JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 3, 2012 -- Continental Energy Corporation (OTCBB: CPPXF) (the "Company") an emerging international oil and gas company, today announced that it has retained the services of AGORACOM Investor Relations ("AGORACOM") (http://www.agoracom.com) to provide online investor relations services. AGORACOM will specifically provide an online investor relations community for current shareholder communications, in addition to online marketing through search engines, social media networks and Tier-1 financial content partners for the purpose of attracting new shareholders.

Online investor relations maximizes the speed of communication, the degree of transparency and the access to company information. In response to overwhelming research data being generated by small-cap investors, the Company selected online investor relations to facilitate faster and more efficiently communications with both current and prospective shareholders around the world.

Effective immediately, a customized and monitored Continental Energy Corporation IR HUB will be available at http://agoracom.com/ir/continentalenergy, allowing management to communicate with shareholders anytime and in near real-time through an electronic shareholder forum http://agoracom.com/ir/continentalenergy/forums/discussion. Moreover, the IR HUB will provide the Company's management with the ability to extend communications beyond text via audio messages, video presentations, Skype broadcasts, webcasts and podcasts.

Richard L. McAdoo, Chief Executive Officer commented, "We are anxious to embark on this campaign to both increase communications with existing shareholders and to attract new shareholders to our company as we continue to expand our involvement into new energy projects throughout Southeast Asia. We encourage everyone to get involved and to maximize the strength of our online IR campaign."

About AGORACOM

AGORACOM Investor Relations (http://www.AgoracomIR.com) is North America's largest online investor relations firm for small-cap companies. It has partnered with some of the world's largest internet and mobile companies to market its clients to a massive audience of new small-cap investors. It has served over 250 small-cap public companies and its industry pioneering online investor relations platform (http://www.Agoracom.com) has held an Alexa traffic ranking above the top 0.5% of all websites around the world since 2007. AGORACOM averages 1.1 million investors, 7.4 million visits and 75 million page views annually.

On behalf of the Company,

Robert V. Rudman, Chief Financial Officer

Further Info: www.continentalenergy.com and http://agoracom.com/ir/continentalenergy

No securities regulatory authority has either approved or disapproved the contents of this news release.
Certain matters discussed within this press release may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although Continental believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements including reserves estimates, production forecasts, feasibility reports and economic evaluations are based on reasonable expectations and assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be attained. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations include financial performance, oil and gas prices, drilling program results, regulatory changes, political risk, terrorism, changes in local or national economic conditions and other risks detailed from time to time in Continental's periodic filings with the US Securities Exchange Commission.

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