Focus on Galveston Bay Production Increase

Hydrocarb Energy Corporation (OTCQB: HECC) has announced the following operational update for its exploration, production, and services businesses.

Hydrocarb Namibia

The latest high resolution aerial gravity and magnetics program, flown by Bridgeporth, Ltd., has been processed, interpreted and finalized. The survey was flown over the entire 21,300 sq km (5.3 million acre) Owambo concession comprising blocks 1714A, 1715, 1814A, 1815A in northern Namibia adjacent to the Angola border. Excellent survey results thus far have identified numerous potential leads. The HEC technical team is currently evaluating the entire survey and is in the process of laying out a regional exploration 2-dimensional (2D) seismic program over identified leads.

Galveston Bay Energy

Hydrocarb’s domestic engineering and work-over plans are on track. An extremely cold winter in Texas caused significant production curtailments, and downtime was used to upgrade existing facilities with line heaters and other equipment required to maintain production during future cold spells. Plans were also made to enhance the availability of gas used to power and operate our facilities in the four fields that are operated by GBE. Finalizing the sale of our Barge Canal Field in South Texas has allowed us to launch operations to create sustainable production increases in our Galveston assets.

Otaiba Hydrocarb

HEC’s Abu Dhabi based oil field services company, Otaiba Hydrocarb LLC, (OHC) is completing a financial audit, the last step required to finalize the registration process. Our ability to receive service contracts will enable OHC to commence full oil field services utilizing our comprehensive oil and gas field services license issued by the Supreme Petroleum council of the UAE.

Pasquale Scaturro, Hydrocarb’s CEO stated, “With the recent merger behind us, a new management team is working hard to enhance shareholder value. We’ve uncovered new leads for more resource potential in Namibia. Having sold off our South Texas asset and consolidated our efforts to maximize Galveston Bay, we expect production to continue to increase after a tough winter. Finally, our strategy for developing oilfield services in one of the best oil markets in the world is almost complete. I ask our shareholders to stay abreast of our filings and news regarding these three major areas of our operations going forward.”

About Hydrocarb Energy

Hydrocarb Energy Corporation is a publicly-traded Domestic and International Energy Exploration and Production Company targeting major under-explored oil and gas projects in emerging, highly prospective regions of the world. With exploration concessions in Africa, production in Galveston Bay, and Oil Field Services in the United Arab Emirates, we maintain offices in Houston, Texas, Abu Dhabi, UAE and Windhoek, Namibia.

For further information: www.hydrocarb.com.

Forward-looking Statements

This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements, which contain words such as "expect," "believe" or "plan," by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. These uncertainties may cause actual future events to be materially different than those expressed in our forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements.

Hydrocarb Energy Corp.Pasquale Scaturro, 1-713-970-1590CEOinfo@hydrocarb.com