Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. [CWEI] President & CEO to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell


ADVISORY, April 17, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. [CWEI], an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration for and production of oil and natural gas primarily in Texas, New Mexico and Louisiana, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square.

In honor of the occasion, Clayton Williams, President & CEO will ring the Opening Bell.  

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET 

Contact:

Patti Hollums
(432) 688-3419
phollums@claytonwilliams.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

Feed Information:

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Gal 3C/06C 95.05 degrees West
18 mhz Lower
DL 3811 Vertical
FEC 3/4
SR 13.235
DR 18.295411
MOD 4:2:0
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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Opening Bell will be available at:
http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx.

Photos:

To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Open, please go to http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market open of your choice.

About Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. [CWEI]:

Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. (stock symbol -- CWEI) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration for and production of oil and natural gas primarily in Texas, New Mexico and Louisiana. At December 31, 2011, our estimated proved reserves were 64.3 MMBOE, of which 61% were proved developed. Our portfolio of oil and natural gas reserves is weighted in favor of oil, with approximately 77% of our proved reserves at December 31, 2011 consisting of oil and natural gas liquids and approximately 23% consisting of natural gas. During 2011, we added proved reserves of 20.9 MMBOE through the drill bit, resulting in a reserve replacement of 384%.

About NASDAQ OMX:

The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the US and Europe, we own and operate 24 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to traffic more than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.999% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed companies worth $5.1 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily.  Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century.  To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500).

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