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MegaWest Energy Corp.: MegaWest Engages Financial Advisor

^{Published on 2009-04-07 11:27:59, Last Modified on 2009-11-03 08:46:44 - Market Wire}
 

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - April 7, 2009) - MegaWest Energy Corp., (the "Company" or "MegaWest") (OTCBB:MGWSF), an independent oil and gas company, specializing in non-conventional oil and gas projects with a focus on North American heavy oil, announced today that it has retained Murdock Capital Partners Corp., ("Murdock") with headquarters in New York, to provide financial consulting and advisement services.

MegaWest and Murdock have jointly initiated a review of the Company's business plan, corporate organization, and financial structuring, with a view of enhancing shareholder value.

For the past seventeen years, Murdock has remained committed to its objective of identifying and providing corporate finance and financial advisory services to skillfully managed companies that demonstrate the potential for substantial long-term growth. Murdock assists small and medium size companies in facilitating the growth strategies of successful management teams.

MegaWest is continuing to execute its business plan to create shareholder value. MegaWest owns or has the right to earn an interest in over 146,000 acres in Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana and Texas. MegaWest seeks to prove up significant resources and achieve production from its heavy oil properties through the application of new technical developments in the commercial thermal recovery of heavy oil and it will continue to take every opportunity to ensure that the Company emerges from these trying times in a position to capitalize on the capability of its personnel and the quality of its heavy oil properties.

R. William Thornton, President & CEO

Forward-Looking Statements

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