W&T Offshore Announces Special Meeting of Shareholders

HOUSTON, Aug. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- W&T Offshore, Inc. WTI today announced that a Special Meeting of Shareholders of W&T Offshore will be held at 8 a.m. Central Time on Thursday, September 1, 2016, at the offices of the Company, Nine Greenway Plaza, Suite 300, Houston, Texas 77046.  Shareholders of record at the close of business on August 4, 2016 are entitled to receive notice of the meeting and have the right to vote their shares of W&T Offshore common stock they held as of that date at the Special Meeting and at any reconvened meeting following any adjournment or postponement of the meeting.

About W&T Offshore

W&T Offshore, Inc. is an independent oil and natural gas producer with operations offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.  We have grown through acquisitions, exploration and development and currently hold working interests in approximately 54 fields in federal and state waters (50 producing and four fields capable of producing).  W&T currently has under lease approximately 750,000 gross acres, including approximately 450,000 gross acres on the Gulf of Mexico Shelf and approximately 300,000 gross acres in the deepwater.  A majority of our daily production is derived from wells we operate.  For more information on W&T Offshore, please visit our website at www.wtoffshore.com

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