Harvest Natural Resources Appoints UHY as New Independent Auditor

Harvest Natural Resources

today announced that at the direction and with the unanimous approval of the Audit Committee of the Company's Board of Directors, Harvest has dismissed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as its independent registered public accounting firm and engaged UHY LLP to become its new independent registered public accounting firm. Because of the change in its independent registered public accounting firm, Harvest also announced that, at its upcoming annual stockholder meeting to be held on June 27, 2013, it will drop from the matters to be voted on at the meeting Proposal 2, the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as its independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2013.  Stockholders will not vote on the ratification of UHY LLP as the new independent registered public accounting firm at this year's annual meeting, but Harvest expects that the ratification of UHY LLP as its independent registered public accounting firm will be voted on by stockholders at Harvest's 2014 annual meeting. About Harvest Natural Resources:Harvest Natural Resources, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is an independent energy company with principal operations in Venezuela, exploration assets in Indonesia, West Africa, and China and business development