The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma has just been released. Listen here.
In the 63 page document on page 41 there is a plan dated 19/09/2001 scaled 1:500 which appears to be of buildings!?
Cheers Mole. I downloaded the .djvu files and converted the to .pdf but they are in Georgian and are scanned documents which cannot be translated which is unfortunate as they contain a lot of information as the two larger documents run into 63 and 127 pages. The later does contain some pages in English from the Secretary of State in Texas which certifies the signatures of SN, ZM et al. and the validity of Frontera Resources US LLC dated 24/04/2019. The former certified on 22/05/2019 the written resolution of the BoD to establish a branch in Georgia.
Correction: Frontera Tradel El-Si was registered 15/01/2020
Apologies if this information has already been posted. I note that there's been 3 new Frontera entities registered in Georgia in the last year.
1. Frontera Risorsiz Yu (Frontera Resources US LLS) Identification Number: 405339637 Date of Registration: 11/06/2019 E-mail: FRUS@FronteraResources.com, Director - Zaza Mamulaishvili, see: https://bs.napr.gov.ge/GetBlob?pid=400&bid=boVlyOwlsX3qmYsntmLmFBA7gdVMInfSODzldpO9oVam5Yj3aTu0Oh8PsKIK9zQw
2. Frontera Tradel El-Si (Frontera Trading LCD), fronteratradingllc@gmail.com, registered 01/15/2020 applicant: Nikoloz Mamulashvili
3. Frontera Yu , fronteraus@gmail.com, registered 15/01/2020, Director - Nikoloz Mamulashvili (100% owner).
The information is here: https://enreg.reestri.gov.ge/main.php?value=Frontera&state=search_by_name
"For over four years, we, the American investors of Iconia Capital LLC, have had our construction business halted by powerful extra-legal and corrupt influences in the Republic of Georgia. Since starting our first project in Tbilisi in 2015, we have been confronted by a small but powerful group of opponents who have sought to illegally take over our land plot in order to use it for their private interests".
https://www.neweurope.eu/article/georgia-is-an-investors-graveyard-masquerading-as-a-business-utopia/
An international consortium has threatened to launch arbitration proceedings against Georgia after the state cancelled its contract to develop a deep-water port.
https://globalarbitrationreview.com/article/1213190/georgia-faces-claim-over-deep-water-port
Speaking to journalists in front of the Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday, Khazaradze insisted that the indictment was an attempt by the government to ‘damage’ not him but ‘Georgia's financial interests, shareholders, and the Anaklia Project’.
Since January, opposition groups have accused the government and Georgian Dream Chair Bidzina Ivanishvili applying legal pressure to Khazaradze after the Anaklia Development Consortium won a bid to build the Anaklia Deep Sea Port project on Georgia’s Black Sea coast.
https://oc-media.org/tbc-bank-founder-khazaradze-charged-with-money-laundering/
See also this interview which mentions Russia and China: https://www.georgianjournal.ge/politics/36062-development-of-the-anaklia-deep-sea-port-should-be-in-the-interest-of-every-georgian-says-kurt-volker.html
Two US investors in Georgia’s largest telecoms group have filed an ICSID claim against the state, accusing the former government of arresting and extorting the company’s founder on politically motivated charges.
https://globalarbitrationreview.com/article/1214525/telecoms-investors-accuse-georgia-of-extortion
Telcell Wireless, LLC and International Telcell Cellular, LLC v. Georgia (ICSID Case No. ARB/20/5)
https://icsid.worldbank.org/en/Pages/cases/casedetail.aspx?CaseNo=ARB/20/5
Zaza Okuashvili talks about "Government racketeering against Omega Group"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrW8upuKn0w
regdik, is the book the one written by Tom Clancy in the Jack Ryan series? If so, it's one I have waiting to be read and follows on from Threat Vector.
And this: http://georgiatoday.ge/news/1720/Ariel-Cohen%3A-Georgia-Could-Become-an-Energy-Exporter
EkXoc, have a look at this article: https://journal-neo.org/2016/02/11/georgian-energy-minister-scoffs-at-fronteras-latest-huge-gas-reserves-claim/
I have the distinct impression that FRR have been for many years fighting forces in Georgia that have been deliberately undermining its credibility and have carrying out a programme of disinformation to question and dismiss FRR's assessment of the oil and gas resources in Block 12. You would think GG would have welcomed FRR's discoveries and would have created an environment which would have accelerated the development of the fields instead of creating obstacles. However, in my opinion, this is primarily a geopolitical issue with Georgia's neighbour to the north doing its upmost to prevent Georgia turning to the West as it wants control in the Black Sea region. A Georgia that has huge oil and gas production developed by an American company supplying Europe as a competitor is not in the interests of Georgia's neighbour.
