Richard Boughrum New CFO of Norse Energy Corp USA

Norse Energy Corp USA, a 100% owned subsidiary of Norse Energy Corp ASA (“NEC” ticker code OSE – NEC, Oslo, Norway, U.S OTCQX symbol “NSEEY”), is pleased to announce that Mr. Richard Boughrum has accepted the position of Chief Financial Officer of Norse Energy Corp USA. Richard Boughrum will be in charge of executing our US financial strategy and report to CEO Øivind Risberg. "I am very pleased that Richard Boughrum has chosen to join our team to help build our US finance organization internally and externally and assist the operating team in driving the conversion of our huge resource base into reserves, production, and shareholder value", says Risberg. Mr. Boughrum has extensive capital markets experience with more than 2O years of investment banking experience, primarily in the energy sector with Goldman Sachs in New York. He has been the CFO of a public energy marketing company and a private multi-national telecom marketing company before joining Norse Energy in the US. Richard Boughrum has a BS in Journalism and an MS in Communications from the University of Illinois and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Illinois. For further information please contact: Øivind Risberg, CEO Tel: +1 713 5012 022 orisberg@norseenergy.com Jonas Gamre, Investor Relations Tel: +47 23 01 10 02 Cell: +47 97 11 82 92 Email: jgamre@norseenergy.com About Norse Energy: Norse Energy Corp. ASA is a Norwegian based publicly listed company focusing on energy operations offshore Brazil and onshore in the states of New York and Pennsylvania in the Appalachian Basin in the U.S.