Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
27 Apr 2026material agreement▲ GoodMajor
USE landed its first real contracted helium revenue, signing a five-year, 100% take-or-pay sales agreement with an investment-grade global industrial gas company for output from its Big Sky Carbon Hub plant in Montana - up to 1.2 million cubic feet a month at a fixed $285/Mcf plant-gate price with CPI escalation from 2028 - a landmark de-risking milestone with Phase 1 commercial operations targeted for early 2027.
USE signed a second amendment to its FirstBank Southwest credit facility, doubling the borrowing base from $10 million to $20 million, fixing the interest margin at 2.00% and suspending financial covenant testing until the March 2027 quarter. The company also suspended use of its Roth equity line.
USE raised $8.8 million in another Roth Capital-led stock offering (8.8 million shares), but this time at just $1.00/share - a steep drop from the $2.65 it fetched a year earlier - underscoring how much the stock had weakened even as the company kept funding its helium buildout.
U.S. Energy drew much more heavily on the Roth equity line, selling another 6.5 million shares -- cumulative sales now 19.1% of shares outstanding for $7.3 million total -- steep dilution funding the Big Sky Carbon Hub buildout as the share price kept falling.
U.S. Energy disclosed that since its November 12, 2025 10-Q it had sold 2,022,539 shares to Roth Principal Investments under its $25 million purchase agreement for about $2.0 million gross. The sales were about 5.7% of shares outstanding at September 30, 2025, crossing the 5% disclosure threshold on February 10, 2026.
9 Oct 2025capital raising announcement● NeutralMajor
U.S. Energy signed a $25 million equity line of credit with Roth Principal Investments, giving it discretion to sell stock over time to fund its new helium pivot (the Big Sky Carbon Hub).
USE amended its FirstBank Southwest credit facility, extending the maturity date by more than three years to May 2029 but cutting the borrowing base in half, from $20 million to $10 million, alongside a limited covenant waiver - a longer runway bought at the cost of real credit tightening.
USE extended its $5 million share buyback program (about $3.8 million remaining) by a year to mid-2026, and separately - in a related-party transaction - repurchased shares directly from Banner, Woodford and Sage Road entities controlled by board member Joshua Batchelor's Sage Road Capital, at the same net price the company had just received in its recent stock offering.
USE raised roughly $12.9 million in an underwritten stock offering (4,871,400 shares including a fully exercised over-allotment, at $2.65/share) through Roth Capital Partners to help fund its helium buildout.
10 Jan 2025asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
USE bought and closed on 24,000 net acres at Kevin Dome in Toole County, Montana, from Synergy Offshore, a related party controlled by director Duane King and about 60% owned by Chairman John Weinzierl. It paid $2.0 million cash, 1.4 million restricted shares and a carry, and Synergy kept a 20% interest.
USE agreed to sell another block of legacy conventional properties (122 wells in Liberty and Henderson Counties, Texas) to 84 Resources Holdings for $6.825 million, continuing to shed its old oil and gas base to fund the Montana helium pivot.
USE's subsidiary New Horizon Resources agreed to sell its producing oil and gas properties in Karnes County, Texas to Warwick-Artemis for $6 million, subject to true-ups, with a $600,000 deposit. Closing was expected around July 31, 2024.
1 July 2024asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
USE made a transformative strategic pivot into helium, closing the purchase of 82.5% of Wavetech Helium's farmout rights across roughly 140,000 net acres of Montana's Kevin Dome structure (paying $2 million cash plus 2.6 million shares, with Wavetech carrying its own 17.5% interest cost-free up to $20 million of spend) and signing a non-binding letter of intent with insider-linked Synergy Offshore for another ~24,000 adjacent acres - forming a roughly 164,000-acre contiguous helium position with two wells already permitted to spud within weeks, funded without any new equity raise.
USE signed an amended Nominating and Voting Agreement adding King Oil, WDM Family Partnership and Katla Energy, affiliates of Chairman John Weinzierl, director Duane King and Wallis Marsh, as voting parties after share transfers from sellers Lubbock and Synergy. It also clarified the move from Wyoming to Delaware.
29 July 2022asset acquisition disposition● Neutral
USE filed a technical amendment to its ETX Energy closing disclosure, clarifying definitions and the exact amount borrowed under the credit facility - a procedural correction with no change in deal terms.
28 July 2022asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
USE closed the ETX Energy acquisition for $11.875 million cash, with lender FirstBank Southwest raising the credit facility's borrowing base from $15 million to $20 million to help fund it.
USE agreed to buy about 16,600 net acres of operated producing properties (plus two pipeline gathering systems) in Henderson and Anderson Counties, Texas from ETX Energy for an $11.8 million cash base price, adjacent to acreage USE already held there.
USE transformed itself overnight, closing all three previously announced acquisitions from Lubbock Energy Partners, the Banner/Woodford/Llano group and Synergy Offshore: a diversified, operated, oil-weighted portfolio spanning the Rockies, West Texas, Eagle Ford and Mid-Continent, paid for with $1.25 million cash, repayment of $3.5 million in seller debt, and 19.9 million new USE shares - a huge share issuance relative to USE's prior size that gives each seller group the right to name one or two board directors depending on their resulting ownership stake. The deal was financed through a new credit facility with FirstBank Southwest (replacing prior lender APEG) and a hedging arrangement with NextEra Energy Marketing.
27 Oct 2021security holder rights change▲ GoodMajor
USE and the three sellers amended the purchase agreements so the Nominating and Voting Agreement was tightened to meet Nasdaq rules. Each seller may appoint two directors while it holds 15% or more of USE, and one director while it holds 5% or more, instead of two at 5%.
6 Oct 2021capital raising announcement● NeutralMajor
U.S. Energy agreed to buy oil-weighted assets across the Rockies, West Texas, Eagle Ford and Mid-Continent from Lubbock, Banner and Synergy for $1.25 million cash, 19.9 million new shares and $3.3 million of assumed liabilities. At closing the sellers would own about 81% of USE and effectively control it.
On March 4, 2021, APEG Energy II converted $412,500 of debt into 97,962 restricted shares at $4.21 per share. It also subscribed for 90,846 more restricted shares for $382,536, paid by forgiving legal-cost reimbursements the company owed it.
An amended filing added the formal underwriting and lock-up agreement documents for the February 2021 stock offering - a procedural completion of the paperwork, not new deal terms.