Torrent Energy Corporation (OTCBB: TREN) is an exploration stage company engaged in the exploration for coalbed methane in the Coos Bay region of Oregon and in the Chehalis Basin region of Washington State. Through one of the company's wholly-owned subsidiaries, Methane Energy Corp., Torrent Energy now holds leases to approximately 116,000 acres of prospective coalbed methane lands in the Coos Bay Basin, Oregon with year around access. Through its other wholly-owned subsidiary, Cascadia Energy Corp., Torrent Energy is evaluating 100,000 acres under a private lease option agreement and 14,964 acres under state leases and 15,280 acres of mineral rights interests under a private lease option agreement with Pope Resources LP in Washington State to define an exploratory program for possible hydrocarbon deposits.