Companies engaged in the petroleum and natural gas industry face a variety of risks. For Questerre, these include risks
associated with exploration and development drilling as well as production operations, commodity prices, exchange rate
and interest rate fluctuations. Unforeseen significant changes in such areas as markets, prices, royalties, interest rates
and government regulations could have an impact on the Company’s future operating results and/or financial condition.
While management realizes that all the risks may not be controllable, they can be monitored and managed.
A significant risk for Questerre as a junior exploration company is access to capital.The Company attempts to secure
both equity and debt financing on terms it believes are attractive in current markets. Management also endeavors to
seek farm-in participants to participate in the development of its projects on favorable terms. However, there can be no
assurance that the Company will be able to secure sufficient capital if required or that such capital will be available on
terms satisfactory to the Company.
The Company has issued and will continue to issue flow through shares to investors.The Company uses its best efforts
to ensure that qualifying expenditures of CEE are incurred in order to meet its flow through obligations. However, in the
event that the Company incurs qualifying expenditures of CDE or has CEE expenditures reclassified under audit by the
Canada Revenue Agency, the Corporation may be required to liquidate certain of its assets in order to meet the
indemnity obligations under the flow through share subscription agreements.
Exploration and development drilling risks are managed through the use of geological and geophysical interpretation
technology, employing technical professionals and working in areas where those individuals have experience. For its non-
operated properties, the Company strives to develop a good working relationship with the operator and monitors the
operational activity on the property.The Company also carries appropriate insurance coverage for risks associated with
its operations.
Although Questerre has no formal hedging policy, the Company may use financial instruments to reduce corporate risk
in certain situations. Questerre currently has no hedges or other financial instruments in place.
Potential risks to the environment are inherent in some of the business activities of the Company. Questerre endeavors
to conduct its operations in a manner consistent with environmental regulations as stipulated in provincial and federal
legislation. Facilities are modern and are well maintained complying with environmental and safety regulations. The
Company also mitigates the potential financial exposure of environmental risks by maintaining adequate insurance.
Questerre continues to evaluate the Alberta government’s royalty changes and its impact on both the Company’s
current reserve base and its future opportunities. Based on publicly available information in respect of the New Royalty
Framework and sensitivities conducted by Questerre’s independent reserve evaluators, utilizing the December 31, 2007
reserves of the Company and the external engineer’s price forecast at that date, Questerre estimates the royalty changes,
if enacted in their current form, to have the following impact: a 4% to 5% reduction to the net present value of future
net reserves from proved plus probable reserves (at a 10% discount rate) and a negligible change to proved plus
probable reserves for both gross and net reserves.