Flint Awarded Suncor Contract Extension

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CALGARY, Oct. 14 /CNW/ - Flint Energy Services Ltd. (Flint, the Company) announced that it was awarded a contract extension for work on Suncor Energy's Firebag SAGD projects near Fort McMurray, Alberta for site-wide construction and commissioning services.  The contract extension of approximately $78 million will increase the Company's total contract scope to just over $110 million.

Work on the contract will be completed by Flint's Facility Infrastructure Division and will employ over 700 workers through early 2011.

Flint Energy Services Ltd. is a market leader providing an expanding range of integrated products and services for the oil and gas industry including: production services; infrastructure construction; oilfield transportation; and maintenance services.  Flint, with more than 10,000 employees, provides this unique breadth of products and services through over 60 strategic locations in the oil and gas producing areas of Western North America, from Inuvik in the Northwest Territories to Mission, Texas on the Mexican border.  Flint is a preferred provider of infrastructure construction management, module fabrication, maintenance services for upgrading, and production facilities in Alberta's oil sands sector. www.flintenergy.com 

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

All statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this news release may be "forward-looking statements".  Such forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, and as such, they should not be unduly relied upon.  The forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and Flint assumes no obligation to update or revise them, except as expressly required by applicable securities law.  Further information regarding risks and uncertainties relating to Flint and its securities can be found in the disclosure documents filed by Flint with the securities regulatory authorities, available at www.sedar.com.

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For further information:

Guy Cocquyt, Director of Investor Relations
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