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                               EXHIBIT 99.1

                            PYRAMID OIL COMPANY

                          CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

                                    OF

                          ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION



     JOHN H. ALEXANDER and LEE G. CHRISTIANSON certify that:

     1.     They are the president and secretary, respectively, of PYRAMID OIL

COMPANY, a California corporation.

     2.     ARTICLE SIXTH of the Articles of Incorporation of this corporation

is amended as follows:

               SIXTH: This corporation is authorized to issue only one
               class of no par shares of stock; and the total number of
               shares which this corporation is authorized to issue is
               10,000,000.

               Upon the effective date of this amendment, each four
               outstanding shares shall be split into five shares.  No
               fractional shares shall be issued in connection with this
               amendment, but in lieu thereof, any fractional share shall
               be rounded up to the nearest full share.

     3.     The foregoing amendment to the Articles of Incorporation has been

approved by the Board of Directors of this corporation.

     4.     The foregoing amendment to the Articles of Incorporation may be

adopted with approval by the Board of Directors alone, pursuant to California

Corporation Code Section 902(c).

                                           /s/ JOHN H. ALEXANDER
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                                           John H. Alexander
                                           President


                                           /S/LEE G. CHRISTIANSON
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                                           Lee G. Christianson
                                           Secretary

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          The Undersigned declare under penalty of perjury that the matters

set forth in the foregoing Certificate are true of their own knowledge.


          Executed at Bakersfield, California on June 8, 2008.



                                           /s/ JOHN H. ALEXANDER
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                                           John H. Alexander
                                           President


                                           /s/LEE G. CHRISTIANSON
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                                           Lee G. Christianson
                                           Secretary