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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
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QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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For the
quarterly period ended: June
30, 2017
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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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For the
transition period from
to_____
Commission
file number: 001-35922
PEDEVCO CORP.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Texas
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22-3755993
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(State
or other jurisdiction of incorporation or
organization)
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(IRS
Employer Identification No.)
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4125 Blackhawk Plaza Circle, Suite 201
Danville, California 94506
(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)
(855) 733-2685
(Registrant’s
Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports
required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such
shorter period that the registrant was required to file such
reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for
the past 90 days. Yes ☑
No ☐
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically
and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive
Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405
of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the
preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant
was required to submit and post such files). Yes ☑
No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large
accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a
smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the
definitions of “large accelerated
filer,”
“accelerated
filer,”
“smaller reporting
company,” and
“emerging growth
company” in Rule 12b-2 of
the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer ☐
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Accelerated filer ☐
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Non-accelerated filer ☐
(Do not check if a smaller reporting
company)
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Smaller reporting company ☑
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Emerging growth company ☐
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the
registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period
for complying with any new or revised financial accounting
standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange
Act.
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined
in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. Yes ☐
No ☑
At August
8, 2017, there were 6,084,729 shares of the Registrant’s
common stock outstanding.
PEDEVCO CORP.
For the Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2017
INDEX
PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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Page
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Item
1.
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Financial
Statements
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F-1
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Consolidated
Balance Sheets as of June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016
(Unaudited)
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F-1
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Consolidated
Statements of Operations for the Three and Six Months Ended June
30, 2017 and 2016 (Unaudited)
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F-2
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Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2017 and
2016 (Unaudited)
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F-3
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Notes
to Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements
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F-4
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Item
2.
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Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations
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1
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Item
3.
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Quantitative
and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
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11
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Item
4.
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Controls
and Procedures
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11
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PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
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Item
1.
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Legal
Proceedings
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12
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Item
1A.
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Risk
Factors
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12
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Item
2.
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Unregistered
Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
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14
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Item
3.
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Defaults
Upon Senior Securities
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15
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Item
4.
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Mine
Safety Disclosures
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15
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Item
5.
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Other
Information
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15
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Item
6.
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Exhibits
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15
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Signatures
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16
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PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
PEDEVCO CORP.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited)
(amounts
in thousands, except share and per share data)
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Assets
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Current
assets:
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Cash
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$891
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$659
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Accounts
receivable
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25
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Accounts receivable
– oil and gas
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416
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439
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Prepaid expenses
and other current assets
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110
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173
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Total current
assets
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1,417
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1,296
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Oil and gas
properties:
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Oil and gas
properties, subject to amortization, net
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55,874
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57,395
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Total oil and gas
properties, net
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55,874
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57,395
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Other
assets
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85
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85
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Investments –
cost method
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4
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4
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Total
assets
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$57,380
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$58,780
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Liabilities
and Shareholders’ Deficit
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Current
liabilities:
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Accounts
payable
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$80
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$103
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Accrued
expenses
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1,906
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1,802
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Revenue
payable
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524
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517
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Convertible notes
payable – Bridge Notes, net of premiums of $113,000 and
$113,000, respectively
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588
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588
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Notes payable
– Secured Promissory Notes, net of debt discount of $-0- and
$50,000, respectively
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300
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Total current
liabilities
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3,098
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3,310
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Long-term
liabilities:
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Accrued
expenses
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1,022
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589
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Accrued expenses
– related party
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1,201
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677
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Notes payable
– Secured Promissory Notes, net of debt discount of
$3,625,000 and $4,600,000, respectively
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30,868
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27,497
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Notes payable
– Secured Promissory Notes – related party, net of debt
discount of $1,720,000 and $2,338,000, respectively
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14,615
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13,319
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Notes payable
– Subordinated – related party
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10,803
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10,173
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Notes payable
– other
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4,925
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4,925
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Asset retirement
obligations
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278
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246
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Total
liabilities
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66,810
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60,736
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Commitments and
contingencies
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Shareholders’
deficit:
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Series A
convertible preferred stock, $0.001 par value, 100,000,000 shares
authorized, 66,625 and 66,625 shares issued and outstanding,
respectively
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Common stock,
$0.001 par value, 200,000,000 shares authorized; 6,044,729 and
5,493,112 shares issued and outstanding, respectively
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5
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Additional paid-in
capital
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100,781
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99,770
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Accumulated
deficit
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(110,217)
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(101,731)
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Total
shareholders’ deficit
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(9,430)
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(1,956)
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Total liabilities
and shareholders’ deficit
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$57,380
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$58,780
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See
accompanying notes to unaudited consolidated financial
statements.
PEDEVCO CORP.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)
(amounts
in thousands, except share and per share data)
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For the Three
Months
Ended
June 30,
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For the Six
Months
Ended June
30,
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Revenue:
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Oil and gas
sales
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$812
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$1,203
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$1,546
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$1,785
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Operating
expenses:
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Lease operating
costs
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397
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414
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727
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678
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Exploration
expense
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86
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203
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Selling, general
and administrative expense
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694
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1,305
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1,494
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2,721
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Depreciation,
depletion, amortization and accretion
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873
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522
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1,553
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1,799
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Gain on settlement
of payables
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(1,282)
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(1,282)
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1,964
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1,045
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3,774
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4,119
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Operating income
(loss)
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(1,152)
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158
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(2,228)
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(2,334)
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Other income
(expense):
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(3,162)
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(3,592)
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(6,258)
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(7,678)
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(3,162)
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(3,592)
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(6,258)
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(7,678)
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$(4,314)
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$(3,434)
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$(8,486)
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$(10,012)
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Net loss per common
share:
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$(0.76)
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$(0.71)
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$(1.52)
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$(2.10)
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Weighted average
number of common shares outstanding:
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5,687,690
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4,870,573
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5,590,938
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4,777,881
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See
accompanying notes to unaudited consolidated financial
statements.
