WesternZagros Resources Ltd. is an international petroleum company solely focused on the exploration for oil and gas in Kurdistan, Iraq. WesternZagros’ head office is located in Calgary, Alberta and the Company also has an office in Sulaymaniya, Kurdistan. The Company’s objective is to be recognized, through consistently superior business performance and operations excellence, as one of the leading independent oil and gas companies active in Iraq. WesternZagros’ shares trade in Canada on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol WZR.

WesternZagros is one of a number of oil and gas companies/consortia active in the Kurdistan region.

WesternZagros holds a Production Sharing Contract ("PSC") in the Kurdistan Region which provides for the exploration and development of crude oil and natural gas over a 2,120 square kilometre block (523, 826 acres or 818 square miles).

Key Iraq Statistics

Iraq has numerous large undeveloped fields and unexplored areas. Out of the 73 oil fields discovered, only 15 are producing. Six of the 73 oil fields are classified as super-giant (over 5 billion barrels), 23 as giant (500 million to 4 billion barrels) and 44 as medium to large (50 to 500 million barrels) or small (less than 50 million barrels).

Iraq has approximately 115 billion barrels (approximately 75 billion barrels undeveloped) of proven oil reserves and 220 billion barrels of proven and probable reserves.

OFFICERS

Fred Dyment
Chairman

Simon Hatfield
Chief Executive Officer

Greg Stevenson
Chief Financial Officer

KEY PERSONNEL

Dr. George Pinckney
Vice President, Exploration

Ian McIntosh
Vice President, Kurdistan Business Unit

David Reeve
General Manager, Petroleum Engineering

Board of Directors

David Boone

Fred Dyment

John Frangos

Simon Hatfield

Jim Houck

Randall Oliphant

William Wallace

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