McMoRan Exploration Co. - 2009-06-17

Increased its public offering to 14.5 million shares and priced at US$5.75 each to fund capex and for general corporate purposes. JPMorgan is book-running manager and Dahlman Rose & Co, LLC, BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Capital One SouthCoast, Inc., Howard Weil Inc., TD Securities (USA) LLC, ING Financial Markets LLC and Piper Jaffray & Co. are co-managers.