Note 1 - Organization, Operations and Significant Accounting Policies	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Notes to Financial Statements
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure and Significant Accounting Policies [Text Block]	1. ORGANIZATION, OPERATIONS AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES Organization and Operations U.S. Energy Corp. (collectively with its wholly-owned subsidiaries are referred to as the “Company” in these notes to unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements) is incorporated in the State of Delaware. The Company’s principal business activities are focused on the acquisition, exploration, development and processing of helium, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and hydrocarbons (collectively, "industrial gas" or "industrial gases"), and oil and natural gas properties (collectively referred to as "commodities" or "industrial gas and oil and natural gas") in the United States. Basis of Presentation The accompanying unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) and have been prepared by the Company pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) regarding interim financial reporting. Accordingly, certain information and footnote disclosures required by GAAP for complete financial statements have been condensed or omitted in accordance with such rules and regulations. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for a fair presentation of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been included. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as filed with the SEC on March 13, 2025. Our financial condition as of June 30, 2025, and operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, are not necessarily indicative of the financial condition and results of operations that may be expected for any future interim period or for the year ending December 31, 2025. Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Significant estimates include oil and natural gas reserves that are used in the calculation of depreciation, depletion, amortization ("DD&A") and impairment of the carrying value of proved oil and natural gas properties, and the cost and timing of future asset retirement obligations. The Company evaluates its estimates on an on-going basis and bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions the Company believes to be reasonable. Due to inherent uncertainties, including the future prices of oil and natural gas, these estimates could change in the near term and such changes could be material. Principles of Consolidation The accompanying unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in conformity with GAAP and include the accounts of U.S. Energy Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. U.S. Energy Corp. accounts for its share of oil and natural gas exploration and production activities, and industrial gas activities in which it has a direct working interest, by reporting its proportionate share of assets, liabilities, revenues, costs, and cash flows within the relevant lines on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, Statements of Operations, and Statements of Cash Flows. All inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Industry Segment and Geographic Information The Company currently operates in the exploration and production segment of the oil and natural gas industry, onshore in the United States. The Company’s operations are all related to oil and natural gas from which the Company derives all its revenues. The Company manages its business as a single reportable segment, as its operations are focused on assets with similar economic characteristics, production processes, types of purchasers, regulatory environment and customers which are consistent across the Company. Therefore, the Company aggregates its operating regions into one reportable segment. Our principal properties and operations are currently in the Rockies region (Montana, and Wyoming), the Mid-Continent region (Oklahoma, Kansas, and North and East Texas), and West Texas, South Texas and Gulf Coast region. Our Chief Executive Officer is our chief operating decision maker (CODM). The CODM utilizes operating income or loss as the primary operating measure to evaluate the performance of properties, which is revenues less lease operating expenses. Other segment items primarily consist of total assets, DD&A, general and administrative expense, gain or loss on derivative activity, interest expense and income tax expense or benefit. Our significant segment expenses and other segment items are derived from and can be found within the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. Industrial Gas Properties The Company capitalizes all costs associated with the acquisition, exploration and development of industrial gas properties. The acquisition of leases, costs of acquiring drilling permits, drilling, development and asset retirement costs are capitalized as exploration and unevaluated properties. When commercially viable quantities of industrial gas reserves are discovered, the associated costs are reclassified to evaluated assets. Insignificant unevaluated properties will be subject to amortization over the lease life unless the property is held in perpetuity by ongoing operations. The Company will periodically assess significant exploration and unevaluated properties on a property by property basis to determine whether they have been impaired. The assessment would include a review of capital plans including drilling or construction of production infrastructure on the property and assessment of expected cash flows for recoverability. Any additional costs to develop the properties or to construct infrastructure to produce and process industrial gases, including processing plant construction costs, will be capitalized as evaluated. Interest expense, if any, is capitalized on qualifying expenditures. Evaluated industrial gas properties are subject to DD&A once production commences utilizing the units of production method. Evaluated industrial gas properties are stated at cost, less accumulated depletion, depreciation and amortization. The carrying value of evaluated properties is reviewed for impairment when there are indications that it may not be recoverable due to significant and prolonged declines in prices, significant reductions in estimated resources, changes in the Company’s plans or other significant events that indicate that an impairment may exist. If any such indication of impairment exists and the sum of the undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying value of the evaluated property, the carrying value is reduced to estimated fair value and reported as an impairment charge in the period with a reduction in the associated carrying cost. Individual evaluated properties are grouped for impairment purposes at the lowest level for which there are identifiable cash flows. The fair value of impaired property is typically determined based on the present value of expected future cash flows using discount rates believed to be consistent with market participants. The impairment test incorporates several assumptions involving expectations of future cash flows which can change significantly over time. These assumptions include estimates of future production, future contracted industrial gas prices, estimates of future operating and development costs. Proceeds from partial dispositions of unevaluated property are offset against the acquisition cost with no gain or loss recognized and the remaining unevaluated property will be subject to impairment assessment. In the event we dispose of all interest in a significant, unevaluated property, gain or loss will be recognized. Gain or loss will be recognized on dispositions of evaluated properties. Recently Adopted Accounting Standards In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2023-09 "Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures," which is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. The amendments from this update provide transparency about income tax information through improvements primarily related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid information. Among other disclosures, public business entities are required to disclose a tabular reconciliation, using both percentages and reporting currency amounts, showing detail from eight specific categories: (a) state and local income tax net of federal (national) income tax effect, (b) foreign tax effects, (c) effect of changes in tax laws or rates enacted in the current period, (d) effect of cross-border tax laws, (e) tax credits, (f) changes in valuation allowances, (g) nontaxable or nondeductible items, and (h) changes in unrecognized tax benefits. In addition, public business entities are required to separately disclose any reconciling item, disaggregated by nature and/or jurisdiction, in which the effect of the reconciling item is equal to or greater than five percent of the amount computed by multiplying the income (or loss) from continuing operations before income taxes by the applicable statutory income tax rate. Also, for the state and local category, a public business entity is required to provide a qualitative description of the states and local jurisdictions that make up the majority (greater than 50 percent) of the category. Additional disclosures required a disaggregation of both continuing income before income taxes and taxes paid by jurisdiction. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adopting this new guidance on its financial disclosures. *New Accounting Pronouncement Not* Yet Adopted** In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, “Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40),” which expands disclosures around a public entity’s costs and expenses of specific items (i.e. employee compensation, and DD&A), requires the inclusion of amounts that are required to be disclosed under GAAP in the same disclosure as other disaggregation requirements, requires qualitative descriptions of amounts remaining in expense captions that are not separately disaggregated quantitatively, and requires disclosure of total selling expenses, and in annual periods, the definition of selling expenses. The amendment does not change or remove existing disclosure requirements. The amendment is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods with fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted, and the amendment can be adopted prospectively or retrospectively to any or all periods presented in the financial statements. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adopting this standard.

