PACIFIC RESOURCES LIMITED — Capital/Financing Update 2010

Jul 18, 2010

Date : 19 July 2010

To : Australian Securities Exchange Companies Announcement Office Electronic Lodgment System

Dear Sir,

Section 708A Notice – Placement Shares

Lodestone Energy Limited (“Lodestone” or “the Company”) hereby provides notice to the ASX for the purpose of section 708A(5)(e) of the Corporations Act that it has issued 47,750,000 ordinary fully paid shares in a placement, in the Company ( Shares ) without disclosure to investors under Part 6D.2 of the Corporations Act.

The Company states that as at the date of this notice:

• It has complied with the relevant provisions of Chapter 2M of the Corporations Act as they apply to the Company and Section 674 of the Corporations Act; and

• It is not aware of any excluded information within the meaning of Sections 708A(7) and 708A(8) of the Corporations Act.

An Appendix 3B with respect to the issue of the shares was lodged by the Company with ASX on 19 July 2010.

Yours sincerely Lodestone Energy Limited

Leni Stanley Company Secretary