DENVER, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Venoco, Inc. (NYSE: VQ) announced today that Bill Schneider, President will be speaking at the Pritchard Capital Partners Energize 2009 Conference on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 beginning at 11:50 a.m. Eastern time.

Slides associated with the session will be available after market-close on Monday, January 12th via the Investor Relations page of the company's website, www.venocoinc.com.

Venoco is an independent energy company primarily engaged in the acquisition, exploitation and development of oil and natural gas properties in California and Texas. Venoco operates three offshore platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel, has non-operated interests in three other platforms, operates four onshore properties in Southern California, has extensive operations in Northern California's Sacramento Basin and operates eighteen fields in Texas.

For further information, please contact Mike Edwards, Vice President, (303) 626-8320; http://www.venocoinc.com; E-Mail investor@venocoinc.com.

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