Rubellite Energy Inc. announced its preliminary fourth quarter 2023 and current production results, update commodity price risk management contracts and provide an operational update, all of which highlight successful advancement of Rubellite's growth focused business plan centered around the attractive Clearwater play. Highlights include: Preliminary Fourth quarter 2023 average heavy oil sales production of 4,209 bbl/d, exceeding the high end of the fourth quarter guidance range of 3,900 to 4,200 bbl/d. The Company recorded approximately 113 bbl/d of additional average heavy oil production which was not recorded as sales during the quarter, building inventory to fill new tank volumes for oil processing and water separation at pad sites. Development drilling operations were focused on three pads including: finishing the last two of eight wells on the prolific pad at 15-24-63-18W4 (the 15-24 Pad); drilling four (4.0 net) horizontal multi-lateral wells at a new development pad at 9-3-63-18W4.

and drilling one (1.0 net) horizontal multi -lateral development well, with a second (1.0 net) well rig released in early January, on a new development pad to the north at 14-22-63-18W4 ("14-22 Pad"). Including one well on the 9-3 Pad, which has not been able to commence continuous production due to high initial gas volumes, preliminary performance from the fourth quarter development drilling program is performing, on average, commensurate with the Figure Lake type curve(1) thus far. The Company is pleased with the step out drilling program executed by the second rig which was windowed in during the fourth quarter.

Based on early time production performance to date, two of these four Figure Lake step out wells are Rubellite's most prolific performers drilled to date since the Company's inception, and have served to extend the development trend at Figure Lake to both the North and South. Operationally going forward, Rubellite intends to keep one drilling rig running continuously at Figure Lake until break up in late March, to drill six (6.0 net) wells during the first quarter of 2024. One development well has already been rig released on the 14-22 Pad since year-end.

Given ungulate restrictions, drilling operations have now shifted to the south end of Figure Lake to drill two wells on the Company's recently acquired lands at a pad in Edwand at 3-17-61-17W4 (the "3-17 Pad"), applying an OBM drilling fluid system to this pool to compare to the water-based mud results from wells drilled by the previous operator. The rig will then return to the 6-19 Pad to drill two additional wells prior to break-up. The Company is planning to continue its one rig program through break-up to drill six additional wells on the BLMS 5-32 Pad.

In early January, Rubellite re-activated its horizontal multi-lateral Northern Exploration well at Dawson (5-16-81-16W5) which was rig released in late January 2023. Rubellite also plans to continue exploration activities to pursue additional prospective land capture and de-risk acreage during the first quarter of 2024". As at January 16, 2024, Rubellite has entered into commodity price risk management contracts on an average of 2,150 bbl/d during 2024 to effectively provide Western Canadian Select ("WCS") price protection at approximately $83.45 CAD83.45/bbl as per the following commodity price and foreign exchange risk management contracts: Oil price risk management contracts: Oil price management contracts: Oil price risk Management contracts.