W&T Offshore Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend On Common Stock

HOUSTON, Aug. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- W&T Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI) announced that its Board of Directors on August 7, 2013 declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.09 per share, payable to the holders of the Corporation's common shares.  The dividend will be payable on September 12, 2013, to the shareholders of record on August 22, 2013.

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 71 offshore fields in federal and state waters (65 producing and six fields capable of producing).  W&T currently has under lease over 1.4 million gross acres including over 710,000 gross acres on the Gulf of Mexico Shelf, over 480,000 gross acres in the deepwater and over 220,000 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.

CONTACT:

Mark Brewer

Danny Gibbons


Investor Relations

SVP & CFO


investorrelations@wtoffshore.com 

investorrelations@wtoffshore.com


713-297-8024

713-624-7326

SOURCE W&T Offshore, Inc.