Atlas America, Inc Announces First Quarter Fiscal 2005 Earnings Confer

Atlas America, Inc Announces First Quarter Fiscal 2005 Earnings Conference Call

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    PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2005--

Atlas America, Inc. To Report Operating Results for First Fiscal Quarter 2005 and To Host Conference Call and Webcast
    Atlas America Inc. (Nasdaq:ATLS) announced today that it will release its first fiscal quarter 2005 results after market hours on Thursday, February 3, 2005 and invites investors and other interested parties to listen to the webcast of its quarterly conference call on Friday, February 4, 2005 at 8:30 a.m. EST.
    All interested parties can access the live webcast of the call from the homepage of the corporate website at www.atlasamerica.com. For those who are not available to listen to the live broadcast, the replay of the webcast will be available following the live call on the Atlas America, Inc. website and telephonically starting at 10:30 a.m. on February 4, 2005 until 5:00 p.m. on March 4, 2005, by dialing 888 286 8010, passcode 87829540.

    About Atlas America, Inc.

    Atlas America, Inc is an energy company engaged primarily in the development and production of natural gas in the Appalachian Basin for its own account and for its investors through the offering of tax advantaged investment programs. Atlas America owns 100% of the general partner of Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. (NYSE:APL) APL owns and operates more that 3,300 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines in Oklahoma, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio and a gas processing facility in Oklahoma. Resource America, Inc. (Nasdaq:REXI) owns 80.2% of Atlas America, Inc. For more information, please visit our website at www.atlasamerica.com, or contact investor relations at pschreiber@atlasamerica.com.

    Certain matter discussed within this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although Atlas America, Inc. believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be attained. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations include financial performance, regulatory changes, changes in local or national economic conditions and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's reports filed with the SEC, including quarterly reports on Form 10Q, reports on Form 8-K and annual reports on Form 10-K.

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CONTACT: Atlas America, Inc. Pam Schreiber, 215-546-5005

KEYWORD: PENNSYLVANIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: OIL/GAS ENERGY EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALLS SOURCE: Atlas America, Inc.

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