Summary of MAINLAND RESOURCES INC.

ITEM 5.02 DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR PRINCIPAL OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS; APPOINTMENT OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS

Effective on July 15, 2008, the Board of Directors of Mainland Resources, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Company") has appointed one additional individual, Ernest G. Sorochan, as members of the Board of Directors, and accepted the consent of him as a member of the Board of Directors. Therefore, as of the date of this Current Report, the Company's Board of Directors is comprised of the following individuals: Michael J. Newport, Robert D. Fedun, David Urquhart, and Ernest G. Sorochan.

Biography

Ernest G. Sorochan, P. Eng. has had over thirty years of experience in the petroleum industry where he has engaged in project management of international operations for oil companies, economic evaluations of oil and gas projects, planning, coordinating and implementing multi-well drilling programs in South America, sales and marketing with international service companies, hands-on experience in cementing, acidizing, sand control, hydraulic fracturing, drill stem testing and service tools, field experience in drilling, completions and work-overs of oil and gas wells, and operational experience in high pressure sour gas fields and gas plant facilitities.

From approximately April 2004 to present, Mr. Sorochan has been an area engineer for Compton Petroleum Corporation in Calgary, Alerbta. He provides engineering support for the Long Coulee, Grant and Vulcan areas in Southern Alberta, conducts economic evaluations of capital expenditure proposals for dilling work-overs, re-completions and facilitites, coordinates the completion and testing of wells, recommends new drill development wells, works with geology and geophysic to select exploration wells and declines curve analysis on wells. Prior to 2004, he was vice president of operations for Redwood Energy Ltd., technical manager for Pan Ocean Oil Corporation, manager - business development for Redwood Energy Ltd., senior production engineer for McMentum Enterprises Inc., drilling and completions superintendent for Alberta Energy Company International in Argentia, production engineering consultant for E.G. Consulting Ltd., district manager for Dowell Schlumberger Corporation in Australia and technical sales representative for Canadian Fracmaster Ltd.

Mr. Sorochan earned a B.Sc. Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta and has a diploma in gas technology from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He is a member of Petroleum Engineers and of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta.

The Company has agreed to grant to Mr. Sorochan 200,000 Stock Options exercisable into 200,000 shares of restricted common stock at an exercise price of $4.95 for a period of ten years.