Sonoro Announces Completion of Previously Announced Consolidation and Private Placement and Lift of the Trading Halt on Sonoro Common Shares

CALGARY, Dec. 9, 2013 /CNW/ - Sonoro Energy Ltd. ("Sonoro") (TSX-V: SNV) is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously announced consolidation of its common shares on a 10 for one basis and the subsequent private placement of 29,961,438 post-consolidation common shares. Geopetrol International Holding Inc. subscribed for 26,300,000 common shares under the private placement such that it is now a "control person" of Sonoro within the rules of the TSX Venture Exchange.  Common shares issued under the private placement are subject to a hold period expiring April 10, 2014.

Sonoro also announces that its post-consolidation common shares will resume trading on the TSX Venture Exchange shortly, following the lifting of a trading halt applied pending the resolution of certain settlement issues related to the trading of its post-consolidation common shares.

About Sonoro

Sonoro is an international bitumen exploration and development company.  Our current focus is a pure play on asphalt resource exploration and development in Iraq.  Sonoro has initiated the evaluation of resource opportunities under our asphalt license agreement in the Salah ad Din Province.

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SOURCE Sonoro Energy Ltd.