Company: TPET
Filing Date: 2025-01-17
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001493152-25-002760
Chunk: 825

Company: Trio Petroleum Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-01-17
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 2
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% working interest in the South Salinas Project; the Company and Trio LLC are separate and distinct companies.

There
are two contiguous areas of notable oil/gas accumulations in the South Salinas Project; the first is the Humpback Area that occurs in
the northern part of the project and the second is the Presidents Area (“Presidents Oil Field”) that occurs in the southern
part of the project. As October 31, 2024 and 2023, there were no proved reserves attributable to the approximate 9,300 acres of the property.
Since it was returned to production in March 2024, the HV-3A well at the South Salinas Project has been producing oil with a generally
favorable oil-water ratio; the Company expects to take steps to improve oil production from this well in the third or fourth calendar
quarter of 2024 and expects to receive the first revenue from oil produced from the well in the third calendar quarter of 2024.

Initial
Public Offering

The
Company’s Registration Statement (Amendment No. 9) on Form S-1/A was filed with the SEC on March 24, 2023; its Initial Public Offering
was declared effective on April 17, 2023 and closed on April 20, 2023 (collectively, the “Offering” or “IPO”).
The Company sold 100,000 shares of its common stock for total gross proceeds of $6,000,000, which is described more fully in Note 4.

Additional
Acquisitions - McCool Ranch Oil Field & Asphalt Ridge Leasehold

In
October 2023, the Company entered into an agreement (“McCool Ranch Purchase Agreement”) with Trio LLC for purchase of a 21.918315%
working interest in the McCool Ranch Oil Field located in Monterey County near the Company’s flagship South Salinas Project; the
Company initially began refurbishment operations with respect to a water disposal well. After refurbishment was successfully accomplished,
the Company restarted production operations on the assets (see Note 5 for further information). In November 2023, the Company entered
into a leasehold acquisition and development option agreement (“ARLO Agreement”) with Heavy Sweet Oil, LLC (“HSO”),
which gave the Company a 9-month option for the exclusive right to acquire up to a 20% interest in a 960-acre drilling and production
program in the Asphalt Ridge leases for $2,000,000. In December 2023,