Marathon Oil's Roberts to Keynote at 2011 DUG Eagle Ford Conference

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Jul 05, 2011, 04:30 ET

HOUSTON, July 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- David E. Roberts, Jr., executive vice president and COO for Marathon Oil Corporation, will be the afternoon keynote speaker at Hart Energy's 2nd annual Developing Unconventional Gas (DUG™) Eagle Ford conference & exhibition, October 10-12, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Marathon recently announced a $3.5 billion agreement with Hilcorp Resources Holdings to purchase assets in the Eagle Ford shale formation. After the acquisition, Marathon will have 285,000 net acres in the Eagle Ford shale. In addition to the six rigs currently under contract related to this acquisition and two others in Marathon's other Eagle Ford acreage, Marathon has five drilling rigs on order and expects to be operating at least 20 drilling rigs in the Eagle Ford within 12 months of closing this transaction.

This year's DUG Eagle Ford conference is expected to bring 3,000 attendees to San Antonio to learn more about the reservoir characteristics, economics, infrastructure and the regulatory environment in south Texas.

An up-to-date agenda for the DUG Eagle Ford conference can be found at www.dugeagleford.com.

For more than 30 years, Hart Energy has been the leader in covering energy news and technology for investors and industry executives. The Houston-based company provides member-only online information services (OilandGasInvestor.com, A-Dcenter.com and UGcenter.com), publishes award-winning industry magazines (Oil and Gas Investor, E&P, Midstream Business and FUEL), and produces specialized newsletters and conferences, with particular strength in the unconventional resource markets. In February 2011, its research arm published the first Global Shale Gas Study analyzing shale gas resources worldwide.

For detailed information about Hart Energy and its DUG conferences, please visit www.hartenergy.com and www.hartenergyconferences.com

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SOURCE Hart Energy