# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0002074176
**File Stem:** 0001104659-26-025335
**Filing Date:** 2026-3
**Character Count:** 8888
**Document Hash:** e4107d65d108fceb05112fc358a4a9db
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001104659-26-025335.hdr.sgml**: 20260309

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001104659-26-025335

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: POSASR

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260309

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260309

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260309

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Viper Energy, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0002074176
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 01 Energy & Transportation
- **EIN:** 392596878
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** POSASR
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-288574-01
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26736191

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 500 WEST TEXAS AVE.
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 100
- **CITY:** MIDLAND
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 79701
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (432) 221-7400

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 500 WEST TEXAS AVE.
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 100
- **CITY:** MIDLAND
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 79701

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** New Cobra Pubco, Inc.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20250623
**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Viper Energy Partners LP
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001590689

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 352486057
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** POSASR
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-288574-02
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26736192

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 500 WEST TEXAS AVENUE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 100
- **CITY:** MIDLAND
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 79701
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 432-221-7400

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 500 WEST TEXAS AVENUE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 100
- **CITY:** MIDLAND
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 79701

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Viper Energy Partners LLC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20131031

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 9, 2026.** 

**Registration No. 333-288574-01** 

**Registration No. 333-288574-02**

**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**Washington, D.C. 20549** 

**POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2**

**TO**

**FORM S-3** 

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT** 

***UNDER***

***THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933***

**VIPER ENERGY, INC.**

**VIPER ENERGY PARTNERS LP**

**(f/k/a VIPER ENERGY PARTNERS LLC)**

**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)** 

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| **Delaware** | **39-2596878** |
| **Delaware** | **35-2486057** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction of**<br> **incorporation or organization)**<br>| **(I.R.S. Employer**<br> **Identification Number)**<br>|

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**500 West Texas Ave., Suite 100**

**Midland, Texas 79701**

**(432) 221-7400** 

**(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)** 

**Teresa L. Dick**

**Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary**

**500 West Texas Ave., Suite 100**

**Midland, Texas 79701**

**(432) 221-7400** 

**(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)** 

***Copies to:***

**Zachary S. Podolsky**

**Ryan J. Lynch**

**Latham & Watkins LLP** 

**1271 Avenue of the Americas** 

**New York, NY 10020** 

**(212) 906-1200** 

**APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC:** From time to time after the effective date of this registration statement.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. ◻

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. ⌧

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. x

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company," and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

**Viper Energy, Inc.**

Large accelerated filer x Accelerated filer ¨ <br> Non-accelerated filer ¨ Smaller reporting company ◻ <br> Emerging growth company ¨

**Viper Energy Partners LP (f/k/a Viper Energy Partners LLC)**

Large accelerated filer ¨ Accelerated filer ¨ <br> Non-accelerated filer x Smaller reporting company ¨ <br> 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 Securities Act.

**Viper Energy, Inc.**

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**Viper Energy Partners LP (f/k/a Viper Energy Partners LLC)**

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**EXPLANATORY NOTE** 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 (this "Post-Effective Amendment") to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-288574-01) is being filed by Viper Energy, Inc. ("Viper Energy") and Viper Energy Partners LP, as successor to Viper Energy Partners LLC (collectively with Viper Energy, the "Registrants") to terminate all offerings of securities pursuant to such Registration Statement. Accordingly, consistent with the undertakings made by the Registrants in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of such offerings, the Registrants hereby also remove from registration all such securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities and the Registrants hereby terminate the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

**SIGNATURES** 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Midland, Texas, on the 9th day of March, 2026.

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|:---|:---|
| **VIPER ENERGY, INC.** | **VIPER ENERGY, INC.** |
| By: | /s/ Kaes Van't Hof  |
|  | Name: Kaes Van't Hof |
|  | Title: Chief Executive Officer |

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Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

**SIGNATURES** 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Midland, Texas, on the 9th day of March, 2026.

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|:---|:---|
| **VIPER ENERGY PARTNERS LP (F/K/A VIPER ENERGY PARTNERS LLC)** | **VIPER ENERGY PARTNERS LP (F/K/A VIPER ENERGY PARTNERS LLC)** |
|  | **By: Viper Energy GP LLC, its general partner** |
| By: | /s/ Kaes Van't Hof  |
|  | Name: Kaes Van't Hof |
|  | Title: Chief Executive Officer |

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Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.