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Contango Oil Gas Company

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Contango Oil Gas Company

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    1. Contango Oil & Gas Company

    2. 1 Lawyer Stuff

    3. 2 ….More Lawyer Stuff

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    5. 4 CONTANGO – a natural gas centric, non crude oil oriented – never to be confused with anything remotely related to manufacturing - company with a business model focused on drilling wildcat exploration wells with a minimum of debt and shareholder dilution

    6. 5 Contango’s Core Beliefs From Inception

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    8. 7 NYMEX Natural Gas Price Required to Earn a 10 % ROACE - UBS

    9. 8 Value Creation and Risk Find, Develop & Acquire Capex (last 3 fiscal years)….....$556 million Reserves added ……………................................................408 Bcfe F & D & A $1.36/Mcfe DD&A for 12 months ended June 30, 2009……………...$1.17/Mcfe A LOW DD&A IS NOT VALUE CREATION IF IT IS ACHIEVED THROUGH FULL COST POOL WRITE DOWNS Debt adjusted PV-10 per Mcfe (PV-10 - Debt)/Mcfe: June 30, 2009 (millions) ($890 - $0)/355 = $2.51 Gas Price: $4.09/Mcf September 30, 2009 (millions) ($773 - $0)/347 = $2.23 Gas Price: $3.48/ Mcf December 31, 2009 (millions) ($914 - $0)/350 = $2.61 Gas Price: $4.06/Mcf

    10. 9 What Contango Doesn’t Have Lots of shares O/S Lots of shareholders Lots of options O/S Lots of paid in capital vs R/E (SEE “PEAK RATIO”) Lots of PUD’s Lots of employees Lots of wells Lots of Landowners Lots of Regulators Near term leases expiring L-T rig contracts Debt Severance Taxes Hedges

    11. 10 Contango’s Owners (As at 12/31/09)

    12. 11 Investors should examine…… The PAST…. Does the company have a history of being profitable? What’s their track record in creating value per share? What about share price appreciation over past 5, 3, 1 year(s)? ……The PRESENT How do current earnings/cash flow/reserves/production – all per share look? What about value per share…per Mcfe…per employee? ……And the FUTURE What are reasonable expectations about earnings per share growth ?

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    14. 13 The Past History of Profits? The Balance Sheet has the Answer Peak Ratio Defined: Shareholder Earnings = R/E + Dividends Net Invested Capital Equity – (R/E + Dividends) Contango’s Peak Ratio Calculated as at 12/31/10: R/E + Dividends = $363.4 + 5.4 = $368.8 = 27.93X Equity – (R/E + Dividends) $382-(363.4 + 5.4) $13.2 Peak Market Cap Ratio: Market Cap = Shares O/S x Price = $870 = 66X Net Invested Capital Net Invested Capital $13.2 Growth in Book Value/Share ($/Share)

    15. 14 STOCK PRICE APPRECIATION ONE YEAR COMPARISON Jan. 1, 2009 – Dec. 31, 2009

    16. 15 STOCK PRICE APPRECIATION THREE YEAR COMPARISON Jan. 1, 2007 – Dec. 31, 2009

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    18. 17 The Present Multiple Metrics; Per Share; Per Mcfe Produced; Per Employee *For the 12 months ended, or, as at, 12/31/09, as appropriate

    19. 18 The Future Ship Shoal 263 comes on mid-summer at 20 Mcfed Dude (MI – 617) - Drilling Eloise South/Dutch #5 - Drilling Paisano (VM – 155) – Drilling Spud Onshore Farm-In – Before June 30 Spud His Dudeness – Before Year-End Lease Sale Prospects – March 17 – we were AHB on all three! Conterra Onshore - Ongoing CORE – End of year

    20. 19 The Big Picture CHINA DRIVES CRUDE World’s second largest economy (8.8% of global GOP) Out competing U.S. in securing world’s crude oil Keeps crude on the bid SHALE GAS IS OUR SALVATION U.S. has 100 years supply NatGas Green keeps a bid on NatGas via power generation and transportation Why subsidize people who hate us? So simple even our Congress will figure it out……..Eventually UP FRONT CAPITAL NEEDS ARE ENORMOUS XOM – XTO Devon GOM/INTL Sale to focus on shale Technology will drive F&D costs lower Red Queen depletion rates BUT…DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE “ARB” Service companies are “for profit” entities with hurdle rates too Service Co’s consolidate…E & P’s proliferate Landowner’s are increasingly sophisticated – no more 1/8th royalties States/Counties/Parishes need money – fees, ad valorem, income, sales and severance taxes Water In / Water Out: Reg’s and more Reg’s LOTS OF GAS, BUT THE WIND IS AT OUR BACK No Nuke’s nowhere near no one Carbon capture can’t conflate coal consumption Production profile plumped

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    22. 21 GOM Economics Acreage, G & G and seismic costs last 4 years combined: $10 million NRI to Contango AFTER landowner ORRI and AFTER G & G Promote: 70-72% Severance Tax: 0% Ad Valorem Tax: 0% Sales & Use Tax: 0% State Income Tax: 0% LOE(1) $.50 G & A(1) $.20 If NAT GAS @ $3.92/Mcf – Contango Receives(1) $5.20/Mcfe If Contango produces 64.9 Mcfd – Contango Sells (1) 85.2 Mcfed Contango is a Taxpayer: We have no NOL Carry Forwards 35% Risk Partner Contango is a Taxpayer at $2.00 Gas: Drill – Baby Drill Good Rig costs are less than half of 2 year ago levels Better One Landowner – MMS Excellent Lot’s of nearby infrastructure Wonderful No Nimby’s to deal with Priceless Yes, we will drill dry holes – The E in E & P stands for Exploration Reality (1) Average for 6 months ended December 31, 2009

    23. 22 In Conclusion……….. Do the Math…………. Who has positive retained earnings? Who has lower DD & A (look to R/E) Who has lower LOE? (include – W/O’s; SVC Tax; Insurance) Who has lower debt? Who has lower G & A? (Include – Cap G&A, “non-cash” option expense) Who has more PDP Mcfe’s/Share? Who has more exploration upside per share? Who has more commodity price upside? Who doesn’t have an NOL carry-forward? Who has a 35% partner? Who has fewer shares today than 1,3,5,7,9 years ago? Which CEO’s haven’t taken options the last 3 years? Incentives drive behavior.

    24. 23 Golden Factoids: GOLD: Most precious of metals: Atomic Number 79: Au-Aurum – “Shining dawn” YIELD: 0% WEIGHT MEASURE: 1 Troy oz. = 31.12305 grams MINED: Only 161,000 tonnes mined in history of the world, ± $6 Trillion in March 2010 CONSUMPTION: - Never Consumed – all gold ever found is still around All the gold on earth could be held in a couple bank vaults A worthless ore-body at $600/troy oz. can be a bonanza $1,100/troy oz. New mined gold production has been declining for a decade After two years of multitrillion spending , unemployment is ± 10% and the S & P 500 is where it was 12 years ago – NASDAQ is down 50%. Gold since the beginning of time has been accepted as a store of value and offers wealth protection in times of deflation and inflation

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