Oil Optimization Concludes Royalty Agreement on Thailand Assets

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Dec. 23, 2015) -

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Oil Optimization Inc. (TSX VENTURE:OOI) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has concluded a gross overriding royalty agreement with Rockstone Petroleum BVI Limited ("RPL"). The Company will transfer ownership of its wholly-owned subsidiary, JSX Energy Holdings BVI Limited ("JSX"), to RPL for a 10% gross overriding royalty on all future oil & gas discoveries made in JSX's 500,000 acre petroleum concession onshore Thailand, known as Block L14/50. As sole owner of JSX, RPL will assume all legal, operational and funding responsibilities going forward.

Singapore-based EP Global Limited earlier informed the Company of its inability to satisfy closing conditions stipulated in the agreement that it entered into with the Company, last extended on November 10, 2015, and a mutual decision was reached to release all parties to the agreement without liability or further obligation to the other.

About Oil Optimization Inc.

Oil Optimization Inc. is an international junior oil and gas exploration company based in Canada with an advanced discovery program onshore Thailand. The Company owns the exclusive rights to a 500,000 acre petroleum concession covering the entire northern section of the hydrocarbon-rich Phetchabun basin. The southern section of the basin currently produces approximately 1,888,888 barrels of oil per year and is being developed by China's ECO Orient Energy Limited (60%) (a subsidiary of the Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited), Kazakhstan's Berlanga Group (20%) and Loyz Energy Limited (20%) of Singapore.

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