US ENERGY CORP — Director's Dealing 2007

Jul 5, 2007

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: US ENERGY CORP (USEG)
CIK: 0000101594
Period of Report: 2007-07-02

Reporting Person: HERRON HAROLD F (Director, SR VICE PRESIDENT)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2007-07-02	U.S. Energy Common Stock	J	5000	—	Acquired	158865	Direct
2007-07-02	U.S. Energy Common Stock	M	20109	$2.00	Acquired	178974	Direct
2007-07-02	U.S. Energy Common Stock	F	7106	—	Disposed	171868	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2007-07-02	Employee Option 1a (Right to Buy)	$2.00	M	20109	Disposed	2008-09-25	U.S. Energy Common Stock (20109)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
U.S. Energy Common Stock	300556	Indirect
U.S. Energy Common Stock	4500	Indirect
U.S. Energy Common Stock	34724	Indirect
U.S. Energy Common Stock	155811	Indirect

Holdings (Derivative)

Security	Exercise Price	Expiration	Underlying	Shares	Ownership
Employee Option 2 (Right to Buy)	$2.40	2011-01-09	U.S. Energy Common Stock (27617)	27617	Direct
Employee Option 3 (Right to Buy)	$3.90	2011-12-06	U.S. Energy Common Stock (50000)	50000	Direct
Employee Option 4 (Right to Buy)	$2.25	2011-12-07	U.S. Energy Common Stock (26278)	26278	Direct
Employee Option 5 (Right to Buy)	$2.46	2014-06-30	U.S. Energy Common Stock (125000)	125000	Direct
Employee Option 6 (Right to Buy)	$3.86	2015-10-13	U.S. Energy Common Stock (100000)	100000	Direct

Footnotes

F1: Shares issued to the Reporting Person under the USEG 2001 Stock Compensation Plan as ammended on June 22, 2007. The issuance of these shares is for the funding obligation under the plan for the third quarter of the calendar year ending December 31, 2007. The Issuer has agreed under the terms of the Plan to pay all taxes due. The Reporting Person has agreed not to sell these shares to the market or pledge them on obligations until after his (i) retirement; (ii) total disability or (iii) in the case of the death of the Reporting Person his estate may sell the shares of stock.

F2: Surrendered shares for payment of exercise of options.

F3: Includes 160,868 shares held directly by the Reporting Person.

F4: Includes 11,000 shares held in an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) for the benefit of the Reporting Person.

F5: Includes 175,000 shares held by Sutter Gold Mining Co., Inc. (SGMI), a subsidiary of USEG. The Reporting Person is an Officer and/or Director of both USEG and SGMI and is not a controlling shareholder and does not have or share investment controll over these shares, and therefore does not have a pecuniary interest in the USEG shares held by SGMI, under rule 16a-1(a)(2)(iii).

F6: Includes 125,556 shares held by Plateau Resources Limited (Plateau), a wholly owned subsidiary of USEG. The Reporting Person is an Officer and/or Director of both USEG and Plateau and is not a controlling shareholder and does not have or share investment controll over these shares, and therefore does not have a pecuniary interest in the USEG shares held by Plateau, under rule 16a-1(a)(2)(iii).

F7: Includes 4,500 shares indirectly held by the Reporting Person as Custodian for minor children under the Wyoming Uniform Transfers to Minors Act. The Reporting Person disclaims beneficial and pecuniary interest in these shares.

F8: Shares held in the U.S. Energy Corp. Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the 'ESOP') in an account established for the benefit of the Reporting Person. Subsequent to the final year end close the number of shares issued to the Reporting Person's ESOP account has been adjusted from shares forfieted by Plan participants.

F9: Includes shares held in the ESOP which are not allocated to accounts established for the benefit of specific plan participants. The Reporting Person, as an ESOP Trustee, exercises the voting powers with respect to such unallocated shares.

F10: Includes stock options granted under the Issuer's 1998 Incentive Stock Option Plan and exempt under Rule 16b-3.

F11: Includes stock options granted under the Issuer's 2001 Incentive Stock Option Plan and exempt under Rule 16b-3.