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As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on August 19, 2025

Registration No. 333-275471

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT

TO FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-275471

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

VNOM Sub, Inc.

(f/k/a Viper Energy, Inc.)

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

500 West Texas Ave., Suite 100

Midland, Texas 79701

(432) 221-7400

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Teresa L. Dick

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary

500 West Texas Ave., Suite 100

Midland, Texas 79701

(432) 221-7400

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Steven R. Green

Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz

51 West 52nd Street

New York, New York 10019

(212) 403-1000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration statement.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-275471) filed by VNOM Sub, Inc. (f/k/a Viper Energy, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on November 13, 2023 (the “Registration Statement”), registering up to 9,018,760 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.000001 per share (the “Class A common stock”).

On August 19, 2025 (the “Closing Date”), the transactions contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), dated June 2, 2025, by and among the Company, Sitio Royalties Operating Partnership, LP, Sitio Royalties Corp., Viper Energy Partners LLC, New Cobra Pubco, Inc. (“New Viper”), Cobra Merger Sub, Inc., and Scorpion Merger Sub, Inc. were consummated. On the Closing Date, the Company became a direct wholly owned subsidiary of New Viper, a new holding company that was subsequently renamed “Viper Energy, Inc.”

As a result of the completion of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company has terminated all offerings of securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with the undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of such offerings, the Company hereby removes from registration by means of this Post-Effective Amendment all such securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities and the Company hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Midland, Texas on the 19th day of August, 2025.

Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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