Connacher Oil and Gas Limited to participate in Oil Sands Conference

    CALGARY, July 11 /CNW/ - Connacher Oil and Gas Limited (CLL-TSX)
announces today that the company's President and Chief Executive Officer,
Richard A. Gusella, will make a presentation to TD Securities 5th Annual Oil
Sands Forum, scheduled for Calgary, Alberta on the morning of July 12, 2007.
    A copy of the power point slides which comprise the presentation will be
posted on Connacher's website at www.connacheroil.com tomorrow. Go to "Recent
Highlights" and click on the link or go to "Investor Info" and click on
"Presentations".

    Connacher Oil and Gas Limited is a Calgary-based crude oil and natural
gas company. Its principal asset includes significant bitumen reserves and
resources in the Great Divide and Halfway Creek areas of northeastern Alberta.
The company's 10,000 bbl/d Great Divide Pod One plant and facilities are
scheduled to commence operations in August 2007 and an application to develop
a second 10,000 bbl/d accumulation at Algar, east of Pod One, has been
submitted to regulators. Connacher also operates a 9,500 bbl/d refinery in
Great Falls, Montana, produces conventional crude oil and natural gas in
Western Canada and owns a 26 percent equity stake in Petrolifera Petroleum
Limited, a public company active in South America with its shares listed on
the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol PDP.




For further information:
For further information: Richard A. Gusella, President and Chief
Executive Officer, Connacher Oil and Gas Limited, Phone: (403) 538-6201, Fax:
(403) 538-6225, www.connacheroil.com, inquiries@connacheroil.com