PEDEVCO CORP.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
(amounts
in thousands)
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For the Six
Months
Ended June
30,
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Cash Flows From
Operating Activities:
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Net
loss
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$(8,486)
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$(10,012)
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Adjustments to
reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating
activities:
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Stock-based
compensation expense
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517
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1,226
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Depreciation,
depletion and amortization
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1,553
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1,799
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Interest expense
deferred and capitalized in debt restructuring
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3,384
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3,690
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Gain on settlement
of payables
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(1,282)
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Amortization of
debt discount
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1,643
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3,756
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Changes in
operating assets and liabilities:
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Accounts
receivable
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25
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406
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Accounts receivable
- oil and gas
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23
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180
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Accounts receivable
- related party
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(2)
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Prepaid expenses
and other current assets
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63
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(30)
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Accounts
payable
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(23)
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(3,209)
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Accrued
expenses
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537
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(3,104)
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Accrued expenses -
related parties
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524
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(42)
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7
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(13)
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Net cash used in
operating activities
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(233)
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(6,637)
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Cash Flows From
Investing Activities:
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Cash paid for
drilling costs
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-
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(64)
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Net cash used in
investing activities
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-
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(64)
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Cash Flows From
Financing Activities:
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Proceeds from notes
payable, net of offering costs
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6,295
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Repayment of notes
payable
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(30)
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-
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Cash paid for stock
repurchase and retirement
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-
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(74)
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Proceeds from
issuance of common stock, net of issuance costs
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495
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Net provided by
financing activities
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465
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6,221
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Net increase
(decrease) in cash
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232
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(480)
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Cash at beginning
of period
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659
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1,138
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$891
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$658
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Supplemental
Disclosure of Cash Flow Information
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Cash paid
for:
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Interest
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$-
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$553
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Income
taxes
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$-
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$-
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Noncash Investing
and Financing Activities:
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Issuance of
restricted common stock for services upon vesting
maturity
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$-
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$2
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Accrual of costs
for oil and gas properties by assumption of payables
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$-
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$8
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Changes in
estimates of asset retirement obligations
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$1
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$9
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Acquisition of oil
and gas properties
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$-
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$3,587
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Issuance of shares
for Liberty settlement of payables
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$-
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$588
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Debt discount for
warrants from Tranche A debt
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$-
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$599
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See
accompanying notes to unaudited consolidated financial
statements.
PEDEVCO CORP.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
NOTE 1 – BASIS OF PRESENTATION
The
accompanying consolidated financial statements of PEDEVCO CORP.
(“PEDEVCO” or the “Company”) have been
prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and
the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission
(“SEC”) and should be read in conjunction with the
audited financial statements and notes thereto contained in
PEDEVCO’s latest Annual Report filed with the SEC on Form
10-K. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, consisting of
normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of
the financial position and the results of operations for the
interim periods presented have been reflected herein. The results
of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of
the results to be expected for the full year. Notes to the
financial statements that would substantially duplicate disclosures
contained in the audited financial statements for the most recent
fiscal year, as reported in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2016, filed with the SEC on March 27, 2017,
have been omitted.
The
Company’s consolidated financial statements include the
accounts of the Company, its wholly-owned subsidiaries and
subsidiaries in which the Company has a controlling financial
interest. All significant inter-company accounts and transactions
have been eliminated in consolidation.
The
Company completed a 1-for-10 reverse split of its outstanding
common stock, which took effect as of market close on April 7,
2017. All outstanding shares, options, warrants, preferred stock
and other securities convertible into the Company's common stock
have been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the reverse stock
split as required by the terms of such securities with a
proportional increase in the related share or exercise
price.
NOTE 2 – DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
PEDEVCO’s
primary business plan is engaging in the acquisition, exploration,
development and production of oil and natural gas shale plays in
the United States, with a secondary focus on conventional oil and
natural gas plays. The Company’s principal operating
properties are located in the Wattenberg, Wattenberg Extension, and
Niobrara formation in the Denver-Julesburg Basin (the “D-J
Basin” and the “D-J Basin Asset”) in Weld County,
Colorado, all of which properties are owned by the Company through
its wholly-owned subsidiary, Red Hawk Petroleum, LLC (“Red
Hawk”).
The
Company plans to focus on the development of shale oil and gas
assets held by the Company in its D-J Basin Asset.
The
Company plans to seek additional shale oil and gas and conventional
oil and gas asset acquisition opportunities in the U.S. utilizing
its strategic relationships and technologies that may provide the
Company a competitive advantage in accessing and exploring such
assets. Some or all of these assets may be acquired by existing
subsidiaries or other entities that may be formed at a future
date.
NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING
POLICIES
Basis of Presentation and Principles of
Consolidation. The consolidated financial statements
herein have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and include the
accounts of the Company and those of its wholly and partially-owned
subsidiaries as follows: (i) Blast AFJ, Inc., a Delaware
corporation; (ii) Pacific Energy Development Corp.
(“PEDCO”), a Nevada corporation; (iii) Pacific Energy
& Rare Earth Limited, a Hong Kong company (which is currently
in the process of being dissolved); (iv) Blackhawk Energy Limited,
a British Virgin Islands company (which is currently in the process
of being dissolved); (v) White Hawk Petroleum, LLC, a Nevada
limited liability company (dissolved on November 30, 2016); (vi)
Red Hawk Petroleum, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company; (vii)
Pacific Energy Development MSL, LLC (owned 50% by us) (which was
dissolved in September 2016) and is included in our consolidated
results for the periods prior to its dissolution (“PEDCO
MSL”); (viii) PEDEVCO Acquisition Subsidiary, Inc., a Texas
corporation which was formed on May 21, 2015 in connection with the
planned reorganization transaction with Dome Energy, Inc.
(“Dome Energy”), which was subsequently terminated
(which was dissolved in April 2016); and (ix) White Hawk Energy,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, formed on January 4,
2016 in connection with the contemplated reorganization transaction
with GOM Holdings, LLC (“GOM”), which reorganization
transaction has since been terminated. All significant intercompany
accounts and transactions have been eliminated.
Use of Estimates in Financial Statement
Preparation. The preparation of financial statements in
conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets,
liabilities, revenues and expenses, as well as certain financial
statement disclosures. While management believes that the estimates
and assumptions used in the preparation of the financial statements
are appropriate, actual results could differ from these estimates.
Significant estimates generally include those with respect to the
amount of recoverable oil and gas reserves, the fair value of
financial instruments, oil and gas depletion, asset retirement
obligations, and stock-based compensation.
Cash and Cash Equivalents. The Company considers all
highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months
or less to be cash equivalents. As of June 30, 2017, and December
31, 2016, cash equivalents consisted of money market funds and cash
on deposit.
Concentrations of Credit Risk. Financial instruments
which potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit
risk include cash deposits placed with financial institutions. The
Company maintains its cash in bank accounts which, at times, may
exceed federally insured limits as guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”). At June 30,
2017, approximately $391,000 of the Company’s cash balances
were uninsured. The Company has not experienced any losses on such
accounts.
Sales
to one customer comprised 56% of the Company’s total oil
and gas revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2017. Sales to
one customer comprised 58% of the Company’s total oil
and gas revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2016. The
Company believes that, in the event that its primary customers are
unable or unwilling to continue to purchase the Company’s
production, there are a substantial number of alternative buyers
for its production at comparable prices.
Accounts Receivable. Accounts receivable typically
consist of oil and gas receivables. The Company has classified
these as short-term assets in the balance sheet because the Company
expects repayment or recovery within the next 12 months. The
Company evaluates these accounts receivable for collectability
considering the results of operations of these related entities
and, when necessary, records allowances for expected unrecoverable
amounts. To date, no allowances have been recorded. Included in
accounts receivable - oil and gas is $-0- related to receivables
from joint interest owners.
