Please be advised that effective February 3, 2006, Viking Energy Royalty Trust (VERT) and Harvest Energy Trust (HET) completed a Plan of Arrangement that resulted in a merger of VERT and HET.

Changes relative to Viking entities include the following, and the related change certificates have been posted below:

• Viking Energy Royalty Trust was acquired by Harvest Energy Trust.
• Viking Holdings Inc. (VHI) became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvest Operations Corp. (HOC). Each of VHI and HOC will continue to conduct business under their current names until such time as an amalgamation takes place.
• Olaf Energy Limited Partnership was dissolved and its assets became property of Viking Holdings Inc.
• Krang Energy Inc. was amalgamated into Harvest ExchangeCo Ltd. The name of the amalgamated entity is Harvest ExchangeCo Ltd.

In addition to the above, the following entities have a change of address:

• Viking Energy Royalty Trust
• Viking Holdings Inc.
• Viking Holdings Trust
• Erik Holdings Trust
• Olaf Energy Limited Partnership
• Bjorn Holdings Inc.
• Pathfinder Resources Partnership
• 251849 Alberta Limited
• Krang Energy Inc.
• Krang Energy (USA) Inc.
• Viking Management Ltd.

New mailing address and contact information:

2100, 330 5^th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB
T2P 0L4

Main Phone Number: (403) 265-1178
Main Fax Number: (403) 265-3490