DENVER, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EnerCom, Inc.
(www.enercominc.com) will host The Oil & Gas Conference® 17 at
the Westin Denver Downtown on August 12-16,
2012, in Denver. The Conference is the oldest and
largest energy investment conference hosted in Denver.
Investment and oil and gas professionals interested in attending
the event can register through the conference website.
Conference Details and One-on-One Meetings: The Oil &
Gas Conference® 17 forum offers investment professionals the
opportunity to listen to the world's key senior management teams
present their growth plans, and provides industry professionals a
venue to learn about important energy topics effecting the global
oil and gas industry. EnerCom works with the presenting company
management teams arranging one-on-one meetings with the attending
institutional investors and research analysts during the
Conference. EnerCom's Oil & Gas 360® (OAG360) will
interview executives and analysts during the Conference for viewing
on the OAG360 website.
Who are the Presenters: Please visit the Conference's
"work-in-progress" presenter schedule to view the agenda for
EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference® 17.
Who Attends the Conference: More than 2,000 institutional
and hedge fund investors, energy research analysts, retail brokers,
trust officers, high net worth investors, investment bankers and
energy industry professionals gather in Denver each year for the unique opportunity to
meet and discuss future industry plans, growth opportunities, and
economic trends that are impacting the exploration and production
of oil and natural gas.
History and Sponsors: EnerCom, Inc. founded The Oil &
Gas Conference® in 1996. Global sponsors of EnerCom's
Conferences are Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank;
Netherland, Sewell & Associates; Preng & Associates; and
Hein & Associates LLP. Sponsors of The Oil & Gas
Conference® 17 are: Wells Fargo Securities; Canaccord Genuity; BMO
Capital Markets; Royal Dutch Shell
plc; Macquarie Group; Whiting Petroleum Corporation; Energy XXI;
Vinson & Elkins LLP; MLV & Co.; Mutual of Omaha Bank;
Robert W. Baird & Co.; Howard Weil Incorporated; Stephens Inc.;
and U.S. Bank.
About EnerCom, Inc.
Founded in 1994, EnerCom, Inc. is a nationally recognized
investor communications consultancy firm advising and serving
energy-centric clients on corporate strategy, investor relations,
media and corporate communications, and visual communications
design. The Company's professionals have more than 150 years
of industry and business experience and a proven track record of
success. Headquartered in Denver,
EnerCom uses the team approach for delivering its wide range of
services to public and private companies large and small, operating
in the global exploration and production, drilling, OilService, and
associated advanced-technology industries. The Company annually
hosts three oil and gas investment conferences:
- The Oil & Gas Conference® 17 – Denver, Colorado – August 12-16, 2012
- The Oil & Services Conference™ 11 – San Francisco, California – February 19-21, 2013
- EnerCom's London Oil & Gas Conference™ 5 – London, England – June
11-13, 2013
For more information about EnerCom, its services, Conferences
and Oil & Gas 360® please call +303-296-8834, or visit
www.enercominc.com.
About Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, the corporate and
investment banking arm of the Credit Agricole Group, has more than
13,000 professionals operating in more than 50 countries. It
provides its clients with a complete range of products and services
in the areas of structured finance and commercial banking, capital
markets, brokerage, and investment banking.
With headquarters in New York
City, and U.S. offices in Houston, and Chicago, Credit Agricole CIB Americas offers
its corporate and institutional clients financial products and
services and made-to-order structuring, origination and
distribution, through both its banking unit Credit Agricole CIB,
and the full service broker-dealer Credit Agricole Securities
(USA) Inc., which is a member of
both the NYSE and FINRA. Credit Agricole CIB is also present
in Montreal, Canada, and in
Latin America with offices in
Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
The Energy Industry represents the single largest concentration
of industry exposure at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment
Bank, whose specialty focus dates back over 100 years. The
company's Energy practice for North
America, located in Houston, focuses on all segments of the
business and covers it on a truly global basis.
About Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.
Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) was founded in
1961 to provide the highest quality engineering and geological
consulting to the petroleum industry. Today they are
recognized as the worldwide leader of petroleum property analysis
to industry and financial organizations and government
agencies. With offices in Dallas and Houston, NSAI provides a complete range of
geological, geophysical, petrophysical, and engineering services
and has the technical experience and ability to perform these
services in any of the onshore and offshore oil and gas producing
areas of the world. They provide reserves reports and audits,
acquisition and divestiture evaluations, simulation studies,
exploration resources assessments, equity determinations, and
management and advisory services. For a complete list of
services or to learn more about Netherland, Sewell &
Associates, Inc. please visit www.netherlandsewell.com.
