Shore Capital 'Guaranteeing' Open Offer!!18 Oct 2019 08:22
"Bahamas Petroleum Company plc, the oil and gas exploration company with significant prospective resources in licences in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas announces that, further to its announcement of 10 October 2019, a circular (the "Circular") in relation to the Open Offer to shareholders will today be sent to all shareholders.
The Open Offer circular is also available to download from the Company website, www.bpcplc.com.
Pursuant to the Open Offer, all qualifying shareholders are being offered the ability to subscribe for 1 new share in the Company for each 5 shares held on the record date (being 16 October 2019), at a price of 2 pence per share. A total of 338,543,819 new shares in the Company will be offered for subscription under the Open Offer, and if fully taken up, will raise a total of approximately £6.8 million (approximately $8.5 million) with proceeds applied toward the cost of drilling an initial exploration well in The Bahamas in 2020. Shareholders who take up their entire entitlement will be eligible, via an excess application facility, to request to subscribe for additional shares in the Open Offer, if and only to the extent the Open Offer is not already fully subscribed.