COVID-19

COVID-19 has had and is likely to continue to have a material impact on the Company, its operations, its financial condition, and its results of operations. The world-wide reduction in demand for oil resulting from changes in social behavior designed to reduce the likelihood of the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is likely to contribute to significant continuing price weakness for crude oil. The Company's president, the Company's administrative assistant, and all of its directors are in the high-risk group for COVID-19. The illness or death of any of them could materially impact the Company's ability to continue normal operations. The social distancing measures that have been implemented by the State of Colorado, where the Company's president, the Company's administrative assistant, the Company's bookkeeper, the Company's accountant, and two of the Company's directors reside, have had an impact on the Company's daily administrative operations and are likely to continue to do so. Continuing low oil prices are likely to reduce the Company's revenue, increase its losses, and reduce its cash balances. Monetary policy responses by the Federal Reserve and risk-reducing investment activity in international capital markets as a result of the anticipated consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in exceptionally low interest rates, thereby reducing the Company's interest received on cash balances. There may be other material but unanticipated consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.





                              Financial Condition

The Company used $40,000 cash in operating activities in the six months ended March 31, 2020, and operating activities provided $1,000 cash in the six months ended March 31, 2019. At March 31, 2020, and September 30, 2019, $1,073,000 of other accrued expenses is accrued but unpaid salary (and related accrued payroll tax liability) due to the Company's president that the Company's president has elected to defer. The Company's president may require the Company to pay the unpaid salary and payroll tax liability at any time.

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The Company is likely to experience negative cash flow from operations unless and until the Company invests in interests in producing oil and gas wells or in another venture that produces cash flow from operations. With the exception of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, capital expenditures related to production acquisitions or drilling or recompletion activities or an investment in another venture that produces cash flow from operations, none of which are currently planned, the cash flows that could result from such acquisitions, activities, or investments, the possibility of a change in the interest rates the Company realizes on cash balances, and changes in the price of oil and natural gas, the Company knows of no other trends or any known demands, commitments, events or uncertainties that will result in or that are reasonably likely to result in the Company's liquidity increasing or decreasing in any material way.

Except for cash generated by the operation of the Company's producing oil and gas properties, asset sales, and interest income, the Company has no internal or external sources of liquidity other than its working capital. At May 8, 2020, the Company had no material commitments for capital expenditures.

The Company regularly assesses its exposure to environmental liability and reclamation, restoration, and dismantlement expense ("RR&D"). The Company does not believe that it currently has any material exposure to environmental liability or to RR&D, net of salvage value, although this cannot be assured.





                             Results of Operations

In the three and six months ended March 31, 2019, other income included $23,000 that the Company recognized in connection with the assignment of an oil and gas lease. At current oil and gas prices, the current level of cash balances, and current interest rates, the Company's revenue is unlikely to exceed its expenses. Unless and until the Company invests a substantial portion of its cash balances in interests in producing oil and gas wells or in one or more other ventures that produce revenue and net income, the Company is likely to experience net losses. With the exception of the effects of COVID-19, unanticipated RR&D, unanticipated environmental expense, and possible changes in interest rates and oil and gas prices, the Company is not aware of any other known trends or uncertainties that have had or that the Company reasonably expects will have a material favorable or unfavorable impact on net sales or revenues or income from continuing operations.

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