Petrofund Energy Trust Clarifies Ex-Distribution Date for AMEX

Business Wire, Jan 6, 2005

CALGARY, Alberta -- Petrofund Energy Trust (TSX:PTF.UN) (AMEX:PTF) announced that due to the closing of the AMEX on Martin Luther King day in the United States on January 17, 2005, the ex-distribution date for Petrofund's January 2005 distribution will be January 12, 2005 for transactions on the AMEX. The ex-distribution date for TSX traded units remains unchanged at January 13, 2005, and the record date to receive Petrofund's January 2005 distribution remains the same for both exchanges at January 17, 2005.

Petrofund Energy Trust is a Calgary based royalty trust that acquires and manages producing oil and gas properties in Western Canada. The Trust makes monthly cash distributions to unitholders, which are derived from the Trust's cash flow from these properties. Petrofund Energy Trust was founded in 1988 and was one of the first oil and gas royalty trusts in Canada.

This news release may include statements about expected future events and/or financial results that are forward-looking in nature and subject to risks and uncertainties. For those statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements provisions contained in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Petrofund Energy Trust cautions that actual performance will be affected by a number of factors, many of which are beyond its control. Future events and results may vary substantially from what Petrofund Energy Trust currently foresees. Discussion of the various factors that may affect future results is contained in Petrofund Energy Trust's recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and Canadian securities regulatory authorities.

PETROFUND ENERGY TRUST

Jeffery E. Errico
President and Chief Executive Officer

Petrofund Energy Trust (TSX:PTF.UN) (AMEX:PTF)