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on May&nbsp;30, 2025</B></P>

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No.&nbsp;333-</B></P>

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20549</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>FORM&nbsp;S-8<BR>
REGISTRATION STATEMENT<I><BR>
UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</I></B></P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 14pt"><B>VITESSE ENERGY,&nbsp;INC.</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Exact name of registrant as specified in
its charter)</P></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Delaware</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>88-3617511</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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of Incorporation or Organization)</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(I.R.S. Employer <BR>
Identification No.)</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>5619 DTC Parkway, Suite&nbsp;700</B></P>
    <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Greenwood Village, Colorado</B></P></TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>80111</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Vitesse Energy,&nbsp;Inc. Long-Term Incentive Plan </B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(Full title of the plan)</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>James P. Henderson<BR>
Chief Financial Officer<BR>
5619 DTC Parkway, Suite&nbsp;700<BR>
Greenwood Village, Colorado</B></P></TD></TR>
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is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of &ldquo;large
accelerated filer,&rdquo; &ldquo;accelerated filer,&rdquo; and &ldquo;smaller reporting company&rdquo; in Rule&nbsp;12b-2 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &ldquo;Exchange Act&rdquo;).</P>

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  <TD STYLE="width: 30%"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Accelerated filer</FONT></TD>
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  <TD><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Emerging growth company</FONT></TD>
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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&nbsp;7(a)(2)(B)&nbsp;of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the &ldquo;Securities Act&rdquo;). <FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">&#168;</FONT></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center; background-color: white"><B>INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; background-color: white">Vitesse
Energy,&nbsp;Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &ldquo;Registrant&rdquo;), is filing this Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-8 (the
 &ldquo;Registration Statement&rdquo;) for the purpose of registering the offer and sale of an additional 667,575 shares of its common
stock, par value $0.01 per share (&ldquo;Stock&rdquo;), issuable pursuant to the terms of the Vitesse Energy,&nbsp;Inc. Long-Term Incentive
Plan, as amended from time to time (the &ldquo;Plan&rdquo;).</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; background-color: white">Pursuant
to General Instruction E to&nbsp;Form&nbsp;S-8, the Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the contents
of the&nbsp;prior registration statement on <A HREF="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944558/000110465923003424/tm233082d1_s8.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit">Form&nbsp;S-8 filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &ldquo;Commission&rdquo;) on&nbsp;January&nbsp;12, 2023</A>, relating to the Plan (the &ldquo;Prior Registration Statement&rdquo;), including periodic reports that
the Registrant filed after the Prior Registration Statement to maintain current information about the Registrant except to the extent
otherwise updated or modified by this Registration Statement. The additional shares of Stock that are the subject of this Registration
Statement were authorized pursuant to an amendment to the&nbsp;Plan that was approved by the Registrant&rsquo;s stockholders on May&nbsp;1,
2025, which Stock consists of shares reserved and available for delivery with respect to awards under the Plan and additional shares that
may again become available for delivery with respect to awards under the Plan pursuant to the share counting, share recycling and other
terms and conditions of the Plan.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase"><B>PART&nbsp;I<BR>
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION&nbsp;10(a)&nbsp;PROSPECTUS</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in">In accordance with the instructional
note to Part&nbsp;I of Form&nbsp;S-8, as promulgated by the Commission, the information specified by Part&nbsp;I of Form&nbsp;S-8 has
