NOTE 11 – ASSET RETIREMENT OBLIGATIONS

The Company’s asset retirement obligations primarily relate to the Company’s portion of future plugging and abandonment costs for wells and related facilities. The following table presents the changes in the asset retirement obligations for the six months ended June 30, 2026 (in thousands):

In New Mexico, the Company, through its New Mexico operating subsidiary RAZO, has entered into a Stipulated Final Order (“SFO”) with Director of the Oil and Gas Conservation Division of New Mexico (the “OCD”) pursuant to which, among other things, RAZO agreed to reimburse the OCD for actual costs incurred by the OCD for plugging and abandoning approximately 299 inactive legacy wells in the Permian Basin Asset at a rate of $2.00 per gross barrel of oil sold by RAZO during any production reporting period, subject to a minimum payment of $30,000 per month by RAZO. RAZO has been timely paying each reimbursement invoice received from the OCD in accordance with the SFO and is in full compliance with the SFO. The SFO superseded all previous Agreed Compliance Orders, as amended, entered into by and between RAZO and the OCD. During the six months ended June 30, 2026, the Company reimbursed the OCD $226,000 in plugging and abandoning costs related to the SFO.