Pengrowth Energy Trust announces cash distribution for March 15, 2005

Pengrowth Energy Trust announces cash distribution for March 15,
2005
Stock Symbol: (PGF.A / PGF.B) - TSX; (PGH) - NYSE 


CALGARY, Feb. 18  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pengrowth Corporation
("Pengrowth"), administrator of Pengrowth Energy Trust ("Trust"), announced
today that the cash distribution for March 15, 2005 will be Cdn $0.23 per trust
unit. The distribution is net of amounts withheld to finance capital
expenditures. The ex-distribution date is February 25, 2005. The distribution
will be payable to all unitholders who hold Class A or Class B trust units on
the record date of March 1, 2005.

The distribution of Cdn $0.23 per trust unit is equivalent to approximately
U.S. $0.19 per trust unit using a U.S./Canadian dollar exchange ratio of
1.2325. The actual U.S. dollar equivalent distribution will be based upon the
actual U.S./Canadian exchange rate applied on the payment date, net of
applicable Canadian withholding taxes. This distribution relates to the
production month of January, 2005. Cash distributions paid over the past 12
months now total Cdn $2.65 per trust unit or approximately U.S. $2.07 per trust
unit.

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Pengrowth currently anticipates that the 2004 Canadian Tax Information Sheet
will be available on our website the week of February 21, 2005.

Pengrowth reiterates that a U.S. tax information package, which includes a
Substitute Schedule K-1 form, will be mailed to U.S. beneficial unitholders who
owned Pengrowth units during 2004 on or about March 1, 2005.

PENGROWTH CORPORATION

James S. Kinnear, President 

DATASOURCE: Pengrowth Energy Trust



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