Note 1 - Organization, Operations and Significant Accounting Policies

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2025

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure and Significant Accounting Policies [Text Block]

1. ORGANIZATION, OPERATIONS AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Organization and Operations

U.S. Energy Corp. (collectively with its wholly-owned subsidiaries are referred to as the “Company” in these notes to unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements) is incorporated in the State of Delaware. The Company’s principal business activities are focused on the acquisition, exploration, development and processing of helium, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and hydrocarbons (collectively, "industrial gas" or "industrial gases"), and oil and natural gas properties (collectively referred to as "commodities" or "industrial gas and oil and natural gas") in the United States.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) and have been prepared by the Company pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) regarding interim financial reporting. Accordingly, certain information and footnote disclosures required by GAAP for complete financial statements have been condensed or omitted in accordance with such rules and regulations. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for a fair presentation of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been included.

For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as filed with the SEC on March 13, 2025. Our financial condition as of June 30, 2025, and operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, are not necessarily indicative of the financial condition and results of operations that may be expected for any future interim period or for the year ending December 31, 2025.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Significant estimates include oil and natural gas reserves that are used in the calculation of depreciation, depletion, amortization ("DD&A") and impairment of the carrying value of proved oil and natural gas properties, and the cost and timing of future asset retirement obligations. The Company evaluates its estimates on an on-going basis and bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions the Company believes to be reasonable. Due to inherent uncertainties, including the future prices of oil and natural gas, these estimates could change in the near term and such changes could be material.

Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in conformity with GAAP and include the accounts of U.S. Energy Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. U.S. Energy Corp. accounts for its share of oil and natural gas exploration and production activities, and industrial gas activities in which it has a direct working interest, by reporting its proportionate share of assets, liabilities, revenues, costs, and cash flows within the relevant lines on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, Statements of Operations, and Statements of Cash Flows. All inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Industry Segment and Geographic Information

