Tesco Corporation to Present at the Johnson Rice Emerging Growth Energy Conference

Tesco Corporation to Present at the Johnson Rice Emerging Growth Energy
Conference
Trading Symbol: "TESO" on NASDAQ "TEO" on TSX

HOUSTON, TX, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Tesco Corporation announced
today that Julio Quintana, President and CEO and Anthony Tripodo, Executive
Vice President and CFO, will present at the Johnson Rice Emerging Growth
Energy Conference in Houston on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 8:45 a.m. CST.
For your convenience, a copy of the presentation slides will be publicly
available through the Company's website.
Tesco Corporation is a global leader in the design, manufacture and
service of technology based solutions for the upstream energy industry.
TESCO's mandate is to change the way people drill wells by delivering safer
and more efficient solutions that add real value by reducing the costs of
drilling for and producing oil and gas.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains statements that may constitute
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the US Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, among others,
statements regarding expectations of future revenues, activities, capital
expenditures and earnings and technical results. These statements are based on
current expectations that involve a number of risks and uncertainties, which
could cause actual results to differ from those anticipated. These risks
include, but are not limited to: the background risks of the drilling services
industry (e.g. operational risks; potential delays or changes in plans with
respect to customers' exploration or development projects or capital
expenditures; the uncertainty of estimates and projections relating to levels
of rental activities; uncertainty of estimates and projections of costs and
expenses; risks in conducting foreign operations (e.g. political and fiscal
instability) and exchange rate fluctuations); uncertainty and risks in
technical results and performance of technology; and other uncertainties.
SOURCE Tesco Corporation

Anthony Tripodo, (713) 359-7000, Tesco Corporation