Bad Debt Expense. The Company’s ability to collect
outstanding receivables is critical to its operating performance
and cash flows. Accounts receivable are stated at an amount
management expects to collect from outstanding balances. The
Company extends credit in the normal course of business. The
Company regularly reviews outstanding receivables and when the
Company determines that a party may not be able to make required
payments, a charge to bad debt expense in the period of
determination is made. Though the Company’s bad debts have
not historically been significant, the Company could experience
increased bad debt expense should a financial downturn
occur.
Equipment. Equipment is stated at cost less accumulated
depreciation and amortization. Maintenance and repairs are charged
to expense as incurred. Renewals and betterments which extend the
life or improve existing equipment are capitalized. Upon
disposition or retirement of equipment, the cost and related
accumulated depreciation are removed and any resulting gain or loss
is reflected in operations. Depreciation is provided using the
straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets,
which are 3 to 10 years.
Oil and Gas Properties, Successful Efforts Method. The
successful efforts method of accounting is used for oil and gas
exploration and production activities. Under this method, all costs
for development wells, support equipment and facilities, and proved
mineral interests in oil and gas properties are capitalized.
Geological and geophysical costs are expensed when incurred. Costs
of exploratory wells are capitalized as exploration and evaluation
assets pending determination of whether the wells find proved oil
and gas reserves. Proved oil and gas reserves are the estimated
quantities of crude oil and natural gas which geological and
engineering data demonstrate with reasonable certainty to be
recoverable in future years from known reservoirs under existing
economic and operating conditions, (i.e., prices and costs as of
the date the estimate is made). Prices include consideration of
changes in existing prices provided only by contractual
arrangements, but not on escalations based upon future
conditions.
Exploratory
wells in areas not requiring major capital expenditures are
evaluated for economic viability within one year of completion of
drilling. The related well costs are expensed as dry holes if it is
determined that such economic viability is not attained. Otherwise,
the related well costs are reclassified to oil and gas properties
and subject to impairment review. For exploratory wells that are
found to have economically viable reserves in areas where major
capital expenditure will be required before production can
commence, the related well costs remain capitalized only if
additional drilling is under way or firmly planned. Otherwise the
related well costs are expensed as dry holes.
Exploration
and evaluation expenditures incurred subsequent to the acquisition
of an exploration asset in a business combination are accounted for
in accordance with the policy outlined above.
Depreciation,
depletion and amortization of capitalized oil and gas properties is
calculated on a field by field basis using the unit of production
method. Lease acquisition costs are amortized over the total
estimated proved developed and undeveloped reserves and all other
capitalized costs are amortized over proved developed
reserves.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets. The Company reviews
the carrying value of its long-lived assets annually or whenever
events or changes in circumstances indicate that the historical
cost-carrying value of an asset may no longer be appropriate. The
Company assesses recoverability of the carrying value of the asset
by estimating the future net undiscounted cash flows expected to
result from the asset, including eventual disposition. If the
future net undiscounted cash flows are less than the carrying value
of the asset, an impairment loss is recorded equal to the
difference between the asset’s carrying value and estimated
fair value.
Asset Retirement Obligations. If a reasonable estimate
of the fair value of an obligation to perform site reclamation,
dismantle facilities or plug and abandon wells can be made, the
Company will record a liability (an asset retirement obligation or
“ARO”) on its consolidated balance sheet and capitalize
the present value of the asset retirement cost in oil and gas
properties in the period in which the retirement obligation is
incurred. In general, the amount of an ARO and the costs
capitalized will be equal to the estimated future cost to satisfy
the abandonment obligation assuming the normal operation of the
asset, using current prices that are escalated by an assumed
inflation factor up to the estimated settlement date, which is then
discounted back to the date that the abandonment obligation was
incurred using an assumed cost of funds for the Company. After
recording these amounts, the ARO will be accreted to its future
estimated value using the same assumed cost of funds and the
capitalized costs are depreciated on a unit-of-production basis
over the estimated proved developed reserves. Both the accretion
and the depreciation will be included in depreciation, depletion
and amortization expense on our consolidated statements of
operations.
The
following table describes changes in our asset retirement
obligations during the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016 (in
thousands):
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Asset retirement
obligations at January 1
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$246
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$189
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Accretion
expense
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33
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14
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Obligations
incurred for acquisition
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-
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19
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Changes in
estimates
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(1)
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(9)
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Asset retirement
obligations at June 30
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$278
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$213
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Revenue Recognition. All revenue is recognized when
persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, the service or sale
is complete, the price is fixed or determinable and collectability
is reasonably assured. Revenue is derived from the sale of crude
oil and natural gas. Revenue from crude oil and natural gas sales
is recognized when the product is delivered to the purchaser and
collectability is reasonably assured. The Company follows the
“sales method” of accounting for oil and natural gas
revenue, so it recognizes revenue on all natural gas or crude oil
sold to purchasers, regardless of whether the sales are
proportionate to its ownership in the property. A receivable or
liability is recognized only to the extent that the Company has an
imbalance on a specific property greater than its share of the
expected remaining proved reserves. If collection is uncertain,
revenue is recognized when cash is collected.
Income Taxes. The Company utilizes the asset and
liability method in accounting for income taxes. Under this method,
deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for operating
loss and tax credit carry-forwards and for the future tax
consequences attributable to differences between the financial
statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and
their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are
measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable
income in the year in which those temporary differences are
expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax
assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in
the results of operations in the period that includes the enactment
date. A valuation allowance is recorded to reduce the carrying
amounts of deferred tax assets unless it is more likely than not
that the value of such assets will be realized.
Stock-Based Compensation. The Company utilizes the
Black-Scholes option pricing model to estimate the fair value of
employee stock option awards at the date of grant, which requires
the input of highly subjective assumptions, including expected
volatility and expected life. Changes in these inputs and
assumptions can materially affect the measure of estimated fair
value of our share-based compensation. These assumptions are
subjective and generally require significant analysis and judgment
to develop. When estimating fair value, some of the assumptions
will be based on, or determined from, external data and other
assumptions may be derived from our historical experience with
stock-based payment arrangements. The appropriate weight to place
on historical experience is a matter of judgment, based on relevant
facts and circumstances.
The
Company estimates volatility by considering the historical stock
volatility. The Company has opted to use the simplified method for
estimating expected term, which is generally equal to the midpoint
between the vesting period and the contractual term.
Loss per Common Share. Basic loss per common share equals
net loss divided by weighted average common shares outstanding
during the period. Diluted loss per share includes the impact on
dilution from all contingently issuable shares, including options,
warrants and convertible securities. The common stock equivalents
from contingent shares are determined by the treasury stock method.
