Company: VGASW
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-025504
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Company: Verde Clean Fuels, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 that were issued in the public offering are listed on Nasdaq under the symbols “VGAS” and “VGASW,” respectively. The Company’s primary stockholders are Bluescape Clean Fuels Holdings, LLC (“Holdings”) and Cottonmouth Ventures, LLC ("Cottonmouth"). Holdings is an affiliate of Bluescape Energy Partners, an alternative investment firm. Cottonmouth is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Diamondback Energy, Inc. ("Diamondback"). See Notes 3 and 6 for further information.Business CombinationOn February 15, 2023 (the “Closing Date”), the Company consummated (the "Closing") a business combination (the “Business Combination”) pursuant to that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated as of August 12, 2022 (the “Business Combination Agreement”) by and among CENAQ Energy Corp. (“CENAQ”), Verde Clean Fuels OpCo, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of CENAQ (“OpCo”), Holdings, Bluescape Clean Fuels Intermediate Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Intermediate”), and CENAQ Sponsor LLC (“Sponsor”). Immediately upon the completion of the Business Combination, CENAQ was renamed to Verde Clean Fuels, Inc.Following the completion of the Business Combination, the combined company is organized under an umbrella partnership C corporation structure, and the direct assets of the Company consist of equity interests in OpCo, whose direct assets consist of equity interests in Intermediate. Immediately following the Business Combination, Verde Clean Fuels is the sole manager of and controls OpCo.Prior to the Business Combination, and up to the Closing Date, Verde Clean Fuels, previously CENAQ Energy Corp., was a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”) incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.

NOTE 2 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of PresentationThe accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 28, 2025 and are presented in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) have been made that are necessary to