Company: PED
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001654954-25-003703
Chunk: 1040

Company: PEDEVCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 1040
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, and tax rates. These conditions remain unpredictable and create uncertainties about our ability to raise capital in the future. In the event required capital becomes unavailable in the future, or more costly, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

We have entered into a Stipulated Final Order with the Director of the OCD which requires that the Company fund the plugging and abandonment of an aggregate of approximately 299 legacy vertical wells in our Permian Basin Asset, compliance with which may be costly and our failure to comply with the SFO may materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and cash flows.

The Company has entered into an SFO with the OCD through RAZO, the Company’s New Mexico operating subsidiary, which requires, among other things, that the Company reimburse the OCD for actual costs incurred by the OCD for plugging and abandoning approximately 299 inactive legacy wells in the Permian Basin Asset at a rate of $2.00 per gross barrel of oil sold by RAZO during any production reporting period, subject to a minimum payment of $30,000 per month by RAZO. .RAZO has been timely paying each reimbursement invoice received from the OCD in accordance with the SFO and is in full compliance with the SFO. Such required payments and reimbursements may be significant, and may reduce our cash flows and funds available for our business plan and/or require us to raise additional funding in the future. Additionally, in the event the Company is unable to fully comply with the terms of the SFO, then the Company could be subject to significant civil penalties and sanctions, which would likely have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations, could require us to raise additional funding which may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, if at all, and may negatively affect our drilling plans in the future, and may cause the value of our securities to decline in value.

We may not be able to generate sufficient cash flow to meet any future debt service and other obligations due to events beyond our control.

Our ability to generate cash flows from operations, to make payments on or refinance potential future indebtedness and to fund working capital needs and planned capital expenditures will depend on our future financial performance and our ability to generate cash in the future. Our future financial performance will be affected by a range of economic, financial, competitive, business and other factors that we cannot control, such as general economic, legislative, regulatory and financial conditions in our industry, the economy generally