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Callon Petroleum Company

          Declares Preferred Stock Dividend

 

          Natchez, MS  (September 17, 2003) -- Callon Petroleum Company (NYSE: CPE/CPE.PrA) announced today that its Board of Directors authorized quarterly dividends to be paid October 15, 2003 to shareholders of record on September 30, 2003 of its $2.125 Convertible Exchangeable Preferred Stock, Series A. 

         

The dividend will be $0.53125 per share.

         

Callon Petroleum Company has been engaged in the exploration,

development, acquisition and operation of oil and gas properties in the Gulf Coast region since 1950.

 

 

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