S Prophets15 Nov 2019 21:29
I don't think this article helped much first thing this morning......
Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) has the honour of being in my crap quartet of utterly worthless and pointless oil and gas companies. I commented in June on this piece of **** noting the company had declared a need for unrealistically substantial funding via equity placings over the following 12 months. It’s now out of cash, again. Why bother with a placing to keep the lights on?
The company raised £500,000 gross via a placing at 0.1p on 21st August. Yesterday the company released its quarterly financial update. On 30th September cash was down to only $484, 000. Administration expenses in the quarter reduced from the $1.0 million the in the prior quarter to only $900,000. Fabulous news - current cash burn rate is now only $300,000 per month. Perhaps they have sacked some of the 7 administration staff I noted previously? I was absolutely delighted to see the cost savings being taken very seriously and extends to the corporate credit cards – total limit is now down to $53,000 from $88,000. Just how many first class flights and hotels can that cover?
The accounts payable and accrued liabilities have increased from $336,000 at the end of June to $1,054,000 at the end of September. I would conclude they are not paying the bills as due. Net current assets are negative to the tune of $445,000 at the end of September. With no revenue and no placing income so far this quarter the position can only have become worse.
The going concern qualification states: “The Company currently does not have sufficient cash flows to cover forecasted administrative expenses for 2019”.
Meanwhile there is no news on any operating assets – not that I expected any now or anytime soon.
With negative net current assets and no revenue is this company not insolvent as I type?
I would suggest either a placing is incoming PDQ and it will limp on for a few more months or its time for the corporate undertakers to visit. Should it be the latter, I’m sure the company CEO Mr Arthur Millholland is well placed to see a smooth death, given his experience as President of Oilexco when it went into administration in 2009.
With a market cap of £2.3 million at a share price of 0.065p in the middle, I see that as £2.3 million too high.
I see no good reason for this company to exist. SELL