UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
(Mark One)
☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
For the Fiscal Year EndedDecember 31, 2024
or
☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from __________________________ to __________________________
Commission File Number 333-232845
COJAX OIL and GAS CORPORATION
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
| Virginia | 46-1892622 |
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| (State or other jurisdiction | (I.R.S. Employer |
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| of incorporation or organization) | Identification No.) |
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| 4830 Line Ave., #152 Shreveport, Louisiana | 71106 |
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| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) |
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(703)479-8538
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered |
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| None | N/A | N/A |
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share
Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☐No ☒
Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ☐No ☒
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☐No ☒
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a small reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” or an “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
| Large accelerated filer | ☐ | Accelerated filer | ☐ |
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| Non-accelerated filer | ☒ | Smaller reporting company | ☒ |
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| 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 13(a) of the Exchange Act.☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).
Yes ☐No ☒
If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. Yes ☐ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive owners during the relevant reporting period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). Yes ☐ No☒
The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates computed as of the last business day of the Registrant’s most recently completed fiscal quarter (based on the average bid and asked price of common stock) was $3,468,087.
On March 31, 2025, there were 14,003,639 outstanding shares of common stock of the Company .
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
None.
CoJax Oil and Gas Corporation
Form 10-K
For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2024
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| PART I |
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| Item 1. | Business | 8 |
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| Item 1A. | Risk Factors | 18 |
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| Item 1B. | Unresolved Staff Comments | 30 |
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| Item 1C. | Cybersecurity | 30 |
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| Item 2. | Properties | 31 |
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| Item 3. | Legal Proceedings | 31 |
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| Item 4. | Mine Safety Disclosures | 31 |
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| PART II |
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| Item 5. | Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities | 32 |
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| Item 6. | [Reserved] | 32 |
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| Item 7. | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 32 |
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| Item 7A. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk | 40 |
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| Item 8. | Financial Statements and Supplementary Data | F 41 - F 62 |
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| Item 9. | Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure | 63 |
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| Item 9A. | Controls and Procedures | 63 |
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| Item 9B. | Other Information | 65 |
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| Item 9C. | Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections | 65 |
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| PART III |
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| Item 10. | Directors, Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance | 66 |
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| Item 11. | Executive Compensation | 68 |
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| Item 12. | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters | 75 |
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| Item 13. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence | 76 |
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| Item 14. | Principal Accountant Fees and Services | 77 |
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| PART IV |
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| Item 15. | Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules | 77 |
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| Item 16. | 10-K Summary | 80 |
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| SIGNATURES | 81 | |
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Annual Report contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause changes in our actual results and reflect the current view about future events and are based on our current expectations and assumptions regarding our business, potential target businesses, the economy, and other future conditions. Such statements are generally accompanied by words such as “may,” “should,” “expect,” “believe,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “could,” “intend,” “target,” “goal,” “project,” “contemplate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “will,” or “continue” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. Any forward-looking statements contained or incorporated by reference in this Annual Report speak only as of the date on which we make them and are based upon our historical performance and on current plans, estimates, and expectations. Forward-looking statements contained or incorporated by reference herein include or may include, but are not limited to, statements about:
| ● | our plans, objectives, expectations, and intentions; |
| ● | our future operating results and future operating results of Barrister as a wholly-owned subsidiary of CoJax; |
| ● | the competitive nature of the industry in which we will conduct our business; |
| ● | crude oil and natural gas commodity prices; |
| ● | the impact of adverse weather conditions and unexpected events like the COVID-19 pandemic and other pandemics or epidemics; |
| ● | the effects of government regulation and changes in that regulation; |
| ● | legal proceedings, liability claims, and effect of external investigations; |
| ● | the effect of a loss of, or the financial distress of, one or more key customers of our future, proposed oil production; |
| ● | our ability to obtain or renew customer or supply contracts; |
| ● | the effect of a loss of, or interruption in operations of, one or more key vendors, suppliers or contractors; |
| ● | our ability to maintain the right level of commitments under any future oil supply agreements; |
| ● | the market price and availability of materials or equipment; |
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| ● | the impact of new technology on oil exploration and production and our ability to acquire and use that technology; |
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| ● | our ability to employ or engage as contractors a sufficient number of skilled and qualified workers and to retain key management; |
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| ● | our ability to obtain permits, approvals, and authorizations from governmental and third parties; |
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| ● | our ability to consummate planned acquisitions and future capital expenditures; |
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| ● | our ability to maintain effective information technology systems and guard against cyber-attacks or hacking; |
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| ● | our ability to maintain an effective system of internal controls over financial reporting; |
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| ● | financial strategy, liquidity or capital required for our ongoing operations and acquisitions, and our ability to raise additional capital to acquire and expand oil drilling and production and to fund overhead and our ability to service our debt obligations; and |
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| ● | the market volatility of our stock. |
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We caution you that the foregoing list may not contain all of the forward-looking statements made or incorporated by reference in this Annual Report. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. We have based the forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report primarily on our current expectations and projections about future events and trends that we believe may affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects. The outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements is subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors described in Item 1A. “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Form 10-K. This Annual Report may include market data and certain industry data and forecasts, which we may obtain from internal company surveys, market research, consultant surveys, publicly available information, reports of governmental agencies and industry publications, articles and surveys. Industry surveys, publications, consultant surveys and forecasts generally state that the information contained therein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but the accuracy and completeness of such information is not guaranteed.
Moreover, it is not possible for us to predict all risks and uncertainties that could have an impact on the forward-looking statements contained or incorporated by reference herein. We cannot assure you that the results, events, and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur, and actual results, events, or circumstances could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements.
The forward-looking statements made or incorporated by reference in this Annual Report relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made or incorporated by reference in this Annual Report to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, respectively, or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.
COMMONLY USED ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINED TERMS
Unless otherwise indicated or the context requires otherwise, the terms “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our,” refer to CoJax Oil and Gas Corporation, a Virginia corporation, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Barrister Energy, L.L.C., a Mississippi limited liability company (“Barrister”). In addition, below are abbreviations and definitions of certain terms used in this Annual Report commonly used in the oil and natural gas industry:
| ● | “ARO” means asset retirement obligation; |
| ● | “Bbl” means one stock tank barrel, of 42 U.S. gallons liquid volume; |
| ● | “Btu” means one British thermal unit, the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of a one-pound mass of water by one degree of Fahrenheit; |
| ● | “Basin” means a large natural depression on the earth’s surface in which sediments generally brought by water accumulate; |
| ● | “Commission” or “S.E.C.” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; |
| ● | “Company Oil Rights” means the crude oil and natural gas exploration and production leases and rights owned or controlled by the Company (as more fully described under “Business – Company Oil Rights” below). |
| ● | “Completion” means the process of treating a drilled well followed by the installation of permanent equipment for the production of natural gas or oil, or in the case of a dry hole, the reporting of abandonment to the appropriate agency; |
| ● | “COP” means Central Operating, L.L.C., a Mississippi limited liability company |
