PermRock Royalty Trust
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2022, 2023)
Reporting Period: 2022
Environmental Metrics
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Compliance with environmental laws and regulations, including those related to hazardous substances, waste handling, water discharges, air emissions, climate change, hydraulic fracturing, and endangered species.
- Risks associated with operating in a single geographic area (Permian Basin).
- Potential for title deficiencies.
- Cybersecurity threats.
- Volatility of oil and natural gas prices.
- Depletion of reserves.
Mitigation Strategies
- Boaz Energy maintains insurance coverage.
- Boaz Energy participates in waterflooding and workovers to maintain production.
- Boaz Energy plans to drill new wells and stimulate existing wells to improve production.
- The Trust maintains cash reserves.
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Physical Risks
- Extreme weather conditions
Transition Risks
- Regulatory changes
- Market shifts
- Activism directed at shifting funding away from energy-related assets
Reporting Period: 2023
Environmental Metrics
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Compliance with stringent environmental laws and regulations governing the discharge of materials into the environment.
- Potential for hydraulic fracturing to adversely affect drinking water supplies and induce seismic events.
- Adoption and implementation of international, federal, or state climate change legislation or regulations.
- Potential physical effects of climate change that could disrupt production.
- Additional restrictions on drilling activities intended to protect certain species of wildlife.
- Cybersecurity threats.
Mitigation Strategies
- Boaz Energy participates in non-operated drilling and recompletion projects, water flood conformance and reactivations.
- Boaz Energy maintains water flood operations where prudent and does necessary repairs to bring wells back to production.
- Boaz Energy plans to continue reactivating inactive wells by either returning them to production or recompleting them to new formations.
- The Trustee maintains robust cybersecurity protocols, including technological capabilities that prevent and detect disruptions; computer workstations and programs protected with passwords and passphrases; employee training; and securing of documents and work areas.
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Physical Risks
- Extreme weather conditions
Transition Risks
- Regulatory changes
- Market shifts