Former Alaskan Governor Joins Wescorp Board.

EDMONTON, Alberta -- Wescorp Energy Inc. (OTCBB: WSCE) is pleased to announce the appointment of Steve Cowper to the Board of Directors. In addition to his appointment as a director, Mr. Cowper will be joining Wescorp as the Vice President of New Business Development.

"Up until recently, new technology in the oil and gas industry has had a difficult time breaking through the 'not-invented-here' barrier. Based on what I'm seeing, those days are changing fast.

"Wescorp Energy has exclusive access to major-league technology which will make production dramatically more efficient and less costly. Add the quality of Wescorp's management, and you get a company that's going to play a significant role in this industry's future. I'm happy to be part of the team." Comments Mr. Cowper.

"Both I and the entire Board welcome the round-the-world business acumen that Governor Cowper brings to Wescorp. His addition to the Management Team will be instrumental in taking Wescorp's technologies to the next level." comments President and CEO Douglas Biles.

From 1975-79 Mr. Cowper served in the Alaska Legislature where he was Chairman of the House Finance Committee and Chairman of the Alaska Lands Committee. From 1980 until 1981 he was a lobbyist on federal land use policy for the State of Alaska in Washington, DC.

In 1984-85 Mr. Cowper was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, a $29 billion public investment fund recognized as the best-managed public fund in the US.

In 1986 Mr. Cowper was elected Governor of Alaska. By establishing spending controls and reforming budget accountability he transformed a chronic state deficit to a $500 million surplus in four years. Mr. Cowper personally wrote legislation establishing the first state-endowed scientific research foundation in the US. He initiated an aggressive international trade policy and negotiated with Federal Express and other air freight carriers to establish Anchorage International Airport as the largest international air cargo hub in the world. He managed the Exxon Valdez crisis and successfully lobbied the US Congress for major oil-spill legislation. In 1988 he led the first US delegation from Alaska to the Russian Far East, described in the press as "melting the ice curtain"

Mr. Cowper was the Lead Governor for Energy Policy for the National Governors Association and Chairman of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. http://www.iogcc.oklaosf.state.ok.us/

In 1989 Mr. Cowper was named one of the nation's top ten governors by Al Neuharth, publisher of USA Today. With his agenda largely accomplished, Mr. Cowper did not run for re-election in 1990.

Following his term in office Mr. Cowper was President and acting Executive Director of the Northern Forum, an international association of 22 northern regional governments from 10 countries which worked with Russian regional governments to establish a fair division of resource-related revenues with Moscow, as well as technology transfers related to transportation and environmental monitoring. Mr. Cowper has traveled extensively in Russia, especially in Siberia and the Far East, both in an official and private capacity. In 1994 and 1997, Mr. Cowper was Co-Chairman of the Pacific Rim Fisheries Conference in Beijing and Tokyo respectively, a six-nation conference focusing on international fisheries management. In 1997 he co-authored a definitive report to NOAA on the Russian Far East fisheries. In 1998 he made a major presentation to the Government of Hokkaido, Japan, on oil spill-related issues.

Since 1992 Mr. Cowper has been the managing partner of Steve Cowper & Associates (SC&A) which specializes in political analysis and public-sector policy for governments and private companies. SC&A is a certified US government contractor, and has been under contract from the US Trade & Development Agency (USTDA) for public infrastructure analysis in two West African countries, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe. He also was a consultant to Sao Tome for the purpose of establishing transparent public contracting procedures. In 2004 SC&A was under contract to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe to recommend draft legislation to govern the spending of future oil revenues and to create a permanent public investment fund. This contract was funded by the World Bank and UNDP. Mr. Cowper has been sponsored by the World Bank to make presentations on resource-derived revenue policy, most recently in Trinidad and Tobago in December 2004. In 2003 Mr. Cowper co-authored a report on electric power generation and transmission policy for the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA).

Mr. Cowper is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy in Washington, DC, which provides training for port security personnel worldwide. In 1991 he was a Visiting Fellow at the New York-New Jersey Port Authority. He is the Chairman of the Northeast Asia Economic Forum, which focuses on large energy projects in Japan, China, Korea, Mongolia, and Eastern Russia, and is part of the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, where he was also a Visiting Scholar in 1998. His most recent publications are "After California", in Energy Markets October 2001, and "A National Oil and Gas Trust", in Natural Gas & Electricity September 2004.

Mr. Cowper has lived, worked, or traveled in 55 countries. He has testified before the US Congress 14 times on federal land use, national forest management, national energy policy, fisheries management, oil and gas exploration and development, oil spill prevention, and granting "Most Favored Nation" status to Russia for trade purposes. He testified before the Canadian Parliament in 1996 on Arctic energy policy.

Mr. Cowper received an honorary doctorate in laws from Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea in 1988. He won the President's Public Service Award from the Nature Conservancy in 1989, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of North Carolina in 1990. In 1989 he was made an Honorary Citizen of Magadan Oblast in Russia.

About Wescorp

Wescorp is situated in the Calgary - Edmonton corridor near the geographic centre of North America's oil and gas reserves, sharing the same language and work ethic as the continent's other dominant energy capitals - Houston, Dallas and Denver. Strongly networked within this culture and a major shareholder of energy holdings itself, Wescorp has the long-established relationships and financial resources necessary to bring new energy solutions to market. Wescorp initiates testing and development with major energy players to establish industry acceptance, and then provides the sales, service and distribution infrastructure necessary to market these innovations globally and profitably.

Any statements contained herein that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and involve risks and uncertainties. Potential factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Information on the potential factors that could affect the Company's actual results of operations are included in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These risks may be further discussed in periodic reports and registration statements to be filed by the Company from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the future.