TransGlobe Energy Corporation Appoints Mr. Robert G. Jennings to Board of Directors

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Sept. 13, 2011) - TransGlobe Energy Corporation (TSX:TGL) (NASDAQ:TGA) ("TransGlobe" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Robert (Rob) G. Jennings to its Board of Directors. Mr. Jennings will serve as the sixth independent Director of TransGlobe.

Mr. Jennings has recently retired from Jennings Capital Inc. which he established in 1993, as a full service independent investment firm providing corporations with research, corporate finance and sales services in both the national and international marketplace.

Rob's career in investment banking began in 1968, when he joined McLeod Young Weir and assumed positions of increasing responsibility until ultimately Vice President, Corporate Finance for Alberta. In January 1979, he created a boutique firm, Carson Jennings & Associates, focused on private placements and merger/acquisition markets. In September 1988 Rob sold the firm to Walwyn Stodgell Ltd., prior to Walwyn's takeover of Midland Doherty, accepting the position of Senior Vice President and Director of Corporate and Government Finance for Western Canada with Midland Walwyn Capital Inc. He remained in the position until August 1993, when he founded Jennings Capital Inc. in Calgary.

Rob serves and has previously served on several public, private and charitable boards including a number of resource companies.

"We are very pleased with the addition of Rob to our Board. His extensive board and investment banking experience in the resource sector including mergers and acquisitions, will strongly enhance TransGlobe's Board of Directors as the Company continues to grow and expand," stated Robert A. Halpin, Chairman of the Board of Directors.

TransGlobe Energy Corporation is a Calgary-based, growth-oriented oil and gas exploration and development company focused on the Middle East/North Africa region with production operations in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Republic of Yemen. TransGlobe's common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol TGL and on the NASDAQ Exchange under the symbol TGA.

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