DENVER, CO--(Marketwired - Jul 28, 2016) - EnerCom, Inc. today
announced the speakers and agenda for The Oil & Gas Conference® 21 on August 14-18, 2016, in Denver, at the Westin Denver
Downtown. The four-day conference will feature presentations from C-level executives at publicly traded and private oil and
natural gas companies, as well as keynote speeches from experts and analysts who will discuss global trends, observations and
developments in the industry.
Hear from 75+ Public and Private Company Speakers: Executives from more than 75 public and private oil and
gas companies with operations spanning more than 40 countries and six continents will present their unique strategies for
creating shareholder value. The work-in-progress presenter list can be found on the conference website.
See 8+ Panel Discussions in Four Days: In addition, eight panel discussions focused on the future of Mexico's
oil and gas industry, the Delaware and Midland Basins, Canada's Montney, the next stage in shale technologies, software as an
asset, and private capital. Confirmed participants include, but are not limited to:
- Gaspar Franco Hernandez, Comisionado - Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos
- Dr. Maria De Lourdes Melgar Palacios - Subsecretaria de Hidrocarburos - Secretaria de Energia
- Will Fleckenstein, Ph.D. - Colorado School of Mines
- Jennifer Miskimins, Ph.D. - Colorado School of Mines
- Mike Vincent - Colorado School of Mines
- Jeb Bachmann - Director, Senior Energy Analyst, Scotia Howard Weil
- Will Green - Managing Director, Stephens Inc.
- Bill Davis - CEO, Vaquero Midstream
- Juan Jarrah - Energy Analyst, TD Securities
- David Keyte - CEO, Caerus Oil & Gas
- Michael Starzer - CEO, Fifth Creek Energy
- Jason Cansler, - President, Rock Oil Company, LLC
- Kelton Glasscock - Senior Vice President, DNB ASA
- Jason Downie - Managing Director, Tailwater Capital
- Cameron Smith - Energy Group Advisor, Warburg Pincus
- Janette Conradson - CEO, BetaZi, LLC
- Alan Lindsey - CEO, PetroDE
- Peter Flanagan, CEO, Ubiterra Corporation
- Rich Frommer - CEO, Great Western Oil & Gas
- David Honeyfield - CFO, Jonah Energy
- Robert Boswell - CEO, Laramie Energy
Listen to the World's Industry Experts: Global economists, market strategists, government officials and
engineering experts will provide their insights on topics such as the Chinese and Russian economies, insight into the Texas
Railroad Commission and in-depth analysis of commodity prices. Confirmed participants and topics include, but are not limited
to:
- "American Energy - Policy and Production. A New Era." - Hon. Elizabeth Ames Coleman, Former Chairman, Railroad Commission
of Texas
- "The Real Deal on Russia: What the Oil and Gas Industry Needs to Know - Forecasts, Realities and Risks" - Dr. Deb Palmieri,
Ph.D., Honorary Russian Consulate of Denver
- "Saudi Arabia's Relationship with Gulf State Neighbors" - Gary Grappo, Former U.S. Ambassador to Oman
- "China Geopolitical Position" - Dr. Sam Zhao, Ph.D. University of Denver - Josef Korbel School of International
Studies
History and Sponsors: EnerCom, Inc. founded The Oil & Gas Conference® in 1996. It is the oldest and largest
energy investment conference in Denver. Global sponsors of EnerCom's Conferences are Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank;
Netherland, Sewell & Associates; Preng & Associates; Hein & Associates LLP; and PLS. Sponsors of The Oil & Gas Conference®
21 are: GMP Securities; Wells Fargo & Co.; CIBC; Stephens Inc.; Repsol; Haynes and Boone; Wunderlich Securities; Fifth Third
Bank; DNB Bank ASA; Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Mutual of Omaha Bank; Petrie Partners; PNC Bank; Scotia Howard Weil; Royal
Dutch Shell plc; and Rivington Holdings, LLC.
About The Oil & Gas Conference®
The Oil & Gas Conference® 21 offers investment professionals the opportunity to listen to senior management teams present
operational and financial strategies. The event provides industry professionals a venue to learn about important energy topics
affecting the global oil and gas industry. And, the forum fosters healthy dialogue and informal networking opportunities for
attendees. More than 2,000 institutional and hedge fund investors, energy research analysts, retail brokers, trust officers, high
net worth investors, investment bankers and energy industry professionals gather in Denver for the conference. To learn more or
register, please visit www.theoilandgasconference.com.
About EnerCom, Inc.
