Synergy Resources Continues Expansion in Wattenberg Field With Additional Asset Purchase

PLATTEVILLE, CO -- (Marketwired - November 14, 2013) - Synergy Resources Corporation (NYSE MKT: SYRG) (Synergy), a U.S. oil and gas exploration and production company with operations focused in the D-J Basin, on November 13, 2013, purchased an interest in 38 wells and approximately 900 net acres in the Wattenberg Field from a privately held oil and gas company. Synergy will be the operator of these wells. Additional assets that were acquired include an interest in 9 non-operated wells, a 25% interest in a Class II disposal well and 100 net acres in the Northern Extension Area of the Wattenberg Field. Estimated average production of the acquired wells was approximately 200 BOE/D as of August 1, 2013. Synergy paid $17 million, 75% in cash and 25% in common stock, for the assets. The purchase was made with an effective date of August 1, 2013.

Ed Holloway, President and CEO of Synergy, stated, "The closing of this asset purchase brings our total acreage position in the Greater Wattenberg Area to over 24,000 net acres. The costs of this asset purchase and the purchase of assets we announced yesterday are within the capital expenditure budget for fiscal 2014 which we updated in our recent earnings press release. We remain focused on increasing our position and developing our assets in the Wattenberg through continued drilling, asset purchases and leasing activities."


About Synergy Resources Corporation

Synergy is a Colorado-based independent exploration and production company focused primarily on the development of its assets in the Wattenberg Field in the Denver-Julesburg Basin ("D-J Basin") in Weld County, Colorado. In addition to the Company's Wattenberg Field acreage position, it has also assembled a 20,000 net acre lease hold position directly to the northeast of the Wattenberg Field (the "Northern Extension Area"), which Synergy believes to be prospective for the Niobrara and Greenhorn formations.


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