Tri-Valley Corp (fka TVLYQ)

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Tri-Valley Builds Exploration Team
Friday October 8, 3:01 pm ET


BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co. (Amex: TIV - News) has added two technical consultants to its exploration team to speed up evaluation of the firm's proprietary database of 700 California leads and prospects.
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Ron Brown, a member of the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts and the Society of Petroleum Engineers, has 24 years of high-tech oil field experience and will focus on computer applications for all databases. An engineering graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Mr. Brown completed post-graduate courses at the University of Texas Petroleum Engineering Institute. He held various engineering/management positions with Schlumberger including logging California's deepest well, the 24,426-foot Elk Hills well by the U.S. Department of Energy. Most recently he was Bakersfield Operations Manager for Reeves Wireline Service/Precision Energy Services for the western United States including Alaska.

Myron Tiede brings 27 years of experience on the technical staffs of Occidental Oil & Gas, Buttes Oil & Gas, Santa Fe Energy and Texaco with emphasis on the Great Basin of California. As a geological consultant, he specializes in evaluating oil and gas producing formations of exploration prospects, the key business focus of Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co. Mr. Tiede will work closely with the Company's other consultants, Paul Hacker, geologist, Greg Soukup, petroleum engineer, and Ron Brown, all under the leadership of TVOG President Joseph R. Kandle, to accelerate prospect generation for the Company's exploration drilling programs. Mr. Tiede is a geological graduate of California State University Bakersfield and a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co. is a subsidiary of Tri-Valley Corporation, an American Stock Exchange listed Company headquartered in Bakersfield, California, with operations in California, Alaska and Nevada.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results, events and performance could vary materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements which includes such words and phrases as exploratory, wildcat, prospect, speculates, unproved, prospective, very large, expect, potential, etc. Among the factors that could cause actual results, events and performance to differ materially are risks and uncertainties discussed in the company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2004, and the annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003.

For further information, please contact: F. Lynn Blystone, Chief Executive Officer of Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co., [phone].