Trinity Appoints New Director

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Trinity Appoints New Director

September 23, 2016 Trinity Valley Energy Corp. (TE – TSX Venture) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Donald Campo, B.S., to its board of directors.

Donald Campo currently serves as a Vice President of Drilling for Bluescape Energy Partners. He is responsible for technical, financial, and operational review and guidance for portfolio companies as well as operational due diligence for future investments. Mr. Campo also serves on the board of directors of several portfolio companies.

Mr. Campo has a long, diverse 39-year background with hands-on experience in exploration and production, and he is an industry technical leader in oil and gas well construction. Mr. Campo has experience in the oil field service business, contract drilling business, technical, operations and research experience with a major international oil company as well as an independent oil and gas operator. Prior to Bluescape, Mr. Campo spent over 28 years at Royal Dutch Shell Oil at various positions including, field engineer, drilling rig equipment engineer, drilling engineer, senior drilling engineer, drilling rig manager, auditor, production supervisor, staff drilling engineer, regional technology implementation engineer, and global subject matter expert for drilling with casing and liners, expandable liner hangers, and tubular expansion. Mr. Campo holds 8 patents on various drilling and completion technologies, including a drill in expandable liner hanger that reduced average drilling $400,000/well and extended the economic life to two major high-pressure/high-temperature South Texas development fields by +10 years. Record lowcost wells in four divisions were drilled under his efforts. While at Shell, Campo drilled approximately 1,950 exploration, development, and research trial wells in 12 different basins and on three different continents.

Approximately 1700 wells were drilled in a major steam flood field in S. California. Mr. Campo was also lead engineer of an early thermal conduction pilot project using downhole electric heaters.

Mr. Campo graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical and aerospace engineering. Campo has authored numerous industry technical papers and has made presentations at many industry technical conferences, further distinguishing himself as a design engineer with his development of new technology tools and techniques for drilling and completion.

The Company also announces the resignation of Jerry Minni as a Director of the Company. The Company would like to thank Mr. Minni for his contributions to the Company during his appointment to the Board of Directors and wishes him well in his future endeavours.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Jeffrey Cocks

Chairman

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