Petrolia Announces the Results from its 2015 Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders

QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - May 28, 2015) - Pétrolia (TSX VENTURE:PEA) announces that at its Annual General and Special Meeting held on May 28, 2015, shareholders elected Mr. Alexandre Gagnon, Mr. Jacques Bourgeois, Mr. David McCallum, Mr. Albert Wildgen, Mr. Martin Bélanger, Mr. Myron Tétreault and Mr. Charles Boulanger as directors.

All other items on the agenda were also approved, including the ratification of the Company's 10% rolling stock option plan. The Company's shareholders also approved the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the auditors of the Company.

Pétrolia granted 75,000 stock options to a director of the Corporation at an exercise price of $0.55 per share expiring May 27, 2020.

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 almost 23% of the Québec territory under lease. The closing of a partnership on Anticosti Island has led to the creation of Anticosti Hydrocarbons L.P., a limited partnership in which Pétrolia holds a 21.7% interest. In order to carry out the project's operations, Pétrolia Anticosti Inc., a subsidiary of Pétrolia, was designated project operator. Pétrolia is a Quebec company whose objective is to develop oil from here, by the people here, for here. Pétrolia has 80 345 195 shares issued and outstanding.

Forward-looking statements

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