EkXoc, there was a later report dated July 1 2010 entitled 'Assessment of Gross (100 Percent) Contingent and Prospective Resources for the Shallow Fields Production Unit Located in Block 12, Georgia' by NSAI. The report runs to 131 pages but I can't find a link to it online (I've a copy). However there's some information in these links:
https://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=201009220700070776T
https://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/99156/frontera_reports_resource_estimates_for_georgia_block/
http://www.lngplants.com/georgia.html
Sorry investmentboy, unfortunately I don't have an account.
https://henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/coronaviruscompensation/
brgmg69, RRL initially targeted oil in the Vani 3 and Kursebi 6 prospects in 2011/12 but after failing to find any oil, it undertook a strategic review of their operations in Georgia with its partners (Strait Oil & Gas and RMP) and focussed on coal bed methane as you mention. RRL epitomises failure and the destruction of shareholder value.
RRL drilled in Georgia but hit a problem and had to abandon the well but the biggest problem was Landau. The Puntland episode with RMP was ramped to high heaven and I, like many others, was sucked in but naively did not sell on the speculation when RRL, as Mick points out, hit 24p and RMP reached 50p on the first drill. I've been in FRR since 2011 and I'm still hopeful we will overcome the legal problems and geopolitics of the region as I'm confident of the huge reserves of oil and gas in Block 12. if this comes good it will make my RRL and RMP losses look like chicken feed. If not, then at least I'm in some great company with other LTHs.
Keysersoze, the company was Range Resources, now Star Phoenix (STA):
https://www.investegate.co.uk/range-resources-ltd--sta-/rns/georgia-update/201910160700059910P/
It would appear from the articles below there is some confusion in Georgia as to where the arbitration was to take place and both conflict with the statement from Hogan Lovells which mentioned London. I suppose it's irrelevant as the most important issue by far is that the court's decision favours FRR.
“Georgia will protect its interests in the dispute [in the Hague Court of Arbitration],” Talakvadze (Georgian Parliament Speaker) Talakvadze said. https://agenda.ge/en/news/2020/172 20/01/2020
Zalkaliani (Georgian Foreign Minister) noted that the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce will discuss the issue of Frontera Resources adding that speculations are not acceptable. https://agenda.ge/en/news/2020/474 14/02/2020
David Dunn, (Partner, Hogan Lovells, New York) stated on 31/01/2020: "The hearings on that matter were conducted in London in December and are concluded; the parties await the Tribunal's decision".
https://www.gogc.ge/en/article/hogan-lovells-claims-fronteras-accusations-against-the-georgian-side-to-be-baseless--/469
If the arbitration has been carried out by the LCIA, we may struggle to find out the court's decision because of the Confidentiality clauses in the ICIA arbitration rules:
https://www.lcia.org/Dispute_Resolution_Services/lcia-arbitration-rules-2014.aspx#Article 30
Looed, I have searched the https://pca-cpa.org/en/cases/ for the FRR/GOGC arbitration without luck. The GOGC site says the hearings were conducted in London so could it be The London Court of International Arbitration https://www.lcia.org/ where Hogan Lovells have Users' Council Officers and YIAG co-Chairs? Unfortunately I cannot find any reference to FRR or GOGC in the site.
An AIM company must issue notification of any relevant changes to any significant shareholders above 3% which increase or decrease such holding through any single percentage, see:
https://www.lseg.com/sites/default/files/content/documents/aim/2018/January/AIM_Rules_for_Companies_January_2018.pdf
3% equates to about 473.2million shares. Assuming that there hasn't been any major share transfer since FRR delisted, I am not aware of a previous RNS which has disclosed a major holding of 3% or more other than the directors. According to https://simplywall.st/news/who-are-the-major-shareholders-of-frontera-resources-corporation-lonfrr/, dated 11 April 2018, "a substantial ownership of 99.89% in FRR is held by the general public" which for some reason has not identified shares held by directors. For 2017, https://www.marketscreener.com/FRONTERA-RESOURCES-CORPOR-10792528/company/ identified Kanaly Trust LTA in Houston holding 29,642,760.
Interestingly the director, Andrew Kanaly, is also the treasurer of the Tassie and Constantine Nicandros Foundation and its director is Steve C. Nicandros. https://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Houston/tassie-and-constantine-nicandros-foundation/34473805.aspx
Also interesting is that SN and Zaza are managers of BMCN Holdings LLC which, together with, Bc Holdings Land and Cattle LLC, Bc Mining Company LLC and the Frontera companies are registered at the same address.