurisdictions in which the Company operates; the ability of the Company to successfully market its oil and natural gas products, and other similar matters. While the Company considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available to it, they may prove to be incorrect.

Forward looking-information is subject to certain factors, including risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what is currently expected. These factors include risks associated with the Company's ability to successfully maintain its stock exchange listing, the availability of capital on acceptable terms or at all and the timing such capital is needed, instability of the economic and political environments in which the Company operates or owns interests, oil and gas exploration, development, exploitation, production, marketing and transportation, loss of markets, volatility of commodity prices, currency fluctuations, imprecision of reserve estimates, environmental risks, competition from other producers, inability to retain drilling rigs and other services, incorrect assessment of the value of acquisitions, the inability to settle the definitive terms of the farmout arrangements, failure to realize the anticipated benefits of acquisitions, delays resulting from or inability to obtain required regulatory approvals and ability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources, reliance on key personnel, regulatory risks and delays, including risks relating to the acquisition of necessary licenses and permits, environmental risks and insurance risks.

You should not place undue importance on forward-looking information and should not rely upon this information as of any other date. While the Company may elect to, the Company is under no obligation and does not undertake to update this information at any particular time, except as required by law.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequate or accuracy of this release.

MENA Hydrocarbons Inc.Magdy BassalyPresident and Chief Executive Officer+1(714) 713-6534 or Cell 2 01 222 [e-mail] Hydrocarbons Inc.5 Hassan Hafez StreetSaraia Elqoba, Cairo Egypt