Petroleum & Resources Corporation Declares Dividend

BALTIMORE, Jan. 14  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of Petroleum & Resources Corporation (NYSE:PEO) declared a dividend of $0.10 per share, payable March 1, 2010, to stockholders of record February 12, 2010, consisting of $0.01 investment income, $0.05 short-term capital gain, and $0.02 long-term capital gain, all realized in 2009, and $0.02 investment income realized in 2010.

Petroleum & Resources Corporation is a Baltimore-based closed-end investment company. Its stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PEO.

  For further information please contact:

  Lawrence L. Hooper, Jr., Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
  410-752-5900 or 800-638-2479

  E-mail: 
  Website: http://www.peteres.com/




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CONTACT:  Lawrence L. Hooper, Jr., Vice President, General Counsel and

Secretary, [phone] or [phone], 



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

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