CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                     OF THE
                      RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                             WRT ENERGY CORPORATION


     Wrt Energy Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws
of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), does hereby certify as follows:

     FIRST: The name of the Corporation is WRT Energy Corporation,  and the date
of filing of its original  Certificate  of  Incorporation  with the Secretary of
State of the  State of  Delaware  was June 20,  1997,  amended  by its  Restated
Certificate of Incorporation  filed with the Secretary of the State of the State
of Delaware on July 11, 1997.

     SECOND:  Article I of the  Restated  Certificate  of  Incorporation  of the
Corporation is amended in its entirety to read as follows:

     "The  name  of  the  corporation  is  Gulfport  Energy   Corporation   (the
"Corporation")."

     THIRD: The foregoing amendments were declared advisable and proposed to the
Corporation's  stockholders by resolutions  adopted by unanimous written consent
of the Board of Directors dated February 13, 1998.

      FOURTH: That in lieu of a meeting and vote of stockholders, the holders of
a majority of the issued and outstanding voting capital stock of the Corporation
have been given their respective written consent to the foregoing  amendments in
accordance with the provisions of Section 228 of the General  Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware.

     FIFTH:  That the foregoing  amendments were duly adopted in accordance with
the applicable  provisions of Section 242(b) of the General  Corporation  Law of
the State of Delaware.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  WRT Energy  Corporation has caused this Certificate of
Amendment to be signed,  on its behalf,  by Gary C. Hanna,  its President,  this
30th day of March, 1998.

                                             WRT ENERGY CORPORATION

                                             By:   /s/Gary C. Hanna   
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                                                  Gary C. Hanna
                                                  President