The Company incurred net losses for the six months ended June 30,
2017 and 2016, and therefore, basic and diluted loss per share for
those periods are the same as all potential common equivalent
shares would be anti-dilutive. The Company excluded 451,614 and
342,734 potentially issuable shares of common stock related to
options, 1,248,045 and 1,376,609 potentially issuable shares of
common stock related to warrants and 144,822 and 133,422
potentially issuable shares of common stock related to the
conversion of Bridge Notes due to their anti-dilutive effect for
the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016,
respectively.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments. The Company follows
Fair Value Measurement
(“ASC 820”), which clarifies fair value as an exit
price, establishes a hierarchal disclosure framework for measuring
fair value, and requires extended disclosures about fair value
measurements. The provisions of ASC 820 apply to all financial
assets and liabilities measured at fair value.
As
defined in ASC 820, fair value, clarified as an exit price,
represents the amount that would be received to sell an asset or
paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between
market participants. As a result, fair value is a market-based
approach that should be determined based on assumptions that market
participants would use in pricing an asset or a
liability.
As a
basis for considering these assumptions, ASC 820 defines a
three-tier value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs used in the
valuation methodologies in measuring fair value.
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Level 1
– Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or
liabilities.
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Level 2
– Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either
directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or
liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, or other
inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable
market data for substantially the full term of the assets or
liabilities.
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Level 3
– Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no
market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the
assets or liabilities.
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The
fair value hierarchy also requires an entity to maximize the use of
observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when
measuring fair value.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements. In August
2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”)
issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-15,
Disclosure of Uncertainties about
an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern.
The new standard requires management to assess the company’s
ability to continue as a going concern. Disclosures are required if
there is substantial doubt as to the Company’s continuation
as a going concern within one year after the issue date of
financial statements. The standard provides guidance for making the
assessment, including consideration of management’s plans
which may alleviate doubt regarding the Company’s ability to
continue as a going concern. ASU 2014-15 is effective for years
ending after December 15, 2016. The Company adopted this standard
for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and the year ended
December 31, 2016, and management has concluded that there is
substantial doubt as to the Company’s continuation as a going
concern within one year after the issue date of the financial
statements.
In May
2014, the FASB issued a comprehensive new revenue recognition
standard that will supersede nearly all existing revenue
recognition guidance under U.S. GAAP. The standard’s core
principle (issued as ASU 2014-09 by the FASB), is that a company
will recognize revenue when it transfers promised goods or services
to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which
the company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or
services. These may include identifying performance obligations in
the contract, estimating the amount of variable consideration to
include in the transaction price and allocating the transaction
price to each separate performance obligation. The new guidance
must be adopted using either a full retrospective approach for all
periods presented in the period of adoption or a modified
retrospective approach. In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU No.
2015-14, which defers the effective date of ASU 2014-09 by one
year, and would allow entities the option to early adopt the new
revenue standard as of the original effective date. This ASU is
effective for public reporting companies for interim and annual
periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company has
evaluated the adoption of the standard and due to the nature of the
Company’s oil and gas revenue agreements method there will be
no impact of the standard on its consolidated financial
statements.
In
April 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-10, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers:
Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing”
(topic 606). In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-08,
“Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Principal versus
Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross verses Net)”
(topic 606). These amendments provide additional clarification and
implementation guidance on the previously issued ASU 2014-09,
“Revenue from Contracts with Customers”. The amendments
in ASU 2016-10 provide clarifying guidance on materiality of
performance obligations; evaluating distinct performance
obligations; treatment of shipping and handling costs; and
determining whether an entity's promise to grant a license provides
a customer with either a right to use an entity's intellectual
property or a right to access an entity's intellectual property.
The amendments in ASU 2016-08 clarify how an entity should identify
the specified good or service for the principal versus agent
evaluation and how it should apply the control principle to certain
types of arrangements. The adoption of ASU 2016-10 and ASU 2016-08
is to coincide with an entity's adoption of ASU 2014-09, which
would be adopted for interim and annual reporting periods beginning
after December 15, 2017. The Company has evaluated the
adoption of the standard and due to the nature of the
Company’s oil and gas revenue agreements method there will be
no impact of the standard on its consolidated financial
statements.
In
February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, a new lease standard
requiring lessees to recognize lease assets and lease liabilities
for most leases classified as operating leases under previous U.S.
GAAP. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. The Company will
be required to use a modified retrospective approach for leases
that exist or are entered into after the beginning of the earliest
comparative period in the financial statements. The Company has
evaluated the adoption of the standard and due to only one
operating lease currently in place there will be minimal impact of
the standard on its consolidated financial statements.
In
April 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, “Compensation – Stock
Compensation” (topic 718). The FASB issued this update
to improve the accounting for employee share-based payments and
affect all organizations that issue share-based payment awards to
their employees. Several aspects of the accounting for share-based
payment award transactions are simplified, including: (a) income
tax consequences; (b) classification of awards as either equity or
liabilities; and (c) classification on the statement of cash flows.
The updated guidance is effective for annual periods beginning
after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those
fiscal years. Early adoption of the update is permitted.
The Company has evaluated the adoption of the standard
and due to the nature of the Company’s employee share-based
payments there will be no impact of the standard on its
consolidated financial statements.
In
August 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15, “Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230):
Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash
Payments” (“ASU 2016-15”). ASU 2016-15
will make eight targeted changes to how cash receipts and cash
payments are presented and classified in the statement of cash
flows. ASU 2016-15 is effective for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2017. The new standard will require adoption on a
retrospective basis unless it is impracticable to apply, in which
case it would be required to apply the amendments prospectively as
of the earliest date practicable. The Company is currently in the
process of evaluating the impact of ASU 2016-15 on its consolidated
financial statements.
In
November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, “Statement of Cash Flows (Topic
230)”, requiring that the statement of cash flows
explain the change in the total cash, cash equivalents, and amounts
generally described as restricted cash or restricted cash
equivalents. This guidance is effective for fiscal years, and
interim reporting periods therein, beginning after December 15,
2017 with early adoption permitted. The provisions of this guidance
are to be applied using a retrospective approach which requires
application of the guidance for all periods presented. The Company
is currently evaluating the impact of the new
standard.
The
Company does not expect the adoption of any recently issued
accounting pronouncements to have a significant impact on its
financial position, results of operations, or cash
flows.
Subsequent Events. The Company has evaluated all
transactions through the date the consolidated financial statements
were issued for subsequent event disclosure
consideration.
