Buenos Aires, Argentina--(Newsfile Corp. - March 31, 2015) - Estrella International Energy Services Ltd. (TSXV: EEN) (the "Company" or "Estrella"), is pleased to announce that it has appointed Ricardo Sarmiento as Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective April 13, 2015. Carlos Valencia, the current CEO, will remain with the Company until the end of April to assist with the transition process.

Ricardo Sarmiento was, most recently, the Chief Operations Officer for Vetra, an oil and gas exploration and development company based in Colombia, a position he held since 2014. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Asset Delivery and Technical Resources (Colombia) for Talisman Energy, a global upstream oil and gas company headquartered in Canada. From 2009 to 2012 he was the Vice President of Technical Services and Development for Ecopetrol, one of the 25 largest petroleum companies in the world, and one of the four principal petroleum companies in Latin America.

Mr. Sarmiento began his career in the oil and gas industry in 1992 with BP where he spent 5 years in a variety of capacities including Facilities Integrity Engineer, Inspection Team Leader and Operations Engineer based in both Colombia and the United Kingdom. From 1997 to 2002 he was with LASMO, a leading British oil and gas exploration and production company, based out of Colombia and Venezuela. In 2002, Mr. Sarmiento joined AGIP, a subsidiary of ENI, and roles as Project Engineering Manager (Nigeria) and Engineering and Construction Manager (China). From 2006-2009, Mr. Sarmiento was with ENI where he was the Vice President of Regional Business Support, and prior to that the Manager of Strategic E&P for the Americas.

Mr. Sarmiento holds a degree in Petroleum Engineering, from Fundacion Universidad de America, Colombia (1991), a Master's in Project Management from Universidad Javeriana, Colombia (1994) and an MBA from University of Liverpool (2009).

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 Estrella International Energy Services Ltd.
  Horacio Reyser Chairman of the Board of Directors
  Telephone: +54 (11) 5217-5250
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