NOTE 5 – ACQUISITIONS & DIVESTITURES

Stronghold Acquisition

On July 1, 2022, Ring, as buyer, and Stronghold Energy II Operating, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Stronghold OpCo”) and Stronghold Energy II Royalties, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Stronghold RoyaltyCo”, together with Stronghold OpCo, collectively, “Stronghold”), as seller, entered into a purchase and sale agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”). Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, Ring acquired (the “Stronghold Acquisition”) interests in oil and gas leases and related property of Stronghold consisting of approximately 37,000 net acres located in the Central Basin Platform of the Texas Permian Basin. On August 31, 2022, Ring completed the Stronghold Acquisition pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.

The fair value of consideration paid to Stronghold was approximately $395.7 million, of which $167.9 million, subject to post-closing adjustments, was paid in cash at closing, $15.0 million will be payable in cash after the six-month anniversary of the closing date of the Stronghold Acquisition, and shortly after closing approximately $4.5 million was paid for inventory and vehicles and approximately $1.8 million was paid for August oil derivative settlements for the novated hedges. The cash portion of the consideration was funded primarily from borrowings under a new fully committed revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) underwritten by Truist Securities, Citizens Bank, N.A., KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., and Mizuho Bank, Ltd. The borrowing base of the $1.0 billion Credit Facility was increased from $350.0 million to $600.0 million at the closing of the transaction. The remaining consideration was in the form of stock, consisting of 21,339,986 shares of Ring common stock and 153,176 shares of newly created Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 (“Preferred Stock”). Please see “Note 10 – STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY AND MEZZANINE EQUITY” for further discussion. In addition, Ring assumed $24.8 million of derivative liabilities, $1.7 million of items in suspense and $14.5 million in asset retirement obligations in the Stronghold Acquisition.

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Purchase Price Allocation

The Stronghold Acquisition has been accounted for as an asset acquisition in accordance with ASC 805. The fair value of the consideration paid by Ring and allocation of that amount to the underlying assets acquired, on a relative fair value basis, was recorded on Ring’s books as of the date of the closing of the Stronghold Acquisition. Additionally, costs directly related to the Stronghold Acquisition were capitalized as a component of the purchase price. Determining the fair value of the assets and liabilities acquired requires judgment and certain assumptions to be made, the most significant of these being related to the valuation of Stronghold’s oil and gas properties. The inputs and assumptions related to the oil and gas properties are categorized as level 3 in the fair value hierarchy.

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The following table represents the preliminary allocation of the total cost of the Stronghold Acquisition to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of the Stronghold Acquisition date:

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Approximately $11.7 million of revenues and $3.5 million of direct operating expenses attributed to the Stronghold Acquisition are included in the Company’s Statements of Operations for the period from September 1, 2022 through September 30, 2022.