For more information about NSAI, call C.H. (Scott) Rees, Chief Executive Officer, at
214-969-5401 or send an email to info@nsai-petro.com.
About Preng & Associates
Preng & Associates, founded in 1980, is the only
retainer-based, international executive search firm specializing
solely in the energy industry. Its number one priority is to
assist clients with their executive selection, organization
development, and human resource needs by providing the highest
quality service. Preng's record of accomplishment is directly
attributable to their experienced staff, worldwide network of
industry contacts, proven search methodology, and high standards of
professionalism. Preng has conducted over 3000 searches for
board, executive, management, and professional positions in its
31-year history and has the highest success and repeat client track
record.
Preng's practice is based on the premise that the search process
is most effective when conducted by professionals with significant
search industry experience. The company has earned a
reputation for combining professional search disciplines with an
in-depth industry and market understanding and has succeeded in
some of the industry's most challenging and high-profile
searches. Preng's international reach allows it to
effectively conduct global engagements; and as a member of the
Association of Executive Search Consultants, Preng practices and
promotes its high standards of conduct and professionalism.
For more information about Preng & Associates, contact
Charles Carpenter, Partner at
713-243-2610 or ccarpenter@preng.com.
About Hein & Associates
For more than 30 years, Hein & Associates has been
recognized as a leading accounting and advisory firm where its
people and clients share knowledge, thrive in a culture of
teamwork, and build long-term relationships deeply rooted in
integrity. With offices in Denver, Dallas, Houston and Irvine, Hein serves public and private
companies in a variety of industries across the country. Hein
also serves clients globally through its alliance with associations
of independent accounting firms around the world. Hein is ranked as
one of the "Top 100" accounting and advisory firms in the country
by Accounting Today, and consistently recognized by Inside Public
Accounting as a "Best of the Best" firm, an honor bestowed on only
25 firms each year, based exclusively on management
performance.
For more information, please contact Brian Mandell-Rice, Managing Partner, at
bmandell-rice@heincpa.com, 303.298.9600 or visit
www.heincpa.com.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a
diversified financial services company providing banking,
insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial
finance through more than 9,000 stores and 12,000 ATMs and the
Internet (wellsfargo.com and wachovia.com) across North America and internationally.
The Energy Banking Group, headed by Kyle
Hranicky (713.319.1980), provides corporate banking products
and services to the energy sector, including upstream, midstream,
oilfield services, and diversified industries. With offices
in Houston, Dallas, and Denver, the group's success is driven by
in-depth industry expertise and longstanding relationships with key
industry participants. The group has over $19 billion of capital commitments to energy
companies.
The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group, headed by
James Kipp (713.346.2701), provides
strategic advisory and corporate finance expertise to energy and
power clients, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services,
downstream, coal and the power & utilities sectors. Areas
of focus include equity, equity-linked and debt underwritings,
private placements, syndications, and mergers and
acquisitions. The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group
has offices in Houston,
St. Louis, and Charlotte.
These teams work together to offer clients industry and product
expertise, in addition to sharing their understanding of internal
and external forces that drive both industry trends and financial
markets.
To learn more about Wells Fargo & Company, please visit the
company's web site at www.wellsfargo.com.
About Canaccord Genuity
Canaccord Genuity is the global capital markets division of
Canaccord Financial Inc (CF: TSX |CF.: AIM), offering institutional
and corporate clients idea-driven investment banking, merger and
acquisition, research, sales and trading services from 14 offices
worldwide. Canaccord's team of over 400 capital markets
professionals have industry and transactional expertise in critical
sectors of the global economy: Metals and Mining, Energy,
Agriculture, Technology, Telecommunications, Financials, Consumer
Products, Real Estate, Transportation, Infrastructure,
Sustainability, Life Sciences, Support Services and Investment
Trusts. Canaccord is committed to providing valued services to its
clients throughout the entire lifecycle of their business and
operating as a gold standard independent investment bank –
expansive in resources and reach, but targeted in industry
expertise, market focus and individual client attention.
Canaccord Genuity operates through subsidiaries of Canaccord
Financial Inc. Canaccord Genuity Inc. operates in the United States, Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary and Montreal and is a member of FINRA/SIPC.
Canaccord Genuity Limited operates in the United Kingdom, and is regulated and
authorized by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of
the LSE. Canaccord Genuity Corp. operates in Canada and is a Member of CIPF and
IIROC. Canaccord Genuity Asia (Beijing) Limited operates in China.
More information is available at www.canaccordgenuity.com.
About BMO Capital Market
BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American
financial services provider, with 2,200 employees operating in 16
North American offices and 29 worldwide, offering corporate,
institutional and government clients access to a complete range of
investment and corporate banking products and services. BMO
Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX:
BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers
in North America with US$532 billion total assets and more than 46,500
employees as of April 30, 2012.
