Breitling Energy CEO Addressing Platts Oil and Gas Conference in NYC

DALLAS, Aug. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Breitling Energy Corporation (OTCBB: BECC) Chairman and CEO, Chris Faulkner, will address the Platts/Bentek Benposium East 2015 conference at the Conrad New York in a panel discussion tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. EDT.

Bentek Energy, a unit of Platts, provides data-driven market analytics to the oil, natural gas and NGL markets.  Faulkner's panel follows the keynote by Ed Morse, Head of Global Commodity Research for Citigroup. 

Discussion topics range from forecasts for the 2015/2016 winter season to the obvious analysis of the past week's markets.  Joining Faulkner will be Jan Rune Schopp, President of Statoil, the Norwegian multinational oil and gas company based in Stavanger, Norway; Thomas Watters, Managing Director of Standard & Poor's Ratings Services; Jonathan Wagner, CFO of Ospraie Management, LLC, a commodities-focused asset management firm based in New York and Mark Florian, Head of Infrastructure Funds at First Reserve, the world's largest global private equity investment firm exclusively focused on energy.

"Since 1985, Bentek has been recognized as the ultimate source for information and analysis in our industry.  This conference brings together some of the premier thought leaders affecting the energy conversation today.  This symposium lineup reflects the high standards of the Bentek and Platts brands and I am honored to be a part of the program," Faulkner said. 

The two-day Benposium East 2015 concludes Friday morning at the Conrad with sessions on take-aways from the 2015 market developments and a look at US exports, including Mexico and global LNG.

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ABOUT BREITLING ENERGY CORPORATION

Breitling Energy Corporation is a growing U.S. energy company based in Dallas, Texas, engaged in the exploration and development of high-probability, lower risk onshore oil and gas properties. The Company's dual-focused growth strategy primarily relies on leveraging management's technical and operations expertise to grow through the drill-bit, while also growing its base of non-operating working interests and royalty interests. Breitling Energy's oil and gas operations are focused primarily in the Permian Basin of Texas and the Mississippi oil window of southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma, with non-operating investments in Texas, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Mississippi. Breitling Energy Corporation is traded over the counter under the ticker symbol: BECC. Additional information is available at www.breitlingenergy.com.

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