Business Description

W&T Offshore, Inc. (“we,” “our” or “us”) is a publicly held Texas corporation. We are an independent oil and natural gas producer with substantially all our operations offshore in the Gulf of America. We are active in the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties. We operate in one reportable segment. Since our founding in 1983 by our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tracy Krohn, we have developed significant technical expertise in finding and developing properties in the Gulf of America with existing production which provide the best opportunity to achieve a return on our invested capital. We have successfully discovered and produced properties on the conventional shelf and in the deepwater across the Gulf of America. We have continually grown our footprint in the Gulf of America through acquisitions, exploration and development. As of December 31, 2025, we held working interests in 49 offshore producing fields in federal and state waters. Our producing fields are located in federal and state waters in the Gulf of America in water depths ranging from less than 10 feet to up to 7,300 feet. The reservoirs in our offshore fields are generally characterized as having high porosity and permeability, with higher initial production rates relative to other domestic reservoirs. Our acreage, well, production and reserves information are described in more detail under Part I, Item 2. Properties, in this Form 10-K. Business Strategy The Gulf of America offers unique advantages, and we are uniquely positioned to create value with a diverse portfolio in valuable shelf, deep shelf and deepwater projects. Our diverse portfolio of operations in the Gulf of America enables stacked pay development, attractive primary production, and recompletion opportunities. We use advanced seismic and geoscience tools to execute successful drilling projects. In managing our business, we are focused on optimizing production and increasing reserves in a profitable and prudent manner, while managing cash flows to meet our obligations and investment needs. Our goal is to pursue lower risk, high rate of return projects and develop oil and natural gas resources that allow us to grow our production, reserves and cash flow in a capital efficient manner, and organically enhance the value of our assets helping to ensure the long-term sustainability of our business. We follow a proven and consistent business strategy: ● Focus on free cash flow generation . Our strong production base and cost optimization has generated steady free cash flows. The Gulf of America is an area where we have developed significant technical expertise and where high production rates associated with hydrocarbon deposits have historically provided us the best opportunity to achieve high rates of return on our invested capital. ● Maintain and optimize high-quality conventional asset base with low decline. We generate incremental production from probable reserves and possible reserves due to natural drive mechanisms. Typical fields with high-quality sands offer mechanisms superior to primary depletion and they often enjoy incremental reserve adds annually. Fewer conventional wells are required to develop these fields. While we continue to utilize proven techniques and technologies, we will also continuously seek efficiencies in our drilling, completion and production techniques in order to optimize ultimate resource recoveries, rates of return and cash flows. ● Capitalize on unique and accretive acquisition opportunities. We strategically pursue the acquisition of compelling producing assets that generate cash flows at attractive valuations with upside potential and optimization opportunities. We may also use our capital flexibility to pursue value-enhancing, bolt-on acquisitions to opportunistically improve our positions in existing assets. 1 Table of Contents ● Reduce costs to improve margins. We grow in opportunistic ways as we manage our balance sheet prudently and reinvest free cash flow. Our existing portfolio of 200 structures (142 of which we operate) provides a key advantage when evaluating and developing prospect opportunities and serves to reduce capital expenditures and maximize our returns on capital expenditures. ● Preserve ample liquidity and maintain financial flexibility.…