PennEnerg y and ImpactWeather Launch

the World’s First Global Offshore W eather Report

Serving the Oil and Gas Industry

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 ----- PennEnergy, an energy industry portal owned and operated by
PennWell Corporation, and ImpactWeather today launch the world’s first and only Global
Offshore Weather Report serving the offshore oil and natural gas industry.

Focusing on the nine most-active offshore exploration and production regions, the Global
Offshore Weather Report provides the petroleum industry much-needed weather, wind and wave
information in chapterized daily video forecasts.

“PennEnergy is partnering with ImpactWeather to deliver a trusted offshore weather forecast to

the petroleum industry,” said Stacey Schmidt, publisher for PennEnergy. “We are excited to offer
offshore petroleum professionals the world over this extensive weather resource and hope to
promote safety and reliability within the offshore oil and gas industry.”

The Global Offshore Weather Report by PennEnergy and ImpactWeather will provide daily 2- to
3-minute video weather forecasts focusing on the nine most-active offshore exploration and
production regions, including the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Brazil, West Africa, North Sea,
Mediterranean, Middle East & South Asia, Asia Pacific & Far East, and the Arctic.

Experienced Impact Weather meteorologists will provide wind, weather and wave information in
24-hour forecast charts split into 6-hour increments. Visuals will be supplemented with
customized and satellite animations.

The Global Offshore Weather Report is now streaming at www.PennEnergy.com. Subscribers

can also receive the product via e-newsletter.

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PennEnergy is an all-energy portal serving the petroleum upstream, downstream and midstream
markets, as well as the traditional and renewable power generation, distribution and metering
industry via breaking news, unique research and reports, worldwide conferences and events, and
a pan-energy job board. PennEnergy joins its parent company PennWell Corporation in
celebrating 100 years of serving the energy market. For more information, visit
www.Pennwell.com.

Impact Weather has been providing industry-specific weather forecasting and analysis via its
parent company for 50 years. Providing up-to-the-minute weather alerts and daily weather
forecasting to multiple industries, ImpactWeather boasts an extensive background in producing
weather videos, as well as experience in radio and internet broadcasting.

For more information, contact:

Phaedra Friend Troy
PennEnergy
(713) 499-6316
www.PennEnergy.com
phaedrat@pennwell.com

Fred C. Rogers
ImpactWeather, Inc.
Direct: (281) 652-1008
Toll-Free: (877) 792-3220
www.impactweather.com
frogers@impactweather.com

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