Range Resources (RRC) risk factors, FY2024 10-K

Range Resources's FY2024 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2025, lists 14 risk factors in 4 groups. There is no earlier 10-K to compare against, so the most company-specific risks are listed below.

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Risk factors listed
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Range Resources's biggest risks in the FY2024 10-K

  • Volatility in natural gas, NGLs, and oil prices directly impacts cash flows and operational viability.
  • Heavy reliance on credit facilities and debt obligations creates financial vulnerability.
  • Environmental regulations and operational risks in horizontal drilling threaten production capacity.

The risks most specific to Range Resources

  • Economic risks related to our business

    Volatility of natural gas, NGLs, and oil prices significantly affects cash flow, capital resources, and economic operability.

  • limit or prevent our ability to pay dividends and other restricted payments (as defined in our bank credit facility)

    Capital expenditures rely heavily on cash flow from operations, bank credit facilities, and occasional debt or equity issuances.

  • related to our bank credit facility to the extent that one or more of our lenders experiences liquidity problems and is unable to provide necessary funding to us under our existing revolving line of credit

    Failure to meet debt obligations or lender liquidity issues under our revolving line of credit could force asset sales or debt restructuring.

  • an event materially impacts natural gas, NGLs or oil prices or the relationship between the hedged price index and the natural gas, NGLs or oil sales prices we receive

    Derivative transactions may fail to adequately protect against commodity price declines, leaving us vulnerable compared to hedged competitors.

  • Risks related to our operations

    being able to run tools and other equipment consistently through the horizontal wellbore

    Horizontal well completions carry risks including staging fractures, running tools through the wellbore, and cleaning out the wellbore.

  • Risks related to our operations

    the ability to successfully clean out the wellbore after completion of the final fracture stimulation stage

    Failure to successfully replace produced reserves will lead to depleted reserves, decreased production, and lower revenues.

  • Risks related to the industry in which we operate

    performance rules and reporting obligations concerning drilling, completion and production operations; threatened or endangered species and waterway protection efforts; and climate related initiatives

    Environmental regulations and pollution liability regarding drilling, endangered species, waterways, and climate initiatives expose us to significant costs.

  • Risks related to our common stock

    threats from terrorist acts or other geopolitical events

    Digital technologies integral to our exploration and accounting functions face threats from terrorist acts and geopolitical events.

All 14 risk factors

Headings as the filing states them, in filing order.

Other

  1. 01Economic risks related to our business
  2. 02domestic (federal, state and local) and foreign governmental regulations, tariffs and taxation, including further legislation requiring, subsidizing or providing tax benefits for the use of alternative energy sources and fuels
  3. 03reducing the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows relating to natural gas, NGLs and oil
  4. 04limit or prevent our ability to pay dividends and other restricted payments (as defined in our bank credit facility)
  5. 05related to our bank credit facility to the extent that one or more of our lenders experiences liquidity problems and is unable to provide necessary funding to us under our existing revolving line of credit
  6. 06an event materially impacts natural gas, NGLs or oil prices or the relationship between the hedged price index and the natural gas, NGLs or oil sales prices we receive

Risks related to our operations

  1. 07civil unrest or protest activities
  2. 08being able to run tools and other equipment consistently through the horizontal wellbore
  3. 09the ability to successfully clean out the wellbore after completion of the final fracture stimulation stage
  4. 10repairs and remediation to resume operations

Risks related to the industry in which we operate

  1. 11performance rules and reporting obligations concerning drilling, completion and production operations; threatened or endangered species and waterway protection efforts; and climate related initiatives
  2. 12other adverse effects on our ability to develop our properties and expand production

Risks related to our common stock

  1. 13future sales of additional stock and changes in our capital structure
  2. 14threats from terrorist acts or other geopolitical events

Other Range Resources 10-Ks

  • FY2025 10-K risk factors
    16 risks4 new2 dropped5 reworded

    Range Resources faces evolving risks around commodity price hedging, third-party midstream capacity constraints, and federal or state climate regulations. Natural gas comprised 65% of proved reserves as of December 31, 2025, heightening exposure to price volatility. The company achieved net-zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions in 2024 and maintained this in 2025.

    Filed Feb 24, 2026

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The headings are the filing's own. The one-line readings and the overview are automated and can be wrong: read Item 1A of the 10-K for the exact wording.