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£3 million funding facility
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UK Oil & Gas PLC
28 June 2023
UK Oil & Gas PLC
("UKOG" or the "Company")
£3 million funding facility
UK Oil & Gas PLC (London AIM: UKOG) is pleased to announce that it has secured a £3 million committed funding facility ("Loan") with RiverFort Global Opportunities PCC Ltd and YA II PN Ltd ("Investors").
The funds will fully fund working capital necessary to progress the Company's key planned activities over the next 12 months, which include:
· Turkey: further testing of Pinarova-1 and further drilling preparations/studies
· Loxley gas discovery: discharge of planning conditions and preparations for site construction, plus a potential farmout to cover the planned appraisal and development programme,
· Horse Hill field: water reinjection work-over, preparations for 3D seismic acquisition and drilling Horse Hill-3 under the previously announced farmout to Pennpetro
· Portland hydrogen storage (UKEn): Planning application work and conceptual engineering studies.
Facility Summary:
· 3 committed tranches: £2 million receivable no later than 2 days after completion ("First Tranche"), £0.5 million receivable by no later than November 17th 2023, and £0.5 million receivable no later than February 16th 2024,
· Further advance of up to £2 million by mutual consent,
· 0% interest, repayable 18 months after each advance,
· Company retains a right to repay any outstanding amount of the Loan prior to the expiry of the term, subject to a repayment fee of 10% of the outstanding balance,
· Company can raise cash via equity as it may see fit during the Loan's term.
Loan discharge terms:
As part of the package the Company will issue to the Investors ordinary shares ("Equity Shares"), which represent between approximately 37% and 51% of the value of the First Tranche, or 1.3 billion new ordinary shares, dependent on whether the shares are valued at the Variable Price or Fixed Price, definitions of which are stated below. The Loan may, at the sole discretion of the Investors, be repaid by first applying the Equity Shares or, provided all Equity Shares have been applied, by converting the Loan into new ordinary shares in the Company. The price at which the Loan may be discharged either by applying the Equity Shares or converting the Loan is the lower of:
· the Variable Price, being equivalent to 100% (i.e., zero discount) of the Company's lowest daily volume weighted average price ("VWAP") in the 15 trading days preceding the conversion date or the date the Equity Shares are applied to discharge the Loan; or
· the Fixed Price, being the lower of either a 35% premium to a Reference Price being the average of the 5 daily VWAPs prior to the date of the relevant Loan drawdown (i.e., 135% of the Reference Price) or the lowest price at which the Company has iss