CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/10/12 -- Americas Petrogas (TSX VENTURE:BOE) ("Americas Petrogas" or the "Company") announces that it will be presenting at the following events this week:

1.  The Latin America China Investors Forum (LA-CIF) being held at the Kerry
    Hotel in Shanghai, China on September 11 and 12. 
2.  The Latin America Korea Investors Forum (LA-KIF) being held at the
    Shilla Hotel in Seoul, South Korea on September 14, 2012.

Presentations will include the Company's Conventional and Unconventional (Vaca Muerta Shale) Oil and Gas Exploration and Production activities in Argentina's Neuquen Basin, and the Company's subsidiary, GrowMax Agri Corp., activities at its Potash, Phosphate and other minerals projects in Bayovar, Peru.

In addition, the Company is holding meetings with and making presentations to current and potential investors, and to potential business partners in Hong Kong and Singapore.

For further information regarding the Company, please see the Company's website at www.americaspetrogas.com.

About Americas Petrogas Inc.

Americas Petrogas Inc. is a Canadian company whose shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "BOE". Americas Petrogas has conventional and unconventional shale oil and gas and tight sands oil and gas interests in numerous blocks in the Neuquen Basin of Argentina. Americas Petrogas has joint venture partners, including ExxonMobil and Apache, on various blocks in the shale oil and gas corridor in the Neuquen Basin, Argentina. Americas Petrogas also owns an 80% interest in GrowMax Agri Corp., a private company involved in the exploration and potential development of a potash, phosphates and other minerals project in Peru. For more information about Americas Petrogas Inc., please visit www.americaspetrogas.com.

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