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Assignment of Federal Oil and Gas Leases
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2026
Assignment Of Federal Oil And Gas Leases  
Assignment of Federal Oil and Gas Leases

NOTE 9 – Assignment of Federal Oil and Gas Leases

 

On June 5, 2026, the Company received an assignment of federal oil and gas leases covering approximately 19,957 acres of land located in the White River Valley, Nye County, Nevada (collectively, the "Nevada Leases") from Natural Minerals Trust, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which is controlled by Nexus Capital Investments, Inc., the Company's majority shareholder ("Nexus"). The assignment has been approved by the United States Bureau of Land Management ("BLM").

 

As a result of the approval, the Company now owns these Nevada Leases, giving the Company oil and gas exploration rights to eleven (11) federal oil and gas leases located in the Great Basin and Range in Nye County, Nevada. The Great Basin is a foreland basin, and its producing formations are mostly from the Devonian and Mississippian Ages. Chainman Shale Formation is the main source rock (up to 9% TOC – Total Organic Carbon) and has good thermal generation windows following depositional episodes that filled the White River Valley with multiple structural traps. The leases target prospective hydrocarbon-bearing formations, including but not limited to the Chainman Shale Formation, Pilot Shale, Ely Limestone Formation, Guilmete Dolomite Formation, Simonson Dolomite Formation and Joana Limestone Formation. These formations have demonstrated commercial oil and gas production in analogous wells operated by third parties in the immediate vicinity of the Nevada Leases.

 

The Nevada Leases have primary terms ranging from 10 years, with automatic extensions (“held by production”) for as long as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. The Company will be obligated to pay the United States federal government a royalty of 12.5% of gross production revenues, in accordance with standard BLM lease terms. However, no proven reserves have been established, and no pilot wells have been drilled. Accordingly, there is no assurance that we will be able to develop productive oil and gas operations from the land covered by these Nevada Leases.