Amplify Energy Corp

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of Amplify Energy Corp.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Amplify Energy Corp. and subsidiaries (the "Company") as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows, for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "financial statements"). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2023, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, based on criteria established in* Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013)* issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated March 6, 2024, expressed an unqualified opinion on the Company's internal control over financial reporting.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current‐period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Oil and Natural Gas Properties, Depletion – Oil and Natural Gas Reserve Quantities as used in the calculation of DD&A— Refer to Notes 2 and 18 to the financial statements.

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Company’s proved oil and natural gas properties are depleted using the units-of -production method based on proved oil and natural gas reserves related to the associated field. The development of the Company’s oil and natural gas reserve quantities require management to make significant estimates and assumptions. The Company engages an independent reservoir engineer, management’s specialist, to estimate oil and natural gas quantities using generally accepted methods, calculation procedures and engineering data. Changes in assumptions or engineering data could have a significant impact on the amount of depletion.

Given the significant judgments made by management and management’s specialist, performing audit procedures to evaluate the Company’s oil and natural gas reserve quantities, including management’s estimates and assumptions related to oil, gas, and NGL prices require a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to management’s significant judgments and assumptions related to oil and natural gas reserves included the following, among others:

We evaluated the reasonableness of oil, gas, and NGL prices by comparing such amounts to:

We evaluated the Company’s estimates around production volumes by evaluating the wells’ past production performance to confirm it was appropriately reflected in production forecasts used in generating proved reserves.

We evaluated the experience, qualifications and objectivity of management’s specialist, an independent reservoir engineering firm, including the methodologies and calculation procedures used to estimate oil and natural gas reserves and performing analytical procedures on the reserve quantities.

/s/DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Houston, Texas

March 6, 2024

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2020.