EnerCom, Inc. To Host The Oil & Gas Conference® 19 August 17-21, 2014

DENVER, July 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- EnerCom, Inc. will host The Oil & Gas Conference® 19, August 17-21, 2014, in Denver at the Westin Denver Downtown.  The Conference is the oldest and largest energy investment conference hosted in Denver.  Investment and oil and gas professionals interested in attending the event can register through the conference website. 

Conference Details and One-on-One Meetings: The Oil & Gas Conference® 19 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 presenting company management teams arranging one-on-one meetings with the attending institutional investors and research analysts during the Conference. 

Who are the Presenters: The 2014 edition of EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference® will host more than 110 presenting companies with operations spanning more than 40 countries and six continents.  Market capitalizations of the presenters range from approximately $9 million to $250 billion. The 2014 Work-in-Progress presentation schedule can be found on the official Conference website.

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.  Global sponsors of EnerCom's Conferences are Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank; Netherland, Sewell & Associates; Preng & Associates; and Hein & Associates LLP.  Sponsors of The Oil & Gas Conference® 19 are: GMP Capital Inc.; Wells Fargo & Co.; BMO Capital Markets; CIBC; Stephens Inc.; Royal Dutch Shell plc; Halliburton; Whiting Petroleum Corporation; Energy XXI; NGP Energy Capital Management; Mutual of Omaha Bank; Wunderlich Securities; Fifth Third Bank; PNC Bank; Howard Weil; Haynes and Boone; and Kayne Anderson Energy Funds.

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:

• The Oil & Gas Conference® 19 – Denver, Colorado – August 17-21, 2014
• The Oil & Services Conference™ 13 – San Francisco, California – February 18-19, 2015
• EnerCom's London Oil & Gas Conference™ 7 – London, England – June 2015

For more information about EnerCom, its services, Conferences and Oil & Gas 360® please call +303-296-8834.

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 AmericaHouston, 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 is the world's leading advisor on energy leadership recruitment. We are the trusted advisor to managements and boards of directors seeking the right leaders to generate their company's highest and best value. Our global clients trust our experience to be their partner in recruiting leaders in the board room, the C-suite and in key managerial roles. Our proprietary search process is the most trusted and reliable in the energy sector.

After nearly 34 years of specializing in energy and natural resources, our consultants:

• Completed more than 3,200 search assignments.
• Generate more than 80% of their business from repeat clients.
• Believe loyalty and experience is invaluable to the executive search process.

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 also serves clients globally through its alliance with associations of independent accounting firms around 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, 303.298.9600 or visit http://www.heincpa.com/industries/energy/oil-gas.

About GMP Capital Inc.

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 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 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 BMO Capital Markets

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American financial services provider offering corporate, institutional and government clients access to a complete range of products and services. These include equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, securitization, treasury management, market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading. With more than 2,300 professionals in offices in 29 locations around the world, including 16 in North America, BMO Capital Markets works proactively with clients to provide innovative and integrated financial solutions.

BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$532 billion total assets and more than 45,500 employees as at January 31, 2014.

For more information, visit www.bmocm.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/services__industry_sectors/energy.aspx

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 Halliburton

Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. With more than 80,000 employees, representing 140 nationalities in approximately 80 countries, the company serves the upstream oil and gas industry throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir – from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion, and optimizing production through the life of the field. Visit the company's website at www.halliburton.com.

About Whiting Petroleum Corporation

Whiting Petroleum Corporation, a Delaware corporation, is an independent oil and gas company that explores for, develops, acquires and produces crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids primarily in the Rocky Mountain and Permian Basin regions of the United States. The Company's largest projects are in the Bakken and Three Forks plays in North Dakota, the Niobrara play in northeast Colorado and its Enhanced Oil Recovery field in Texas. The Company trades publicly under the symbol WLL on the New York Stock Exchange. For further information, please visit http://www.whiting.com.

