East West Petroleum Announces Results of Annual General Meeting

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Sept. 29, 2014) - East West Petroleum Corp. (TSX VENTURE:EW) (the "Company" or "East West") announces that at its annual general meeting of shareholders (the "AGM") held September 26, 2014, the shareholders re-elected Messrs. David Sidoo, Nick DeMare, Hon. Herb Dhaliwal and Dr. Marc Bustin as directors of the Company. The shareholders also re-appointed Davidson & Company, LLP as the auditor for the Company for the ensuing year.

Subsequent to the AGM, the directors appointed Mr. David Sidoo as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Mr. Nick DeMare as the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary. In addition, Messrs. Nick DeMare, Hon. Herb Dhaliwal and Dr. Marc Bustin were appointed to the audit committee.

About East West Petroleum Corp.

East West Petroleum (http://www.eastwestpetroleum.ca) is a TSX Venture Exchange listed company established in 2010 to invest in international oil & gas opportunities. East West has built a diverse portfolio of attractive exploration assets covering a gross area of approximately 1.3 million acres. The Company has its primary focus on two key areas: New Zealand, where it has established production and cash flow and is evaluating a low risk exploration play, and Romania where it is fully carried on an upcoming high impact 12 well exploration program. In New Zealand, East West holds an interest in three exploration permits near to existing commercial production in the Taranaki Basin, operated by TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX:TAO); in December 2013, the Company was awarded a 40% interest in one block in the emerging East Coast Basin of New Zealand, which covers over 100,000 acres. The Company also has interests in four exploration concessions covering 1,000,000 acres in the prolific Pannonian Basin of western Romania with Naftna Industrija Srbije ("NIS").

Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company's actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such factors include, but are not limited to: the ability to raise sufficient capital to fund exploration and development; the quantity of and future net revenues from the Company's reserves; oil and natural gas production levels; commodity prices, foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates; capital expenditure programs and other expenditures; supply and demand for oil and natural gas; schedules and timing of certain projects and the Company's strategy for growth; competitive conditions; the Company's future operating and financial results; and treatment under governmental and other regulatory regimes and tax, environmental and other laws.

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