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Advantage Energy Income Fund Converted Into Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd.

Posted on: Thursday, 9 July 2009, 17:59 CDT

CALGARY, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd. ("AOG" or the "Corporation") (AAV - TSX, AAV - NYSE) announced today that it has completed the previously announced plan of arrangement (the "Arrangement") involving AOG and Advantage Energy Income Fund (the "Fund"), pursuant to which, the Fund converted into the Corporation.

Unitholders of the Fund voted 91.64% in favour of the Arrangement at the annual general and special meeting of Fund unitholders held earlier in the day. In accordance with the terms of the Arrangement, former unitholders of the Fund who have or will complete the letter of transmittal provided to such unitholders will receive common shares of AOG on a one-for-one basis. In addition, as part of the Arrangement, the Fund was dissolved and the Corporation assumed all of the existing liabilities of the Fund, including the Fund's convertible debentures which are now convertible debentures of the Corporation.

It is anticipated that the Corporation's common shares and convertible debentures will commence trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the new trading symbols "AAV", "AAV.DB.C", "AAV.DB.D", "AAV.DB.E", and "AAV.DB.G" and the Corporation's common shares will commence trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "AAV" on or about July 14, 2009. The trust units and convertible debentures of the Fund will be delisted at this time as well.

At the annual general and special meeting of the Fund, unitholders also approved the Shareholders' Rights Plan and the Restricted Share Performance Incentive Plan of AOG.

At the annual general and special meeting of the Fund, unitholders also appointed Stephen Balog, Kelly I. Drader, Paul Haggis, John A. Howard, Andy J. Mah, Ronald A. McIntosh, Sheila O'Brien, Carol D. Pennycook and Steven Sharpe as directors of the Corporation. Messrs. Gary Bourgeois and Rodger Tourigny did not stand for re-election as directors and AOG would like to express its sincere thanks to Messrs. Bourgeois and Tourigny for their dedicated service to the Corporation and the Fund over the previous eight years.

Advisory

The information in this press release contains certain forward-looking statements including, without limitation, the anticipated timing of the listing of AOG's common shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange; the listing of the convertible debentures on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the delisting of the Fund's trust units on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange and delisting of the convertible debentures on the Toronto Stock Exchange. These statements relate to future events or our future performance. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "plan", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "may", "will", "project", "predict", "potential", "targeting", "intend", "could", "might", "should", "believe", "would" and similar expressions. These statements involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond AOG's control, including: the impact of general economic conditions; industry conditions; changes in laws and regulations including the adoption of new environmental laws and regulations and changes in how they are interpreted and enforced; fluctuations in commodity prices and foreign exchange and interest rates; stock market volatility and market valuations; volatility in market prices for oil and natural gas; liabilities inherent in oil and natural gas operations; uncertainties associated with estimating oil and natural gas reserves; competition for, among other things, capital, acquisitions, of reserves, undeveloped lands and skilled personnel; incorrect assessments of the value of acquisitions; changes in income tax laws or changes in tax laws and incentive programs relating to the oil and gas industry; geological, technical, drilling and processing problems and other difficulties in producing petroleum reserves; and obtaining required approvals of regulatory authorities. AOG's actual results, performance or achievement could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, such forward-looking statements and, accordingly, no assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur or, if any of them do, what benefits that AOG will derive from them. Except as expressly required by law, AOG undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.

SOURCE Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd.

Source: PR Newswire

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