Disclosure of the Agreement Petrolia-Hydro-Quebec

RIMOUSKI, QUÉBEC--(Marketwired - Sept. 5, 2013) - Pétrolia (TSX VENTURE:PEA) and Hydro-Québec disclose today the full terms of the agreement signed on January 22, 2008 with Hydro-Québec. The work realized under this agreement has allowed the identification of a significant petroleum resource on Anticosti Island whose best estimate (P50) is 34 billion barrels of oil undiscovered initially-in-place (press releases of June 29, 2011 and July 11, 2013). This oil resource opens the way to important economic development for Quebec and for Pétrolia.

The main terms of the agreement are the following:

• Hydro-Québec assigns all its rights and obligations in 35 permits to explore for oil on the Anticosti Island, being:
  • a 50% interest in 29 permits
  • a 25% interest in 6 permits
    

• Pétrolia grants to Hydro-Québec:
  
  • a priority fee (on the portion of the interests assigned) on the possible oil production. This fee is equal to:
  • 1% on the first 3 million barrels of oil produced;
  • 2% on the portion between 3 and 10 million barrels of oil produced; and
  • 3% on the portion which exceeds 10 million barrels produced.
• a right of first refusal to participate at the stage of development of a commercial hydrocarbon discovery up to 50% of any interest offered to a third party. The exercise of this option will not allowed Hydro-Québec to his right to a priority fee.
• An hypothec of $10 million dollars to guarantee the payment of the priority fee
• An amount of $460,000 to obtain the right to use seismic data of Hydro-Québec.
  

The entire agreement is available on the Internet site of Pétrolia at the following address: http://petroliagaz.com/

About Pétrolia

Pétrolia is a junior oil and gas exploration company which owns interests in oil and gas licenses covering 16,000 km² (4 million acres), which represents about 22% of the Québec territory under lease. The leases, the majority of which are located on the Gaspé Peninsula and Anticosti Island, are considered to be very promising and represent almost 71% of the territory under lease for which there is land-based oil potential in Québec. Pétrolia has 69 431 372 shares issued and outstanding and has a working capital of $ 4,000,000.

Forward-looking statements

Certain statements made herein may constitute forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or the future economic performance of Pétrolia and carry known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may appreciably affect their results, economic performance or accomplishments when considered in light of the content or implications o statements made by Pétrolia. Actual events or results could be significantly different. Accordingly, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Pétrolia does not intend and undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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