NOTE 4 – GOING CONCERN
Although
the Company’s senior Tranche A Notes (as defined and
discussed below under “Note 8 – Notes Payable –
2016 Senior Note Restructuring”) do not mature until May 11,
2019 and all of the Company’s other debt expressly
subordinated thereto due, June 11, 2019, at the earliest, with no
amounts due or owing under such subordinated debt until such date,
with the exception of the New MIEJ Note (as defined and discussed
below under “Note 8 – Notes Payable – MIE
Jurassic Energy Corporation”), which matures on March 8, 2019
and with interest accruing thru March 8, 2018 being payable on such
date, the realization of the Company’s assets and
satisfaction of its liabilities remains contingent on the
completion of a future financing. The Company anticipates that it
will need approximately $11 million in 2017 to execute its current
business plan and is currently actively negotiating the necessary
financing. In the event that the Company is unable to
complete the financing currently under consideration, and is
otherwise unable to replace such financing on a timely basis, it
would materially affect the Company’s ability to continue as
a going concern. If such financing is not completed,
among other things, the Company expects that it would incur an
impairment of its oil and gas properties in the range of $27
million and the Company’s ability to meet its obligations
from existing cash flows would be significantly affected. If the
Company would be required to seek financing from other sources,
such financings may not be available or, if available, may not be
on terms acceptable to the Company or its existing lenders.
Accordingly, the consolidated financial statements do not include
any adjustments related to the recoverability of assets or
classification of liabilities that might be necessary should the
Company be unable to continue as a going concern. The ability of
the Company to continue as a going concern is dependent upon its
ability to raise capital to meet its debt obligations, working
capital needs, and develop its oil and gas properties to attain
profitable operations. Management has concluded that there is
substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as
a going concern within one year after the issuance date of these
financial statements.
NOTE 5 – OIL AND GAS PROPERTIES
The
following table summarizes the Company’s oil and gas
activities by classification for the six months ended June 30,
2017 and the year ended December 31, 2016:
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Oil and gas
properties, subject to amortization
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$68,306
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$-
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$-
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$68,306
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Oil and gas
properties, not subject to amortization
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Asset retirement
costs
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163
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(1)
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-
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-
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162
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Accumulated
depreciation, depletion and impairment
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(11,074)
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(1,520)
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-
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-
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(12,594)
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Total oil and gas
assets
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$57,395
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$(1,521)
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$-
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$-
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$55,874
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The
depletion recorded for production on proved properties for the
three and six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, amounted to
$862,000 compared to $513,000 and $1,520,000 compared to
$1,785,000, respectively.
Acquisition of Properties from Dome Energy, Inc.
On
November 19, 2015, the Company entered into a Letter Agreement with
certain parties including Dome Energy AB and its wholly-owned
subsidiary Dome Energy, Inc. (collectively “Dome
Energy”), pursuant to which Dome Energy agreed to acquire the
Company’s interests in eight wells and fully fund the
Company’s proportionate share of all the corresponding
working interest owner expenses with respect to these eight wells.
The Company assigned its interests in these wells to Dome Energy
effective November 18, 2015, and Dome Energy assumed all amounts
owed for the drilling and completion costs corresponding to these
interests acquired from the Company.
On
March 29, 2016, the Company entered into a Settlement Agreement
with Dome Energy, pursuant to which Dome Energy re-conveyed to the
Company the interests in these eight wells assigned to Dome Energy
by the Company on November 18, 2015, with the Company becoming
responsible for its proportionate share of all the working interest
owner expenses, and having the right to receive all corresponding
revenues with respect to these eight wells, from the initial
production date of the wells. As part of this transaction, the
Company also settled $659,000 of outstanding payables due from the
Company to Dome Energy that was accounted for as a purchase price
adjustment to the value of the oil and gas properties acquired. The
transaction was closed on May 12, 2016.
The
following tables summarize the allocation of the purchase price to
the net assets acquired (in thousands):
Assets
Acquired:
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Accounts receivable
– oil and gas
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$793
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Oil and gas
properties, subject to amortization
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3,587
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Total
assets
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$4,380
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Liabilities
Assumed:
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Accounts
payable
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$(4,361)
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Asset retirement
obligation
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(19)
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Total
liabilities
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(4,380)
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Net purchase
price
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$-
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NOTE 6 – ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
On
November 18, 2015, when the Company assigned its interests in the
eight wells to Dome Energy (as described above in Note 5), Dome
Energy also agreed to pay an additional $250,000 to the Company in
the event the anticipated merger was not consummated. In connection
with the assignment of these well interests, Dome Energy issued a
contingent promissory note to the Company, dated November 19, 2015
(the “Dome Promissory Note”), with a principal amount
of $250,000, which was due to mature on December 29, 2015, upon the
termination of the anticipated merger with Dome Energy. To
guarantee payment of the Dome Promissory Note, Dome Energy
deposited $250,000 into an escrow account. During the year ended
December 31, 2016, the Company collected this receivable of
$250,000 in full satisfaction of the Dome Promissory
Note.
On
March 24, 2015, Red Hawk and Dome Energy entered into a Service
Agreement, pursuant to which Red Hawk agreed to provide certain
human resource and accounting services to Dome Energy, of which
$156,000 remained due and payable by Dome Energy to Red Hawk as of
December 31, 2015. On March 29, 2016, the Company entered into a
Settlement Agreement with Dome Energy and certain of its affiliated
entities, pursuant to which the Company and Dome Energy agreed to
terminate and cancel the Service Agreement and settle a number of
outstanding matters, with Dome Energy agreeing to pay to Red Hawk
$50,000 on May 2, 2016, in full satisfaction of the amounts due
under the Service Agreement, with all remaining amounts owed
forgiven by Red Hawk. As of December 31, 2015, the receivable due
from Dome Energy totaled $406,000. During the year ended December
31, 2016, the net receivable created by the Dome Promissory Note
was reduced to $25,000 by (i) the collection of the $250,000 as
described above, (ii) forgiveness by the Company of $106,000 due
from Dome Energy pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, and (iii)
the recording of an allowance of $25,000 as a doubtful account
(which was recognized as bad debt expense in selling, general and
administrative expense on the Company’s income statement). As
of December 31, 2016, the $50,000 was still due from Dome to Red
Hawk as a part of the Settlement Agreement. The Company recorded an
allowance for doubtful accounts as of December 31, 2016 of $25,000
related to this outstanding amount, as $25,000 of the $50,000 was
collected in early 2017. During the three months ended March 31,
2017, the net receivable created by the Dome Promissory Note was
equal to $25,000 due to (i) the collection of the $25,000 in
January 2017, and (ii) the reversal of the allowance of $25,000 as
a doubtful account (and credited to bad debt expense in selling,
general and administrative expense on the Company’s income
statement) due to the collection in April 2017 of the final $25,000
that had been due (the Company had no allowance for doubtful
accounts as of March 31, 2017). As of June 30, 2017, the net
receivable created by the Dome Promissory Note was $-0-, due to the
collection of the $25,000 in April 2017 that represented the final
amount due.
