RNS - MM - £13m9 Mar 2021 10:56
I think the market is in a bit of a pickle.
Last night and today we seen the £13m or $18m raised but PIs and MM I sure what it’s for?
30 December @ 0.2p raised £6m for The net proceeds from the Placing will be used for the acquisition of Atomic Oil and Gas LLC announced by the Company on December 16, 2020, other expenditures related to the Atomic acquisition, and for general corporate purposes.
Additional £3m was raised as per RNS 8th Jan 2021 COPL has closed a follow-on non-brokered private placement to raise additional gross proceeds of £3,000,000 (the "Subsequent Fundraise") subsequent to the £6,000,000 placing announced by the Company on December 30, 2020.
21 January - The Facility has a base size of $45 million, with an additional, or "accordion", $20 million to fund future development at the sole discretion of the lender.
· The terms of the Facility are market competitive.
The process from this latest placing strengthen the balance sheet.
Now this last bit is interesting as the original placing proved to the finance company that COPL could generate cash.
We know there is and additional credit facility of $20m my theory is the $13m is for both working capital and cash finance for acquiring the additional stake from the Chinese. This would have been part of the terms and conditions similar to those in the first instance.
Now given £13m / would be roughly £6.5m which is there or there about a a figure we put down for atomic finance, maybe a similar figure was required for the additional finance?
This would then leave £6/7m working capital till the funds are rolling in what terms on a balance sheet to get paid 30, 60 or 90 days. Just a thought this would allow for £2m a month for 3 months for gas etc for miscible flooding.