Gastar Exploration Ltd. (NYSE Alternext US:GST) (TSX:YGA) today announced that it will participate in the Pritchard Capital Partners Energize 2009 Conference being held in San Francisco on January 13 through 15, 2009.

J. Russell Porter, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, will make a presentation at 11:20 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, January 13, 2009. Presentations will not be webcast, but the Company’s presentation materials will be available on the Investor Relations page of Gastar’s web site at www.gastar.com under Events/Presentations.

About Gastar Exploration

Gastar Exploration Ltd. is an exploration and production company focused on finding and developing natural gas assets in North America and Australia. The Company pursues a strategy combining deep natural gas exploration and development with lower risk CBM and shale resource development. The Company owns and operates exploration and development acreage in the deep Bossier gas play of East Texas and Marcellus Shale play in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Gastar’s CBM activities are conducted within the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and concentrated on more than 6 million gross acres controlled by Gastar and its joint development partners in Australia’s Gunnedah Basin (PEL 238, PEL 433 and PEL 434) located in New South Wales. For more information, visit our web site at www.gastar.com.

Gastar Exploration Ltd.
J. Russell Porter, Chief Executive Officer, 713-739-1800
rporter@gastar.com
or
DRG&E
Investor Relations Counsel:
Lisa Elliott or Anne Pearson, 713-529-6600
lelliott@drg-e.com
apearson@drg-e.com