HOUSTON, April 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- W&T Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI) announced today that the Company will be participating in the 2014 IPAA Oil and Gas Investment Symposium to be held in New York City on April 7-9, 2014.

Tracy W. Krohn, W&T Offshore's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to make a presentation on Monday, April 7, at 4:10 pm Eastern Time.  The presentation will provide an update on the Company's operations and will be broadcast live over the internet. The webcast link can be accessed live and for replay by visiting the Company's Web site 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 67 offshore fields in federal and state waters (62 producing and five fields capable of producing).  W&T currently has under lease approximately 1.3 million gross acres, including approximately 0.6 million gross acres on the Gulf of Mexico Shelf, approximately 0.5 million gross acres in the deepwater and approximately 0.2 million 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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