Company: REI
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: S-8 POS
Source: 0001628280-25-014356
Chunk: 8

Company: RING ENERGY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: S-8 POS
Chunk 8
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 will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

### SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of The Woodlands, State of Texas, on March 21, 2025.

| RING ENERGY, INC. (the “Registrant”) |     |                                      |
| By:                                  |     | /s/ Paul D. McKinney                 |
|                                      |     | Paul D. McKinney                     
 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |

### POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each individual whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Paul D. McKinney and Travis T. Thomas, and each of them, either one of whom may act without joinder of the other, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, or his or her substitute or substitutes of any or all of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on March 21, 2025.

| Signature               |     | Title                                                                                                               |
| /s/ Paul D. McKinney    |