been omitted from this Registration Statement. The documents containing the information specified in Part&nbsp;I will be delivered to
the participants in the Plan covered by this Registration Statement as required by Rule&nbsp;428(b)(1)&nbsp;under the Securities Act.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase"><B>PART&nbsp;II<BR>
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B></FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944558/000119312523008895/d426246dex31.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">4.1</FONT></A></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><A HREF="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944558/000119312523008895/d426246dex31.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Vitesse Energy,&nbsp;Inc. </FONT>(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 to the Registrant&rsquo;s Report on Form&nbsp;8-K as filed with the Commission on January&nbsp;17, 2023, File No.&nbsp;001-41546).</A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944558/000119312523008895/d426246dex32.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">4.2</FONT></A></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><A HREF="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944558/000119312523008895/d426246dex32.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Amended and Restated Bylaws of Vitesse Energy,&nbsp;Inc. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.2 to the Registrant&rsquo;s Report on Form&nbsp;8-K as filed with the Commission on January&nbsp;17, 2023, File No.&nbsp;001-41546).</FONT></A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex4-3.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">4.3*</FONT></A></TD>
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    <TD><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex4-3.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Vitesse Energy,&nbsp;Inc. Long-Term Incentive Plan (as amended and restated through May&nbsp;1, 2025).</FONT></A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex5-1.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">5.1*</FONT></A></TD>
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    <TD><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex5-1.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Opinion of Vinson&nbsp;&amp; Elkins L.L.P. </FONT></A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex23-1.htm"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">23.1*</FONT></A></TD>
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    <TD><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex23-1.htm"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Consent of Deloitte&nbsp;&amp; Touche, LLP.&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex23-2.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">23.2*</FONT></A></TD>
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    <TD><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex23-2.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Consent of KPMG LLP relating to Lucero Energy Corp.&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex23-3.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">23.3*</FONT></A></TD>
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    <TD><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex23-3.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Consent of Cawley, Gillespie&nbsp;&amp; Associates. </FONT></A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex5-1.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">23.4*</FONT></A></TD>
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    <TD><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex5-1.htm" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Consent of Vinson&nbsp;&amp; Elkins L.L.P. (included as part of its opinion filed as Exhibit&nbsp;5.1).</FONT></A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="#a_002" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">24.1*</FONT></A></TD>
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    <TD><A HREF="#a_002" STYLE="-sec-extract: exhibit"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Power of Attorney (included as part of the signature pages&nbsp;to this Registration Statement).</FONT></A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex-filingfees.htm"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">107.1*</FONT></A></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD><A HREF="tm2516489d1_ex-filingfees.htm"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Calculation of Filing Fee Tables.</FONT></A></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase"><B>SIGNATURES</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form&nbsp;S-8
and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City
of Greenwood Village, State of Colorado, on May&nbsp;30, 2025.</P>