Founded in 1994, EnerCom, Inc. is a nationally recognized management
consultancy firm advising and serving energy-centric clients on corporate strategy, asset valuations, investor relations, media
and corporate communications and visual communications design. The Company's professionals have more than 170 years of
industry and business experience and a proven track record of success. Headquartered in Denver, EnerCom uses the team approach
for delivering its wide range of services to public and private companies, large and small, operating in the global exploration
and production, OilService, capital markets, and associated advanced-technology industries.
For more information about EnerCom and its services, please visit http://www.enercominc.com/ or call +303-296-8834 to speak with one of our consultants.
About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is the corporate and investment banking arm of the Crédit Agricole Group, the
world's eighth largest bank by total assets (The Banker, July 2014). Crédit Agricole CIB offers its clients a comprehensive
range of products and services in capital markets, brokerage, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and
international private banking.
The Bank provides support to clients in large international markets through its network, with a presence in major countries in
Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.
With headquarters in New York City, and U.S. offices in Houston and Chicago, Credit Agricole CIB Americas offers its corporate
and institutional clients financial products and services and made-to-order structuring, origination and distribution, through
both its banking unit Credit Agricole CIB, and the full service broker-dealer Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., which is a
member of the NYSE and NASD. Credit Agricole CIB is also present in Montreal, Canada, and in Latin America with offices in
Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
The Energy Industry represents the single largest concentration of industry exposure at Credit Agricole Corporate and
Investment Bank, whose specialty focus dates back over 100 years. Our Energy practice for North America, located in Houston,
focuses on all segments of the business and covers it on a truly global basis.
For more information, visit www.ca-cib.com.
About Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.
Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) was founded in 1961 to provide the highest quality engineering and geological
consulting to the petroleum industry. Today they are recognized as the worldwide leader of petroleum property analysis to
industry and financial organizations and government agencies. With offices in Dallas and Houston, NSAI provides a complete
range of geological, geophysical, petrophysical, and engineering services and has the technical experience and ability to perform
these services in any of the onshore and offshore oil and gas producing areas of the world. They provide reserves reports and
audits, acquisition and divestiture evaluations, simulation studies, exploration resources assessments, equity determinations,
and management and advisory services. For a complete list of services or to learn more about Netherland, Sewell &
Associates, Inc. please visit www.netherlandsewell.com.
For more information about NSAI, call C.H. (Scott) Rees, Chief Executive Officer, at 214-969-5401 or send an email to info@nsai-petro.com.
About Preng & Associates
Preng & Associates, founded in 1980, is the only retainer-based, international executive search firm specializing solely in
the energy industry. Its number one priority is to assist clients with their executive selection, organization development,
and human resource needs by providing the highest quality service. Preng's record of accomplishment is directly attributable to
their experienced staff, worldwide network of industry contacts, proven search methodology, and high standards of
professionalism. Preng has conducted over 3000 searches for board, executive, management, and professional positions in its
35-year history and has the highest success and repeat client track record.
Preng's practice is based on the premise that the search process is most effective when conducted by professionals with
significant search industry experience. The company has earned a reputation for combining professional search disciplines
with an in-depth industry and market understanding and has succeeded in some of the industry's most challenging and high-profile
searches. Preng's international reach allows it to effectively conduct global engagements; and as a member of the Association of
Executive Search Consultants, Preng practices and promotes its high standards of conduct and professionalism.
For more information about Preng & Associates, contact Charles Carpenter, Partner at 713-243-2610 or ccarpenter@preng.com.
About Hein & Associates
For more than 30 years, Hein & Associates has been recognized as a leading accounting and advisory firm where its people and
clients share knowledge, thrive in a culture of teamwork, and build long-term relationships deeply rooted in integrity. With
offices in Denver, Dallas, Houston and Irvine, Hein serves public and private companies in a variety of industries across the
country. Hein is a member of two of the largest international associations of accounting and advisory firms, which allows us to
provide seamless client care domestically and throughout the world. Hein is ranked as one of the "Top 100" accounting and
advisory firms in the country by Accounting Today, and consistently recognized by Inside Public Accounting as a "Best of the
Best" firm, an honor bestowed on only 25 firms each year, based exclusively on management performance.
For more information, please contact Jim Brendel, Managing Partner, at jbrendel@heincpa.com or 303.298.9600.
About PLS
PLS was started in 1987 to adapt the real estate industry's highly effective MLS (multiple listing service) for the oil and
gas industry. The firm takes its name from the simple concept of a "Petroleum Listing Service" but PLS has since expanded to
provide operators and investors the information, marketing and advisory services they need to better manage their portfolios and
facilitate profitable transactions.