NOTE 7 – OTHER CURRENT ASSETS
On
September 11, 2013, the Company entered into a Shares Subscription
Agreement (“SSA”) to acquire an approximate 51%
ownership in Asia Sixth Energy Resources Limited (“Asia
Sixth”), which held an approximate 60% ownership interest in
Aral Petroleum Capital Limited Partnership (“Aral”), a
Kazakhstan entity. In August 2014 the SSA was restructured (the
“Aral Restructuring”), in connection with which the
Company received a promissory note in the principal amount of $10.0
million from Asia Sixth (the “A6 Promissory Note”),
which would be converted into a 10.0% interest in Caspian Energy,
Inc. (“Caspian Energy”), an Ontario, Canada company
listed on the NEX board of the TSX Venture Exchange, upon the
consummation of the Aral Restructuring.
The
Company entered into an agreement with Golden Globe Energy (US),
LLC (“GGE”) to convey 50% of our interests in Asia
Sixth in connection with an acquisition transaction in March
2014.
The
Aral Restructuring was consummated on May 20, 2015, upon which date
the A6 Promissory Note was converted into 23,182,880 shares of
common stock of Caspian Energy. In addition, on the date of
conversion of the A6 Promissory Note, Mr. Frank Ingriselli, our
Chairman and then Chief Executive Officer, was appointed as a
non-executive director of Caspian Energy and currently serves as
the Chairman of its Board of Directors.
In
February 2015, we expanded our D-J Basin position through the
acquisition of acreage from GGE (the “GGE Acquisition”
and the “GGE Acquired Assets”). In connection with our
GGE Acquisition, on February 23, 2015, we provided GGE a one-year
option to acquire our interest in Caspian Energy for $100,000
payable upon exercise of the option recorded in prepaid expenses
and other current assets. As a result, the carrying value of the
23,182,880 shares of common stock of Caspian Energy which were
issued upon conversion of the A6 Promissory Note at December 31,
2015 was $100,000. The option provided to GGE was not exercised and
expired on February 23, 2016, resulting in the Company retaining
ownership of the 23,182,880 shares of Caspian Energy.
In
connection with the Company’s May 2016 debt restructuring as
more fully described below under “Note 8 – Notes
Payable – 2016 Senior Note Restructuring”, the Company
entered into a new Call Option Agreement with GGE, dated May 12,
2016 (the “GGE Option Agreement”), pursuant to which
the Company provided GGE an option to purchase the 23,182,880
common shares of Caspian Energy upon payment of $100,000 by GGE to
the Company at any time. The option expires on May 12, 2019, which
is the maturity date of the debt evidenced by that certain Note and
Security Agreement, dated April 10, 2014, as amended on February
23, 2015, and May 12, 2016, issued by the Company to RJ Credit LLC
(“RJC” and the “RJC Junior Note”), as
described below. The $100,000 option is classified as part of other
current assets as of June 30, 2017.
NOTE 8 – NOTES PAYABLE
Note Purchase Agreement and Sale of Secured Promissory
Notes
On
March 7, 2014, the Company entered into a $50 million financing
facility (the “Notes Purchase Agreement”) between the
Company, BRe BCLIC Primary, BRe BCLIC Sub, BRe WNIC 2013 LTC
Primary, BRe WNIC 2013 LTC Sub, and RJC, as investors
(collectively, the “Investors”), and BAM Administrative
Services LLC, as agent for the Investors (the “Agent”).
The Company issued the Investors Secured Promissory Notes in the
aggregate principal amount of $34.5 million (the “Initial
Notes”), which also provided for an additional $15.5 million
available under the financing agreement to fund the Company’s
future drilling costs to be evidenced by notes with substantially
similar terms as the Initial Notes (the “Subsequent
Notes,” and together with the Initial Notes, the
“Senior Notes”). On March 19, 2015, BRe WNIC 2013 LTC
Primary transferred a portion of its Initial Note to HEARTLAND
Bank, and effective April 1, 2015, BRe BCLIC Primary transferred
its Initial Note to Senior Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania
(“SHIP”), with each of HEARTLAND Bank and SHIP becoming
an “Investor” for purposes of the discussion
below.
The
Initial Notes, as originally issued, accrued interest at the rate
of 15% per annum, payable monthly, required us to make certain
mandatory principal payments and was originally to mature on March
7, 2017.
On
August 28, 2015, January 29, 2016, March 7, 2016 and April 1, 2016,
the Company entered into several letter agreements and amendments
with certain of the holders to: (i) defer until the maturity date
of their Senior Notes the mandatory principal payments that would
otherwise be due and payable by the Company to them on payment
dates occurring from August 2015 through April 2016; and (ii) defer
until the maturity date of their Senior Notes and the RJC Junior
Note all of the interest payments that would otherwise be due and
payable by the Company to them from August 2015 to April 2016, with
all interest amounts deferred being added to principal on the first
business day of the month following the month in which such
deferred interest is accrued. The purpose of these deferrals was to
provide the Company with temporary relief from cash requirements to
focus and execute upon its contemplated business
combinations.
During
the three and six months ended June 30, 2017, there were no
payments made to reduce the outstanding principal due under the
Initial Notes, however, such Notes were restructured as described
below.
2016 Senior Note Restructuring
Following
a series of temporary payment deferrals as described above, on May
12, 2016 (the “Closing Date”), the Company entered into
an Amended and Restated Note Purchase Agreement (the “Amended
NPA”), with existing lenders SHIP, BRe BCLIC Sub, BRe WINIC
2013 LTC Primary, BRe WNIC 2013 LTC Sub, Heartland Bank, and RJC,
and new lenders BHLN-Pedco Corp. (“BHLN”) and
BBLN-Pedco Corp. (“BBLN,” and together with BHLN and
RJC, the “Tranche A Investors”) (the investors in the
Tranche B Notes (defined below) and the Tranche A Investors,
collectively, the “Lenders”), and the Agent, as agent
for the Lenders. The Amended NPA amended and restated the Senior
Notes held by the Investors, and the Company issued new Senior
Secured Promissory Notes to each of the Investors (collectively,
the “Tranche B Notes”) in a transaction that qualified
as a troubled debt restructuring. RJC is also a party to the RJC
Junior Note (discussed below under "Notes Payable - Related Party
Financings - Subordinated Note Payable
Assumed”).
Subsequently,
certain of the Lenders transferred some or all of the principal
outstanding under the New Senior Notes (as defined below) held by
them and the term Lenders as used herein refers to the current
holders of the New Senior Notes, as applicable.
