UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549


                                    FORM 8-K
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                                 CURRENT REPORT
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     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


                                DECEMBER 8, 2009
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                Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)


                            MORGAN CREEK ENERGY CORP.
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             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

           NEVADA                       0-25455                 201777817
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(State or other jurisdiction    (Commission File Number)      (IRS Employer
     of incorporation)                                      Identification No.)

                       5050 QUORUM DRIVE
                           SUITE 700
                        DALLAS, TEXAS                          75254
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           (Address of principal executive offices)          (Zip Code)


                                 (214) 321-0603
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               Registrant's telephone number, including area code

                                       N/A
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          (Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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SECTION 5. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

ITEM 5.02 DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR PRINCIPAL  OFFICERS;  ELECTION OF DIRECTORS;
APPOINTMENT OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS

Effective on December 8, 2009,  the Board of Directors  (the  "Board") of Morgan
Creek  Energy  Corp.,  a  Nevada   corporation  (the  "Company")   accepted  the
resignation of Marcus  Johnson as a member of the Board of Directors.  Effective
on December 8, 2009, the Board of Directors of the Company  accepted the consent
of John  Clayton  Weldy as a member of the Board of  Directors.  Therefore,  the
Board of Directors is comprised of Peter Wilson, D. Bruce Horton,  Erik Essiger,
Angelo Viard,  Peter Carpenter and John C. Weldy Jr. Mr. Weldy's biography is as
follows:

JOHN CLAYTON WELDY JR. Mr. Weldy has eighteen years of diversified experience as
a petroleum,  mechanical and  environmental  engineer.  His areas of specialized
knowledge  extend  from  personal   management,   completions,   operations  and
production  engineering  to project  engineering  and  management.  Mr.  Weldy's
expertise also includes conceptualization,  design, planning and managing people
and projects to achieve goals  efficiently.  From February 2009 to current date,
Mr.  Weldy  is a  senior  completion  engineer  for Eni  Petroleum,  where he is
responsible  for  leading  subsea and shelf well  completions  and  intervention
projects in the Gulf of Mexico.  From  approximately  September 2008 to February
2009,  Mr.  Weldy was the senior  operations/production/completions  engineer at
SandRidge Energy.  He managed all phases of operations,  production and facility
engineering for properties  offshore,  onshore and inland in the Gulf of Mexico.
He was further  responsible  for  engineering  design and project  management of
Hurricane  Ike  repairs,  managed  all rig  completions  and  remedial  workover
procedures,  including written procedures,  completion strategy, cost estimating
and securing of equipment and services.  Mr. Weldy was also  responsible for the
design,  layout and  management of the  construction  of production  facilities,
preparation of procedures for and supervision of wellhead remedial operations on
existing  oil and gas  wells,  the  performance  of nodal  analysis  on  various
production wells using nodal analysis  software and the design,  troubleshooting
and installation of gas lifts for offshore wells.

From  approximately  August  2005  through  September  2008,  Mr.  Weldy was the
deepwater subsea  completions  engineer for Shell  International and Exploration
Company.  From  approximately  February 2004, through August 2005, Mr. Weldy was
the  vice  president  of  operations   for  Petroreal  of  America,   Inc.  From
approximately  January 2003 through  January 2004, Mr. Weldy was a self employed
consultant. From approximately May 2001 through December 2002, Mr. Weldy was the
production manager for Century  Exploration Inc. From approximately  August 2000
through May 2001, Mr. Weldy was the senior petroleum  engineer for Watson Energy
LLC. And from  approximately  April 2000 through  August 2000, Mr. Weldy was the
operations engineer for Operational Services Inc.

Prior to 2000, Mr. Weldy worked for nine years at Texaco Exploration  Company as
a production, facility and completions engineer.

Mr. Weldy earned a Master of Science degree in  environmental  engineering  from
Tulane  University.  He also earned a Bachelor of Science  degree in  mechanical
engineering  and in petroleum  engineering  from the University of Alabama.  Mr.
Weldy co-authored a SPE paper on "Best Completion Practices".

The Company  intends to grant an aggregate of 200,000 stock options  exercisable
at $0.58 per share for a period of ten years.





SECTION 9 - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS

ITEM 9.01   FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS

(A) FINANCIAL  STATEMENTS OF BUSINESS  ACQUIRED.

Not applicable.

(B) PRO FORMA FINANCIAL INFORMATION.

Not applicable.

(C) SHELL COMPANY TRANSACTION.

Not applicable.

(D) EXHIBITS.

Not applicable.

                                   SIGNATURES


Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of  1934,  the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                            MORGAN CREEK ENERGY CORP.

DATE:  DECEMBER 11, 2009.               /s/ PETER WILSON
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                                        NAME: PETER WILSON
                                        TITLE: PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

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