To that end, PLS publishes various listings, news and research reports; offers proprietary databases; hosts prospect and
property expos; brokers and direct markets properties, prospects, overrides and midstream assets for sellers seeking additional
services; and provides advisory and consulting services on an as needed or project basis.
In total, over 2,000 independent companies and their 10,000+ professionals subscribe to one or more of PLS Core Reports,
Regional Reports or Premium and Proprietary Databases. In addition, PLS divestment arm is one of the largest handlers of oil and
gas asset sales in the mid to under market. Overall, PLS has handled over 900 projects worth an aggregate of $5.0 billion while
its advisory arm has done over $1.0 billion in deals and continues to support clients in sourcing new opportunities and capital
markets.
For more information about PLS products or services, please visit www.plsx.com.
About GMP Securities
GMP Securities is a leading independent investment dealer with a global specialization in equity, debt underwriting, mergers
and acquisitions for the resources/energy industry. With operations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia, we
offer a full range of financial products and services across our investment banking, sales, trading and research capabilities to
an international client base that includes corporate clients, institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. GMP
Securities is a wholly owned subsidiary of GMP Capital Inc. (GMP), a leading diversified financial services firm headquartered in
Toronto, Canada, which provides a wide range of expertise in two integrated business segments: Capital Markets and Wealth
Management. GMP is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "GMP".
For further information, please visit GMP's corporate website at www.gmpcapital.com.
About Wells Fargo & Company
Wells Fargo & Company is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company providing banking, insurance,
investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 8,700 locations, 12,500 ATMs, and the internet
(wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in 36 countries to support customers who conduct business in the global
economy.
The Energy Banking Group, headed by Bart Schouest, provides corporate banking products and services to the energy sector,
including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, and diversified industries. With offices in Houston, Dallas, Denver, Calgary,
and Aberdeen the group's success is driven by in-depth industry expertise and longstanding relationships with key industry
participants. The group has over $45 billion of credit commitments to public and private companies across the upstream,
midstream, downstream, services, and power and utilities sectors.
The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group, headed by James Kipp, provides strategic advisory and corporate finance expertise
to energy and power clients, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, downstream, coal and the power & utilities
sectors. Areas of focus include equity, equity-linked and debt underwritings, private placements, syndications, and mergers and
acquisitions. The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group has offices in Houston and Charlotte.
These teams work together to offer clients industry and product expertise, in addition to sharing their understanding of
internal and external forces that drive both industry trends and financial markets. For additional information, contact us at
713-319-1350 or Energy@wellsfargo.com.
To learn more about Wells Fargo & Company, please visit the company's web site at www.wellsfargo.com.
About CIBC
CIBC is a leading North American bank headquartered in Canada and with offices around the world. CIBC was originally
founded nearly 150 years ago, and has supported and financed the energy industry for many decades. CIBC was recently ranked
as the strongest publicly traded bank in North America by Bloomberg, and is rated A+/Aa3 by S&P and Moody's,
respectively.
Our energy specialists draw on the breadth of CIBC's capabilities to provide market insights and creative solutions for our
clients. Services include corporate banking, commodity and interest rate hedging and strategy, A&D advisory, and capital
markets.
CIBC is publicly traded on the NYSE and Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "CM" and has a market cap of $36 billion and
nearly $400 billion in total assets. For more information, please visit www.cibc.com.
About Stephens Inc.
Founded in 1933, Stephens is a privately-held, independent financial services firm focused on building value for companies,
state and local governments, institutions and high-net-worth investors. We are headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, with
offices in leading cities across the country.
Stephens has a been a principal investor in the Energy space since 1952 and has a longstanding commitment to assisting and
advising public and private Energy companies throughout their life cycles. Stephens Energy investment banking practice began in
2009 and has completed 35 transactions to-date. There are currently 9 professionals in the Energy investment banking group
complemented by 7 equity research analysts and associates covering the Exploration & Production, Oilfield Service, and Master
Limited Partnership sectors. The combined knowledge base of the Energy team enables us to provide clients an unmatched level of
investment banking service, including mergers and acquisitions advisory, fairness opinions and public and private debt and equity
offerings. Our extensive network of relationships in the Energy sector and continued presence in the strategic and capital
markets allows Stephens to provide clients with actionable advice and an independent perspective on asset valuations, potential
strategic issues and financing alternatives.
For more information about Stephens, please visit:
http://www.stephens.com/investment-banking/sectors/energy/
About Repsol
Repsol is one of the world's leading integrated oil and gas companies. We are present along the entire energy value chain,
including exploration, production, refining, marketing and new energy R&D. Repsol's corporate headquarters are located in
Madrid, Spain, and our U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas. We operate in over 40 countries, with 25,000 employees
worldwide.