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    ENERGY,&nbsp;INC.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 50%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 3%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">By:</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 47%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/
    Robert W. Gerrity</FONT></TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: bottom">
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Name:
    Robert W. Gerrity</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Title:
    Chairman, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B><A NAME="a_002"></A>POWER OF ATTORNEY</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in">KNOWN ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act, that each person whose signature appears below authorizes and appoints Brian Cree and James P.
Henderson as such person&rsquo;s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such
person and in such person&rsquo;s name, place and stead in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement and any additional registration statement pursuant to Rule&nbsp;462(b)&nbsp;under the Securities
Act, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said
attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done,
as fully and to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact
and agent, or such person&rsquo;s or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</P>

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  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: center"><B>Signature</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: center"><B>Title</B></TD></TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; width: 49%; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Robert W. Gerrity</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 2%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; width: 49%; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Chairman, Chief Executive Officer</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Robert W. Gerrity</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(Principal Executive Officer)</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ James P. Henderson</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Chief Financial Officer</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">James P. Henderson</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Linda Adamany</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Linda Adamany</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
  <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
  <TR>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ M. Bruce Chernoff</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">M. Bruce Chernoff</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Brian P. Friedman</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Brian P. Friedman</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Daniel O&rsquo;Leary</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Daniel O&rsquo;Leary</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Cathleen M. Osborn</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Cathleen M. Osborn</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Gary D. Reaves</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Gary D. Reaves</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Randy Stein</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Randy Stein</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/ Joseph S. Steinberg</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Director</FONT></TD>
    </TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Joseph S. Steinberg</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
on May 30, 2025
Registration
No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
VITESSE ENERGY, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in
its charter)
Delaware
88-3617511
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation or Organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
5619 DTC Parkway, Suite 700
Greenwood Village, Colorado
80111
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
Vitesse Energy, Inc. Long-Term Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
James P. Henderson
Chief Financial Officer
5619 DTC Parkway, Suite 700
Greenwood Village, Colorado
(Name and address of agent for service)
(720) 361-2500
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant
is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of "large
accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act").
Large accelerated filer
¨
Accelerated filer
x
Non-accelerated filer
¨
Smaller reporting company
¨
Emerging growth company
x
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 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the "Securities Act").
¨
INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT
Vitesse
Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Registrant"), is filing this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the
 "Registration Statement") for the purpose of registering the offer and sale of an additional 667,575 shares of its common
stock, par value $0.01 per share ("Stock"), issuable pursuant to the terms of the Vitesse Energy, Inc. Long-Term Incentive
Plan, as amended from time to time (the "Plan").
Pursuant
to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the contents
of the prior registration statement on
Form S-8 filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on January 12, 2023
, relating to the Plan (the "Prior Registration Statement"), including periodic reports that
the Registrant filed after the Prior Registration Statement to maintain current information about the Registrant except to the extent
otherwise updated or modified by this Registration Statement. The additional shares of Stock that are the subject of this Registration
Statement were authorized pursuant to an amendment to the Plan that was approved by the Registrant's stockholders on May 1,
2025, which Stock consists of shares reserved and available for delivery with respect to awards under the Plan and additional shares that
may again become available for delivery with respect to awards under the Plan pursuant to the share counting, share recycling and other
terms and conditions of the Plan.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
In accordance with the instructional
note to Part I of Form S-8, as promulgated by the Commission, the information specified by Part I of Form S-8 has
been omitted from this Registration Statement. The documents containing the information specified in Part I will be delivered to
the participants in the Plan covered by this Registration Statement as required by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 8.
Exhibits.
Exhibit Number
Description
4.1
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Vitesse Energy, Inc.
(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's Report on Form 8-K as filed with the Commission on January 17, 2023, File No. 001-41546).
4.2
Amended and Restated Bylaws of Vitesse Energy, Inc. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant's Report on Form 8-K as filed with the Commission on January 17, 2023, File No. 001-41546).
4.3*
Vitesse Energy, Inc. Long-Term Incentive Plan (as amended and restated through May 1, 2025).
5.1*
Opinion of Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.
23.1*
Consent of Deloitte & Touche, LLP.
23.2*
Consent of KPMG LLP relating to Lucero Energy Corp.
23.3*
Consent of Cawley, Gillespie & Associates.
23.4*
Consent of Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. (included as part of its opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1).
24.1*
Power of Attorney (included as part of the signature pages to this Registration Statement).
107.1*
Calculation of Filing Fee Tables.
*
Filed herewith.
2
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8
and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City
of Greenwood Village, State of Colorado, on May 30, 2025.
VITESSE
    ENERGY, INC.
By:
/s/
    Robert W. Gerrity
Name:
    Robert W. Gerrity
Title:
    Chairman, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOWN ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act, that each person whose signature appears below authorizes and appoints Brian Cree and James P.
Henderson as such person's true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such
person and in such person's name, place and stead in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement and any additional registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities
Act, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said
attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done,
as fully and to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact
and agent, or such person's or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Signature
Title
/s/ Robert W. Gerrity
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
Robert W. Gerrity
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ James P. Henderson
Chief Financial Officer
James P. Henderson
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
/s/ Linda Adamany
Director
Linda Adamany
/s/ M. Bruce Chernoff
Director
M. Bruce Chernoff
/s/ Brian P. Friedman
Director
Brian P. Friedman
/s/ Daniel O'Leary
Director
Daniel O'Leary
/s/ Cathleen M. Osborn
Director
Cathleen M. Osborn
/s/ Gary D. Reaves
Director
Gary D. Reaves
/s/ Randy Stein
Director
Randy Stein
/s/ Joseph S. Steinberg
Director
Joseph S. Steinberg
3