RE: READ THE LETTER ON THE RBD REQUISITION WEBSITE11 Dec 2023 10:50
7th of December 2023
Dear Sirs,
I write this letter on behalf of the requisitioners and indeed all shareholders of Reabold Resources to request that you refrain from exercising the "Second Option" in LNEnergy Limited and the Colle Santo project and do not invest any further company money. We believe it to be over-valued and suspect it to be unlikely to succeed in itsa i m of producing.
The history of Colle Santo, or Monte Pallano, as it was originally known, is long and complicated but it's origins go back to 1997 and it's founding by Mark Frascogna,
one of the LNEnergy directors, of CMI in Italy; a joint venture with Forest Oil of the US.
In 2007 two wells were successfully drilled at Bomba which is a small village in the
Abruzzo region of Italy. It is our understanding that getting permission to produce from the Bomba site has been the "impossible dream" that Frascogna and his
colleague John Mcintyre, a former vice-President of Forest Oil, have pursued for over 16 years now. This failed pursuit has cost millions and has contributed to the financial collapse of at least two of the oil companies that have previously been involved in the project: Forest Oil and Avanti Energy.
For the last four years, the project license has been in the control of a group calling themselves the AVX consortium, who appear to be made up of CMI Energia in Italy. This is controlled by Mark Frascogna and Avanti Exploration LLC, an American
company, controlled by John Mclntyre. Avanti Exploration acquired 44.44% of Colle 1
Santo from the struggling Avanti Energy in March 2019 for a deferred payment of
$500,000 giving them, alongside the other AVX consortium members, control over 100% of the Colle Santo project and valuing the asset at just over $1 million.
In June 2022 a Scoping document including the request for a 24 month production
test was filed with the Italian authorities by CMI Energia, signed by Steven Mark Frascogna. The production test was rejected on November 14th 2022, with the
explanation that, by law, a ful Environmental Impact Assessment, taking years, needed to be carried out before any production would be approved.
Despite this failure to progress the project, LNEnergy, a company founded in London by Mark Frascogna in September 2021 acquired not the Colle Santo project itself,
but an option to acquire Colle Santo, for an unspecified amount of money at an unspecified point in the future. It is this entity in which Reabold Resources have invested £2,650,000 of shareholder's assets for 18.4% of this private company's share capital, valuing _NEnergy at £14.4 million.
The valuation of LNEnergy at £14.4 million, significantly greater than Reabold's own current market cap, for ownership of a 90% option on Colle Santo is ludicrous. Four
years ago, when the Avanti deal was done, 100% ownership of Colle Santo was valued at around £1 million and the only progress that has been made since then is for the 2022 production test request to be r