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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-012861"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TPET"
cik: "0001898766"
company_name: "Trio Petroleum Corp"
filed_at: "2025-05-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T06:39:07.342935+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Trio Petroleum terminates McCool Ranch acquisition, suspends operations due to cost issues

## Summary
- On May 27, 2025, Trio and Trio LLC mutually terminated the McCool Ranch oil field acquisition agreement; no refund of prior payments.
- Press release dated May 23 announces suspension of operations at McCool Ranch; cites unfavorable natural gas prices and water disposal costs in California.
- Company will shift focus to other sites in California, Saskatchewan, and Utah that it believes are more economically feasible.
- The McCool Agreement was originally signed Oct 2023 and amended Nov 2023; now terminated with no amounts refunded.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-012861
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TPET
- cik: 0001898766
- company_name: Trio Petroleum Corp
- filed_at: 2025-05-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898766/000164117225012861/0001641172-25-012861-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898766/000164117225012861/form8-k.htm

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