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HOUSTON, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oil and Gas Investor magazine, an international trade publication covering the oil and gas industry, named Denver-based Bill Barrett Corporation's (NYSE: BBG) deep test well in northeast Utah's West Tavaputs Plateau the magazine's Discovery of the Year for 2005. Company officials accepted the award today in Houston at the annual North American Prospect Expo, the country's largest marketplace for natural resource prospects and technologies. The Discovery of the Year award is one of several categories cited in the magazine's annual Oil and Gas Investor Excellence Awards honoring "commitment to quality and innovation in the most important areas of the oil and gas industry." Editor-in-Chief Leslie Haines said the publication issues its annual Excellence Awards for executive management, exploration, financing, field rejuvenation, acquisitions, investor relations and corporate citizenship. She noted that Bill Barrett Corporation's (BBC) #6-7 Peters Point discovery marked the second year in a row that a Utah discovery has been awarded the magazine's Discovery of the Year. "Any domestic oil and gas discovery these days has national significance," she said. "Rising energy costs show that this country needs new sources of domestic supplies of oil and natural gas, yet the regulatory and financial constraints - more available