VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 02/16/12 — Vanoil Energy Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: VEL) (“Vanoil” or the “Company”) announces that its Annual General Meeting of the shareholders called for Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. (Vancouver Time) has been cancelled and will be rescheduled in due course.
About Vanoil Energy Ltd.
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Vanoil is an internationally diversified resource company that has a comprehensive portfolio of oil and gas assets in the African countries of Kenya and Rwanda. In Kenya, Blocks 3A and 3B were acquired in October 2007 through the signing of a Production Sharing Contract with the Government of the Republic of Kenya. Blocks 3A and 3B, which cover 24,912 square kilometers, are part of the vastly under-explored Cretaceous Central African Rift Basin System, an area that may hold the next major sub-Saharan discoveries. Vanoil–s 1,631 square kilometers of oil and gas exclusive licence in the East Kivu Graben in Rwanda is at the southern extension of the Albertine Graben where Heritage and Tullow Oil made their historic discovery in neighbouring Uganda.
On behalf of the Board of
VANOIL ENERGY LTD.
James Passin, President and CEO
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Contacts:
Vanoil Energy Ltd.
Don Padgett
604-689-1515