Dakota Plains Holdings to Present in Three Upcoming Investor Conferences

WAYZATA, Minn., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dakota Plains Holdings, Inc. ("Dakota Plains" and "DAKP"), (OTC: DAKP), a provider of crude oil midstream services that include marketing, transloading and trucking in the Bakken region, today announced that management will present at three upcoming investor conferences in May 2013.

Management will be presenting at the SunTrust Robinson Humphrey 2013 "Play-by-Play" Oil & Gas Conference, in New York at Le Meridian Hotel, which is being held from May 29^th to May 30^th.  The group presentation will be given by Craig McKenzie, the Company's CEO, and is slated for 12:30 PM ET on May 29. Additionally, investors can arrange for one-on-ones by contacting their SunTrust Robinson Humphrey representative in advance. 

Management will be presenting at the 10th Annual Craig-Hallum Institutional Investor Conference, in Minneapolis, at the Marriott City Center-Minneapolis on May 29, 2013.  Tim Brady, the Company's CFO will be on hand to meet with investors in one-on-one meetings. Investors can arrange for meetings by contacting their Craig-Hallum representative in advance. 

Management will also be presenting at the Benchmark Company, LLC One-on-One Investor Conference on May 30, 2013, which is being held at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, WI.  This is a one-on-one format, exclusively, and Tim Brady, the Company's CFO and Gabe Claypool, President and COO will be on hand to meet with investors. Investors should contact their Benchmark Representative in advance to schedule a one-on-one meeting.

About Dakota Plains Holdings, Inc.
Dakota Plains Holdings, Inc. ("Dakota Plains") (OTC: DAKP) is an integrated midstream energy company, which competes through its 50/50 joint ventures with affiliates of World Fuel Services Corporation (NYSE: INT) and Prairie Field Services, LLC, to provide customers with crude oil off take services that include marketing, transloading and trucking of crude oil and related products.  Direct and indirect company assets include a proprietary trucking fleet, a transloading facility located in Mountrail County, North Dakota, which is centrally located within the Bakken formation, and 1,104 railroad tank cars.

Dakota Plains is uniquely positioned to exploit crude oil 'export' opportunities within the Williston Basin of North Dakota and Montana, which is the largest onshore oil production source in North America, where the lack of available pipeline capacity provides a long-term and increasing surplus of crude oil available for core business of the company.

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