Norse Energy Announces Publication of Executive Summary of Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement

Date 1 July 2011

Norse Energy Corp. ASA (“NEC” ticker Oslo Stock Exchange, Norway; “NSEEY” ticker U.S. OTC) is pleased to provide information about the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (the “SGEIS”) from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (the “DEC”).

The DEC has posted an Executive Summary of the Preliminary Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement on the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining on its website.

The full DEC Executive Summary can be found at the following link:

http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/administration_pdf/execsumsgeis072011.pdf

Norse Energy has total contingent resources of 3.9 TCF (~700 MMBOE) at the end of 2010. The Company has a significant land position of 180,000 net acres in New York State.

For further information, please contact:

Richard Boughrum, Chief Financial Officer

Cell: +1 714 520 1702

Email: rboughrum@norseenergy.com

S. Dennis Holbrook, Executive Vice President
Cell: +1 716 713-2489

Phone   +1 716 713-2489      

Email: dholbrook@norseenergy.com