January 05, 2010 14:00 ET

Carrizo Oil & Gas to Make Presentation at BMO Capital Markets 2010 Unconventional Resources Conference

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - January 5, 2010) - Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRZO) will make a presentation at BMO Capital Markets Unconventional Resources Conference in New York City on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 1:30 PM EST.

An audio webcast of the presentation can be accessed at http://www.bmocm.com/conferences/2010UnconventionalResourceConference/webcast/default.aspx or by visiting the company website at http://www.crzo.net/, clicking on "Investor Relations" and then clicking on "BMO 2010 Conference." The presentation will be webcast live beginning at 1:30 PM EST, January 12, 2010. The presentation slide book will be available on the Carrizo website coincident with the conference presentation.

Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. is a Houston-based energy company actively engaged in the exploration, development, exploitation, and production of oil and natural gas primarily in the Barnett Shale in North Texas, the Marcellus Shale in Appalachia, and in proven onshore trends along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast regions. Carrizo controls significant prospective acreage blocks and utilizes advanced 3-D seismic techniques to identify potential oil and gas reserves and drilling opportunities. Carrizo also controls large acreage positions in other productive shale resource plays.

Statements in this news release that are not historical facts, including but not limited to those related to increases in production and new production, expected reporting of production and drilling activity of the Carrizo/Avista JV, are forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations. Although Carrizo believes that its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that these expectations will prove correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include review of quarterly results, market and other conditions, capital needs and uses, commodity price changes, effects of the global financial crisis on exploration activity, results of and dependence on exploratory drilling activities, operating risks, land issues, weather, and other risks described in Carrizo's Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2008 and its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.