**EXHIBIT31.1**

 

**CERTIFICATIONPURSUANT TO RULE 13A-14 and 15D-14 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,**

**ASAMENDED AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302**

**OFTHE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002**

 

I, Robert S. Herlin, President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of Evolution Petroleum Corporation, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-Kof Evolution Petroleum Corporation;

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not containany untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessaryto make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which suchstatements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by thisreport;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements,and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in allmaterial respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flowsof the small business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in thisreport;

 

4. The small business issuer’s other certifyingofficer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosurecontrols and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and15d-15(e)) for the small business issuer and have:

 

a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, orcaused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under oursupervision, to ensure that material information relating to the Small businessissuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by otherswithin those entities, particularly during the period in which this report isbeing prepared;

 

b) Designed such internal control over financialreporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to bedesigned under my supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding thereliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statementfor external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accountingprinciples.

 

c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the small businessissuer’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report ourconclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures,as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation;and

 

d) Disclosed in this report any change in the smallbusiness issuer’s internal control over financial reporting that occurredduring the small business issuer’s most recent fiscal quarter (the smallbusiness issuer’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) thathas materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, thesmall business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5. The small business issuer’s other certifyingofficer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internalcontrol over financial reporting, to the Small business issuer’s auditors andthe audit committee of the small business issuer’s Board of Directors (orpersons performing the equivalent functions):

 

a) All significant deficiencies and materialweaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financialreporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the small businessissuer’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financialinformation; and

 

b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involvesmanagement or other employees who have a significant role in the small businessissuer’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

 
|        | Date: September 24, 2008 | /s/ ROBERT S. HERLIN |
|--------|-------------------------------|----------------------|
|   |                          |                 | Robert S. Herlin |
|   |                          |                 | President and Chief Executive Officer |

 

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