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New Zealand Energy Plans Completion of Sixth Well in Taranaki Basin

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 1:00PM

By New Zealand Energy Corp.

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New Zealand Energy Corp. (TSX VENTURE: NZ)(OTCQX: NZERF) ("NZEC" or the "Company") has achieved target depth in its Waitapu-2 well, evaluated open hole logs and commenced casing the well, with completion to follow. Once casing is complete, the Ensign rig will move to the Arakamu site to drill two wells. The first well will target the Mt. Messenger Formation and the second will target the Moki Formation.

Waitapu-2 was drilled into the Mt. Messenger Formation with a measured depth of 2,081 metres and true vertical depth of 1,970 metres. NZEC will perforate and test the well in early November, once the service rig has completed installation of artificial lift on the Copper Moki-1 well.

Waitapu-1 has been perforated across two additional intervals in the Mt. Messenger Formation and will remain shut-in for pressure build-up while the Ensign rig moves off Waitapu to the Arakamu site.

On behalf of the Board of Directors

Bruce McIntyre, Executive Director

About New Zealand Energy Corp.

NZEC is an oil and natural gas company engaged in the production, development and exploration of petroleum and natural gas assets in New Zealand. NZEC's property portfolio collectively covers two million acres of conventional and unconventional prospects in the Taranaki Basin and East Coast Basin of New Zealand's North Island. The Company's management team has extensive experience exploring and developing oil and natural gas fields in New Zealand and Canada, and takes a multi-disciplinary approach to value creation with a track record of successful discoveries. NZEC plans to add shareholder value by executing a technically disciplined exploration and development program focused on the onshore and offshore oil and natural gas resources in the politically and fiscally stable country of New Zealand. NZEC is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol NZ and on the OTCQX International under the symbol NZERF. More information is available at www.newzealandenergy.com or by emailing info@newzealandenergy.com.

Forward-looking Statements

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