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Vancouver, B.C. – December 8, 2014 – TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF), reports that subject to the acceptance of the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) the Company intends to purchase and cancel up to 5,885,051 of its common shares. TAG has appointed Dundee Goodman Private Wealth to conduct the purchases through the facilities of the TSX. TAG Oil believes that its share price does not reflect the underlying value of the Company, and that purchasing shares for cancellation will be advantageous to the Company and its shareholders. Under TSX policies, these purchases can commence on December 10, 2014, and

Vancouver, B.C. – November 25, 2014 – TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF), is pleased to report that the Cheal-E-JV-6 (“Cheal-E6”) well (TAG 70%), located in the onshore Taranaki Basin of New Zealand has been successfully drilled to a total depth of 1,939 meters (6,360 feet).  The Cheal-E6 step out well is interpreted to have intersected over 9 meters (29.5 feet) of net oil and gas bearing sands in the Mt. Messenger Formation, which was the main objective of the well. Cheal-E6 is being completed as a potential oil well with production testing to begin this week and, if economic,

Vancouver, B.C. – November 14, 2014 – TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF), is pleased to announce the Company achieved record operating revenue of $16.2 million for the second quarter ending September 30, 2014, up from $15.5 million in the first quarter, in combination with consistent production growth averaging 1,845 barrels of oil equivalent per day (78% oil) during Q2 operations and 1,990 (76% oil), boe/d in October 2014. Based on the growing oil production trends from its Taranaki Basin operations, TAG is pursuing a number of alternatives with a view to materially grow the Company’s high netback oil production.

Vancouver, B.C. – November 5, 2014 – TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF) is pleased to announce that development, appraisal and step-out drilling, and field optimization work has resumed at the Company’s Taranaki oil and gas fields. Located in the main production fairway of the Taranaki Basin on the North Island, New Zealand, TAG is pursuing significant reserve growth through developing and exploiting its lightly explored discovery acreage in the shallow and high impact deep formations. TAG anticipates that this next wave of low risk development work — focused on oil production growth in the proven Mt. Messenger (~2000m) and

Vancouver, B.C. – September 16, 2014 – TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF), reports the Company has agreed that after encountering extreme drilling conditions, including high-pressure shallow hydrocarbon zones, in the interest of safety, the surface section of the Waitangi Valley-1 well, located in Petroleum Exploration Permit 38348, will be plugged and abandoned.  CEO Garth Johnson commented; “Waitangi Valley-1 encountered very high hydrocarbon zone pressures at shallow depths that cannot easily be compared to anywhere else in the world. We understood this program would be challenging and we encountered extremely difficult drilling conditions in the first 856m of drilling. After

Vancouver, B.C. – August 14, 2014 – After a successful first quarter 2015 drilling program, TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF), is pleased to announce growth of production and associated revenues from first quarter operations and drilling activity.

Vancouver, B.C. – August 7, 2014 – New Zealand oil and gas producer TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF) is pleased to announce that the shallow development drilling program and production operations in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, remains in line with estimates for oil and gas production averaging approximately 2,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (80% oil), and cash flow from operations of approximately $40 million for the 2015 fiscal year. This production guidance factors only existing production and wells from TAG’s shallow development drilling in the Taranaki Basin as detailed in TAG’s Press Release dated

Vancouver, B.C. – July 24, 2014 – New Zealand oil and gas producer TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF) is pleased to announce commencement of drilling operations at the Company’s 100%-controlled Waitangi Valley-1 exploration well in Petroleum Exploration Permit 38348, located in New Zealand’s East Coast Basin. The Waitangi Valley-1 well spudded on July 23, 2014 and will be drilled to a total depth of approximately 3,600 meters (11,800 feet). Waitangi Valley-1 is situated 250 kilometers north of TAG’s Ngapaeruru-1 unconventional well, and is the Company’s second high impact exploration well targeting the Waipawa Black Shale and Whangai

Vancouver, B.C. – July 3, 2014 – New Zealand oil and gas producer TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX:TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF), reports the Company has hired Mr. Max Murray as TAG Oil’s New Zealand Country Manager, based in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Mr. Murray will replace Mr. Randy Toone who has resigned to return to Canada for personal reasons and to focus on mid-stream business opportunities in North America. Mr. Murray’s thirty years of operational and proven executive leadership in the oil and gas industry, and in particular his thorough understanding of the New Zealand oil and gas landscape, is a

Vancouver, B.C. – June 30, 2014 – New Zealand oil and gas producer TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX:TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF), reports the Company has filed its audited consolidated financial statements, management discussion and analysis, annual information form and information pursuant to the requirements of National Instrument 51-101 – Standards for Disclosure of Oil and Gas Activities with the Canadian Securities Administrators relating to reserves data and other oil and gas information for the Company’s March 31, 2014 fiscal year-end. Copies of these documents can be obtained electronically at http://www.sedar.com. For additional information, please visit TAG Oil’s website at https://tagoil.com/. Garth