VOG Emerald Oil, Inc.

DENVER, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EnerCom, Inc. (www.enercominc.com) will host The Oil & Gas Conference® 16 (www.theoilandgasconference.com) at the Westin Tabor Center on August 14-18, 2011 in Denver.  The Conference is the oldest and largest energy investment conference hosted in Denver, showcasing more than 100 presenting companies over four days with a combined enterprise value of approximately $1.5 trillion.

Oil and gas professionals interested in attending the event can register at http://theoilandgasconference.com/Form1.aspx.  

Conference Details and One-on-One Meetings: The Oil & Gas Conference® 16 forum offers investment professionals the opportunity to listen to the world's key senior management teams present their growth plans, and provides industry professionals a venue to learn about important energy topics effecting the global oil and gas industry. EnerCom works with the presenting company management teams arranging one-on-one meetings with the attending institutional investors and research analysts during the Conference.  EnerCom's Oil & Gas 360® website will interview executives and analysts during the Conference for viewing on www.oilandgas360.com.  

The Conference's "work-in-progress" presenter schedule can be found at http://theoilandgasconference.com/presenter_schedule.shtml.

Who Attends the Conference: 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 each year for the unique opportunity to meet and discuss future industry plans, growth opportunities, and economic trends that are impacting the exploration and production of oil and natural gas.

History and Sponsors: EnerCom, Inc. founded The Oil & Gas Conference® in 1996.  Sponsors for this year's events include: Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank; Netherland, Sewell & Associates; Preng & Associates; Hein & Associates LLP; Enertia Software; Natixis Bleichroeder Inc.; Wells Fargo Securities; Canaccord Genuity; Macquarie Group; NYSE Euronext; Royal Dutch Shell plc; Societe Generale; and Howard Weil Incorporated.

About EnerCom, Inc.

Founded in 1994, EnerCom, Inc. is a nationally recognized investor communications consultancy firm advising and serving energy-centric clients on corporate strategy, investor relations, media and corporate communications, and visual communications design.  The Company's professionals have more than 150 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, drilling, OilService, and associated advanced-technology industries. The Company annually hosts three oil and gas investment conferences:

For more information about EnerCom, its services, Conferences and Oil & Gas 360® please call +303-296-8834, or visit www.enercominc.com and www.oilandgas360.com.

About Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank

Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, the corporate and investment banking arm of the Credit Agricole Group, has more than 13,000 professionals operating in more than 50 countries.  It provides its clients with a complete range of products and services in the areas of structured finance and commercial banking, capital markets, brokerage, and investment banking.

With headquarters in New York City, and U.S. offices in Houston, Chicago, and Dallas, 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.  

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, for three decades, has earned a reputation as the world's most accomplished executive search firm specializing in meeting the unique management leadership requirements of the energy and natural resources industries.

Working from offices in Houston, London, and Moscow, our consultants possess global search expertise, comprehensive industry knowledge and experience, a commitment to service, and a dedication to deliver consistently exceptional executive recruiting results across the energy value chain. We thank you for visiting and invite you to learn more about our global recruiting capabilities.

For more information about Preng & Associates and its services, please call:  Charles L. Carpenter, Partner, (713) 266-2600 or visit www.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 Brian Mandell-Rice, Managing Partner, at bmandell-rice@heincpa.com or 303.298.9600. www.heincpa.com

About Enertia Software

Enertia Software is the leading software developer and technical service provider for upstream oil & gas companies.  We offer the only single-vendor fully integrated, enterprise solution that can be uniquely tailored for the specific needs of your company across all departments including accounting and financial reporting, land and contract administration, mapping, well production and inventory management.

Enertia Software is specifically designed for the ever changing needs of the energy industry and our premise is simple – we develop a premium software solution that allows our customers to streamline data analysis, enhance workflow processes and increase efficiencies for improved business intelligence. Our interactive data-driven applications and technology provide our clients with real time knowledge that is essential in today's market.  Thus, Enertia allows companies to create a competitive advantage in reducing costs and minimizing risk exposure, and ultimately improving bottom line performance.

For more information, contact Paula Jourde at 800-297-1753 or visit www.enertia-software.com.

About Natixis

Natixis' dedicated Energy team delivers recognized expertise and personalized client service to tailor solutions that help energy-related businesses in the Americas meet their goals. We provide our clients with an integrated suite of products and services, including traditional corporate financings, reserve-based lending, 2nd lien loans, debt and equity capital markets; distribution; commodities, interest rate and currency hedging. Since 1979, we have served the needs of E&P, Midstream, Downstream, Corporate, Oilfield Services, Coal and Private Equity Sponsor clients.

Natixis is the corporate, investment management and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking player in France. With over 22,000 employees and offices in 68 countries, Natixis specializes in three core business lines: Corporate and Investment Banking, Investment Solutions (asset management, insurance, private banking, private equity) and Specialized Financial Services.

About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores and 12,000 ATMs and the Internet (wellsfargo.com and wachovia.com) across North America and internationally.

