Oil Optimization Announces Further Extension to Funding Agreement

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Nov. 10, 2015) -

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Oil Optimization Inc. (TSX VENTURE:OOI) (the "Company") announced today that it has agreed to extend the closing date of the transaction with Singapore-based EP Global Limited on a non-exclusive basis, until to February 7, 2016.

As announced by the Company on July 21, 2015, the terms of the agreement call for EPGL to contribute the next US$2,500,000 towards the Company's work commitments on Block L14-50, that consist of drilling one exploration well, acquiring one hundred line kilometers of seismic data and generating a detailed geophysical report, all as outlined in the Petroleum Concession Agreement awarded to the Company by the Thai Ministry of Energy on February 8, 2011.

On closing of the transaction and upon full satisfaction of any conditions, EPGL will own a seventy percent working interest in the concession, while OOI and RPL will own twenty and ten percent, respectively. The parties will enter into a joint operating agreement on closing, when EPGL will be appointed project operator.

The transaction remains subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval and to the signing of an unconditional definitive agreement.

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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