HOUSTON, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- W&T Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI) announced that the Company's 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held at 8 a.m. Central Time on May 7, 2013, at the Houston City Club, One City Club Drive, Houston, Texas 77046. Shareholders of record at the close of business on March 25, 2013 are entitled to receive notice of the meeting and to vote the shares of W&T Offshore common stock they held as of that date.

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 72 offshore fields in federal and state waters (69 producing and three 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 221,000 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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