Vanoil Acquires Fluormin Plc.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - May 22, 2013) - Vanoil Energy Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:VEL) ("Vanoil" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has acquired all the issued and to be issued shares of Fluormin Plc. ("Fluormin") pursuant to Fluormin's Scheme of Arrangement (the "Scheme") and the resulting securities exchange. Pursuant to the terms of the Scheme, Vanoil has issued an aggregate of:

• 45,027,771 common shares (the "Shares") of Vanoil;
• 33,218,214 warrants (the "$1.00 Warrants") exercisable to acquire one common share of Vanoil at a price of $1.00 until May 17, 2015; and
• 6,475,247 warrants (the "$0.75 Warrants") exercisable to acquire one common share of Vanoil at a price of $0.75 until March 13, 2014.

Aaron D'Este, Vanoil's President and CEO, stated, "The completion of the Fluormin acquisition is yet another significant milestone in Vanoil's plans to aggressively pursue its strategic business objectives and exploration programmes."

Pursuant to the Scheme, the holders of 43,420 Fluormin shares who were unable to participate in the securities exchange will be entitled to receive the net proceeds from the sale of their allocation of Shares together with an aggregate cash payment of $785 in lieu of unissued $1.00 Warrants and $0.75 Warrants. In addition, an aggregate of 925,332 Fluormin options were not exchanged for $1.00 Warrants, but will now, if exercised, entitle the holder to 0.806 of a Share, 0.572 of a $1.00 Warrant and 0.116 of a $0.75 Warrant in lieu of a Fluormin share, on the same basis as if they had participated in the Scheme.

To find out more about Vanoil, please visit our website at www.vanoil.ca.

About Vanoil Energy Ltd.

Vanoil is an oil and gas company with a portfolio of assets in East Africa and the African state of the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean.

In Kenya, Vanoil holds a 100% interest in onshore Blocks 3A and 3B, acquired in October 2007 through the signing of a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with the Government of the Republic of Kenya. These blocks cover 24,912 km² between Tullow Oil's recent oil discoveries and Apache Corp.'s offshore gas well.

In the Seychelles, Vanoil has a 25% participating interest alongside partner Afren plc ("Afren") in offshore Exploration Areas A and B, covering some 14,319 km².

In Rwanda, Vanoil has the exclusive right to negotiate a production sharing contract with the Republic of Rwanda covering 1,631 km² of oil and gas concessions incorporating the Eastern portion of Lake Kivu and the surrounding shoreline.

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