Trans-Orient Presents Video on its Fractured Oil-Shale Project

VANCOUVER, April 23/PRNewswire/ -- Canadian-based oil and gas exploration company Trans-Orient Petroleum
Ltd. (OTCBB: TOPLF) is pleased to announce that it has launched
TransOrient.tv, which includes a number of informative video clips taken on
a recent geological field trip to its East Coast basin fractured oil-shale
project in New Zealand.

To view these short videos please visit: http://www.transorient.tv

Trans-Orient also advises that Mr. Drew Cadenhead, Chief Operating
Officer, is scheduled to present to investment representatives, fund
managers and private investors attending the Equities Mining and Resource
Conference in New York City at 9:40 am, Thursday, April 25th at the
Princeton Club of New York.

About Trans-Orient

Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. holds a 100% interest in two exploration
permit areas totaling approximately 2.2 million onshore acres of the East
Coast Basin of New Zealand. The acreage contains several exploration play
types including an unconventional opportunity targeting the fractured
Waipawa Black Shale and Whangai Shale formations. These high-quality
source-rock formations are widespread and thickly developed across
Trans-Orient's acreage and have a number of similarities to developing
shale projects in North America.

For further information: on Trans-Orient's fractured oil-shale project
please visit: http://transorient.com/fractured-shale.asp; Dan Brown,
+1-604-682-6496, dbrown@iremco.com, http://www.transorient.com

Source: Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd.

For further information: on Trans-Orient's fractured oil-shale project please
visit: http://transorient.com/fractured-shale.asp; Dan Brown, +1-604-682-6496. dbrown@iremco.com,

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