Pine Cliff Energy Ltd. Completes $60,065,000 Common Share Offering

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Sept. 23, 2014) -

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Pine Cliff Energy Ltd. ("Pine Cliff") (TSX VENTURE:PNE) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced short form prospectus offering of 29,300,000 common shares (the "Common Shares") at a price of $2.05 per Common Share for gross proceeds of $60,065,000 (the "Offering").

The Offering was made pursuant to an underwriting agreement with a syndicate of underwriters co-led by FirstEnergy Capital Corp., GMP Securities L.P. and Haywood Securities Inc. and including Clarus Securities Inc., Paradigm Capital Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corp., National Bank Financial Inc., AltaCorp Capital Inc., Jennings Capital Inc. and Scotiabank (collectively, the "Underwriters").

Pine Cliff has granted the Underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 4,395,000 Common Shares (the "Over-Allotment Option") on the same terms and conditions, exercisable for a period of 30 days following the date of the closing of the Offering to cover over-allotments, if any. If the Over-Allotment Option is fully exercised, the aggregate gross proceeds from the Offering and the Over-Allotment Option will be $69,074,750.

Pine Cliff intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering to pay down outstanding debt and to fund a portion of the purchase price of the previously announced proposed acquisition of certain shallow natural gas assets in Alberta and Southern Saskatchewan (the "Proposed Acquisition"). In the event that the Proposed Acquisition does not close, the proceeds of the Offering are expected to be used to repay outstanding debt, to fund ongoing capital expenditures and for general corporate purposes. The completion of the Proposed Acquisition is not contingent upon the completion of the Offering, nor was the completion of the Offering contingent upon the completion of the Proposed Acquisition. The Proposed Acquisition is expected to close on or around October 1, 2014.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy the Common Shares in the United States. The Common Shares have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under, or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of, the U.S. Securities Act.

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