Company: REI
Filing Date: 2025-06-04
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001628280-25-029392
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Company: RING ENERGY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-06-04
Form: S-8
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     | Smaller reporting company¨ |
|                          |     | Emerging growth company¨   |

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ¨

### EXPLANATORY NOTE AND STATEMENT OF INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Ring Energy, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “

#### Company
”), previously filed a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-257633) registering 9,558,845 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “

#### Common Stock
”), under the Company’s 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended (the “

#### Plan
”), on July 2, 2021. The Company previously filed a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-277796) registering 6,000,000 shares of Common Stock under the Plan on March 3, 2024. The Company hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the previously filed Registration Statements on Form S-8 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “

#### SEC
”) on Form S-8 to the extent not otherwise amended or superseded by the contents of this Registration Statement.

Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed by the Company to register an aggregate of 13,500,000 shares of Common Stock consisting of (i) 11,500,000 shares of Common Stock under the Plan that were approved pursuant to an amendment to the Plan by the stockholders of the Company at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders on May 22, 2025 and (ii) up to 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock subject to awards under the Plan that have or may become forfeited or have otherwise lapsed or may otherwise lapse and therefore may become available for issuance pursuant to new awards in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plan (the “

#### Forfeited

#### Shares
”). The actual number of Forfeited Shares that may become available for issuance under the Plan may be less than 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock depending on, among other variables, the number of actual Plan shares of Common Stock that become forfeited or otherwise lapse.