Mr. Don Streu reports

CONDOR ANNOUNCES 2023 YEAR-END RESULTS

Condor Energies Inc. has released its audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended Dec. 31, 2023, and 2022, together with the related management's discussion and analysis. These documents will be made available under Condor's profile on SEDAR+ and on the Condor Energies website. Readers are invited to review the latest corporate presentation available on the Condor Energies website.

Highlights:

• The company executed a production enhancement contract in January, 2024, to increase gas volumes and overall recovery rates from eight conventional natural gas-condensate fields in Uzbekistan, and the company's operations commenced on March 1, 2024.
• The company received a natural gas allocation in January, 2024, in Kazakhstan to be used as feed gas for the company's first modular liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility.
• In July, 2023, Condor was awarded a contiguous 37,300-hectare lithium brine mining licence in Kazakhstan for a six-year term.
• On March 22, 2024, the company issued three-year term convertible debentures bearing 9-per-cent interest per annum and convertible into 2,950,336 common shares for gross proceeds of $4.8-million (U.S.) ($6.5-million). While minimizing shareholder dilution, this financing amount also ensures the company continues advancing its near-term capital programs prior to receiving Uzbekistan gas sales proceeds.
• The company completed a $5.9-million (U.S.) ($7.8-million) three-year term loan facility in July, 2023, that bears interest at 9 per cent per annum, and is available for working capital requirements and general corporate purposes.

Production enhancement contract in Uzbekistan

In January, 2024, the company executed a production enhancement contract (PEC project) with the government of Uzbekistan to increase the production and overall recovery rates from an integrated cluster of eight conventional natural gas-condensate fields in the country, and production operations commenced on March 1, 2024. The PEC project will increase the country's domestic supply of natural gas while also contributing to carbon emission reductions.

Condor, through a local subsidiary, conducts production enhancement services under an agreement with Uzbekistan national company JSC Uzbekneftegaz. Produced natural gas is sold to the authorized state entity responsible for the purchase and sale of natural gas for use in the domestic market. Condor is responsible for all costs of the PEC project, and in exchange for performing its services, the company receives a percentage of net revenues realized from the PEC project.

The fields consist of stacked carbonate and clastic reservoirs that are geologically similar to those in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The fields are experiencing high annual decline rates and low recovery factors which the company intends to mitigate, while also reducing carbon emissions by introducing proven modern technologies and operating techniques. Production increases are planned by implementing artificial lift, workover and infill drilling programs, and investigating deeper horizons in the fields that are productive in other regions of the country. Seismic reprocessing and a 3-D seismic program are also planned to support these efforts. Reservoir and production data is currently being collected and a reserve report compliant with National Instrument 51-101 -- Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities will be completed thereafter. The company is honoured to be selected as JSC Uzbekneftegaz's first Western strategic operating partner to contribute to increasing Uzbekistan's natural gas production rates and recoverable reserves.

LNG in Kazakhstan

In January, 2024, the company received a natural gas allocation from the government of Kazakhstan to be used as feed gas for the company's first modular LNG production facility. The feed gas will be liquefied to produce up to 350 tonnes per day (210,000 gallons per day) of LNG, which can fuel approximately 125 rail locomotives or 215 large mine haul trucks (150-tonne haul capacity) while contributing to carbon emissions reductions by displacing diesel fuel usage. Front-end engineering and design are complete, and detailed engineering will commence in 2024. Discussions are under way with end-users to confirm LNG volume commitments and the company is reviewing project financing alternatives before proceeding with construction.

The company's LNG initiative fully supports the strategy of the government of Kazakhstan to materially expand the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) which links a major Asian trade route with Europe. LNG will be used as a domestically produced low-carbon substitute to diesel fuel to address the increased usage of rail locomotives and transport trucks between China and the Caspian Sea, and the marine vessels used to cross the Caspian Sea.

Lithium licence in Kazakhstan

In July, 2023, the government of Kazakhstan awarded Condor its first lithium brine mining licence and the company holds a 100-per-cent working interest in the contiguous 37,300-hectare area which provides the subsurface exploration rights for solid minerals for a six-year term. Given its strategic access to Asian and European lithium markets, this region is ideally suited for the rapid deployment of emerging North American and European lithium direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies to generate lithium for EV (electric vehicle) batteries and other electricity storage applications.

