BLUE DOLPHIN ENERGY CO Form 8-K Current Report Filed 2024-01-05

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2 below):

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR 230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR 240.12b-2).

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.☐

As previously disclosed, Nixon Product Storage, LLC (“NPS”) and Lazarus Refining & Marketing, LLC (“LRM”), each wholly owned subsidiaries of Blue Dolphin Energy Company (“Blue Dolphin”), were involved in separate contract-related disputes with Pilot Travel Centers LLC (“Pilot”) and Tartan Oil LLC (“Tartan”), an affiliate of Pilot. NPS and Pilot were in a contract-related dispute involving a May 2019 Terminal Services Agreement, which became subject to a legal action filed in Harris County District Court (the “Texas Action”). NPS also disputed set-off payments between itself and Pilot under a May 2019 Line of Credit Agreement, as amended. LRM was involved in a contract-related dispute with Tartan related to a revenue-sharing arrangement for storing and selling crude oil.

Pursuant to a confidential Settlement Agreement (the “Settlement Agreement”) by and among Lazarus Energy Holdings LLC, NPS, Lazarus Energy LLC, LRM, Lazarus San Antonio Refinery LLC, and Blue Dolphin (together, the “Lazarus Entities”), on the one hand, and Pilot, Starlight Relativity Holdings LLC, Starlight Relativity Acquisition Company LLC, Tartan, The San Antonio Refinery LLC, and Falls City Terminal, LP (together, the “Pilot Entities”), on the other hand, among other matters addressed, NPS and LRM’s contract-related disputes with Pilot and Tartan were fully resolved and the parties agreed to mutually release all claims against each other. Further, Pilot and NPS agreed to take such actions as necessary to dismiss the Texas Action. Blue Dolphin expects to record a gain through reductions in counter-party debt as a result of the settlement.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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☐	Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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☐	Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

	Blue Dolphin Energy Company

	/s/ JONATHAN P. CARROLL
	Jonathan P. Carroll Chief Executive Officer, President, Assistant Treasurer and Secretary (Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer, and Principal Accounting Officer)