For more information about Repsol, please visit www.repsol.com.
About Haynes and Boone
Oil and gas is and has always been a volatile business, and today's environment is no exception. Haynes and Boone, LLP is an
energy focused corporate law firm, providing a full spectrum of legal services to our clients across the oil and gas industry,
including the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. Evidence of our commitment to the industry is our opening of our
Denver office this year to better serve our energy clients along with our existing offices in Texas, New York, California,
Washington, D.C., Shanghai and Mexico City. Haynes and Boone lawyers from all offices work as a team to meet the legal needs of
our domestic and international clients involved in oil and gas. We represent domestic and foreign public and private companies
engaged in the dynamic day-to-day work of finding and extracting energy in the form of oil and gas and the banks, investment
funds and other investors that support them.
Our team of more than 100 energy lawyers, landmen and analysts understands the domestic and international physical and
financial energy markets, and the firm has been helping both operators and lenders complete some of the largest financings in
2015/2016. With more than 550 attorneys, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest law firms in the nation by The National Law
Journal.
For more info, visit www.haynesboone.com.
About Wunderlich Securities
Established in 1996 in Memphis, TN, Wunderlich Securities, a full-service brokerage firm, is committed to providing a
comprehensive range of professional products and services to meet the needs of individual investors as well as corporations and
institutions. The Firm offers financial advisory, brokerage, equity research and investment banking services. Fixed Income broker
services are provided through Wunderlich Securities Fixed Income Capital Markets and WunTrade divisions of Wunderlich Securities.
The firm operates in 26 offices across 15 states and has more than 450 associated professionals.
For more information, please contact R. Kevin Andrews, Managing Director, Investment Banking, at (713) 403-3979 or visit
www.wunderlichsecurities.com.
About Fifth Third Bancorp
Fifth Third Bank is a diversified financial services company with over $120 billion in assets. The Bank's energy group is
comprised of experienced and knowledgeable individuals that can assist in providing and structuring financial solutions to meet
their clients' needs across the upstream, midstream, downstream and services sectors. Solutions and capabilities include
commodity hedging, interest rate management, foreign exchange, debt capital markets, treasury management, and
depository/investment products.
For more information, please contact Richard Butler at 713-401-6101 or richard.butler@53.com.
About DNB ASA
DNB is Norway's largest financial services provider, with total assets approaching $400 billion. The bank has for years
been a major provider of capital to the oil & gas industry, growing up literally side by side with the highly prolific fields
developed in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea. The Oslo Energy Office maintains a global financing strategy, and serves
this market through multiple offices around the world including Houston, London and Singapore.
Energy Americas, based in Houston, comprises approximately 20 seasoned energy finance professionals. Aside from
facilitating the bank's global business strategies, the office concentrates primarily on serving middle market and larger
customers in the four principal oil & gas sectors -- upstream, midstream, downstream and service -- as well as in Power and
Renewables. The bank offers a variety of financial products, from traditional oil & gas reserve financing, to longer-term
capital markets transactions and merger/acquisition advisory services through its broker-dealer arm, DNB Markets,
Inc. Ancillary service capabilities include cash management/depository services, as well as commodity and interest rate
hedging.
About Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Oil and Gas Group
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) Oil and Gas practice is comprised of a global team of bankers dedicated to covering
the energy industry, dating back to the 1920s when Texas predecessor banks pioneered reserve-based lending. The practice
includes an experienced in-house Petroleum Engineering team with over 150 years of combined experience. With one of the only
full-service financial energy platforms in the industry, the BofAML oil and gas team manages significant capital commitments in
the energy sector with dedicated bankers based in Calgary, Denver, Dallas, Houston, London and New York.
The BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research platform offers clients access to information and actionable ideas on stocks, bonds,
economics and investment strategies. With approximately 700 analysts in more than 20 countries, we offer our clients knowledge
about economic and business developments that are having an impact on the markets, so that they can work with their financial
advisors to make the most of opportunities. BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research was ranked No. 1 for the fourth consecutive
year on the 2014 list of Top Global Research Firms, Institutional Investor.
Bank of America
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market
businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk
management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 48
million consumer and small business relationships with approximately 4,800 retail financial centers and approximately 15,900 ATMs
and award-winning online banking with 31 million active users and approximately 17 million mobile users. Bank of America is among
the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a
broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America
offers industry-leading support to approximately 3 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use
online products and services. The company serves clients through operations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S.
Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and more than 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock is listed on the New York Stock
Exchange under the ticker BAC.
