UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  August 18, 2009

 
UNITED STATES OIL FUND, LP
  
     
 
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
  
     
Delaware
001-32834
20-2830691
     
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
(Commission File Number)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
 
1320 Harbor Bay Parkway, Suite 145
Alameda, California 94502
  
     
 
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
  
     
Registrant's telephone number, including area code
(510) 522-3336
  
     
 
Not Applicable
  
     
 
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
  

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Item 8.01.  Other Events.

Attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference are the audited Consolidated Financial Statements of United States Commodity Funds LLC (the “General Partner”), the general partner of the United States Oil Fund, LP (the “Registrant”), for the six-month period ending June 30, 2009 and a restatement of the audited Consolidated Financial Statements of the General Partner for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008. The audited Consolidated Financial Statements of the General Partner were restated to accurately reflect the accounting for income taxes of the General Partner after its management concluded that there were errors associated with the accounting for income taxes.  Although the General Partner was formed as a single-member limited liability company, which is a disregarded entity for federal income tax purposes, it filed an election with the Internal Revenue Service to be treated as an association taxable as a corporation.  As a result of the error in accounting for income taxes as a single-member limited liability company rather than as a corporation, certain items including the income tax payable, member distributions, income tax provision (benefit) and due from and to the General Partner’s parent have been restated for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008.  The cumulative effect from the error on member’s equity of the General Partner as of December 31, 2007 was $(140,441).  The significant effects of the restatement are included in Note 9 to the General Partner’s consolidated financial statements.

Item 9.01.  Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit
23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, which is incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-157823).

Exhibit
99.1
Audited Consolidated Financial Statements of the General Partner for the six-month period ending June 30, 2009 and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008.
 
 
 
 

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.
 
 
UNITED STATES OIL FUND, LP
 
By:
     United States Commodity Funds LLC, its general partner
Date:  August 18, 2009
By:
      /s/ Howard Mah
 
Name:
      Howard Mah
 
Title:
      Chief Financial Officer