TXO Partners (NYSE: TXO) JV asset sales to raise about $100M cash
Rhea-AI Filing Summary
TXO Partners, L.P. announced that Cross Timbers Energy, LLC, a joint venture in which it holds a 50% interest, has agreed to sell oil and gas properties for approximately $200 million in aggregate consideration to multiple private buyers. These sales, if completed, will represent substantially all of Cross Timbers’ assets, including a purchase and sale agreement with CTOC Energy, LLC for about $123.5 million. TXO expects to receive roughly $100 million in net proceeds and plans to use a portion to fund a $70 million deferred payment due July 31, 2026 for its 2025 acquisition from White Rock Energy, LLC. The transactions are expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions, and will leave TXO focused on the Williston Basin, San Juan Basin, and the Vacuum and Parker fields in the Permian Basin.
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TXO monetizes JV assets for debt-like obligation and refocuses portfolio.
TXO Partners is facilitating the sale of substantially all assets in its Cross Timbers joint venture for about $200 million, expecting approximately $100 million in net proceeds. This converts a non-operated JV interest into cash while maintaining exposure to core basins.
A portion of proceeds is earmarked for a $70 million deferred payment due July 31, 2026 tied to its 2025 White Rock Energy asset purchase. That links this transaction directly to TXO’s prior growth strategy and helps address a known future cash obligation.
The filing notes closing is expected in the second quarter of 2026, subject to customary conditions, so completion and final proceeds remain contingent. Future disclosures may clarify how any remaining proceeds are allocated and how the loss of Cross Timbers’ assets affects production mix and cash flows.
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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Cross Timbers Transactions
On March 10, 2026, Cross Timbers Energy, LLC (“Cross Timbers”), a joint venture in which TXO Partners, L.P. (the “Partnership”) holds a 50% interest, announced that it has executed purchase and sale agreements with multiple private buyers to sell oil and gas properties totaling approximately $200 million in aggregate consideration (collectively, the “Cross Timbers Transactions”), including a purchase and sale agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with CTOC Energy, LLC (“CTOC”) for approximately $123.5 million in aggregate consideration. The Cross Timbers Transactions, if consummated, represent substantially all of the assets owned by Cross Timbers. CTOC is owned by certain family members of Mr. Bob R. Simpson, a member of the Board of Directors of the Partnership (the “Board”) and the Chairman of the Board. The Purchase Agreement has been unanimously approved by the Board of Directors of the Partnership’s general partner and the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the Partnership’s general partner. Subject to customary closing conditions, the Cross Timbers Transactions are expected to close in the second quarter of 2026. There can be no assurance that all conditions to the closing of any or all of the Cross Timbers Transactions will be satisfied.
The Partnership expects to receive approximately $100 million in net proceeds from the Cross Timbers Transactions, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. The Partnership intends to use a portion of the net proceeds to pay the $70 million deferred payment for its 2025 purchase of assets from White Rock Energy, LLC, due on July 31, 2026.
The Purchase Agreement contains representations, warranties and other provisions that were made only as of the date specified therein, are solely for the benefit of the parties thereto, and are subject to negotiated limitations. The Purchase Agreement is a contractual document that establishes and governs the legal relations among the parties thereto and is not intended to be a source of factual, business or operational information about the parties. The representations and warranties made by the parties may be (i) qualified by disclosure schedules containing information that modifies, qualifies or creates exceptions to such representations and warranties and (ii) subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Accordingly, investors and security holders should not rely on such representations and warranties as characterizations of the actual state of facts or circumstances.
The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Purchase Agreement, filed as Exhibit 2.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated into this Item 1.01 by reference.
Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
On March 10, 2026, the Partnership issued a press release announcing the Cross Timbers Transactions. The press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference.
Information in this Item 7.01 (including Exhibit 99.1 attached hereto) shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise incorporated by reference into any filing pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act except as otherwise expressly stated in such a filing.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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TXO Partners GP, LLC its general partner |
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Exhibit 99.1
purchase of assets from White Rock Energy, LLC, due on July 31, 2026. Going forward, the company’s operations will focus on the Williston Basin, San Juan Basin and the Vacuum and Parker fields in the Permian Basin. These transactions are expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. There can be no assurance that all of the conditions to closing any or all of these transactions will be satisfied.
Jefferies LLC is serving as sole financial advisor on the transactions while Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP represents Cross Timbers as legal advisor.
About TXO Partners, L.P.
TXO Partners, L.P. is a master limited partnership focused on the acquisition, development, optimization and exploitation of conventional oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids (NGL) reserves in
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North America. TXO’s current acreage positions are concentrated in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado and the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota.
Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this press release constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements often include words such as “may,” “assume,” “forecast,” “could,” “should,” “will,” “plan,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “budget” and similar expressions, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words. These forward-looking statements include the timing, amount, and ability to consummate the pending asset sales by our joint venture, our areas of focus going forward, and our ability to realize anticipated benefits
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from the sales. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current belief, based on currently available information, as to the outcome and timing of future events at the time such statement was made, and it is possible that the results described in this press release will not be achieved. Our assumptions and future performance are subject to a wide range of business risks, uncertainties and factors, including, without limitation, the following: our ability to meet distribution expectations and projections; the volatility of oil, natural gas and NGL prices; our ability to safely and efficiently operate TXO’s assets; our ability to realize the anticipated benefits from acquired assets and recently drilled horizontal wells; uncertainties about our estimated oil, natural gas and NGL reserves, including the impact of commodity price declines on the economic producibility of such reserves, and in projecting future rates of production; and the risks and other factors disclosed in TXO’s filings with the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K.
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Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and, except as required by law, TXO does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for TXO to predict all such factors.
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