Range Organizes Safety Drill for First Responders

Website Video Provides In-depth Look at Model Program
FORT WORTH, Texas--(Business Wire)--
RANGE RESOURCES CORPORATION (NYSE: RRC) announced that it has posted a video to
its website describing a first-of-its kind, large-scale safety drill in the
Marcellus Shale play recently conducted in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. State
Senator Gene Yaw filmed and produced the video and is sharing it with multiple
outlets in order to benefit first responders across the state. Senator Yaw is a
member of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee and represents
Lycoming, Bradford, Susquehanna, Union and Sullivan counties where drilling is
occurring in the Marcellus Shale play.

Range, along with the Lycoming County Oil and Gas Task Force, organized the
preparedness drill to help public safety officials better understand the
Marcellus Shale drilling process. The event took place September 19, 2009 on a
Range drill site in northeastern Pennsylvania. Approximately 120
first-responders were in attendance. State, local and county emergency
responders were involved, as well as the state Department of Environmental
Protection. Range underwrote the effort.

State Senator Gene Yaw commented, "I was extremely impressed with the divergent
group of professionals that participated in this exercise, drawing from the
local first responder groups in the area and the medical community as far away
as Philadelphia. Range did an exceptional job as the pioneering company in the
Marcellus Shale in demonstrating how to bring together all the various
constituencies to learn and work together to develop our Commonwealth`s
resources. As a member of the Oil and Gas Task Force, I am excited about the
economic benefits natural gas drilling will bring to our state, but I am
committed, just as Range is, to seeing this resource developed responsibly. I
commend Range for initiating this drill, which can serve as a template for
educating public safety workers in all areas of the state."

"Many emergency workers in this part of the state have never been on a drill
site. We wanted to provide a hands-on experience allowing them to practice
maneuvering around drilling equipment, while exposing them to multiple potential
rescue scenarios. While we have an excellent safety record with zero emergency
incidents in our first five years of drilling in the Marcellus, our goal is to
ensure that public safety workers are knowledgeable about our operations and
well-equipped for an expedient response. Other operators have since joined with
us in this educational effort, which we would like to see implemented in other
areas of the state," said Range`s Regional Director of Health, Safety and
Environment, Ralph Tijerina.

Range was the first company to use modern style drilling and completion
techniques to successfully drill to the Marcellus Shale in 2004. Since then
other natural gas companies have moved into Pennsylvania and are actively
drilling the Marcellus Shale formation.

RANGE RESOURCES CORPORATION is an independent oil and gas company operating in
the Southwestern and Appalachian regions of the United States.

Range Resources Corporation
Rodney Waller, Senior Vice President, 817-870-2601
or
David Amend, Investor Relations Manager, 817-870-2601
or
Karen Giles, Corporate Communications Manager, 817-870-2601
www.rangeresources.com

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