A prior well drilled in the lithium licence for hydrocarbon exploration encountered and tested brine deposits with lithium concentrations of 67 milligrams per litre (mg/L) in Carboniferous-aged intervals as reported by the Ministry of Geology of the Republic of Kazakhstan. A 670-metre column of tested and untested brine reservoir has been identified from historical wireline log and core data. This well also penetrated the very top of the Devonian-aged sediments and reservoir sands were encountered but not tested.

The company is not treating this historical estimate as current mineral resources or mineral reserves, as additional drilling and testing is necessary, and a qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify the historical estimates as current mineral resources or mineral reserves. It is uncertain if further drilling will result in the area being delineated as a mineral resource or reserve. The historical lithium concentration estimate should not be relied upon as indicative of the actual lithium concentration or the likelihood that the company will be able to achieve similar production results.

Since the lithium licence is not associated with legacy oil wells nor any reported presence of hydrogen sulphide, a less-complex and less-capital-intensive modular DLE technology is envisioned for the separation of lithium from the brine when compared with lithium extraction projects targeting oil field brines. By applying proven DLE production technologies, the company expects to have a much smaller environmental footprint than existing lithium production operations which use open-pit mining or brine evaporation ponds. The company is also evaluating the construction of a renewable power generation project to achieve net-zero emissions for its lithium production.

The company incurred $300,000 in exploration and evaluation expenditures associated with the lithium licence during the year ended Dec. 31, 2023. The company's initial development plan for the lithium licence includes drilling and testing two wells to verify deliverability rates, confirm the lateral extension and concentrations of lithium in the tested and untested intervals, conduct preliminary engineering for the production facilities, and prepare a mineral resources or mineral reserves report compliant with National Instrument 43-101 -- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

Convertible debentures issued in March, 2024

On March 22, 2024, the company issued convertible debentures convertible into 2,950,336 common shares for gross proceeds of $4.8-million (U.S.) ($6.5-million). Debt issue costs are estimated at $200,000. The debentures are unsecured, bear interest at 9 per cent, payable in cash semi-annually in arrears, mature in three years, and the principal amount is convertible at any time on or before the maturity date at a conversion price of $1.61676 (U.S.) per common share. The debentures, and any shares issued upon conversion, cannot be sold or transferred without an exemption from applicable securities laws for four months and a day after March 22, 2024. After the initial four-month-and-a-day hold period, the company can force conversion of the debentures if the 20-day volume-weighted average trading price of the company's shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange exceeds $3.00. The proceeds are available for general corporate purposes. The debentures have no associated financial covenants.

Loan facility issued in July, 2023

In June and July, 2023, the company completed a $5.9-million (U.S.) ($7.8-million) loan facility that bears interest at 9 per cent per annum, and issued 2,600,002 common share purchase warrants with an exercise price of 48 cents per common share and exercisable into one common share of Condor for a three-year term. The loan facility is unsecured, non-revolving, has a three-year term, requires quarterly interest payments in arrears, and is being used for working capital requirements and general corporate purposes. The loan facility has no associated financial covenants.

Turkey operations

Gas production decreased 74 per cent to 38,097 Mcf (thousand cubic feet), or an average of 104 Mcf per day, for the year ended Dec. 31, 2023, from 146,355 Mcf, or an average of 401 Mcf per day, in 2022. The company also produced nine barrels of condensate in 2023 compared to 474 barrels in 2022. The 2022 gas production average was much higher due to the successfully drilled Poyraz 7 infill well that began producing in June, 2022, but has since naturally declined. The other Poyraz Ridge wells have been producing for more than six years, with water production and natural pressure declines reducing gas production rates.

Condor is seeking a partner to finance development plans at the Yakamoz field located two kilometres north of the existing Poyraz Ridge gas field, and development of Yakamoz could include re-entering, casing and fully evaluating the Yak 1-ST well, drilling the Yak-2 well, and connecting Yakamoz by pipeline into the Poyraz Ridge production and sales facilities. There is no assurance that the company will be successful with this initiative and the outcome of this matter is uncertain.

Based on the declining production performance, negative cash used in operating activities and the company's prevailing development plans, indicators of impairment were identified and an impairment test was performed as of Dec. 31, 2023. As a result, the properties were fully written off as impairment expense during the fourth quarter of 2023 as the recoverable amount was deemed to be nil. There are no economic reserves related to the Poyraz Ridge or Destan properties as of Dec. 31, 2023.

We seek Safe Harbor.