Gastar Exploration to Present at The IPAA Oil and Gas Investment Symposium

Gastar Exploration Ltd. (AMEX:GST) and (TSX:YGA) today announced that it will participate in the IPAA Oil & Gas Investor Symposium being held in San Francisco on October 6 through 8, 2008.

J. Russell Porter, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, will make a presentation at 3:55 p.m. Pacific Time (6:55 p.m. Eastern) on Monday, October 6. To listen to an audio webcast of the presentation and view accompanying presentation materials, visit the Investor Relations page of Gastar’s web site at www.gastar.com and select Events/Presentations. A replay will be archived on the web site shortly after the presentation concludes.

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.