Morgan Creek Energy Appoints David Urquhart, P. Eng. as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Board



DALLAS, May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Morgan Creek Energy Corp. (OTC
Bulletin Board: MCKE), a Nevada corporation (the “Company") has accepted
the consent of David Urquhart to act as the President, Chief Executive
Officer and as a Director of the Board.

David Urquhart is a Canadian professional engineer with over
thirty-five years of progressively responsible operational, engineering,
management and executive experience in all facets of the equipment
fabrication and hydrocarbon industries; from production operations,
drilling and completion operations, exploration and exploitation
operations, to plant and facility design and construction, process
equipment fabrication, product marketing, project economics, operating
budgets, acquisitions and divestitures.

His broad workplace experience has provided him with extensive national
and international exposure in business development, facility construction
and project management as well as production operations and engineering
throughout the Americas and Africa. He is also experienced in operations,
manufacturing, marketing and sales in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the
Orient and Africa.

Through his consulting firm, Westhampton Ltd., Mr. Urquhart has
provided services to a wide range of junior to mid-size mining and
petroleum companies in the United States, Canada, Algeria, Africa, Russia,
Tunisia, China and the Middle East.

Prior to founding his own company, Mr. Urquhart served as Vice
President, Energy Group for Finex Capital Corporation of Calgary, Alberta.
Finex was a Calgary based merchant banking entity owned by First City
Trust, and charged with the management of an extensive investment portfolio
in both energy and commercial real estate assets. He also served as the
senior officer in the establishment of all Finex owned and operated oil and
gas service companies, as well as being responsible for providing
operational management to all Finex oil and gas production related
subsidiary operations.

From the 1960s until 1983, when he joined Finex Capital, Mr. Urquhart
was employed in a variety of successive senior management positions,
primarily in charge of drilling and production operations for established
petroleum development and production companies. The list of firms includes
Petroleum Technologies of Wichita, Kansas (1983 - 1987), Hexagon Gas
Limited of Calgary, Alberta (1977 - 1983) and Suncor Inc. of Calgary,
Alberta (1968 - 1977).

Mr. Urquhart’s professional affiliations include the Association of
Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta, the
Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy—Petroleum Society, the
American Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Association of Drilling
Engineers.

David Urquhart received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia and his Bachelor of Engineering
in Mining from Nova Scotia Technical College (now Dal Tech), Halifax, Nova
Scotia.

Effective on April 30, 2008, the Board of Directors (the “Board") of
Morgan Creek Energy Corp., accepted the resignation of Marcus M. Johnson as
the President/Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Johnson remains as a member of
the Board of Directors of the Company.