Triangle Petroleum Adds Vice-President, Corporate Development to Management Team

CALGARY, ALBERTA, May 11 (MARKET WIRE) --
Triangle Petroleum Corporation (the "Company" or "Triangle") (TSX
VENTURE: TPE) (OTCBB: TPLM) is pleased to announce that it has hired a
Vice-President, Corporate Development to join its management team.

Jeff McKenna has joined the Company in the capacity of Vice President,
Corporate Development. Mr. McKenna is a skilled senior landman with over
28 years of oil and gas experience in both public and private companies.
Over the last eight years he was the founder of two private oil and gas
exploration and production companies, Revolve Energy Inc. and Revolution
Energy Ltd. Both of these companies were grown from zero production to
900 barrels of oil equivalent per day ("BOED") and 600 BOED,
respectively, prior to their sale. Mr. McKenna has experience early in
his career working frontier areas at Husky Oil Ltd. and Conoco Canada
Limited and as Land Manager at Startech Energy Inc. He gained senior
management experience as Vice President, Land at Volterra Energy Inc. and
OGY Petroleums Ltd. Mr. McKenna is a native of Halifax, and received his
Bachelor of Commerce at Saint Mary's University. His contact information
is jeff@trianglepetroleum.com and 403-781-7727.

Howard Anderson, President & COO of Triangle, states, "We are very
fortunate that Jeff was available and interested in joining our
management team. He will be part of the team seeking to bring onboard a
new joint venture partner to the Company's Windsor shale gas project in
Nova Scotia and will oversee all of our land related functions."

About Triangle Petroleum Corporation

Triangle is an exploration company focused on an emerging Canadian shale
gas project covering 475,000 gross acres (270,000 net acres) in the
Maritimes Basin in Nova Scotia through Elmworth Energy Corporation, its
Calgary-based operating subsidiary. Triangle's common shares trade on the
TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol TPE and on the OTC Bulletin Board
under the symbol TPLM.

Safe Harbor Statement. This news release includes statements about
expected future events and/or results that are forward-looking in nature
and subject to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in
this release include, but are not limited to the Company's planned joint
venture activities. It is important to note that actual outcomes and the
Company's actual results could differ materially from those in such
forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially include the possibility that additional investments
will not be made or that appropriate opportunities for development will
not be available or will not be properly developed. For additional risk
factors about our Company, readers should refer to risk disclosure
contained in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and on SEDAR.

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Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of
the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this release.

Contacts:
Triangle Petroleum Corporation
Jason Krueger, CFA
Corporate Communications
(403) 374-1234
Email: info@trianglepetroleum.com
Website: www.trianglepetroleum.com

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