About Energy XXI

Energy XXI (NASDAQ: EXXI) is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company whose growth strategy emphasizes acquisitions, enhanced by its value-added organic drilling program. The company's properties are located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico waters and the Gulf Coast onshore. Energy XXI has implemented an "acquire and exploit" growth strategy to build a geographically focused portfolio with some of the highest per-unit margins in the industry. Energy XXI completed six major acquisitions totaling approximately $4.8 billion since its founding in October 2005. Energy XXI operates 10 of the largest oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico.

For further information, please visit http://www.energyxxi.com.

About NGP Energy Capital Management

Since 1988, NGP Energy Capital Management (NGP ECM) has built a premier investment franchise in the natural resources sector. Through our $13 billion family of funds, NGP ECM has developed its reputation as a consistent and supportive financial sponsor in the industry. The breadth of NGP ECM's investment platform gives us broad insight into the drivers of value creation in all facets of our business. We believe this investment experience allows us to be the partner of choice for the most dynamic management teams in the natural resources sector.

For more information, please visit http://www.ngpenergycapital.com/

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'sHouston-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 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 Bancorp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.  The Company has $130 billion in assets and operates 17 affiliates with 1,320 full-service Banking Centers, including 104 Bank Mart® locations, most open seven days a week, inside select grocery stores and 2,586 ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia and North Carolina. Fifth Third operates four main businesses: Commercial Banking, Branch Banking, Consumer Lending, and Investment Advisors. Fifth Third also has a 25% interest in Vantiv Holding, LLC. Fifth Third is among the largest money managers in the Midwest and, as of December 31, 2013, had $302 billion in assets under care, of which it managed $27 billion for individuals, corporations and not-for-profit organizations. Investor information and press releases can be viewed at www.53.com. Fifth Third's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ® Global Select Market under the symbol "FITB."  Fifth Third Bank was established in 1858.  Member FDIC.  

For more information, please contact Richard C. Butler, Senior Vice President at (713) 401-6101.

About PNC Bank

The PNC Financial Services Group is one of the nation's largest diversified financial services organizations providing retail and business banking; residential mortgage banking; specialized services for corporations and government entities, including corporate banking, real estate finance and asset-backed lending; wealth management and asset management.

About Howard Weil

Established in 1946, Howard Weil is an investment banking boutique focused exclusively on the energy industry.  Howard Weil was acquired by Scotia Capital Inc., A Canadian Investment Dealer, in April of this year and is a division of ScotiabankTM.  The firm's services include equity research, institutional sales and trading, and investment banking.

Equity Research:  Howard Weil's equity research professionals cover approximately 118 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.

For more info, visit http://howardweil.com/

About Haynes and Boone

Haynes and Boone'sHouston office is involved in a wide array of corporate transactions and litigation work, with particular focus on the needs of Houston's business community. Heavy emphasis is placed on the following sectors: Energy, and Oil & Gas, as well as Real Estate, Intellectual Property, Technology, Environmental, Business Litigation, Appeals, Business Reorganization, Bankruptcy, Labor and Employment, Tax, Corporate Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions, Public and International Law.

But our lawyers do even more: they are community leaders who give back much more than they take. In 2011, the Houston office was recognized by the Houston Bar Association as an Equal Access to Justice Champion for its continued support through the Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program. Our lawyers also serve as members of boards and in executive-level positions with many of the major cultural, educational, philanthropic and religious organizations in the city, as well as in leadership positions within bar and industry-related organizations.

About Kayne Anderson Energy Funds

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., founded in 1984, is a leading independent alternative investment management firm focused on niche investing in upstream oil and gas companies, energy infrastructure, specialized real estate, middle market credit, growth private equity and distressed municipal opportunities. Kayne's investment philosophy is to pursue niches, with an emphasis on cash flow, where our knowledge and sourcing advantages enable us to deliver above average, risk-adjusted investment returns. Kayne manages approximately $30 billion in assets (as of 6/30/2014) for institutional investors, family offices, high net worth and retail clients and employs nearly 250 professionals in eight offices across the United States.

SOURCE EnerCom, Inc.