HOUSTON, Sept. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- W&T Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI) announced today that the Company will be participating at both the IPAA Oil & Gas Investment Symposium to be held in San Francisco, CA and at the Johnson Rice & Company 2013 Energy Conference to be held in New Orleans, LA.

Tracy Krohn, W&T Offshore's Chairman and CEO, is scheduled to make a presentation at the IPAA Oil & Gas Investment Symposium on Monday, September 30, at 2:20 p.m. Pacific 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.

Jamie Vazquez, W&T Offshore's President, is scheduled to make a presentation at the Johnson Rice 2013 Energy Conference on Wednesday, October 2, at 2:05 p.m. Central Time.  The presentation will also provide an update on the Company's operations but will not be webcast. The presentation materials will be available for download by visiting the investor relations section of the Company's website.

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 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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