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accession: "0001944558-25-000064"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VTS"
cik: "0001944558"
company_name: "Vitesse Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T00:23:17.728203+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vitesse resolves Hess dispute: $24M payment, in-kind gas take starting July 1

## Summary
- Dispute with operator Hess over post-production deductions resolved effective May 28, 2025, avoiding June 16 trial.
- $24M one-time cash payment to Vitesse, due no later than June 25, 2025.
- Effective July 1, 2025, Vitesse will take virtually all Hess-operated gas production in-kind.
- Long-term gas gathering, processing and marketing agreements entered with Hess affiliates.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001944558-25-000064
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VTS
- cik: 0001944558
- company_name: Vitesse Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944558/000194455825000064/0001944558-25-000064-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944558/000194455825000064/vitesse-20250603.htm

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