DALLAS, Sep 07, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — EXCO RESOURCES, INC. (NYSE: XCO) (“EXCO”) today announced that, subject to market conditions, it intends to publicly offer $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2018. The offering and sale of the Senior Notes is pursuant to an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. EXCO intends to use a portion of the net proceeds from the offering to redeem all $444.7 million in aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 7¼% Senior Notes due 2011 in accordance with the terms of the indenture under which those notes were issued and the remaining proceeds to pay down a portion of the outstanding balance under EXCO’s credit agreement.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Banc of America Securities LLC, BNP Paribas Securities Corp., RBC Capital Markets Corporation and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC will act as joint book-running managers for the Senior Notes offering. A copy of the preliminary prospectus for the offering may be obtained from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the underwriters will arrange to send you the preliminary prospectus upon request to:

EXCO Resources, Inc. is an oil and natural gas exploration, exploitation, development and production company headquartered in Dallas, Texas with principal operations in East Texas, North Louisiana, Appalachia and West Texas.

Additional information about EXCO Resources, Inc. may be obtained by contacting EXCO’s Chairman, Douglas H. Miller, or its President, Stephen F. Smith, at EXCO’s headquarters, 12377 Merit Drive, Suite 1700, Dallas, TX 75251, telephone number (214) 368-2084.

This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the Senior Notes referred to above.An offering of any such securities will be made only by means of a prospectus.Any such prospectus shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of any such securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the consummation of the Senior Notes offering and the use of proceeds from the offering. The forward-looking statements in this press release are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to be materially different from expectations, including, without limitation: fluctuations in prices of oil and natural gas, general economic conditions,fluctuations in interest rates, regulatory changes, future capital requirements and continued disruption of credit and capital markets.A detailed discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from such forward-looking statements is included in EXCO’s reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.EXCO undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.

SOURCE: EXCO Resources, Inc.

EXCO Resources, Inc.
Douglas H. Miller, 214-368-2084
Chairman
or
Stephen F. Smith, 214-368-2084
President