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Joint Development Agreement | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2022
Disclosure Joint Development Agreement Abstract |
Joint Development Agreement | Note 5 – Joint Development Agreement On August 6, 2020 the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Empire Texas, entered into a joint development agreement (the “JDA”) with Petroleum & Independent Exploration, LLC and related entities (“PIE”), a related party (See Note 12), dated August 1, 2020. Under the terms of the JDA, PIE will perform recompletion or workover on specified mutually agreed upon wells (“Workover Wells”) owned by Empire Texas. To fund the work, PIE entered into a term loan agreement with Empire Texas dated August 1, 2020, whereby PIE will loan up to $2,000,000, at an interest rate of 6% per annum, maturing August 7, 2024 unless terminated earlier by PIE. Proceeds of the loan will be used for recompletion or workover of the Workover Wells. As of December 31, 2022 and 2021 approximately $1,100,000 and $800,000, respectively was outstanding on this loan and is included in Long Term Notes Payable on the Consolidated Balance Sheet. As part of the JDA, Empire Texas will assign to PIE a combined 85% working and revenue interest in the Workover Wells; an assignment was completed in October 2020 for the initial three Workover Wells. Of the assigned interest, 70% working and revenue interest will be used to repay the obligations under the term loan agreement. Once the term loan is repaid, PIE will reassign a 35% working and revenue interest to Empire Texas in each of the Workover Wells and retain a 50% working and revenue interest (See Note 8). To the extent the cash flows from the revenue interest are insufficient to repay the obligations under the term loan, the Company remains required to repay the obligation. In the third quarter of 2022, a $1.4 million long-term asset that had previously been recorded as an offset to the note payable was expensed to workovers within Lease Operating Expense on the Consolidated Statements of Operations. In addition, PIE and Empire entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (“Securities Agreement”) whereby PIE purchased for $525,000 (a) 875,000 shares of Empire common stock, (b) warrants to purchase 656,250 shares of Empire common stock at an exercise price of $0.80 per share, (c) warrants to purchase 450,000 shares of Empire common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share, (d) warrants to purchase 2,034,129 shares of Empire common stock at an exercise price of $0.40 per share, and (e) warrants to purchase up to 2,766,666 shares of Empire common stock at an exercise price of $0.564 per share, pursuant to various vesting provisions as detailed in the Securities Agreement. On March 11, 2021 the Company amended the Securities Agreement to remove the vesting provisions for the warrants and PIE exercised all of its warrants for an aggregate exercise price of $3,349,052.

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