Talos Energy Announces Pricing of Upsized Underwritten Public Offering of Common Stock

HOUSTON, Jan. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Talos Energy Inc. ("Talos" or the "Company") (NYSE: TALO) today announced the pricing of its upsized underwritten public offering of 30,000,000 shares of its common stock, for total gross proceeds of approximately $351.0 million. In connection with the offering, the Company also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 4,500,000 shares of its common stock at the public offering price. The offering is expected to close on January 22, 2024, subject to customary closing conditions.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund a portion of the previously announced acquisition of QuarterNorth Energy Inc. (the "QuarterNorth Acquisition"). In the event that the QuarterNorth Acquisition is not completed, the proceeds from this offering will be used for general corporate purposes.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Mizuho are acting as joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters and Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Capital One Securities, Inc., DNB Markets, Inc., KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. and Regions Securities LLC are also acting as joint book-running managers.

The offering is being made pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3, including a base prospectus, which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and became effective on June 14, 2022. The preliminary prospectus supplement, and accompanying base prospectus, relating to the offering, have been filed with the SEC and are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The final prospectus supplement, when available, will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement, and accompanying base prospectus, relating to the offering, and the final prospectus supplement, when available, may be obtained by sending a request to: J.P. Morgan, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by telephone at (866) 803-9204, [email protected] ; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, telephone: 1-866-471-2526, facsimile: 212-902-9316 or by emailing [email protected] ; Mizuho Securities USA LLC, ATTN: Equity Capital Markets, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10020, telephone: (212) 205-7600, or by emailing [email protected] , or by accessing the SEC's website at www.sec.gov .

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the shares of common stock or any other securities, nor shall there be any sale of such shares of common stock or any other securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.

ABOUT TALOS ENERGY

Talos Energy (NYSE: TALO) is a technically driven, innovative, independent energy company focused on safely and efficiently maximizing long-term value through its Upstream Exploration & Production and Low Carbon Solutions businesses. We currently operate in the United States and offshore Mexico. We leverage decades of technical and offshore operational expertise to acquire, explore, and produce assets in key geological trends while developing opportunities to reduce industrial emissions through carbon capture and storage projects along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

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We caution you that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. These risks include, but are not limited to, our ability to consummate the proposed transaction with QuarterNorth Energy Inc. on the terms currently contemplated, the anticipated future performance of the combined company, risks and uncertainties related to economic, market or business conditions, satisfaction of customary closing conditions related to the proposed offering, and the other risks discussed in "Risk Factors" in the Registration Statement on Form S-3, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, our Quarterly Reports on Forms 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and our other filings with the SEC, all of which can be accessed at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov .

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