The full corporate name of the Company is ShaMaran Petroleum Corp.

The Company’s head office is 1055 Dunsmuir Street, Suite 2800, PO Box 49225, Vancouver, BC, V7X 1L2, Canada. The registered and records office is located at 1075 West Georgia Street, Suite 1200, Vancouver, BC, V6E 3C9, Canada.

The Company was incorporated under the laws of the Province of British Columbia on October 3, 1991, under the name Arauco Resources Corporation (“Arauco”).

On August 13, 1997, Arauco was continued as a federal company under the Canada Business Corporations Act (“CBCA”), and on August 29, 1997, the name of the Company was changed from Arauco to Kit Resources Ltd. (“Kit”).

Pursuant to the terms of a statutory plan of arrangement approved by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on March 3, 2000, Kit and 1395896 Ontario Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wheaton River, were amalgamated under the name Kit (the “Arrangement”). As a result of the Arrangement, Kit became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. (“Wheaton River”). Effective March 3, 2000, in order to facilitate the business combination of Kit and Wheaton River, Kit was continued from the federal jurisdiction to Ontario under the Ontario Business Corporations Act (the “OBCA”). In January 2001, Wheaton River sold its majority interest in the Company.

On December 29, 2006, Kit was continued into British Columbia from Ontario under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia).

On February 9, 2007, the name was changed from Kit to Bayou Bend Petroleum Ltd. (“Bayou Bend”).

On October 21, 2009, the name Bayou Bend was changed to ShaMaran Petroleum Corp.