| ● | “Deep drill well” or “deep drilling rig” means a drilled oil well approximately 10,000’ deep or a drilling rig capable of drilling to depths of approximately 10,000 feet or more; |
| ● | “Developed acreage” means the number of acres that are allocated or assignable to productive wells or wells capable of production; |
| ● | “Development well” means a well drilled within the proved area of a crude oil, NGL, or natural gas reservoir to the depth of a stratigraphic horizon (rock layer or formation) known to be productive for the purpose of extracting proved crude oil, NGL, or natural gas reserves. |
| ● | “Differential” means the difference between a benchmark price of crude oil and natural gas and the wellhead price received. |
| ● | “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. |
| ● | “Field” means an area consisting of a single reservoir or multiple reservoirs all grouped on, or related to, the same individual geological structural feature or stratigraphic condition. The field name refers to the surface area, although it may refer to both the surface and the underground productive formations; |
| ● | “Formation” means a layer of rock that has distinct characteristics that differ from nearby rock; |
| ● | “Gas” means natural gas; |
| ● | “Gulf States Drill Region” means the geographic area(s) where oil and gas leases, drilling, and production rights, are located.. The Gulf States Drill Region extends from Texas to the Florida Panhandle along the Gulf Coast Region – both onshore and offshore. Prolific oil and natural gas production from variable formations and depths exists within this geographic boundary. |
| ● | “Hydraulic fracturing” means the technique of improving a well’s production by pumping a mixture of fluids into the formation and rupturing the rock, creating an artificial channel. As part of this technique, sand or other material may also be injected into the formation to keep the channel open, so that fluids or natural gases may more easily flow through the formation; |
| ● | “Mcf” means one thousand cubic feet of natural gas; |
| ● | “MMBtu” means one million Btu; |
| ● | “MMcf” means one million cubic feet of natural gas; |
| ● | “NGL” means natural gas liquids; |
| ● | “NYMEX” means the New York Mercantile Exchange; |
| ● | “Oil” means crude oil that has not been refined or processed; |
| ● | “OPEC” means the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; |
| ● | “Possible reserves” means the additional reserves which analysis of geoscience and engineering data suggest are less likely to be recoverable than probable reserves; |
| ● | “Probable reserves” means the additional reserves which analysis of geoscience and engineering data indicate are less likely to be recovered than proved reserves but which together with proved reserves, are as likely as not to be recovered; |
| ● | “Productive well” means a well that is found to be capable of producing hydrocarbons in sufficient quantities such that proceeds from the sale of the production exceed production expenses and taxes; |
| ● | “Proved reserves” means the quantities of crude oil, NGLs and natural gas, which by analysis of geosciences and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible, from a given date forward, from known reservoirs, and under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and government regulations, prior to the time at which contracts providing the right to operate expire, unless evidence indicates that renewal is reasonably certain, regardless of whether deterministic or probabilistic methods are used for the estimation. The project to extract the hydrocarbons must have commenced or the operator must be reasonably certain that it will commence the project within a reasonable time; |
| ● | “Prospect” means a specific geographic area which, based on supporting geological, geophysical, or other data and also preliminary economic analysis using reasonably anticipated prices and costs, is deemed to have the potential for the discovery of commercial hydrocarbons; |
| ● | “Recompletion” means the process of re-entering an existing wellbore that is either producing or not producing and completing new reservoirs in an attempt to establish or increase existing production; |
| ● | “Reservoir” means a porous and permeable underground formation containing a natural accumulation of producible oil and/or natural gas that is confined by impermeable rock or water barriers and is separate from other reservoirs; |
| ● | “Resources” means quantities of oil and gas estimated to exist in naturally occurring accumulations. A portion of the resources may be estimated to be recoverable, and another portion may be considered to be unrecoverable. Resources include both discovered and undiscovered accumulations; |
| ● | “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; |
| ● | “Smackover Trend” means a regional boundary where the Smackover formation exists below the surface of the ground. |
| ● | “Spacing” means the distance between wells producing from the same reservoir. Spacing is often expressed in terms of acres, e.g., 40-acre spacing, and is often established by regulatory agencies; |
| ● | “Undeveloped acreage” means acreage on which wells have not been drilled or completed to a point that would permit the production of economic quantities of crude oil, NGLs, and natural gas, regardless of whether such acreage contains proved reserves. Undeveloped acreage includes net acres held by operations until a productive well is established in the spacing unit; |
| ● | “Unit” means the joining of all or substantially all interests in a reservoir or field, rather than a single tract, to provide for development and operation without regard to separate property interests. Also, the area covered by a unitization agreement; |
| ● | “Working interest” means the right granted to the lessee of a property to explore for and to produce and own natural gas or other minerals. The working interest owners bear the exploration, development, and operating costs on either a cash, penalty or carried basis; |
| ● | “WTI” means West Texas Intermediate, a light, sweet blend of oil produced from the fields in West Texas. |