Contact Exploration Inc. Issues Incentive Options

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Contact Exploration Inc. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:CEX) announces that it has
issued a total of 1,100,000 stock options to certain employees and consultants
of the Company in accordance with the Company's shareholder approved stock
option plan. The stock options are exercisable at a price of $0.20 per share,
expire in August 2018 and vest immediately.


About Contact Exploration Inc.

Contact Exploration Inc. is a public oil and gas company which has a long-term
history of operating in Atlantic Canada and has recently demonstrated success in
Alberta's liquids-rich Montney Formation tight gas play. For more information,
please see the Company's website: www.contactexp.com.


Neither 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 adequacy or accuracy of this release.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
Contact Exploration Inc.
Steve Harding
President and CEO
[phone]
[phone] (FAX)
[e-mail]
www.contactexp.com