Gulfport Energy Announces 6,5M Share Offering

Gulfport Energy Corporation

today announced the commencement of an underwritten public offering of 6,500,000 shares of its common stock, subject to market and other conditions. The underwriters will have an option to purchase up to an additional 975,000 shares from Gulfport. Gulfport intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include expenditures associated with the 2014 drilling program and additional acreage acquisitions in the Utica Shale. Credit Suisse, Barclays, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Wells Fargo Securities are acting as joint book-runners in the offering. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement for the offering may be obtained on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission, www.sec.gov, or by contacting Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Prospectus Department, at One Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10010, or by telephone at (800) 221-1037; Barclays Capital Inc. c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, by email at barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com, or by calling toll-free: (888) 603-5847; Goldman, Sachs & Co. at 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282-2198, Attention: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (866) 471-2526, by facsimile at: (212) 902-9316, or