Company: REI
Filing Date: 2025-10-03
Form Type: 8-K/A
Source: 0001384195-25-000015
Chunk: 2

Company: RING ENERGY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-03
Form: 8-K/A
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The foregoing description of the Release Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such document, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.

#### Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits .

The following exhibits are included with this Current Report on Form 8-K:

| Exhibit No. 
 10.1        |     | Description                                                                  
 General Release Agreement dated October 2, 2025 by Travis T. Thomas          |
|:------------|:----|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 104         |     | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). |

### SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

| Date: |     | October 3, 2025 |     | RING ENERGY, INC. 
 By:               |     | /s/ Paul D. McKinney                 |
|:------|:----|:----------------|:----|:------------------|:----|:-------------------------------------|
|       |     |                 |     |                   |     | Paul D. McKinney                     |
|       |     |                 |     |                   |     | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |