Eagle Rock Announces 5% Increase in Fourth Quarter 2011 Cash Distribution and Earnings Release Date

HOUSTON, Jan. 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Eagle Rock Energy Partners, L.P. (Nasdaq:EROC – News) (“Eagle Rock” or a “Partnership”) currently announced a money placement of $0.21 per common section for a entertain finished Dec 31, 2011, that is homogeneous to $0.84 per section on an annualized basis. This placement represents a 5% boost from a $0.20 per section paid for a third entertain 2011. The placement will be paid on Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 to unitholders of record as of a tighten of business on Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012.

Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call Information

The Partnership also announced currently it will news fourth entertain and full year 2011 financial and handling formula after marketplace tighten on Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012. The fourth entertain and full year 2011 gain discussion call will be hold during 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1:00 p.m. Central Time) on Thursday, Feb 23, 2012.

Interested parties might listen to a gain discussion call live over a Internet or around telephone. To listen live over a Internet, participants are suggested to record on to a Partnership’s web site during www.eaglerockenergy.com. To attend by telephone, a call in series is 888-680-0869, acknowledgment formula 91452793. Participants are suggested to dial into a call during slightest 15 mins before to a call to register. Participants might pre-register for a call by regulating a following link: https://www.theconferencingservice.com/prereg/key.process?key=PKKBG4G8F. Interested parties can also perspective critical information about a Partnership’s discussion call by following this link. Pre-registering is not imperative though is endorsed as it will yield we evident entrance to a call and will promote a timely start of a call. Pre-registration usually takes a few moments and we might pre-register during any time, including adult to and after a start of a call. An audio replay of a discussion call will also be accessible for thirty days by dialing 888-286-8010, acknowledgment formula 29765383. In addition, a replay of a audio webcast will be accessible by accessing a Partnership’s web site after a call is concluded.

About a Partnership

Eagle Rock Energy is a growth-oriented singular partnership intent in: (i) a business of gathering, compressing, treating, processing, transporting, selling and trade healthy gas; fractionating, transporting and selling healthy gas liquids; and wanton oil logistics and marketing; and (ii) a business of building and producing hydrocarbons in oil and healthy gas properties. Its corporate bureau is located in Houston, Texas.

This news recover might embody “forward-looking statements.” All statements, other than statements of chronological facts, enclosed in this press recover that residence activities, events or developments that a Partnership expects, believes or anticipates will or might start in a destiny are forward-looking statements and pronounce usually as of a date on that such matter is made. These statements are formed on certain assumptions done by a Partnership formed on a knowledge and notice of chronological trends, stream conditions, approaching destiny developments and other factors it believes are suitable underneath a circumstances. Such statements are theme to a series of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of that are over a control of a Partnership. These include, though are not singular to, risks associated to sensitivity of commodity prices; marketplace direct for wanton oil, healthy gas and healthy gas liquids; a efficacy of a Partnership’s hedging activities; a Partnership’s ability to keep pivotal customers; a Partnership’s ability to continue to obtain new sources of wanton oil and healthy gas supply; a accessibility of local, intrastate and widespread travel systems and other comforts to ride wanton oil, healthy gas and healthy gas liquids; foe in a oil and gas industry; a Partnership’s ability to obtain credit and entrance a collateral markets; ubiquitous mercantile conditions; and a effects of supervision regulations and policies. Should one or some-more of these risks or uncertainties occur, or should underlying assumptions infer incorrect, a Partnership’s tangible formula and skeleton could differ materially from those pragmatic or voiced by any forward-looking statements. The Partnership assumes no requirement to refurbish any forward-looking matter as of any destiny date. For a minute list of a Partnership’s risk factors, greatfully deliberate a Partnership’s Form 10-K, filed with a Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for a year finished Dec 31, 2010 and a Partnership’s Forms 10-Q filed with a SEC for successive quarters, as good as any other open filings and press releases.