HOUSTON, Dec. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- W&T Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI) today announced that the Company will be participating in the Capital One Southcoast 8^th Annual Energy Conference in New Orleans on Wednesday, December 11.

Tracy Krohn, W&T Offshore's Chairman and CEO, is scheduled to make a presentation at 9:00 a.m. Central Time (10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.) The presentation will provide an update on the Company's operations and will be broadcast over the Internet.  The webcast link to the audio presentation and accompanying slides can be accessed live and for replay by visiting the investor relations section of the Company's website at www.wtoffshore.com.

About W&T Offshore

W&T Offshore, Inc. is an independent oil and natural gas producer with operations offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore in both the Permian Basin of West Texas and in East Texas.  We have grown through acquisitions, exploration and development and currently hold working interests in approximately 71 offshore fields in federal and state waters (65 producing and six fields capable of producing).  W&T currently has under lease over 1.4 million gross acres including over 710,000 gross acres on the Gulf of Mexico Shelf, over 480,000 gross acres in the deepwater and over 220,000 gross acres onshore in Texas. A substantial majority of our daily production is derived from wells we operate offshore.  For more information on W&T Offshore, please visit our website at www.wtoffshore.com.

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