Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. Provides Upcoming Conference Schedule

DENVER, Jan. 5  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. (NYSE Amex: KOG), an oil and gas exploration and production company with assets in the Williston Basin of North Dakota and Montana and in the Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming and Colorado, today provided its upcoming investor conference schedule.

Kodiak's President and CEO, Lynn A. Peterson, is scheduled to present at the following conferences:

  --  Pritchard Capital Partners LLC Energize 2010 Conference in San
      Francisco on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM PST (12:40 PM EST). 
      The presentation is scheduled to be webcast and may be accessed by
      logging on to the following link as provided by the conference host: 
      http://www.wsw.com/webcast/pritch2/kog/   Slides from Peterson's
      presentation will also be available on the Kodiak website at
      http://www.kodiakog.com/ .
  --  Independent Petroleum Association of America's OGIS Florida in Fort
      Lauderdale, Fla. on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 1:15 PM EST.  The
      presentation is scheduled to be webcast and may be accessed by logging
      on to the IPAA website at http://www.ipaa.org/ .  Slides from Peterson's
      presentation will also be available on the Kodiak website at
      http://www.kodiakog.com/ .


  About Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp.


Denver-based Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. is an independent energy exploration and development company focused on exploring, developing and producing oil and natural gas in the Williston and Green River Basins in the U.S. Rocky Mountains.  For further information, please visit http://www.kodiakog.com/.  The Company's common shares are listed for trading on the NYSE Amex exchange under the symbol: "KOG."

  For further information, please contact:
  ----------------------------------------
  Mr. Lynn A. Peterson, CEO and President,
  Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp.
  [phone]
  Mr. David P. Charles, Sierra Partners LLC [phone] x11


DATASOURCE: Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp.



CONTACT:  Mr. Lynn A. Peterson, CEO and President of Kodiak Oil & Gas

Corp. [phone], or Mr. David P. Charles, Sierra Partners LLC

[phone], ext. 11, for Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp.



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

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