Tue May 17, 2011
NONDA and ANGUS - Frac Sand Projects Update
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 Vancouver, British Columbia: Stikine Energy Corp. (TSX.V: SKY) ("Stikine" or the "Company") announces the following updates on pilot plant operations and exploration activities for the Company's two Frac Sand projects: Nonda and Angus.

Pilot Plant
NONDA Material
Sepro Services Corp. has continued equipment optimization trials at Stikine's frac sand pilot plant operation located in Abbotsford, BC. The plant has successfully demonstrated steady-state operations and production of Nonda 100 mesh sand that readily achieves API suggested specifications.

Ongoing trials and testing of the Nonda -40+70 sand product has continued to improve the quality with small deviations from the recommended specification for that product size. The work has highlighted that the pilot plant's existing attrition scrubbing units are limiting the plant's overall effectiveness and its ability to produce the desired -40+70 sand. As a result, more efficient scrubbers have recently been ordered from an alternative manufacturer. This new equipment will be delivered in early June 2011 and the remaining Nonda material will be processed and tested once it is installed. Also, much of the processed sand already bagged at the site will be re-processed to generate as much API/ISO spec material as possible from the Nonda pilot plant operation.

Changing the pilot plant's attrition scrubbing units is expected to result in better products across the range of sand sizes, including Nonda -40+70 sand. Management is encouraged that recent lab-scale testing (off site) of the new scrubbers resulted in a crush fines contents of 7.8%, 7.2% and 7.6% for the Nonda -40+70 sand - consistently passing the suggested maximum value of 8% at 5,000 psi.