**CERTIFICATION
OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND**
 **PRINCIPAL
FINANCIAL OFFICER**
 **PURSUANT
TO SECTION 302 OF THE**
 **SARBANES-OXLEY
ACT OF 2002**
 
 I, Mark
G. Gustafson, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of
Triangle Petroleum Corporation, certify that:
 
 1.    I
have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-QSB of Triangle
Petroleum Corporation ;
 
 2.    Based
on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of
a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were
made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly
report;
 
 3.    Based
on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the
financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the small
business issuer as
of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;
 
 4.    The small
business issuer's other
certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining
disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e)
and 15d-15(e)) and 15d-15(f) for the small
business issuer and have:
 
 a)
    Designed
      such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
      controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure
      that material information relating to thesmall
      business issuer,
      including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others
      within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report
      is being prepared; 
 b)
    Evaluated
      the effectiveness of thesmall
      business issuer'sdisclosure
      controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about
      the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end
      of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and 
 c)
    Disclosed
      in this report any change in the small business issuer’s internal control
      over financial reporting that occurred during the small business issuer’s
      most recent fiscal quarter (the small business issuer’s fourth fiscal
      quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or
      is reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuer’s
      internal control over financial reporting; and 
 5.    The small
business issuer's other
certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of
internal control over financial reporting, to the small
business issuer's auditors
and the audit committee of small
business issuer's board
of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
 
 
 
 a)
    All
      significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or
      operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
      reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuer’s ability
      to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and 
 b)
    Any
      fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
      employees who have a significant role in thesmall
      business issuer'sinternal
      control over financial reporting. 
 Date:
      June 10, 2005
    By:*/s/ MARK G. GUSTAFSON*Mark
      G. GustafsonPresident,
      Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial
  Officer