Imperial Petroleum, Inc. (OTCBB:IPMN) announced that it has purchased the exclusive rights to Canada for the development of a revolutionary process designed to recover bitumen or heavy oil from tar and oil sands. In connection with the purchase, Imperial issued 1.0 million shares of its restricted common stock to Proven Engineering & Technologies LLC, the developer of the process. Imperial had previously announced the formation of Arrakis Oil Recovery, LLC in which it owns a 33.3% interest in the same process technology for territories outside of Canada. The oil sands recovery process uses a non-thermal, mechanical and chemical closed-loop system to recover the bitumen.

?Canada is the single largest producer of oil from tar sands in the world and as a result of the high temperatures employed in the recovery process currently in use in Canada, significant environmental issues associated with oil sand production have been created. The purchase of the exclusive rights to what we believe is the most advanced, cost-effective and eco-friendly processing technology currently available will allow us to penetrate this market more quickly as an environmental remediation company and solve these environmental problems,? Jeffrey T. Wilson, President of Imperial said. ?Our technology provider has already been selected by BP to remediate oil-stained beaches along the Gulf coast using an off-shoot of our technology and we encourage you to visit their website at www.cleanbeachtech.com. We are constructing a 10 ton per hour demonstration facility in Houston, Texas to begin show-casing the oil sand process technology to potential partners in Canada. We have also begun negotiations with larger companies to construct and deploy the equipment in Canada and elsewhere under a sub-license arrangement.?

Imperial is an energy company headquartered in Evansville, Indiana.

This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein. Although the Company believes that the expectations in such statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct.

Imperial Petroleum, Inc.
Jeffrey T. Wilson, 812-867-1433
email: jtwilsonx1@aol.com
website: https://imperialpetroleuminc.com