

Headquartered in San Clemente, California, USA, Petro Vista Energy Corp., is an independent exploration company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties located in South America. The Company has exploration, development and production rights to over 721,270 gross acres (355,524 net) leasehold acres in Colombia and Brazil. The Company's goal is to build an upstream oil and gas company with exploration and production focused in the highest resource potential and commercially attractive countries in South America.
The Company's has acquired a significant land base of over 721,270 gross acres totaling six blocks in proven basins in Colombia (3 blocks) and Brazil (3 blocks). Petro Vista has exploration agreements in three hydrocarbon-rich properties in the Llanos and Rio Magdalena Basins in Colombia. These prolific basins are characterized as having large blocks, multiple high-productivity reservoir targets and large-structure prospects.
Petro Vista's strategy in Brazil is to build a base of low-risk low-cost production and exploration drilling opportunities in two focus areas of onshore Brazil while pursuing additional acreage in high-potential shallow water areas such as the Campos Basin, where Devon energy is producing 55,000 bopd with 200 MMBOE in reserves.
A drilling program of up to 8 wells is moving forward in Q4 2008 and in support of these operations; Petro Vista has established regional offices in Bogota Colombia and Aracaju, Brazil.