DENVER, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Venoco, Inc. (NYSE: VQ) announced that its Annual Stockholders' Meeting will be held on May 20, 2009.

The meeting will be held at 7:30 a.m. Mountain Time on Wednesday, May 20, 2009, at the Brown Palace Hotel, 321 17th Street, Denver, Colorado. Stockholders of record at the close of business on Wednesday, April 1, 2009, are entitled to receive notice of the meeting and to vote the shares of Venoco common stock they hold as of that date.

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 fifteen fields in Texas.

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