Production Testing Recommences On San Antonio Project; Initial Phase of Production Testing Produces 300 Barrels of High Quality 37 Degree API Oil

    SEATTLE--Oct. 22, 2002--Sonoran Energy, Inc. (OTCBB:SNRN) today announced that production testing has recommenced on the San Antonio Project Anvil Bar 75-26 well. The Company, which has a 7.5% net working interest in the well, was advised by Trio Petroleum, operators of the well, that testing recommenced on October 16, 2002.
    The initial phase of production testing over the past six weeks produced approximately 10,000 barrels of fresh water and 300 barrels of 37 degree API oil. The recovery of 300 barrels of high quality 37 degree API oil with strong gas shows is encouraging for the potential production of commercial rates of oil from the Anvil Bar 75-26 well bore. Sales of recovered oil have already taken place.
    Production testing has recommenced with the aim of increasing the oil production rate from the well bore to a rate more in keeping with the indicated net oil pay within the well. A second completion and testing program is now planned for implementation within the previously fractured lower Monterey Chert zone. This will involve shutting down the water zone currently open to the well bore in the fractured upper Monterey Chert and perforating and production testing another 85-foot oil bearing interval in the lower Monterey Chert.
    The San Antonio project area covers a 3,940 acre leased "Area of Mutual Interest" and is located in Monterey County, California south of the prolific, 500 million barrel San Ardo oil field on the east side of the basin. The operator of the San Antonio project is negotiating pipeline and storage facilities at San Ardo. The existing pipeline lies 500 feet from the well location, facilitating simple and low cost hook up pending commercial production.

    This news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected on the basis of such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are made based upon management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management pursuant to the "safe-harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.