Coalition Forces Business Logistics Expert Tom Wirges Joins Sonoran Energy.

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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2004

Sonoran Energy, Inc. (OTCBB: SNRN) announced today that the Company has secured the services of U.S. Army Iraqi business logistics and operations specialist Tom Wirges. As a member of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), Wirges arrived in Iraq shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein as part of the U.S. Army's civil affairs team. In his role as army specialist, Wirges served as an advisor to the CPA on the move from a government controlled business environment in Iraq to a free market system. Wirges created the first Bankers Association of Iraq, and the Iraq Association of Securities Dealers. He was also asked by the CPA's Ministry of Finance to assume the role of project manager on the establishment of the Baghdad Stock Exchange and developed a strategic plan for the BSE which he delivered to the CPA's Private Development Group.

Wirges, also an economic advisor to the City of Baghdad's Economic Development Committee, will assist Sonoran Energy and its Iraqi partners during the transition from the CPA to a new government in Iraq. As a consultant to the Company, Wirges will serve as a liaison representing Sonoran Energy to the CPA and his well-established network of contacts in the Iraqi business community.

"It is essential for Sonoran Energy to have someone who understands the workings of the CPA and has connections to key members in Iraq's business community," said Paul Bristol Sonoran Energy President and CEO. "Wirges has been working with the Coalition and local Iraq business representatives for the past year and understands the fluid political environment that exists in the country and what it will take to be successful in postwar Iraq."

About Sonoran Energy

Sonoran Energy's primary objective is to build itself into a major oil and gas corporation concentrating mainly in Iraq but with a background of developing oil properties in North America.

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