June 8, 2006

Storm Cat Energy Corporation to Present at the CAPP 2006 Oil & Gas Symposium

CALGARY and DENVER – (PR Newswire) – June 8, 2006 – Storm Cat Energy Corporation (AMEX: SCU; TSX.V: SME) today announced that it will be a presenting company at The CAPP 2006 Oil & Gas Investment Symposium to be held June 12 through 14, 2006 in Calgary, Alberta Canada at the Hyatt Regency Calgary. Storm Cat’s President and CEO, J. Scott Zimmerman, is scheduled to present on Monday, June 12, 2006 at 11:50 A.M. MDT (1:50 P.M. EDT, 12:50 P.M. CDT, and 10:50 A.M. PDT). Interested parties can view and listen to Storm Cat’s presentation by clicking on Storm Cat’s website, www.stormcatenergy.com prior to the presentation.

Mr. Zimmerman will update investors on the Company’s coal bed methane development program in its Elk Valley CBNG play in southeastern British Columbia, the Moose Mountain shallow gas play in Saskatchewan and recently acquired Mannville CBNG plays in Alberta. In addition, he will discuss the advanced drilling and completion technologies used by Storm Cat in its operating regions; Storm Cat’s technical team has developed and refined a multi-seam completion technology that is designed to increase a well’s daily productive capacity and ultimate reserve potential, while reducing costs per well. Storm Cat believes that these technologies will deliver superior returns on invested capital over its industry competitors.

About Storm Cat Energy

Storm Cat Energy is an independent oil and gas company focused on the pursuit, exploration and development of large unconventional gas reserves from fractured shales, coal beds and tight sand formations. The Company has producing properties in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, exploration and development acreage in Canada and Alaska, and high-risk, high-reward exploration acreage in Mongolia. The Company's shares trade on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol “SCU” and in Canada on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “SME.”

Company Contact:
Scott Zimmerman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Paul Wiesner, Chief Financial Officer
Phone: 87-STORMCAT
www.stormcatenergy.com

By Order of the Board of Directors
Storm Cat Energy Corporation

J. Scott Zimmerman
President and Chief Executive Officer

/s/ J. Scott Zimmerman

Forward-looking Statements

This news release contains certain “forward-looking statements”, as defined in the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 relating to matters such as the Company’s drilling and other exploration plans, and projected well economics. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts; they are generally, but not always, identified by the words “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “intends,” “estimates,” ”projects,” “aims,” “potential,” “goal,” “objective,” “prospective,” and similar expressions, or that events or conditions “will,” “would,” “may,” “can,” “could” or “should” occur. Forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs, estimates and opinions of Storm Cat’s management on the date the statements are made; they involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Consequently, there can be no assurances that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Storm Cat undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements if management’s beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors, should change. Factors that could cause future results to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to the volatility of natural gas prices, the possibility that exploration efforts will not yield economically recoverable quantities of gas, accidents and other risks associated with gas exploration and development operations, the risk that the Company will encounter unanticipated geological factors, the Company’s need for and availability of additional financing, the possibility that the Company may not be able to secure permitting and other governmental clearances necessary to carry out the Company’s exploration and development plans, and the other risk factors discussed in greater detail in the Company’s various filings on SEDAR with Canadian securities regulators and its filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company’s Form 20-F dated July 1, 2005.

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