Company: VGASW
Filing Date: 2025-11-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-052351
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Company: Verde Clean Fuels, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 to the stockholder action by written consent. Immediately prior to closing of the PIPE Investment, on January 29, 2025, the Company filed the Restated Charter with the Delaware Secretary of State.

Key Factors and Trends Influencing our Prospects and Future Results

We believe that our performance and future success depend on a number of factors that present significant opportunities for us but also pose risks and challenges, including competition from other carbon-based and other non-carbon-based fuel producers, changes to existing federal and state level low-carbon fuel credit systems, and other factors discussed under the section titled “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. We believe the factors described below are key to our success.

Commencing and Expanding Commercial Operations

A critical step in our business strategy will be the successful construction and operation of the first commercial production plant using our patented STG+® technology. 

Concurrent with the Business Combination, Diamondback, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cottonmouth, made a $20 million equity investment in Verde and entered into the Existing Equity Participation Right Agreement pursuant to which Verde must grant Cottonmouth the right to participate and jointly develop natural gas-to-gasoline plants in the Permian Basin utilizing Verde’s STG+® technology and associated natural gas from Diamondback’s operations. Diamondback is an independent oil and natural gas company headquartered in Midland, Texas, focused on the acquisition, development, exploration and exploitation of unconventional, onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin in West Texas. The production of gasoline from associated natural gas from Diamondback’s operations in the Permian Basin is designed to allow Diamondback to mitigate the flaring of natural gas while also producing a high-margin product from natural gas streams that are subject to being economically disadvantaged.

In February 2024, Verde and Cottonmouth entered into a joint development agreement (“JDA”), which provides a pathway forward for the proposed development, construction, and operation of a natural gas-to-gasoline plant in the Permian Basin 

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utilizing Verde’s STG+® technology and associated natural gas from Diamondback’s operations (the “Permian Basin Project”). The JDA frames the contracts contemplated to be entered into between the parties and outlines the conditions precedent for the parties to enter into definitive documents and achieve final investment decision (“FID”) to proceed with the Permian Basin Project. The JDA conditions precedent include finalizing applicable project