The Company currently operates in the exploration and production segment of the oil and natural gas industry, onshore in the United States. The Company’s operations are all related to oil and natural gas from which the Company derives all its revenues. The Company manages its business as a single reportable segment, as its operations are focused on assets with similar economic characteristics, production processes, types of purchasers, regulatory environment and customers which are consistent across the Company. Therefore, the Company aggregates its operating regions into one reportable segment. Our principal properties and operations are currently in the Rockies region (Montana, and Wyoming), the Mid-Continent region (Oklahoma, Kansas, and North and East Texas), and West Texas, South Texas and Gulf Coast region. Our Chief Executive Officer is our chief operating decision maker (CODM). The CODM utilizes operating income or loss as the primary operating measure to evaluate the performance of properties, which is revenues less lease operating expenses. Other segment items primarily consist of total assets, DD&A, general and administrative expense, gain or loss on derivative activity, interest expense and income tax expense or benefit. Our significant segment expenses and other segment items are derived from and can be found within the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Industrial Gas Properties

The Company capitalizes all costs associated with the acquisition, exploration and development of industrial gas properties. The acquisition of leases, costs of acquiring drilling permits, drilling, development and asset retirement costs are capitalized as exploration and unevaluated properties. When commercially viable quantities of industrial gas reserves are discovered, the associated costs are reclassified to evaluated assets. Insignificant unevaluated properties will be subject to amortization over the lease life unless the property is held in perpetuity by ongoing operations. The Company will periodically assess significant exploration and unevaluated properties on a property by property basis to determine whether they have been impaired. The assessment would include a review of capital plans including drilling or construction of production infrastructure on the property and assessment of expected cash flows for recoverability. Any additional costs to develop the properties or to construct infrastructure to produce and process industrial gases, including processing plant construction costs, will be capitalized as evaluated. Interest expense, if any, is capitalized on qualifying expenditures. Evaluated industrial gas properties are subject to DD&A once production commences utilizing the units of production method. Evaluated industrial gas properties are stated at cost, less accumulated depletion, depreciation and amortization.

The carrying value of evaluated properties is reviewed for impairment when there are indications that it may not be recoverable due to significant and prolonged declines in prices, significant reductions in estimated resources, changes in the Company’s plans or other significant events that indicate that an impairment may exist. If any such indication of impairment exists and the sum of the undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying value of the evaluated property, the carrying value is reduced to estimated fair value and reported as an impairment charge in the period with a reduction in the associated carrying cost. Individual evaluated properties are grouped for impairment purposes at the lowest level for which there are identifiable cash flows. The fair value of impaired property is typically determined based on the present value of expected future cash flows using discount rates believed to be consistent with market participants. The impairment test incorporates several assumptions involving expectations of future cash flows which can change significantly over time. These assumptions include estimates of future production, future contracted industrial gas prices, estimates of future operating and development costs.

Proceeds from partial dispositions of unevaluated property are offset against the acquisition cost with no gain or loss recognized and the remaining unevaluated property will be subject to impairment assessment. In the event we dispose of all interest in a significant, unevaluated property, gain or loss will be recognized. Gain or loss will be recognized on dispositions of evaluated properties.

Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2023-09 "Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures," which is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.

The amendments from this update provide transparency about income tax information through improvements primarily related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid information. Among other disclosures, public business entities are required to disclose a tabular reconciliation, using both percentages and reporting currency amounts, showing detail from eight specific categories: (a) state and local income tax net of federal (national) income tax effect, (b) foreign tax effects, (c) effect of changes in tax laws or rates enacted in the current period, (d) effect of cross-border tax laws, (e) tax credits, (f) changes in valuation allowances, (g) nontaxable or nondeductible items, and (h) changes in unrecognized tax benefits. In addition, public business entities are required to separately disclose any reconciling item, disaggregated by nature and/or jurisdiction, in which the effect of the reconciling item is equal to or greater than five percent of the amount computed by multiplying the income (or loss) from continuing operations before income taxes by the applicable statutory income tax rate. Also, for the state and local category, a public business entity is required to provide a qualitative description of the states and local jurisdictions that make up the majority (greater than 50 percent) of the category. Additional disclosures required a disaggregation of both continuing income before income taxes and taxes paid by jurisdiction. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adopting this new guidance on its financial disclosures.

New Accounting Pronouncement Not Yet Adopted

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, “Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40),” which expands disclosures around a public entity’s costs and expenses of specific items (i.e. employee compensation, and DD&A), requires the inclusion of amounts that are required to be disclosed under GAAP in the same disclosure as other disaggregation requirements, requires qualitative descriptions of amounts remaining in expense captions that are not separately disaggregated quantitatively, and requires disclosure of total selling expenses, and in annual periods, the definition of selling expenses. The amendment does not change or remove existing disclosure requirements. The amendment is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods with fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted, and the amendment can be adopted prospectively or retrospectively to any or all periods presented in the financial statements. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adopting this standard.