GulfSlope Energy provides an update on recent corporate activities and operational outlook for 2021.

Corporate Update - Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

• Global crude oil demand destruction caused by COVID-19 pandemic, together with increased oil production from OPEC and Russia, contributed to a dramatic decrease in the price of oil. Consequently, GulfSlope's management and Board have taken multiple proactive steps during 2020 to preserve liquidity and reduce debt as follows:
• Settled the insurance claim related to its Tau prospect, and in accordance with this settlement, GulfSlope received approximately $6.6 million.
• Secured agreements which resulted in an overall reduction of approximately $1.1 million in liabilities.
• Paid off third-party debt and interest expense of approximately $3.0 million with the expectation that virtually all third-party debt will be retired by the end of 2020.
• Initiated filing of loan forgiveness application related to $100,300 loan received from the Paycheck Protection Program.
• Accumulated net operating losses of approximately $50 million to offset potential future taxable income.

Operations Update

GulfSlope's Exploration Plan related to the re-drilling of the Company's Tau prospect was approved by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on July 16, 2020. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has completed its initial review of the Company's "Application for Permit to Drill," and GulfSlope anticipates receiving final approval once a definitive spud date has been established. The leases associated with the Tau prospect expire in 2022 and 2025, which provides the Company sufficient time to re-drill the Tau prospect.

Tau is a subsalt Miocene prospect located in the Ship Shoal Area, South Addition Blocks 336/351, in approximately 305 feet of water. The Tau No. 2 well is designed to be drilled to 20,000 feet true vertical distance (21,543 feet measured distance) to test multiple intervals that correlate to productive zones in the nearby Mahogany Field, located approximately five miles to the southwest. GulfSlope is the operator with a 25 percent working interest, and Delek GOM Investments LLC, a subsidiary of Delek Group Ltd., owns a 75 percent working interest.

GulfSlope is aggressively pursuing new opportunities to accelerate its business plan, which includes securing additional drilling partners and the acquisition of producing oil and gas assets. GulfSlope is evaluating multiple acquisition opportunities, and the Company believes that a successful acquisition program will complement its legacy exploration program.

"In response to this extraordinarily difficult business environment, we have taken multiple proactive steps at GulfSlope to strengthen the Company and be in a position for success in 2021. We have a relatively clean balance sheet to utilize in the execution of our business strategy," stated John Seitz, Chairman, and CEO of GulfSlope. "As the world economy returns to a more normal demand for hydrocarbons, we are excited about our prospects for 2021, and we continue to believe there is a significant opportunity for our Company."

GulfSlope has received notification from the OTC Markets Group that the Company's closing bid price no longer meets the Standards for Continued Eligibility for OTCQB. GulfSlope has until November 23, 2020, to cure the bid price deficiency. In the event that GulfSlope is unable to cure this deficiency, then the Company anticipates its stock would be subsequently quoted on the OTC Pink Open Market.

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