Learn from the past30 Mar 2019 14:33
There are many now defunct AIM oil companies who at one point had amazing assets and were darlings loved by the market!
XCITE ENERGY borrowed some wonga from Norwigen loan sharks in the form of bonds and when the due date came and they couldn’t pay up the Noggies took the asset! They gambled the company on trying to secure a farmout that never materialised!
Max petroleum were a happy go lucky company drilling shallow wells and making good money! They had this really big and deep prospect that lay 6000m below surface that they wanted to explore! They tried to farm out but couldn’t secure a farmout deal... They got some loans from shady black market banks and started to go it alone. The well suffered delays and they needed more cash . Anyway to cut a long story short they became insolvent and on their tombstone it says “here lays a once prosperous AIM OIL CO that overstretched itself and got killed by debt”!
There are plenty of examples Petroceltic, AMI, night hawk energy, Caza!
I could go on ! Be careful what you wish for!
A mixture of bad debt and poor management is the perfect concoction to kill any pre-revenue AIM OIL CO! I believe IOG have both ingredients for said concoction!
20p/share is a very generous deal given the fact that there are mountains of bad debt that need to be serviced! Also taking into account the fact that the lenders are now in administration!
Good luck guys!