East West Adopts Advance Notice Policy

May 23, 2013

Vancouver, British Columbia, May 23, 2013: East West Petroleum Corp. (TSX-V: EW) (the “Company” or “East West”) announces the approval by its board of directors of an advance notice policy (the “Policy”). The purpose of the Policy is to (i) facilitate an orderly and efficient annual general or, where the need arises, special meeting, process, (ii) ensure that all shareholders receive adequate notice of the director nominations and sufficient information regarding all director nominees, and (iii) allow shareholders to register an informed vote after having been afforded reasonable time for appropriate deliberation.

The Policy, among other things, includes a provision that requires advance notice to the Company in certain circumstances where nominations of persons for election to the board of directors are made by shareholders of the Company. The Policy fixes a deadline by which director nominations must be submitted to the Company prior to any annual or special meeting of shareholders and sets forth the information that must be included in the notice to the Company for the notice to be in proper written form. 

In the case of an annual meeting of shareholders, notice to the Company must be made not less than 30 days nor more than 65 days prior to the date of the annual meeting, provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting is to be held on a date that is less than 50 days after the date on which the first public announcement of the date of the annual meeting was made, notice may be made not later than the close of business on the 10th day following such public announcement. 

In the case of a special meeting of shareholders, which is not also an annual meeting, called for the purpose of electing directors (whether or not called for other purposes), notice to the Company must be made not later than the close of business on the 15th day following the day on which the first public announcement of the date of the special meeting was made. 

The Policy is in effect as at the date of this news release. Pursuant to the terms of the Policy, the Company will seek shareholder ratification of the Policy at its next annual general meeting of shareholders (the “Meeting”) scheduled for June 26, 2013. If the Policy is not confirmed at the Meeting, the Policy will terminate and be of no further force and effect following the termination of the Meeting. The full text of the Policy is available under the Company’s profile at www.sedar.com and on the Company’s website www.eastwestpetroleum.ca  or upon request by contacting the Company at #1210 - 1095 W. Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 2M6, telephone 604-682-1558.

About East West Petroleum Corp.

East West Petroleum (www.eastwestpetroleum.ca) is a TSX Venture Exchange listed company which was established in 2010 to invest in emerging unconventional resource plays, leveraging management's knowledge of international opportunities and unconventional play technical expertise. In its first 18 months of operations, the Company has built an attractive platform of assets of over 1.6 million acres:  an oil-prone exploration block of 100,000 acres in the Assam region of India with the three largest exploration and production Indian firms ONGC, Oil India and GAIL; four exploration concessions covering 1,000,000 acres in the prolific Pannonian Basin of western Romania with a subsidiary of Russia’s GazpromNeft; a 100% interest in a 500,000 acre exploration block onshore Morocco with conventional and unconventional potential; three exploration permits in New Zealand with partner TAG OIL (TAO :TSX) and a joint venture exploration program covering 5,000 gross acres in California. The Company is now poised to enter operational phases in Romania where it will be fully carried by its partner Gazprom-controlled Naftna Industrija Srbije in a seismic and 12-well drilling program expected to commence in 2013. The Company expects to commence drilling operations in New Zealand with up to 9 wells to be drilled in 2013. The Company is well funded to cover all anticipated seismic and drilling operations through 2013.
 
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CONTACT:
David Sidoo, Chairman
telephone: +1 604 682 1558 
fax: +1 604 682 1568   
 
Greg Renwick, President & CEO 
telephone: +1 972 955 7251  
fax: +1 604 683 1585

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