Uranium Energy Corp Appoints Larry Wilbanks as Regional Geologist and Manager of Colorado Plateau Exploration and Development Program

Field Exploration Office to be Opened in Grand Junction, Colorado in July 2007

AUSTIN, TX - June 20, 2007 - Uranium Energy Corp (OTCBB: URME) (Frankfurt: U6Z) (Berlin: U6Z) announces that Mr. Larry Wilbanks, PG, has been appointed as Uranium Energy Corp's Regional Geologist for the Colorado Plateau.  Mr. Wilbanks will also be responsible for establishing the Company's newest uranium exploration office in Grand Junction, Colorado, to be opened in July 2007.  The ongoing expansion, exploration and development of the Company's Colorado Plateau Projects will be managed from this office.

In the interest of diversifying its uranium property portfolio, the Company recently expanded its position in the states of Colorado and Utah, with the acquisition of its Colorado Plateau Projects.  (Please see news release of May 17, 2007 for details.)  At present, these projects consist of 5,000 acres of property, including the sites of 15 past producing uranium/vanadium mines, where 5 million pounds of uranium and 16 million pounds of vanadium were produced historically.  Property acquisition programs are ongoing in this prolific uranium-rich district. 

Larry Wilbanks is a career geologist with 28 years of experience in exploration, mining and environmental consulting.  Mr. Wilbanks has a great deal of relevant experience for this post, including, but not limited to, the development of regional uranium exploration programs, underground mine development and reserve calculations while employed by Atlas Minerals; as well as regulatory compliance and engineering design.  Mr. Wilbanks is registered as a professional geologist (PG) in four US states.  He received his Bachelor of Science in Geology from the Tennessee Technological University, and is also certified in various safety courses.

Amir Adnani, President and CEO of Uranium Energy Corp, made the following comments, "With the price of uranium escalating so rapidly, we feel that previously-uneconomic uranium mineralization is very suddenly becoming economically robust.  It is important that we use our drilling databases to acquire as much land as possible where uranium is most likely to exist.  Uranium Energy Corp is aggressively executing this strategy throughout the southwest United States, and our Colorado Plateau Projects are a characteristic example of this."

About Uranium Energy Corp

Uranium Energy Corp (URME: OTCBB) is a US-based junior resource company with the objective of becoming a near-term ISR uranium producer in the United States.  The Company is developing its advanced-stage Goliad Project in South Texas, with ISR uranium production projected to begin in 2009.  Uranium Energy Corp controls one of the largest historical uranium exploration and development databases in the US.  Through the use of these databases, the Company has acquired advanced uranium properties throughout the southwestern US.  The operational management is comprised of pre-eminent uranium mining and exploration professionals, whose collective experience in the uranium mining industry gives the Company ongoing uranium mine-finding and uranium mine development expertise.  Uranium Energy Corp is well positioned to capitalize on the current alternative energy boom.  For more information, please visit www.uraniumenergy.com.

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