For more information, visit www.bmocm.com.
About Royal Dutch
Shell
Royal Dutch Shell plc is
incorporated in England and
Wales, has its headquarters in
The Hague and is listed on the
London, Amsterdam, and New
York stock exchanges. Shell companies have operations in
more than 90 countries and territories with businesses including
oil and gas exploration and production; production and marketing of
liquefied natural gas and gas to liquids; manufacturing, marketing
and shipping of oil products and chemicals and renewable energy
projects.
For further information, visit www.shell.com.
About Macquarie Group
With more than 10 years' intensive involvement in the global
energy sector, Macquarie Group has a long-standing financial
services expertise with a dedicated focus on the energy
industry.
Macquarie Group offers a broad range of financial services to
clients around the world. Using its in-depth specialist knowledge,
they focus on:
- advice on mergers and acquisitions
- debt and equity underwriting
- equities research
- initial public offerings
- acquisitions and divestitures advice
- hedging and structured transactions
- strategic and capital management advice
- transportation and storage
- physical asset management
- physical trading in natural gas, power, LNG, coal, oil and
natural gas liquids.
With a leading electronic execution platform and a sales
presence in all major financial centers, Macquarie provides
24-hour, globally coordinated, comprehensive services to a range of
energy-focused corporate and institutional clients. Working with
its equities research professionals, its sales and trading team has
specialist expertise and deep market knowledge of the energy sector
– and Macquarie combines this with a generalist sales force of more
than 400 professionals worldwide.
Bringing together energy producers and investors around the
world, Macquarie Connections arranges frequent, high-quality
corporate access events, such as non-deal roadshows, client trips,
site tours, specialist seminars and conferences. In 2010, Macquarie
held 45 non-deal roadshows and four client tours in the US for the
oil and gas and energy sectors. Through these events, they
connected 275 investors with more than 49 producers.
For more information: www.macquarie.com/energy
About Whiting Petroleum Corporation
Whiting Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: WLL), a Delaware corporation, is an independent oil
and gas company that explores for, develops, acquires and produces
crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids primarily in the
Rocky Mountain, Permian Basin, Mid-Continent, Michigan and Gulf Coast regions of
the United States. The Company's
largest projects are in the Bakken and Three Forks plays in
North Dakota and its Enhanced Oil
Recovery fields in Oklahoma and
Texas. For further information,
please visit http://www.whiting.com.
About Energy XXI
Energy XXI (NASDAQ: EXXI) is an independent oil and natural gas
exploration and production company whose growth strategy emphasizes
acquisitions, enhanced by its value-added organic drilling program.
The company's properties are located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico waters and the Gulf Coast
onshore. Energy XXI has implemented an "acquire and exploit" growth
strategy to build a geographically focused portfolio with some of
the highest per-unit margins in the industry. Energy XXI completed
five major acquisitions totaling approximately $2.5 billion since its founding in October 2005. Energy XXI operates or has an
interest in seven of the 11 largest oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. For further information,
please visit http://www.energyxxi.com.
About Vinson & Elkins
Consistently named the "World's Leading Energy Law Firm" by
Euromoney's Expert Guide to the World's Leading Energy &
Natural Resource Lawyers, Vinson & Elkins assists clients
involved in all facets of the energy and natural resources
industry. V&E can draw upon the skills and experience of
more than 700 attorneys in its 16 global offices, over 400 of whom
spend more than half their time on energy industry
transactions.
For nearly a century, V&E lawyers have represented clients
on their most significant energy engagements in almost every
conceivable market condition across nearly every energy producing
region of the world. V&E have advised some of the largest
energy companies in the world on their most important and complex
business matters. In the last two years alone, V&E handled more
than 1,600 energy industry transactions and proceedings for a
collective value of over US$167
billion.
For more information about Vinson & Elkins, please contact
Mark Kelly, Chairman of the Firm, at
1.713.758.2222 or visit www.velaw.com.
About MLV & Co.
MLV is a boutique investment bank and institutional
broker-dealer focused on providing independent financial advice and
unique capital markets expertise to corporate and institutional
clients in capital intensive industries such as metals and mining,
life sciences, energy and real estate. With a focus on raising
money efficiently for clients, MLV has rapidly become a leader in
the At-the-Market (ATM) transaction market.
For more information about MLV and its services, visit
http://www.mlvco.com.
About Mutual of Omaha Bank
With expert banking talent and nearly $6
billion in assets, Mutual of Omaha Bank provides financial
solutions to individuals and businesses across the United States. The bank is a subsidiary of
Mutual of Omaha, a highly rated
insurance and financial services leader for more than 100
years.
