Thunderbird Energy Appoints Barry Brumwell as Vice President of Operations

Thunderbird Energy Corp. (TSX VENTURE:TBD) (the "Company") today announced that
Barry Brumwell has been appointed as its Vice-President of Operations. Mr.
Brumwell has over 30 years of experience covering virtually every facet of
drilling and completions in the upstream oil and gas industry. During his career
Mr. Brumwell has specialized in the design and exploitation of a variety of
conventional and unconventional oil and gas projects. Mr. Brumwell has
demonstrated that he is an early adopter of proven technologies and his
experience also includes oil sands SAGD operations and CO2 sequestration
projects. Most recently, Mr. Brumwell supervised a multi-well cardium oil
drilling program designed to enable horizontal multi-frac completions.


Mr. Brumwell will initially focus on the permitting, design and implementation
of the drilling and completion program at the Company's Gordon Creek, Utah
natural gas field. Mr. Brumwell will also assume a key role in the roll out of
the pending South West Partnership CCO2 sequestration project once final
approvals for the project have been received.


In connection with his appointment, Mr. Brumwell will be investing $300,000 in
Thunderbird by way of a private placement of 2,000,000 units at a price of $0.15
per unit, each unit to consist one common share and one two year warrant
exercisable at $0.20 per share. Mr. Brumwell will also be granted 600,000
options exercisable at $0.15 per share pursuant to the Company's incentive stock
option plan. 


"We are very pleased to have Barry Brumwell join the Thunderbird team," stated
Rick Ironside, President of Thunderbird. "Having worked with Barry numerous
times over the years, I know that his skill set and broad based experience will
be an ideal fit for us as we roll out our development plans."


Thunderbird Energy is a Canadian based oil and gas exploration and production
Company with interests in the US Rockies and mid-continent regions.
Thunderbird's holdings include the Gordon Creek, Utah natural gas field, the
Rush County, Kansas light oil project and a light oil exploration project in
Weston County Wyoming. 


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