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        <commentText>This Amendment No. 2 (this "Amendment") amends and supplements the statement on Schedule 13D originally filed with the SEC by the Reporting Persons on May 29, 2025 and Amendment No. 1 filed with the SEC on September 22, 2025 (collectively, the "Schedule 13D"). Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Amendment shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Schedule 13D. Except as specifically provided herein, this Amendment does not modify any of the information previously reported in the Schedule 13D.</commentText>
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        <percentageOfClassSecurities>The information set forth in lines 11 and 13 of each of the cover pages hereto is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.</percentageOfClassSecurities>
        <numberOfShares>The information (i) set forth or incorporated by reference in Item 4 of this Amendment and (ii) set forth on lines 7 through 10 of each of the cover pages hereto is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.</numberOfShares>
        <transactionDesc>On January 9, 2026, the Reporting Persons agreed to sell 2,100,000 shares of Common Stock of the Issuer in an unregistered block trade pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, at a price of $13.28 per share of Common Stock.</transactionDesc>
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        <filedExhibits>Item 7 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by the addition at the end thereof:

10.3  Amended and Restated Relationship Agreement, between Diversified Energy Company, Diversified Energy Company PLC and EIG Management Company, LLC, dated November 13, 2025 which substituted Diversified Energy Company for Diversified Energy Company PLC under that certain Relationship Agreement, dated March 14, 2025.</filedExhibits>
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