Torque Announces Receipt of Ontario Energy Board Approval; Milestone Payment Expected from Union Gas

    Torque Energy Inc. (TSX VENTURE: TQE) is pleased to announce that on July 19, 2011 the Ontario Energy Board approved and designated as a storage area, the Jacob Storage Pool. Torque is scheduled to receive, within sixty days, its second milestone payment of approximately $550,000 from Union Gas pursuant to the definitive Asset Purchase Agreement for the Dover East field natural gas storage reservoir previously announced on June 21, 2010. Upon receipt of this payment, Torque will have received $1,256,000.

If the Ontario Energy Board approves the additional reservoirs identified in the definitive Asset Purchase Agreement as designated storage areas the Company will receive approximately $2.65 million during the next two to seven years.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Contacts: Torque Energy Inc. Brian E. Bayley President and CEO 604.689.1428 604.681.4692 (FAX) Torque Energy Inc. David C. Nelms Chief Financial Officer 519.433.7710 519.433.7588 (FAX)