Pioneer Drilling Announces Fourth Quarter 2009 Earnings Release and Conference Call Schedule

SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 2  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pioneer Drilling Company (NYSE:PDC) announced today that it intends to release financial results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2009, on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 before the market opens. In conjunction with the upcoming release, Pioneer has scheduled a conference call for February 16 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. Central Time).

  What:  Pioneer Drilling's Fourth Quarter 2009 Earnings Conference Call

  When:  Tuesday, February 16, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time

         Live via phone by dialing 480-629-9819 and asking for the Pioneer
         Drilling call 10 minutes prior to the start time.  Or live over the
  How:   Internet by logging on to the web address below.

  Where: http://www.pioneerdrlg.com/
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For those who cannot listen to the live call, a telephone replay will be available through Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by calling [phone] and using the pass code 4206132 #.  A webcast replay will also be archived for one year in the investor relations section of the Company's web site at http://www.pioneerdrlg.com/.  For more information, please contact Donna Washburn at DRG&E at [phone] or email .

About Pioneer Drilling Company

Pioneer Drilling Company provides contract land drilling services to independent and major oil and gas operators in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, the Rocky Mountain and Appalachian regions and internationally in Colombia through its Pioneer Drilling Services Division. The Company also provides workover rig, wireline and fishing and rental services to producers in the U.S. Gulf Coast, Mid-Continent, Rocky Mountain and Appalachian regions through its Pioneer Production Services Division.  Its fleet consists of 71 land drilling rigs that drill at depths ranging from 6,000 to 25,000 feet, 74 workover rigs (sixty-nine 550 horsepower rigs, four 600 horsepower rigs and one 400 horsepower rig), 65 wireline units, and fishing and rental tools.

  Contacts:    Lorne E. Phillips, CFO
               Pioneer Drilling Company
               [phone]
               Lisa Elliott / 
               Anne Pearson / 
               DRG&E  / [phone]


DATASOURCE: Pioneer Drilling Company



CONTACT:  Lorne E. Phillips, CFO, Pioneer Drilling Company,

[phone], Lisa Elliott, ,  Anne Pearson,

, DRG&E, [phone]



Web Site:  http://www.pioneerdrlg.com/ 

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