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Pacific Rubiales Announces Annual General Meeting
Jun 14, 2010

TORONTO, June 14 /CNW/ - Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX: PRE), is pleased to announce it is holding its Annual General Meeting on June 16, in Toronto, at the Sheraton Centre Hotel, City Hall Room at 10am EDT. The Sheraton Centre Hotel is located at 123 Queen Street West, Toronto. Shareholders and interested investors are invited to attend.

The company's AGM will be live webcast on the following link: http://www.meetview.com/pacificrubiales20100616/. The presentation will also be posted on the company's web site at www.pacificrubiales.com.

Shareholders and interested investors may also dial in to the Annual General Meeting beginning at 10 am EDT or 9 am Bogota time. Callers will have a choice between English and a simultaneous Spanish translation, and may ask questions in both languages.

 

Participant Number (Local/International): 1 (647) 427-7450

Participant Number (Toll Free US/Canada): 1 (888) 231-8191

The toll free number for Colombia is: 01 800 518 0661.

 

Conference ID: 81351008

 

Pacific Rubiales, a Canadian-based company and producer of natural gas and heavy crude oil, owns 100 percent of Meta Petroleum Corp., a Colombian oil operator which operates the Rubiales and Piriri oil fields in the Llanos Basin in association with Ecopetrol S.A., the Colombian national oil company. The company is focused on identifying opportunities primarily within the eastern Llanos Basin of Colombia as well as in other areas in Colombia and northern Peru. Pacific Rubiales has a current net production of approximately at 56,700 barrels of oil equivalent per day, after royalties, with working interests in 32 blocks in Colombia and Peru.

Boe may be misleading, particularly if used in isolation. A boe conversion ratio of 6 mcf: 1 bbl is based on an energy equivalency conversion method primarily applicable at the burner tip and does not represent a value equivalency at the wellhead.

 

Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

 

This press release contains forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that the company believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future (including, without limitation, statements regarding estimates and/or assumptions in respect of production, revenue, cash flow and costs, reserve and resource estimates, potential resources and reserves and the company's exploration and development plans and objectives) are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect the current expectations or beliefs of the company based on information currently available to the company. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results of the company to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements, and even if such actual results are realized or substantially realized, there can be no assurance that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on the company. Factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things: uncertainty of estimates of capital and operating costs, production estimates and estimated economic return; the possibility that actual circumstances will differ from the estimates and assumptions; failure to establish estimated resources or reserves; fluctuations in petroleum prices and currency exchange rates; inflation; changes in equity markets; political developments in Colombia or Peru; changes to regulations affecting the company's activities; uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future; the uncertainties involved in interpreting drilling results and other geological data; and the other risks disclosed under the heading "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in the company's annual information form dated April 1, 2009 filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made and, except as may be required by applicable securities laws, the company disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise. Although the company believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and accordingly undue reliance should not be put on such statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein.

 

For further information: Mr. Ronald Pantin, Chief Executive Officer and Director; Mr. Jose Francisco Arata, President and Director, (416) 362 7735; Ms. Belinda Labatte, (647) 428 7035