NEW ORLEANS, April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (NYSE: HOS) announced today that Todd M. Hornbeck, President and Chief Executive Officer, and James O. Harp, Jr., Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be participating in the 9th Annual Burkenroad Reports Investor Conference at The Ritz-Carlton New Orleans to be held Friday, April 22, 2005. The Burkenroad Reports is an equity research program at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. For more information, visit the conference website at http://www.burkenroad.org .

Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. is a leading provider of technologically advanced, new generation offshore supply vessels primarily in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and select international markets, and is a leading transporter of petroleum products through its fleet of ocean-going tugs and tank barges primarily in the northeastern U.S. and in Puerto Rico. Hornbeck Offshore currently owns and operates a fleet of over 50 vessels, with 4 additional vessels under construction.

Contacts: Jim Harp, EVP & CFO
Hornbeck Offshore Services
985-727-6802

Ken Dennard, Managing Partner
Lisa Elliott, Sr. Vice President
DRG&E / 713-529-6600


SOURCE Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc.
04/18/2005
CONTACT: Jim Harp, EVP & CFO of Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc.,
+1-985-727-6802; or Ken Dennard, Managing Partner, or Lisa Elliott, Sr. Vice
President, both of DRG&E, +1-713-529-6600, for Hornbeck Offshore Services,
Inc.
Web site: http://www.burkenroad.org
(HOS)