About Mutual of Omaha Bank
With expert banking talent and nearly $6 billion in assets, Mutual of Omaha Bank provides financial solutions to individuals
and businesses across the United States. The bank is a subsidiary of Mutual of Omaha, a highly rated insurance and financial
services leader for more than 100 years.
When it comes to the energy industry, Mutual of Omaha Bank's Houston-based energy group is uniquely positioned to meet the
specialized lending needs of energy companies, their owners and investors. With a strong capital base and a team of highly
experienced energy specialists, commercial bankers and wealth management advisors, Mutual of Omaha Bank offers the financial
resources and expertise to be a value added partner.
For more information, visit www.mutualofomahabank.com.
About Petrie Partners
Petrie Partners, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm offering financial advisory services to the oil and gas industry.
We provide specialized advice on mergers, divestitures and acquisitions and private placements.
The firm was formed in 2011 (as Strategic Energy Advisors) by senior bankers formerly with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and
Petrie Parkman & Co., an investment bank that built a reputation as a most trusted advisor to energy clients during the nearly
two decades leading up to its merger into Merrill Lynch in 2006.
Through tenure with Petrie Parkman, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the senior members of the Petrie team
bring to bear an average of more than 25 years of energy investment banking experience, including over 300 energy M&A and
capital raising transactions representing over $350 billion of aggregate consideration.
About PNC Bank
PNC is one of the largest, best-regarded and best-capitalized financial services companies in the country, with approximately
$325 billion in assets and offices in 33 states, Canada and the United Kingdom. PNC's Energy Group, headed by Tom Byargeon, is a
significant capital and service provider to energy companies, with approximately $6.5 billion in commitments to the industry. The
Energy office in Houston houses a team with extensive experience and deep relationships across the entire energy supply chain.
This group also offers strategic corporate finance advice and delivers PNC's comprehensive set of solutions and capabilities,
including commodity and interest rate hedging, debt capital markets, loan syndications, treasury management, asset
securitization, equipment finance and institutional investments.
For more information, please contact Tom Byargeon at 713-353-8782 or tom.byargeon@pnc.com. You can also visit www.pnc.com.
About Scotia Howard Weil
Scotiabank is a leading global bank that provides a broad array of financial products and services to the energy industry in
over 50 countries. Our sophisticated energy platform fully integrates equity, debt, corporate lending, commodity hedging and
capital markets solutions for energy sector companies in North America and around the world.
Scotia Howard Weil provides equity research, institutional sales and trading, and equity capital markets services, with an
exclusive focus on the energy industry. Scotia Howard Weil's equity research professionals cover over 140 energy companies
operating in the following sectors - European Integrated Oils/Independent Refiners, Infrastructure MLPs, Exploration and
Production, Oilfield Equipment & Services, Appalachian Energy, and Coal Producers. Given the firm's exclusive focus on the energy
industry, Scotia Howard Weil sales and trading professionals possess a deeper understanding of energy-industry and
company-specific events and trends than professionals at more diversified firms. Focused on optimizing your growth strategy,
Scotia Howard Weil brings deep industry knowledge, experience, relationships and broad distribution capabilities to each
transaction we execute in the U.S. energy equity capital markets. Scotia Howard Weil is a leading manager of equity capital
markets transactions in the energy industry, having completed over 50 such transactions since 2014.
Scotiabank's oil and gas M&A arm, Scotia Waterous, is a global leader in oil and gas M&A, offering corporate M&A,
asset acquisition and divestiture, and corporate finance services to its international clientele. With over 200 mandates
completed since 2006 worth more than $167 billion, Scotia Waterous provides best-in-class advisory solutions to enhance your
strategic decision making. Scotia Waterous is a technically focused advisor with over 110 integrated and highly experienced
technical and corporate professionals based around the world.
For more info, visit: www.gbm.scotiabank.com/energy, www.howardweil.com and www.scotiawaterous.com.
About Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell plc is incorporated in England and Wales, has its headquarters in The Hague and is listed on the London,
Amsterdam, and New York stock exchanges. Shell companies have operations in more than 90 countries and territories with
businesses including oil and gas exploration and production; production and marketing of liquefied natural gas and gas to
liquids; manufacturing, marketing and shipping of oil products and chemicals and renewable energy projects.
For further information, visit www.shell.com.
About Rivington Holdings, LLC
Rivington Holdings, LLC, is an independent investment and merchant banking firm specializing in institutional private capital
placements to the middle market upstream energy sector. Founded in 2002, Rivington has successfully executed 86 private capital
and M&A transactions with total consideration exceeding $6.5 billion. Rivington Securities, LLC is a registered Broker-Dealer
and member of FINRA and SIPC.
Further information can be found at Rivington's website: www.rivingtoncap.com.