Massey Energy Promotes Sears

RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Massey Energy Company (NYSE:
MEE) today announced the promotion of Steve Sears to Vice President - Sales
and Marketing. Sears has also been named President of Massey Coal Sales
Company, Inc., Massey Energy's subsidiary sales company.

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Sears joined A.T. Massey Coal Company in 1981. Two years later, Sears became a
Sales Representative with Massey Coal Sales Company. Sears has held various
positions of increasing responsibility within the sales department and most
recently served as President - Massey Utility and Industrial Sales. Throughout
his tenure with Massey Coal Sales, Sears has demonstrated a unique
entrepreneurial ability to generate expanded revenue opportunities for the
Company. In 1984, Sears was the founder and architect of the Company's
industrial sales division. Today, Massey now sells coal to more than 50
industrial sales customers with revenue in excess of $225 million. Sears has
also been the innovator of two significant projects in the industrial sales
area. Sears spearheaded the founding of Coal Handling Solutions, LLC, a
partnership with Penn Virginia, that builds, owns and operates material
handling facilities at customer plants. Sears also oversaw the formation of
Coalsolv, a joint venture between Massey and Shell Global Solutions that
markets Cansolv liquid scrubber technology to coal fired power plants in the
United States.

Sears received a Bachelors in Business from Virginia Commonwealth University
and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Averett University.
"Steve's more than twenty five years with the sales department ideally
positions him to help the Company optimize revenue by continuing to create new
business opportunities for the Company as well as by providing increased
coordination between the Company's sales and operations areas," said Don L.
Blankenship, Massey's Chairman and CEO.

Massey Energy Company, headquartered in Richmond, Va., with operations in West
Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia, is the fourth largest coal producer by
revenue in the United States and is included in the S&P 500 Index.

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Roger Hendriksen, Director, Investor Relations of Massey Energy,
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