When it comes to the energy industry, Mutual of Omaha Bank's
Houston-based energy group is
uniquely positioned to meet the specialized lending needs of energy
companies, their owners and investors. With a strong capital base
and a team of highly experienced energy specialists, commercial
bankers and wealth management advisors, Mutual of Omaha Bank offers
the financial resources and expertise to be a value added
partner.
For more information, visit www.mutualofomahabank.com, or
www.mutualofomahabank.com/west/commercial/comm_energylending.html.
About Robert W. Baird & Co.
Baird is an employee-owned
wealth management, capital markets, asset management and private
equity firm with more than $94
billion in client assets. With deep expertise, the company
has been a trusted partner to individual, corporate, institutional
and municipal clients through many market cycles.
For more information, please contact Curtis Goot (314.445.6540),
or Frank Murphy (314.445.6532).
About Howard Weil Incorporated
Established in 1946, Howard Weil
is an investment banking boutique focused exclusively on the energy
industry. Howard Weil was
acquired by Scotia Capital Inc., a Canadian Investment Dealer, in
April of this year and is a division of Scotiabank™. The
firm's services include equity research, institutional sales and
trading, and investment banking.
Equity Research: Howard
Weil's equity research professionals cover approximately 118
energy companies operating in the following sectors: Major
Integrated Oils, Exploration and Production, Oilfield Equipment
& Service, Natural Gas Hybrids, Independent Refiners, and Coal
Producers.
Institutional Sales and Trading: Given the firm's exclusive
focus on the energy industry, Howard
Weil believes that its sales and trading professionals
possess a deeper understanding of energy-industry and
company-specific events and trends than professionals at more
diversified firms. Howard Weil's
sales and trading expertise spans multiple sectors of the energy
industry and includes small-, mid- and large-market capitalization
companies.
Investment Banking: Howard
Weil offers a full range of investment banking services,
including public offerings, private placements, M&A and other
financial advisory services, and fairness opinions. With its
exclusive focus on the energy industry, Howard Weil's investment banking professionals
have developed a deep level of industry knowledge and contacts,
which can significantly enhance the level of service to the firm's
energy investment banking clientele. Since re-establishing its
investment banking department in 2005, Howard Weil has served as a co-manager,
co-placement agent or lead manager of 104 equity and debt
financings, totaling over $36 billion
of capital for a wide range of energy companies.
For more information about Howard
Weil, please visit www.howardweil.com.
For more information about Scotiabank™, please
visit www.scotiabank.com.
About Stephens Inc.
Founded in 1933, Stephens is a
privately-held, independent financial services firm focused on
building value for companies, state and local governments,
institutions and high-net-worth investors. The company is
headquartered in Little Rock,
Arkansas, with offices in leading cities across the
country.
Stephens has a been a principal
investor in the Energy space since 1952 and has a longstanding
commitment to assisting and advising public and private Energy
companies throughout their life cycles. Stephens Energy investment
banking practice began in 2009 and has completed 35 transactions
to-date. There are currently nine professionals in the Energy
investment banking group complemented by seven equity research
analysts and associates covering the Exploration & Production,
Oilfield Service, and Master Limited Partnership sectors. The
combined knowledge base of the Energy team enables Stephens to provide clients an unmatched level
of investment banking service, including mergers and acquisitions
advisory, fairness opinions and public and private debt and equity
offerings. Stephens' extensive
network of relationships in the Energy sector and continued
presence in the strategic and capital markets allows Stephens to provide clients with actionable
advice and an independent perspective on asset valuations,
potential strategic issues and financing alternatives.
For more information about Stephens, please visit:
http://www.stephens.com/investment_banking/services__industry_sectors/energy.aspx
About U.S. Bank
The U.S. Bank Energy Industries division provides corporate
banking products and services to the energy industry, including the
upstream, midstream and refining sectors. Based in Denver, CO, the group employs 30 professionals
averaging more than 20 years of experience. The U.S. Bank Energy
Industries division offers a full spectrum of banking solutions,
including capital markets, syndications, private placements,
leasing, treasury management and payment services. For more
information, contact the U.S. Bank Energy Industries division at
303-585-4218.
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), with $341
billion in assets as of March 31,
2012, is the parent company of U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest
commercial bank in the United
States. The company operates 3,080 banking offices in 25
states and 5,061 ATMs and provides a comprehensive line of banking,
brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment
services products to consumers, businesses and institutions. U.S.
Bancorp and its employees are dedicated to improving the
communities they serve, for which the company earned the 2011
Spirit of America Award, the highest honor bestowed on a company by
United Way. Visit U.S. Bancorp on the web at www.usbank.com.
SOURCE EnerCom, Inc.