Vortex Energy Corp. announced that drill and crew mobilization has begun at the Company's property, the Robinsons River Salt Project (the "Project"), for its fully permitted exploration program. The Company has contracted Major Drilling Group International Inc. ("Major Drilling") to complete the diamond core drilling, as announced on October 20(th), 2023, and is expected to commence in the first week of November.

Major Drilling has been contracted to drill two core wells at targets identified by the Company and its consultant partner, RESPEC Consulting Inc. ("RESPEC"), through a hydrogen storage capacity assessment previously completed by the Company on the Project. Major Drilling is one of the larger drilling services companies primarily serving the mining industry. Major Drilling maintains field operations and offices in Canada, the United States, Mexico, South America, Africa and Australasia.

Major Drilling provides a complete suite of drilling services for both surface and underground projects. About RESPEC Consulting Inc. RESPEC is a global leader in diverse technologies and draws from a wide array of expertise, products, and services to deliver world-class solutions for business, mining, energy, water, natural resources, urban development, infrastructure, and enterprise services. RESPEC's subsurface experts have evaluated over 1,000 caverns in nearly every major cavern storage region in the world.

RESPEC's over 50-year history underground has helped to pioneer in-house specialty software and rock lab testing that focuses on designing solution-mined and conventionally mined storage caverns. RESPEC also plays a similar role with the ACES Delta in Utah, the larger green hydrogen project under construction.