OIL AND GAS PROPERTIES | NOTE 6 – OIL AND GAS PROPERTIES The following table summarizes the Company’s oil and gas activities by classification for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 (in thousands): Balance at December 31, 2023 Additions Disposals Transfers Balance at September 30, 2024 Oil and gas properties, subject to amortization $ 185,403 $ 17,162 $ (380 ) $ 6,467 $ 208,652 Oil and gas properties, not subject to amortization 12,407 963 - (6,467 ) 6,903 Asset retirement costs 853 56 - - 909 Accumulated depreciation, depletion and impairment (107,070 ) (10,307 ) - - (117,377 ) Total oil and gas assets, net $ 91,593 $ 7,874 $ (380 ) $ - $ 99,087 For the nine-month period ended September 30, 2024, the Company incurred $17.6 million of capital costs primarily related to non-operated drilling and completion costs related to the Company’s participation in 19 new non-operated wells in the D-J Basin in which the Company participated and the Company’s completion operations with respect to three operated wells with a third-party in the Permian Basin, together with costs related to certain workovers for lift conversions, cleanouts and permitting in the Company’s D-J Basin Asset. The Company also acquired approximately 968 net lease acres, in and around its existing footprint in the D-J Basin, through multiple transactions with total acquisition and due diligence costs of $513,000. Per the on-going Participation Agreement between the Company and Evolution Petroleum Corporation (“Evolution”) for the joint development of “Development Blocks” within the Company’s Permian Basin Asset, Evolution acquired a 50% working interest share in existing leases covering approximately 811 net acres located in the second Development Block in exchange for the payment of $450 per net acre of existing leases held by the Company in such block, and a 50% working interest share basis in the drilling and completion of San Andres wells in such Development Block, for $365,000 in total proceeds to the Company. On August 21, 2024, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, PRH Holdings, LLC (“PRH”), entered into a five-year Participation Agreement with a large private equity-backed D-J Basin exploration and production company with extensive operational experience (“Joint Development Party”), whereby the Joint Development Party assigned to PRH a 30% interest in approximately 7,607 net acres of existing oil and gas leases and PRH assigned to the Joint Development Party a 70% interest in approximately 3,166 net acres of oil and gas leases, all located within the SW Pony Prospect in the D-J Basin in Weld County, Colorado. Additionally, to facilitate joint development of the SW Pony Prospect, the parties agreed to an approximately 16,900 gross acre Area of Mutual Interest wherein the Joint Development Party will transfer 30% of future interests acquired by the Joint Development Party in leaseholds to PRH, and PRH will transfer 70% of future interests acquired by PRH in leaseholds to the Joint Development Party, in each case at an acquisition cost proportionate to their respective interests. The assigned interests will be subject to an overriding royalty, such that the assigning party shall deliver to the other party leasehold interests with an 80% net revenue interest, and the parties agreed that the Joint Development Party will be the operator of the combined leaseholds. The Participation Agreement specifically addresses the Harlequin Wells, which are existing wells within the SW Pony Prospect, whereby PRH acquired a 30% undivided interest in six Harlequin Wells as part of the leasehold assignment. The Company correspondingly paid $8.6 million in capital costs (included in the $17.6 million number above) related to these wells. Additionally, on September 23, 2024, PRH sold 320 net acres to a third-party in the Company’s D-J Basin Asset for $750,000, and, as a result, the Company recognized a $735,000 gain from the sale of oil and gas properties on its Consolidated Statement of Operations as of September 30, 2024. The depletion recorded for production on proved properties for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, amounted to $3,100,000, compared to $2,690,000, and $10,307,000, compared to $5,137,000, respectively. |