Bahamas Petroleum Company PLC Funding Agreements for up to US$20 million (7772I)
December 16 2020 - 2:00AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 7772I
Bahamas Petroleum Company PLC
16 December 2020
16 December 2020
Bahamas Petroleum Company plc
("BPC" or the "Company")
Funding Agreements for up to US$20 million
Further to the announcement of 14 December 2020 (the
"Announcement") of the Funding Agreements entered into by BPC, the
Company wishes to advise of the following additional details
pertaining to the Funding Agreements.
The counterparty to those Funding Agreements is 1798 Volantis
Fund Ltd (the "Investor"), a fund managed on a discretionary basis
by Lombard Odier Asset Management.
As set out in the Announcement, as part of the terms of the
Funding Agreements, on the earlier of (i) 60 days after the date of
spudding of BPC's Perseverance #1 well in The Bahamas; (ii) 31
December 2021; or (iii) such other date where a reconciliation is
permitted under the Funding Agreement (the "Relevant Assessment
Date"), BPC may be required to make a cash payment to the Investor
to the extent that the Investor's aggregate return from a sale, if
any, of those new ordinary shares has been less than 115% of the
subscription price. BPC is only required to make a payment in the
event the Investor sells shares for, in aggregate, an average price
of less than 2.3 pence per share (being 115% of the subscription
price), with the payment being the difference between 2.3 pence per
share and the average sales price. No payment is required for any
shares that the Investor continues to hold at the Relevant
Assessment Date. On the basis that the Perseverance #1 well spuds
on 20 December 2020, the Relevant Assessment Date would be 18
February 2021. There is no capacity for any such payment to be made
in the form of shares, such that the level of dilution to BPC under
the Funding Agreement is fixed and knowable.
This arrangement is substantially the same as the agreement
entered into with Trafalgar Capital Management (HK) Limited, a Hong
Kong based financier, for the financing of certain aspects of the
Columbus merger transaction earlier in 2020. The final
reconciliation date under that agreement has recently passed, and
the ultimate outcome was one advantageous to BPC, in that there was
no additional cost to BPC for funding that was secured at the time
of the merger on advantageous terms.
Regulatory Statements
The information communicated in this announcement contains
inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market
Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014.
For further information, please contact:
Bahamas Petroleum Company plc Tel: +44 (0) 1624
Simon Potter, Chief Executive Officer 647 882
Strand Hanson Limited - Nomad Tel: +44 (0) 20 7409
Rory Murphy / James Spinney / Jack Botros 3494
Shore Capital Stockbrokers Limited - Tel: +44 (0) 207 408
Joint Broker 4090
Jerry Keen / Toby Gibbs
Investec Bank Plc - Joint Broker Tel: +44 (0) 207 597
Chris Sim / Rahul Sharma 5970
Gneiss Energy Limited - Financial Adviser Tel: +44 (0) 20 3983
Jon Fitzpatrick / Paul Weidman / Doug 9263
Rycroft
CAMARCO Tel: +44 (0) 020 3757
Billy Clegg / James Crothers / Hugo Liddy 4980
Notes to editors
BPC is a Caribbean and Atlantic margin focused oil and gas
company, with a range of exploration, appraisal, development and
production assets and licences, located offshore in the waters of
The Bahamas and Uruguay, and onshore in Trinidad and Tobago, and
Suriname. BPC is currently on-track for drilling an initial
exploration well in The Bahamas, Perseverance #1, in late 2020 /
early 2021, with the well targeting recoverable P(50) prospective
oil resources of 0.77 billion barrels, with an upside of 1.44
billion barrels. In Trinidad and Tobago, BPC has five producing
fields, two appraisal / development projects and a prospective
exploration portfolio in the South West Peninsula. BPC's
exploration licence in Uruguay is highly prospective, with a
potential resource of 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent. In
Suriname, BPC has an onshore appraisal / development project.
BPC is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.bpcplc.com
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