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Item 5.02

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

On March 11, 2011, the Board of Directors of Saratoga Resources, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed J.W. “Bill” Rhea as a Director and as a member of the Company’s Audit Committee and Compensation Committee.

Since 2009, Mr. Rhea, age 58, has provided petroleum exploration consulting services through J.W. Rhea & Associates.  From 2006 to 2009, Mr. Rhea served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Gulf Energy Exploration Corp., a privately held oil and gas exploration and production company with principal operations in the Transition Zone offshore Texas.  Mr. Rhea has over 30 years of domestic and international business, financial and petroleum experience in all phases of the upstream oil and gas industry.  Prior to his appointment as a director, Mr. Rhea served as an advisory director of the Company since 2007.

Item 9.01       Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)

Exhibits

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Press release, dated March 14, 2011

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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