The
Amended NPA amended the Senior Notes as follows:
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Created
and issued to the Tranche A Investors new “Tranche A
Notes,” in substantially the same form and with similar terms
as the Tranche B Notes, except as discussed below, consisting of a
term loan issuable in tranches with a maximum aggregate principal
amount of $25,960,000, with borrowed funds accruing interest at 15%
per annum, and maturing on May 11, 2019 (the “Tranche A
Maturity Date”) (the “Tranche A Notes,” and
together with the Tranche B Notes, the “New Senior
Notes”);
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The
Company capitalized all accrued and unpaid interest under the
Tranche B Notes as a term loan with an aggregate outstanding
principal balance as of May 12, 2016 equal to $39,065,000 (as of
June 30, 2017, the aggregate outstanding principal balance is
$45,087,000). The Tranche B Notes mature on June 11, 2019 except
for the Tranche B Note issued to RJC, which matures on July 11,
2019;
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Amended
the provisions of the Senior Notes which required mandatory
prepayments from our revenues, replacing them with a Net Revenue
Sweep as described below; and
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Provides
that interest on the Tranche B Notes will continue to accrue at the
rate of 15% per annum, but all accrued interest through December
31, 2017 shall be deferred until due and payable on the maturity
date, with all interest amounts deferred being added to the
principal of the Tranche B Notes on a monthly basis and that
following December 31, 2017, all interest will accrue and be paid
monthly in arrears in cash to the Tranche B Note holders, provided,
however, no payment may be made on the Tranche B Notes unless and
until the Tranche A Notes are repaid in full.
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The
Tranche A Notes are substantially similar to the Tranche B Notes,
except that such notes are senior to the Tranche B Notes, accrue
interest until maturity and have priority to the payment of Monthly
Net Revenues as discussed below. Amounts paid to the Agent through
the Net Revenue Sweep are applied first to the repayment of
principal and interest due under the Tranche A Notes until such
notes are paid in full and then to the repayment of principal and
interest amounts due under the Tranche B Notes. As of June 30,
2017, the Company has paid $682,000 of principal under the Net
Revenue Sweep, of which $30,000 was paid during the current six
month period.
On the
Closing Date, Tranche A Investors BHLN and BBLN loaned the Company
their pro rata share of an aggregate of $6,422,000 (the
“Initial Tranche A Funding”). The Initial Tranche A
Funding net proceeds (amounting to $6,422,000 less legal fees of
$127,000) were used by the Company to (i) fund approximately $5.1
million due to a third party operator for drilling and completion
expenses related to the acquired working interests in eight wells
from Dome Energy, (ii) pay $750,000 of the Company’s past due
payables to Liberty (defined below under “Note 9 –
Commitments and Contingencies” – “Other
Commitments”), (iii) pay $445,000 of unpaid interest payments
due to Heartland Bank under its Tranche B Note through February 29,
2016, and (iv) pay fees and expenses of
$127,000.
Subject
to the terms and conditions of the Amended NPA, the Company may
request each Tranche A Investor, from time to time, to advance to
the Company additional amounts of funding (each, a
“Subsequent Tranche A Funding”), provided that: (i) the
Company may not request a Subsequent Tranche A Funding more than
one time in any calendar month; (ii) Agent shall have received a
written request from the Company at least 15 business days prior to
the requested date of such advance (the “Advance
Request”); (iii) no Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing; and (iv) the Company shall provide to the Agent such
documents, instruments, certificates and other writings as the
Agent shall reasonably require in its sole and absolute discretion.
The advancement of all or any portion of the Subsequent Tranche A
Funding is in the sole and absolute discretion of the Agent and the
Investors and no Investor is obligated to fund all or any part of
the Subsequent Tranche A Funding. Each Subsequent Tranche A Funding
shall be in a minimum amount of $500,000 and multiples of $100,000
in excess thereof. The aggregate amount of Subsequent Tranche A
Fundings that may be made by the Investors under the Amended NPA
shall not exceed $18,577,876 and any Subsequent Tranche A Funding
repaid may not be re-borrowed.
In
addition, subject to the terms and conditions of the Amended NPA,
RJC agreed to loan $240,000 to the Company, within 30 days of the
Closing Date and within 30 days of each of July 1, 2016, October 1,
2016 and January 1, 2017 (collectively, the “RJC
Fundings” and collectively with the Investor Tranche A
Fundings, the “Fundings”), provided that no Event of
Default or Default shall exist. The aggregate amount of the RJC
Fundings made by RJC under the Amended NPA shall not exceed
$960,000 and any Funding repaid may not be re-borrowed. As of June
30, 2017, the Company has received no loan proceeds under this
agreement, and RJC is in default of its funding obligations
thereunder.
To
guarantee RJC’s obligation in connection with the RJC
Fundings as required under the Amended NPA, GGE entered into a
Share Pledge Agreement with the Company, dated May 12, 2016 (the
“GGE Pledge Agreement”), pursuant to which GGE agreed
to pledge an aggregate of 10,000 shares of the Company’s
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock held by GGE (convertible into
1,000,000 shares of Company common stock), which pledged shares are
subject to automatic cancellation and forfeiture based on a
schedule set forth in the GGE Share Pledge Agreement, in the event
RJC fails to meet each of its RJC Funding obligations pursuant to
the Amended NPA. To date, RJC has not met its RJC Funding
obligations under the Amended NPA and the Company is entitled to
cancel and forfeit the entire 10,000 pledged shares of the
Company’s Series A Convertible Preferred Stock held by GGE
pursuant to the terms of the GGE Pledge Agreement, which
determination to cancel shares has not been made, and which shares
have not been cancelled, as of the date of this
filing.
As
additional consideration for the entry into the Amended NPA, the
Company granted to BHLN and BBLN, warrants exercisable for an
aggregate of 596,280 shares of common stock of the Company (the
“Investor Warrants”). The warrants have a 3-year term,
are transferrable, and are exercisable on a cashless basis at any
time at $2.50 per share (as amended). The Investor Warrants include
a beneficial ownership limitation that prohibits the exercise of
the Investor Warrants to the extent such exercise would result in
the holder, together with its affiliates, holding more than 9.99%
of the Company’s outstanding voting stock (the “Blocker
Provision”). The estimated fair value of the Investor
Warrants issued is approximately $707,000 based on the
Black-Scholes option pricing model. The relative fair value
allocated to the Tranche A Notes and recorded as debt discount was
$636,000.
Other
than the Investor Warrants, no additional warrants exercisable for
common stock of the Company are due, owing, or shall be granted to
the Lenders pursuant to the Senior Notes, as amended. In addition,
warrants exercisable for an aggregate of 34,912 shares of the
Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $15.00 per
share and warrants exercisable for an aggregate of 120,101 shares
of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $7.50
per share previously granted by the Company to certain of the
Lenders on September 10, 2015 in connection with prior interest
payment deferrals have been amended and restated to provide that
all such warrants are exercisable on a cashless basis and to
include a Blocker Provision (the “Amended and Restated
Warrants”).