The Energy Banking Group, headed by Kyle Hranicky (713.319.1980), provides corporate banking products and services to the energy sector, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, and diversified industries.  With offices in Houston, Dallas, and Denver, the group's success is driven by in-depth industry expertise and longstanding relationships with key industry participants.  The group has over $19 billion of capital commitments to energy companies.  

The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group, headed by James Kipp (713.346.2701), 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, St. Louis, 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.

To learn more about Wells Fargo & Company, please visit the company's web site at www.wellsfargo.com.

About Canaccord Genuity

Canaccord Genuity is the global capital markets division of Canaccord Financial Inc (CF: TSX | CF.: AIM), offering institutional and corporate clients idea-driven investment banking, merger and acquisition, research, sales and trading services from 14 offices worldwide. Our team of over 400 capital markets professionals have industry and transactional expertise in critical sectors of the global economy: Metals and Mining, Energy, Agriculture, Technology, Telecommunications, Financials, Consumer Products, Real Estate, Transportation, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Life Sciences, Support Services and Investment Trusts. We are committed to providing valued services to our clients throughout the entire lifecycle of their business and operating as a gold standard independent investment bank – expansive in resources and reach, but targeted in industry expertise, market focus and individual client attention.

Canaccord Genuity operates through subsidiaries of Canaccord Financial Inc. Canaccord Genuity Inc. operates in the United States, Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary and Montreal and is a member of FINRA/SIPC. Canaccord Genuity Limited operates in the United Kingdom, and is regulated and authorized by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the LSE. Canaccord Genuity Corp. operates in Canada and is a Member of CIPF and IIROC.  Canaccord Genuity Asia (Beijing) Limited operates in China.

More information is available at www.canaccordgenuity.com.

About Macquarie Group

With more than 10 years' intensive involvement in the global energy sector, Macquarie Group has a long-standing financial services expertise with a dedicated focus on the energy industry. We offer a broad range of financial services to clients around the world. Using our in-depth specialist knowledge, we focus on:

• advice on mergers and acquisitions
• debt and equity underwriting
• equities research
• initial public offerings
• acquisitions and divestitures advice
• hedging and structured transactions
• strategic and capital management advice
• transportation and storage
• physical asset management
• physical trading in natural gas, power, LNG, coal, oil and natural gas liquids.

With a leading electronic execution platform and a sales presence in all major financial centers, Macquarie provides 24-hour, globally coordinated, comprehensive services to a range of energy-focused corporate and institutional clients. Working with our equities research professionals, our sales and trading team has specialist expertise and deep market knowledge of the energy sector – and we combine this with a generalist sales force of more than 400 professionals worldwide.

Bringing together energy producers and investors around the world, Macquarie Connections arranges frequent, high-quality corporate access events, such as non-deal roadshows, client trips, site tours, specialist seminars and conferences. In 2010, we held 45 non-deal roadshows and four client tours in the US for the oil and gas and energy sectors. Through these events, we connected 275 investors with more than 49 producers. This year we will hold a conference featuring 64 producers, and we hope to attract more than 200 investors.

For more information: www.macquarie.com/energy

About NYSE Euronext

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies.  The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products.  With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500.  www.nyse.com/exccelerate/

For more information about NYSE Euronext and its services, please call: Bruce Poignant, Managing Director, 212-656-5804.

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 Societe Generale

Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader in energy finance within the Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream segments of the industry.  We are a full-service financial partner with expertise in Reserve Based Facilities, Asset Based Facilities, Project Financings, Infrastructure Financings, and Commodity Derivatives. Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Bank has 11,000 professionals in over 33 countries across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific, tailoring solutions for issuers and investors by capitalizing on its worldwide expertise.  

For more information about SG's offerings, please contact Jason Henderson, Managing Director, Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Bank, at 713-759-6340 or go to www.sgcib.com.

About Howard Weil Incorporated

Established in 1946, Howard Weil is an investment banking boutique focused exclusively on the energy industry.  The firm's services include equity research, institutional sales and trading, and investment banking.

Equity Research:  Howard Weil's equity research professionals cover approximately 106 energy companies operating in the following sectors: Major Integrated Oils, Exploration and Production, Oilfield Equipment & Service, Natural Gas Hybrids, Independent Refiners, and Coal Producers.

Institutional Sales and Trading: Given the firm's exclusive focus on the energy industry, Howard Weil believes that its sales and trading professionals possess a deeper understanding of energy-industry and company-specific events and trends than professionals at more diversified firms. Howard Weil's sales and trading expertise spans multiple sectors of the energy industry and includes small-, mid- and large-market capitalization companies.

Investment Banking:  Howard Weil offers a full range of investment banking services, including public offerings, private placements, M&A and other financial advisory services, and fairness opinions. With its exclusive focus on the energy industry, Howard Weil's investment banking professionals have developed a deep level of industry knowledge and contacts, which can significantly enhance the level of service to the firm's energy investment banking clientele. Since re-establishing its investment banking department in 2005, Howard Weil has served as a co-manager, co-placement agent or lead manager of 81 equity and debt financings, totaling over $29 billion of capital for a wide range of energy companies.

For more information about Howard Weil, please visit www.howardweil.com.

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