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Holdings in Company

October 16, 2008

The Company has performed a periodic review of its register of depository interests and wishes to appraise the market of the following significant shareholders (other than those of directors announced on 15 October 2008):

The interests of the other Directors in the Company’s issued Common Stock are as follows:

  Units of Common Stock % issued
TD Waterhouse Nominees (Europe)Limited 13,220,571 11.36
Barclayshare Nominees Limited 10,054,362 8.64
L R Nominees Limited 10,155,647 8.73
HSDL Nominees Limited 7,264,197 6.24
Raven Nominees Limited 6,814,017 5.85
Pershing Nominees Limited 4,517,249 3.88


The holdings above are all depository interests. Depository interests are currently issued in respect of a total 82,631,906 units of Common Stock of no par value, representing 71.00% of the Company's issued 116,387,779 units of Common Stock. These are registered in the name of Computershare Company Nominees Ltd.

Enquiries:

Jeremy Delmar-Morgan, Chairman, Tel: 077 8900 4874
John James (Jim) Ellerton, CEO, Tel: 00 1 303 759 2700
David Millham, Investor Relations, Tel: 078 5094 9324
Peter Trevelyan-Clark/Nick Harriss/Wye-Li Long, Blomfield Corporate Finance Ltd, Tel: 020 7489 4500
Colin Rowbury/Alan Rooke, Religare Hichens, Harrison plc, Tel: 020 7382 4450

Sefton Resources is an AIM listed oil and gas production company. Its main core area of activity is in the East Ventura Basin in California, where it owns 100% of two oil fields, Tapia Canyon (heavy gravity oil) and Eureka Canyon (medium gravity oil), both of which have over twenty years of expected production life. In addition, Sefton has over 40,000 acres in the Forest City Basin of Eastern Kansas where Coal Bed Methane gas, as well as conventional oil and gas deposits, are targets.