Demerger part 130 Apr 2013 09:06
GREEN DRAGON GAS LTD
("Green Dragon" or the "Company")
Proposed demerger of Greka Engineering & Technology Ltd.
The Board of Green Dragon Gas Ltd. (AIM:GDG), one of the largest independent companies involved in the production of CBM gas and the distribution and sale of wholesale gas in China, is pleased to announce that is intending to demerge its engineering business by means of a dividend in specie of shares in Greka Engineering & Technology Ltd ("Greka Engineering") to Green Dragon Shareholders (the "Demerger"). The Demerger, which is conditional upon the approval of Green Dragon Shareholders in general meeting, is expected to take place during June 2013 and it is intended that application will be made for shares in Greka Engineering to be admitted to trading on AIM.
Greka Engineering is a newly-incorporated subsidiary of Green Dragon and was established to hold Green Dragon's engineering and technology businesses and certain of its pipeline and gas compression assets (together the "Greka Engineering Group" or the "Group").
The Greka Engineering Group's business includes the provision of engineering, procurement, construction and management services for infrastructure projects in the unconventional gas sector in China. Projects completed include the design, construction and management of gas gathering systems, a CNG compressing integrated production facility, the installation and commissioning of a 10MW gas-fired power facility and the successful build, maintenance and operation of eight CNG retail stations in 2012. All of these projects were completed for Green Dragon. Greka Engineering has also completed a gas pipeline connecting a Green Dragon gas producing block in Shanxi Province to the China West-East pipeline, the installation and maintenance of additional gas gathering equipment and a pipeline which connects producing wells to the Company's integrated production facility.
The Group is also involved in the research, development and delivery of technologies specific to the unconventional gas sector and incorporating such technologies into industry-specific hardware manufactured in-house such as well-head and gas gathering system compressors, CNG and LNG dispensers, Integrated Circuit Card Point of Sale gas station systems and a SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system used for remote supervision and management of drilling operations, gas gathering systems, power facilities, vehicles, and retail gas stations.