MARINE PETROLEUM TRUST

General. Marine is not engaged in oil and natural gas exploration or production operations, and its only industry segment or purpose is the administration and collection of royalties. Marine’s income is based upon the oil and natural gas operations of third parties. Marine’s income is derived from contracts that provide for payments in the nature of overriding royalties made to Marine based on oil and natural gas sales from certain leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine does not own or directly lease any physical properties.

Reserves. As indicated above, Marine is not engaged in the exploration or production of oil or natural gas. Marine’s income is derived from overriding royalty payments that are carved out of working interests in oil and natural gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine does not have the engineering data necessary to make an estimate of the proved oil and natural gas reserves attributable to such working interests (nor the present value of future net cash flows from such reserves), and Marine is not entitled to receive such data from the owners of the working interests from which its interests are derived. See also “—Difficulty in Obtaining Certain Data.” Since Marine does not have access to this reserve information, Marine is unable to compute the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows attributable to such working interests.

Marine did not file any reports during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024 with any U.S. Federal authority or agency with respect to oil and natural gas reserves.

Due to the nature of Marine’s business, it does not have any delivery commitments.

Production. The following table includes information regarding the net quantities of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids sold with respect to Marine’s overriding royalty interests for each of the last three fiscal years, as well as the average sales price per unit of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids sold upon which payments to Marine are based. In previous years, the natural gas liquids revenue was included with the natural gas revenue and natural gas pricing was calculated based on the combined revenue but the calculation did not include the natural gas liquid quantities sold. The information in the table was revised for fiscal years 2023 and 2022 to conform with the current year presentation to (i) provide for natural gas liquids quantities sold and average sales price for natural gas liquids and (ii) correct average sales price for natural gas for fiscal years 2023 and 2022 and correct natural gas quantities sold for 2022. These changes do not impact the prior years financial statements or distributable income.

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The average sales price is calculated from data provided by the operators.

Information about average production cost (lifting cost) per unit of production has been omitted due to its unavailability and inapplicability to Marine. For more recent information regarding prices, see “Item 7. Trustee’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

Productive Wells. Marine has performed a review of public records from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM), a division of the U.S. government, and Marine's revenue records provided by the operators. Based on this information, Marine believes there are approximately 75 gross active wells subject to Marine’s interests. Marine believes that the term “active wells” is synonymous with the term “productive wells” as defined in Item 1205 of Regulation S-K. While Marine believes that most of the active wells produce both oil and natural gas, Marine is unable to determine the actual number of wells classified as either oil or natural gas wells without unreasonable effort and expense. See “Difficulty in Obtaining Certain Data.”

Drilling Activity. Based on information from BOEM, revenue records from remitters received by Marine, and other information from a third-party, which has access to records from other public sources, Marine believes there were five wells drilled or recompleted in which Marine had an interest during the fiscal year 2023 . Using these same sources, the Trust believes there were nine wells drilled or recompleted in which Marine had an interest during fiscal year 2024.

Information regarding net wells or acres is not included since Marine does not own any working interests.

Lease Acreage. Marine has performed a review of the public records from BOEM and Marine's revenue records provided by the operators. Based on this information, Marine believes that as of June 30, 2024, Marine had an overriding royalty interest in 19 different oil and natural gas leases covering an aggregate of 87,326 gross acres. The lease acreage is all located in federal waters in the Central and Western areas of the Gulf of Mexico off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas.

Leases are typically granted for a term of five years, during which the lease owner must establish commercial production, or the lease expires. Marine’s overriding royalty area is determined by a contract that defines the area in which Marine is entitled to receive a royalty interest. In some cases, that area does not cover an entire lease block. In those cases, Marine’s royalty interest only applies to the area that lies within the lease. Of the aggregate of 87,326 total gross acres in which Marine has an overriding royalty interest, there are 210 gross acres located on leases that have commercial production, but the production is not on Marine’s overriding royalty area within those leases.

The overriding royalty interest owned by Marine is three-fourths of 1% of the working interest held by the Interest Owners. The fractional interest therefore varies from lease to lease. The acreage weighted average of the fractional interest in all leases is 0.6607%. The following table presents the acreage breakdown by fractional interests of Marine based on information available to the Trustee:

Present Activities. Based upon review of public records available to the Trust, Marine believes that as of June 30, 2024, operators had designated six locations for additional operations, which may include drilling, permits to work over or recomplete a well, or other types of operations. There is no assurance that wells will be drilled, and if they are drilled, they will be successful. Marine is not obligated to provide any fixed and determinable quantities of oil or natural gas in the future under any existing contracts or agreements. Marine will not necessarily be updated on the status of any of the development activities beyond what can be found in the public records available to Marine.

Difficulty in Obtaining Certain Data. Marine’s only activities are the collection and distribution of revenues from overriding royalties on certain oil and natural gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico, pursuant to purchase agreements between Marine’s predecessors and Gulf and its transferees. The leasehold working interests that are subject to the rights held by Marine are owned, in most cases, in whole or in part by Chevron, or other oil and natural gas exploration and production companies. Certain information with respect to the particular leases subject to Marine’s interests, including, but not limited to, (i) reserves, (ii) the availability of oil and natural gas, (iii) the average production cost (lifting cost) per unit, (iv) undeveloped acreage and (v) net wells and net acres, lies solely within the knowledge of these working interest owners. Marine does not have access to engineering data regarding these leaseholds and believes that such information would have been compiled principally by or for the working interest owners of these leaseholds, and that such information is unreasonably difficult for Marine to obtain. As a result, Marine believes that unreasonable efforts and expense would be involved in seeking to obtain all of the information required under Item 102 and Subpart 1200 of Regulation S-K.