Canadian Entrepreneur Strengthens Board

Trans-Orient Petroleum Announces New Board Appointment

VANCOUVER, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

Canadian Entrepreneur Strengthens the Company's Board

Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. (OTC Bulletin Board: TOPLF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Alex P. Guidi as a Director of the Company. Mr. Guidi is the principal of International Resource Management Corp. (IREMCO), a Vancouver-based private holding company with investments in oil and gas and technology companies.

"We're pleased that Mr. Guidi has accepted this nomination," said Dr. David Bennett, Executive Chairman of Trans-Orient. "As a highly successful entrepreneur and the founder of oil and gas companies focused in and around the Australasia region, he brings a wealth of knowledge to the company. That knowledge will be a valuable complement to our expansion strategies."

Mr. Guidi has nearly three decades of business leadership experience and is the founder of a number of successful oil and gas, technology and real estate enterprises. The Australasian oil and gas companies Mr. Guidi has founded include Austral Pacific Energy Ltd., TAG Oil Ltd. and Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd.; combined, they continue to play a significant role in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea's emerging oil and gas industries.

Mr. Guidi stated, "I am extremely excited to become involved again with Trans-Orient. In today's complex, high-cost environment, creating opportunity, and more importantly creating long-term value for shareholders, has become even more challenging for small independents. With Trans-Orient, I'm joining a strong team with an outstanding track record that understands the distinct challenges - and significant opportunities - that oil and gas companies face in the region. That's what has motivated me to rejoin the Australasian venture I incubated several years ago, as we work to energize Trans-Orient to the next level of its corporate development."

Beginning in the late 1980s, Mr. Guidi was involved in various Western Canadian oil and gas ventures, including a participant in the development of the Karr gas field. Mr. Guidi was also instrumental in transforming and developing a small Alberta-based company into an oil and gas producer with a significant undeveloped land position that was ultimately merged with Bonavista Petroleum Ltd. at its early stages of development.

Mr. Guidi is not a director of any other public company. To view Mr. Guidi's share holdings in Trans-Orient, please click here: http://transorient.com/shares-stock-oil.asp About Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. is a Canadian-based corporation acquiring and exploring for oil and gas in the Australasian region. Currently, the Company holds a 100% interest in two lightly explored exploration permit areas totaling approximately 2.2 million acres of the East Coast Basin of New Zealand; the acreage contains several exploration play types with significant undiscovered resource potential, including an unconventional opportunity targeting the fractured oil and gas shale, which is widespread and thickly developed across the acreage. Trans-Orient has also developed an oil and gas acquisition and growth strategy that focuses on Australasia. In particular, the strategy centers on New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and the Timor Sea, where the Company's leadership team have had extensive experience and a proven track record of success.

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