Company: TPET
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001493152-25-009234
Chunk: 17

Company: Trio Petroleum Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: S-8
Chunk 17
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 Business—The drilling of wells is speculative, often involving significant costs that may be more than our estimates, and drilling may not result in any discoveries or additions to our future production or future reserves, or it may result in disproving or diminishing our current reserves; “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to Our Business—Seismic studies do not guarantee that oil or gas is present or, if present, will produce in economic quantities;” and “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to Our Business—We are subject to numerous risks inherent to the exploration and production of oil and natural gas.”

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Business Strategies

Our primary business strategies and objectives currently are to develop our existing assets at the South Salinas Project, McCool Ranch Oil Field and Asphalt Ridge Project, and to acquire projects that generate immediate cash flow or offer transformative growth potential with strategic investment. TPET’s current strategy and focus at the South Salinas Project is multifaceted and includes restarting oil and gas production at the HV-3A discovery well at Presidents Field, securing approval from CalGEM and WaterBoards of a proposed short-term water-disposal program that should significantly reduce lease operating costs, evaluating options for drilling the HV-2 and HV-4 wells, evaluating options for accelerating the further testing of Humpback Field and particularly the Vaqueros Sand and the Monterey Formation Blue-Zone reservoir objectives, launching a Carbon Capture and Storage Project, pursuing permits for full field development, and similar matters. Efforts to obtain from Monterey County conditional use permits and a full field development permit for the South Salinas Project are progressing. Efforts to obtain from the California Geologic Energy Management Division (“CalGEM”) and from the California Water Boards a permit for a water disposal project at the South Salinas Project are also progressing. In the meantime, the Company recently determined that existing permits allow production testing to continue at the HV-3A discovery well at Presidents Field and, consequently, testing operations were restarted at this well on March 22, 2024. Oil production from this well has occurred with a generally favorable oil-water ratio and the Company has idled operations currently pending an assessment of the viability of increasing the well’s gross production rate, for example by adding up to 650 feet of additional perforations in the oil zone and/or acidizing the well for borehole cleanup. First oil sales from the HV-3A well occurred in the third calendar quarter of 2024.

TPET’s current strategy and focus at McCool Ranch is to optimize production