EMERALD RESOURCES NL — Capital/Financing Update 2010

Sep 12, 2010

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Suite 2, 12 Parliament Place West Perth WA 6005 Ph: +618 9482 0510 Fax: +618 9482 0505 Email: info@emeraldoilandgas.com www.emeraldoilandgas.com

13 September, 2010

Centralised Company Announcements Platform Australian Stock Exchange 10[th] floor, 20 Bond Street Sydney NSW 2000

Update – Allotment of Entitlement Issue Securities

Emerald Oil & Gas NL has received applications for the shortfall securities.

Pending the clearing of shortfall funds, the allotment and official quotation of the total of 127,500,000 ordinary shares and 63,750,000 options is now likely to occur on 16 September 2010.

Yours faithfully,

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Morgan Barron Company Secretary

For more information please contact: Emerald Oil & Gas NL Tel: +618 9482 0510

About Emerald Oil & Gas NL

Emerald Oil & Gas NL (ASX: EMR), listed on the ASX in June 2006, is an oil and gas exploration and production company with project interests in Kentucky and Texas in the USA and in the Canning Basin of Western Australia. Emerald’s focus is on both conventional and non-conventional reservoir targets for oil and gas prospects. Its primary objective is to achieve near term production and cashflow to build shareholder value and provide funds to fuel further growth.

Statements regarding Emerald’s plans with respect to its petroleum properties are forward-looking statements. There can be no assurance that Emerald’s plans for development of its petroleum properties will proceed as currently expected. There can be no assurance that Emerald will be able to confirm the presence of additional petroleum deposits, that any discovery will prove to be economic or that an oil or gas field will successfully be developed on any of Emerald’s petroleum properties.