MegaWest Closes $2.5 Million of Additional Financing

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CALGARY, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MegaWest Energy Corp., (the "Company" or "MegaWest"), (OTCBB:MGWSF) is pleased to announce that it has closed a series of transactions with a group of its existing shareholders (the "Investors") that will provide US$2.5 million in new funding.

FINANCING

The series of transactions consists of the issuance of US$2.5 million in senior secured convertible notes (the "Senior Notes"), the conversion of the Company's Series A Preferred Shares into junior secured convertible notes (the "Junior Notes") and the reacquisition by MegaWest of a 10% working interest in the Company's Marmaton River and Grassy Creek heavy oil projects in exchange for a 2.75% overriding royalty interest on the same properties.

The proceeds of the Senior Notes financing will be used to fund a portion of the Company's capital expenditures and operating expenses for the Company's fiscal year ending April 30, 2011. Features and terms of the Senior Notes, Junior Notes and working interest acquisition are as follows:

    Senior Secured Convertible Notes:

        -  Funding Amount: $2,500,000
        -  Term: 18 months.
        -  Conversion Price: $0.05 per common share
        -  Redemption: The Notes are redeemable in cash at any time at the
           Company's option or convertible into common shares at the
           Company's option if the underlying shares are freely tradable and
           common shares of the Company trade at or above $0.25 for the
           previous 20 consecutive trading days and the daily average trading
           volume has been in excess of US$75,000 per day for the same
           period. Redemption will include principal and any outstanding
           accrued interest. In the event of redemption before the end of the
           term, there will be a 5% premium due on the investment amount. The
           Company will give 30 days notice of cash redemption at which time
           the Investors may elect to receive the redemption in common shares
           at the Conversion Price.
        -  Coupon: 8% cash or 12% in additional Notes at the Company's option
           for the first six months after Closing, Investor's option
           thereafter. Interest quoted annually, payable quarterly.
        -  Seniority: The Notes are senior secured obligations of the Company
           secured against Company's oil and gas assets in the state of
           Missouri.
        -  Warrants: One warrant has been issued to the holder for each $0.05
           principal amount of the Notes, strike price of $0.05 and a term of
           36 months.

    Junior Secured Convertible Notes:

        -  Issued upon conversion of previously issued Series A Preferred
           Shares.
        -  Investment Amount: $2,200,000 plus accumulated dividends on the
           Series A Convertible Preferred Shares shall convert to a Junior
           Secured Convertible Note.
        -  Term: 36 months
        -  Conversion Price: $0.07
        -  Redemption: The Notes are redeemable in cash at any time at the
           Company's option or convertible into common shares at the
           Company's option under terms and conditions specified in the
           existing agreement for Series A Convertible Preferred Shares.
           Redemption will include principal and all outstanding accrued
           interest. In the event of redemption before the end of the term,
           there will be a 5% premium due on the investment amount. The
           Company will give 30 days notice of cash redemption at which time
           the Investors may elect to receive the redemption in common shares
           at the Conversion Price.
        -  Coupon: 5% cash or 7.5% in additional Notes, at the Company's
           option. Interest quoted annually, payable quarterly.
        -  Seniority: The Junior Notes are secured by the same assets as the
           Senior Notes, but rank behind the Senior Notes in priority.

    Option to Acquire Series B Preferred Shares:

        The expiry date on the previously issued option to acquire Series B
        Preferred Shares (the "Series B Option") has been extended to May 24,
        2011.

    Share Consolidation:

        As part of the above-noted financing transactions, the Investors and
        the Company have agreed that the Company will endeavour to effect a \
        share consolidation on the basis of at least one new common share for
        every five existing common shares at the Company's next Annual and
        Special Meeting.

    Anti Dilution:

        The Investors in the Senior Notes and the Junior Notes shall be
        extended full ratchet anti-dilution protection on all convertible
        securities including notes and warrants. Post share consolidation,
        full-ratchet anti-dilution protection shall have a floor of US$0.10.

    Right of Participation:

        For twelve months following Closing while either the Senior Notes or
        the Junior Notes remain outstanding, the Investors shall have a right
        to 100% participation in future financings of the Company subject to
        a 15-day notice period. While the Senior Notes and the Junior Notes
        remain outstanding, Investors shall have a right of participation in
        all future financings.

    Working Interest Acquisition:

        Effective July 1, 2010, MegaWest has reacquired a 10% working
        interest in the Company's Marmaton River and Grassy Creek heavy oil
        projects in exchange for a 2.75% gross overriding royalty ("GOR")
        interest on the projects. Following this acquisition, MegaWest has a
        100% working interest in both projects. All outstanding unrecovered
        carried interest and working interest costs, owed to MegaWest by the
        former working interest owners as at July 1, 2010, will be converted
        into a note repayable from 50% of the GOR revenue, with outstanding
        balances to bear interest as defined in the Joint Operating
        Agreement.

MegaWest is an independent oil and gas company, specializing in non-conventional oil and gas projects with a focus on North American heavy oil with particular emphasis on the Deerfield area of western Missouri. The Company has two individual 320-acre steam injection projects in the Deerfield area with approximately 20 acres developed on each of the Marmaton and Grassy projects. In the Deerfield area, excluding the 40 acres of developed land, the Company has an operated 90% working interest in over 15,400 acres of undeveloped land prospective for heavy oil development and has identified a number of additional potential steam injection projects on this land base. In total, including the Deerfield Missouri acreage, the Company owns a 61% operated working interest in 113,000 acres of undeveloped land prospective for heavy oil development and exploration in Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana and Texas. For further details on the Company and its prospects, please refer to the Company's website and the investor presentation contained therein.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking information and statements including opinions, assumptions, estimates, expectations of future production performance and cash flow requirements. Forward-looking statements include information that does not relate strictly to historical or current facts. When used in this document, the words "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect", "forecast", "intent", "may", "project", "plan", "potential", "should" and similar expressions are intended to be among the statements that identify forward-looking statements. Predictions of steam flood performance and future production rates are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to a wide range of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and although the Company believes that the expectations represented by such forward-looking statements are reasonable; there can be no assurance that such expectations will be realized. We have attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to vary from those current expectations or estimates expressed or implied by the forward-looking information, which include the ability of the Company to raise sufficient capital to carry out its business plan, the risk of adverse market prices of both oil and natural gas, operational risks and geological risk.

These and other risks and uncertainties that could affect future events or the Company's future financial performance are more fully described in the Company's quarterly reports (on Form 6-K filed in the US and the financial statements, management discussion and analysis and Form 51-102F1 filed in Canada), the Company's annual reports (on Form 20-F filed in the US and the financial statements, management discussion and analysis and Form 51-102F1 filed in Canada) and the other recent filings in the US and Canada. These filings are available at www.sec.gov in the US and www.sedar.com in Canada. For all such forward-looking statements, we claim the safe harbour for forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

SOURCE MegaWest Energy Corp.