Update on new production wells at Fort Dodge

Mendell Helium PLC

12 March 2026

 

Mendell Helium plc

("Mendell Helium" or the "Company")

Update on new production wells at Fort Dodge

Mendell Helium is pleased to announce an update on drilling of further production wells proximate to M3 Helium Corporation's ("M3 Helium") Rost 1-26 well ("Rost") in Fort Dodge, Kansas.

Highlights

·    Drill permits granted for both the Rost (twin well) and Enlow leases

·    Surface preparations commencing this week

·    Rig expected to be on site in the week commencing 16 March 2026

As announced on 27 June 2024, the Company has an option (the "Option") to acquire M3 Helium, a producer of helium which is based in Kansas and holds an interest in six producing wells. There is no certainty that the Company's option to acquire M3 Helium will be exercised, nor that the enlarged group will successfully complete a re-admission. As announced today, the Company and M3 Helium have agreed to extend the date on which the Option should be exercised to 30 April 2026.

Mendell Helium has received notification that the Kansas Corporation Commission has approved drill permits for both of M3 Helium's proposed new production wells in Fort Dodge. These are for a twin well on the Rost lease and a new well on the Enlow lease to the north of Rost.  Both new wells will target the Morrow sands, the production zone of Rost, and both are planned to be drilled with 7 inch casing to enable greater water removal and, it is anticipated, greater gas production. As announced on 2 March 2026, a drilling contractor has been secured and a drilling contract has been executed by M3 Helium. Surface works in preparation for drilling are commencing this week and the rig itself is expected to be on site in the week of 16 March 2026.

Nick Tulloch, Chief Executive Officer of Mendell Helium and Chairman of M3 Helium, said: "We are very pleased to report a rapid advance of the next phase of our operations.  Both drill permits were secured within a week and our preparations to drill M3 Helium's next production well are now in place. This marks the beginning of M3 Helium's field development plan in Fort Dodge, a region which has been validated as a potentially significant helium opportunity by the operations to date at Rost."

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of the UK Market Abuse Regulation and the Directors of the Company are responsible for the release of this announcement.

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Overview of M3 Helium

Mendell Helium announced on 27 June 2024 that it has entered into an option agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of M3 Helium through the issue of 57,611,552 new ordinary shares in Mendell Helium to M3 Helium's shareholders. The exercise of the option will constitute a reverse takeover pursuant to AQSE Rule 3.6 of the Access Rule Book and is subject to, inter alia, publication of an admission document.

M3 Helium's flagship well, Rost 1-26, is in Fort Dodge, just to the east of Dodge City, Kansas.  It has been tested as containing 5.1% helium composition and a drill stem test yielded a maximum flow rate of approximately 2,900 Mcf per day.  M3 Helium owns a mobile Pressure Swing Adsorption production plant which has been installed on site and will be used to purify the produced helium. The plant is capable of processing up to 800 Mcf per day of raw gas and purifying it up to 99.999% helium although management believes on-site purification to around 75% will be more practical.

Water removed from Rost 1-26 is delivered to Brobee, a nearby disposal well that has been permitted at 5,000 barrels of water per day at 1,200 psi.

Production at Rost 1-26 commenced in early November 2025 and the most recently recorded flow rate in December 2025 was 250 Mcf per day equating to approximately $1.4 million of helium per year.

M3 Helium also has interests in five producing wells (Peyton, Smith, Nilson, Bearman and Dimmitt) within the Hugoton gas field in South-Western Kansas, one of the largest natural gas fields in North America. Significantly these wells are in the proximity of a gathering network and the Jayhawk gas processing plant meaning that producing wells are all tied into the infrastructure.

M3 Helium is also developing a Bitcoin mining operation in Nebraska where it has taken a lease of land prospective for biogenic methane and has drilled a pilot well (Jasper).  It is onboarded for custody with Bitgo Inc. and its Bitcoin treasury management policy is available at https://mendellhelium.com/bitcoin-treasury.

Forward Looking Statements

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Important Notices

Mendell Helium plc (the "Company") intends in the future to invest surplus cash and hold treasury reserves in bitcoin. Bitcoin is a type of cryptocurrency or crypto asset. Whilst the Board of Directors of the Company considers holding bitcoin to be in the best interests of the Company, the Board is aware that the financial regulator in the UK (the "Financial Conduct Authority" or "FCA") considers investment in bitcoin to be high risk. However, the Board of Directors of the Company consider bitcoin to be an appropriate store of value and growth for the Company's reserves and, accordingly, the Company may in the future be materially exposed to bitcoin. Such an approach is innovative, and the Board of Directors of the Company wish to be clear and transparent with prospective and actual investors in the Company on the Company's position in this regard. An investment in the Company is not an investment in bitcoin, either directly or by proxy.

The Company is neither authorised nor regulated by the FCA and cryptocurrencies (such as bitcoin) are unregulated in the UK. As with most other investments, the value of bitcoin can go down as well as up, and therefore the value of bitcoin holdings can fluctuate. The Company may not be able to realise any future bitcoin exposure for the same as it paid in the first place or even for the value the Company ascribes to bitcoin positions due to these market movements. As bitcoin is unregulated, the Company is not protected by the UK's Financial Ombudsman Service or the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.  Prospective investors in the Company are encouraged to do their own research before investing.

 

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