Exhibit 99.1
Permian Basin Royalty Trust
PERMIAN BASIN ROYALTY TRUST ANNOUNCES JULY CASH DISTRIBUTION AND EXCESS COST POSITION ON WADDELL RANCH PROPERTIES
DALLAS, Texas, July 21, 2026 – Argent Trust Company, as Trustee of the Permian Basin Royalty Trust (NYSE: PBT) (“Permian” or the “Trust”) today declared a cash distribution to the holders of its units of beneficial interest of $0.043566 per unit, payable on August 14, 2026, to unit holders of record on July 31, 2026. The distribution does not include proceeds from the Waddell Ranch properties, as total production costs (“Production Costs”) exceeded gross proceeds (“Gross Proceeds”) for the month of June, resulting in a continuing excess cost position for the Waddell Ranch properties. More information regarding the Waddell Ranch properties is described below.
This month’s distribution increased compared to the previous month due primarily to the fourth settlement payment in the amount of $1,125,000 being received from Blackbeard Operating LLC, this in conjunction with Texas Royalty Properties having higher oil pricing, partially offset by lower oil and natural gas volumes along with lower natural gas pricing for the reporting period.
WADDELL RANCH
Information from Blackbeard Operating, LLC (“Blackbeard”), the operator of the Waddell Ranch properties, necessary to calculate the net profits interest (“NPI”) proceeds for a given month is received after the announcement date for the month’s distribution. As a result, in accordance with the Trust indenture, if NPI proceeds are received from the Waddell Ranch properties on or prior to the record date, they will be included in the following month’s distribution.
As noted above, no proceeds were received by the Trustee in June 2026 to be included in the July distribution. All excess costs, including any accrued interest, will need to be recovered by future proceeds from the Waddell Ranch properties before any proceeds are distributed to the Trust. Due to the fact that Blackbeard provides production, pricing and cost information quarterly instead of monthly, the Trustee will be disclosing that information in the quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and annual reports on Form 10-K for the foreseeable future (to the extent timely received from Blackbeard).
TEXAS ROYALTY PROPERTIES
Production for the underlying Texas Royalty Properties was 15,307 barrels of oil and 6,545 Mcf of gas. The production for the Trust’s allocated portion of the Texas Royalty Properties was 13,842 barrels of oil and 5,923 Mcf of gas. The average price for oil was $99.90 per bbl and for gas was $8.61, which includes significant NGL pricing, per Mcf. This would mainly reflect production and pricing in April for oil and March for gas. These allocated volumes were impacted by the pricing of both oil and gas. This production and pricing for the underlying properties resulted in revenues for the Texas Royalty Properties of $1,585,528. Deducted from these revenues were taxes and expenses of $137,243 resulting in a Net Profit of $1,448,285 for June. With the Trust’s NPI of 95% of the underlying properties, this would result in a net contribution by the Texas Royalty Properties of $1,375,871 to this month’s distribution.
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Underlying Properties |
Net to Trust Sales |
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Volumes |
Volumes |
Average Price |
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Oil (bbls) |
Gas (Mcf) |
Oil (bbls) |
Gas (Mcf) (1) |
Oil (per bbl) |
Gas (per Mcf) (2) |
Current Month |
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Waddell Ranch |
(3) |
(3) |
(3) |
(3) |
(3) |
(3) |
Texas Royalties |
15,307 |
6,545 |
13,842 |
5,923 |
$99.90 |
$8.61 |
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Prior Month |
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Waddell Ranch |
(3) |
(3) |
(3) |
(3) |
(3) |
(3) |
Texas Royalties |
16,174 |
7,743 |
14,577 |
6,972 |
$88.42 |
$9.50 |
(1) These volumes are net to the Trust, after allocation of expenses to Trust’s net profit interest, including any prior period adjustments.
(2) This pricing includes sales of gas liquid products.
(3) Information is not being made available monthly but may be provided within 30 days next following the close of each calendar quarter. To the extent the Trustee receives such information timely following the quarter, information will be included in the Trust’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the applicable quarter (or the annual report on Form 10-K with respect to the fourth quarter).
General and Administrative Expenses deducted for the month, net of interest earned were $470,271, of which $400,000 was an increase to the expense reserve for liabilities, resulting in a distribution of $2,030,599.85 to 46,608,796 units outstanding, or $0.043566 per unit.
The worldwide market conditions continue to affect the pricing for domestic production. It is difficult to predict what effect these conditions will have on future distributions.
SOFTVEST PROPOSAL
As previous disclosed, the Trustee has received a Schedule 13D (“Schedule 13D”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 18, 2026 by SoftVest, L.P. (“SoftVest”), a unitholder of the Trust, and certain other parties disclosing that SoftVest and Blackbeard Holdings, LLC (“Blackbeard Holdings”) have agreed to a preliminary non-binding term sheet that sets forth the proposed high-level material terms and conditions governing a potential business combination of the Trust and certain Blackbeard Holdings assets. The Schedule 13D further states that the term sheet contemplates the formation of a new corporation (“New PubCo”) that would be owned in part by Trust unitholders, and in part by Blackbeard Holdings and its affiliates that would acquire and own (i) all of the assets and operations of the Trust, and (ii) US Land Guild, LLC (“USLG”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackbeard Holdings that will own approximately 66,500 acres of surface estate and a 15% royalty interest associated with certain acreage and certain mineral interests currently owned by Blackbeard Holdings or one of its affiliates. The Schedule 13D also states that the term sheet provides for Blackbeard Holdings or its affiliates to receive certain working interests owned by the Trust following the conversion of net profits interests into a cost free 15% royalty interest, including those associated with the “West Ranch” and “East Ranch” properties.