Additionally,
the Company also agreed to (a) provide to the Agent and the
Investors a monthly projected general and administrative expense
report (the “Projected G&A”) and a monthly
comparison report of the Projected G&A provided for the
preceding month, with an explanation of any variances, provided
that in no event shall such variances exceed $150,000, and (b) pay
to the Agent within 2 business days following the end of each
calendar month all of the Company’s oil and gas revenue
received by the Company during such month (the “Net Revenue
Sweep”), less (i) lease operating expenses, (ii) interest
payments due to Investors under the New Senior Notes, (iii) general
and administrative expenses not to exceed $150,000 per month unless
preapproved by the Agent (the “G&A Cap”), and (iv)
preapproved extraordinary expenses (together the “Monthly Net
Revenues”). Amounts paid to the Agent through the Net Revenue
Sweep are applied first to the repayment of principal and interest
due under the Tranche A Notes until such notes are paid in full and
then to the repayment of principal and interest amounts due under
the Tranche B Notes. As of June 30, 2017, the Company has paid
$682,000 of principal under the Net Revenue Sweep, of which $30,000
was paid during the current six month period. The amount of
interest deferred under the Tranche A and Tranche B Notes as of
June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, equaled $2,223,000 and
$1,266,000, respectively, and was accounted for on the balance
sheet under long-term accrued expenses and accrued expenses -
related party.
The
amounts outstanding under the New Senior Notes are secured by a
first priority security interest in all of the Company’s and
its subsidiaries’ assets, property, real property,
intellectual property, securities and proceeds therefrom, granted
in favor of the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, pursuant to a
Security Agreement and a Patent Security Agreement, each entered
into as of March 7, 2014, as amended on May 12, 2016 (the
“Amended Security Agreement” and “Amended Patent
Agreement,” respectively). Additionally, the Agent, for the
benefit of the Lenders, was granted a mortgage and security
interest in all of the Company’s and its subsidiaries real
property as located in the State of Colorado and the State of Texas
pursuant to (i) a Leasehold Deed of Trust, Fixture Filing,
Assignment of Rents and Leases, and Security Agreements, dated
March 7, 2014, as amended May 12, 2016, filed in Weld County and
Morgan County, Colorado; and (ii) a Mortgage, Deed of Trust,
Security Agreement, Financing Statement and Assignment of
Production filed in Matagorda County, Texas (collectively, the
“Amended Mortgages”).
Other
than as described above, the terms of the Amended NPA (including
the covenants and obligations thereunder) are substantially the
same as the March 2014 Notes Purchase Agreement described above,
and the terms of the Tranche A Notes and Tranche B Notes (including
the events of default, interest rates and conditions associated
therewith) are substantially the same as the Senior
Notes.
All
debt discount amounts are amortized using the effective interest
rate method. The total amount of the remaining debt discount
reflected on the accompanying balance sheet as of June 30, 2017 and
December 31, 2016 was $5,345,000 and $6,988,000, respectively.
Amortization of debt discount and total interest expense for the
initial notes (New Senior Notes – Trance A and Tranche B) was
$1,643,000 and $3,278,000, respectively, for the six months ended
June 30, 2017 and $3,756,000 and $3,646,000, respectively, for
the six months ended June 30, 2016.
Amortization
of debt discount and total interest expense for the initial notes
(New Senior Notes – Tranche B) was $812,000 and $1,674,000,
respectively, for the three months ended June 30, 2017 and was
$1,562,000 and $2,169,000, respectively, for the three months ended
June 30, 2016.
Junior Debt Restructuring
On May
12, 2016, the Company entered into an Amendment No. 2 to Note and
Security Agreement with RJC (the “Second Amendment”).
The Company and RJC agreed to amend the RJC Junior Note to (i)
capitalize all accrued and unpaid interest under the RJC Junior
Note as of May 12, 2016, and add it to the note principal, making
the outstanding principal amount of the RJC Junior Note as of May
12, 2016 equal to $9,379,000, (ii) extend the maturity date
(“Termination Date”) from December 31, 2017 to July 11,
2019, (iii) provide that all future interest accruing under the RJC
Junior Note is deferred until payable on the Termination Date, with
all future interest amounts deferred being added to the principal
on a monthly basis, and (iv) subordinate the RJC Junior Note to the
New Senior Notes.
Bridge Note Financing
As of
June 30, 2017, the Company had Bridge Notes with an aggregate
principal amount of $475,000 remaining outstanding, plus accrued
interest of $202,000 and additional payment-in-kind
(“PIK”) of $48,000. The aggregate principal and accrued
and unpaid interest and PIK amounts are available for
conversion into common stock pursuant to the terms of the Bridge
Notes into common stock of the Company, subject to no more than
19.99% of the Company’s outstanding common stock on the date
the Second Amended Notes were entered into. Upon a conversion, the
applicable holder shall receive that number of shares of common
stock as is determined by dividing the Conversion Amount by a
conversion price as follows:
(A)
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prior
to June 1, 2014, the conversion price was $21.50 per share;
and
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(B)
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following
June 1, 2014, the denominator used in the calculation described
above is the greater of (i) 80% of the average of the closing price
per share of the Company’s publicly-traded common stock for
the five (5) trading days immediately preceding the date of the
conversion notice provided by the holder; and (ii) $5.00 per
share.
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Additionally,
each Amended Bridge Investor entered into a Subordination and
Intercreditor Agreement in favor of the Agent, subordinating and
deferring the repayment of the Bridge Notes until full repayment of
certain senior notes. The Subordination and Intercreditor
Agreements also prohibit the Company from repaying the Bridge Notes
until certain senior notes have been paid in full. The interest
expense related to these notes for the three and six months ended
June 30 , 2017 and 2016 was $14,000 compared to $14,000 and $28,000
compared to $28,000, respectively.
The
unamortized debt premium on the Convertible Bridge Notes as of June
30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, was $113,000.
MIE Jurassic Energy Corporation
On
February 14, 2013, PEDCO entered into a Secured Subordinated
Promissory Note with MIE Jurassic Energy Corp.
(“MIEJ”), which was amended on March 25, 2013 and
July 9, 2013 (the “MIEJ Note”, as amended through
December 31, 2014) with MIEJ.
In
February 2015, the Company and PEDCO entered into a Settlement
Agreement with MIEJ and issued a new promissory note in the amount
of $4.925 million to MIEJ (the “NEW MIEJ Note”). The
Settlement Agreement related to the February 2015 disposition of
the Company’s interest in Condor Energy Technology, LLC, a
joint venture previously owned 20% by the Company and 80% by MIEJ.
As of June 30, 2017, the amount outstanding under the New MIEJ Note
was $4,925,000.
The New
MIEJ Note has an interest rate of 10.0%, with no interest due until
maturity, is secured by all of the Company’s assets, and is
subordinated to the Senior Notes. MIEJ also agreed to subordinate
its note up to an additional $60 million of new senior lending,
with any portion of new senior lending in excess of this amount
required to be paid first to MIEJ until the New MIEJ Note is paid
in full. Further, for every $20 million in new senior lending the
Company raises, MIEJ is required to be paid all interest and fees
accrued on the New MIEJ Note through such date. The New MIEJ Note
was due and payable on March 8, 2017, subject to automatic
extensions upon the occurrence of a Long Term Financing (defined
below), which as described below has occurred to date.
On a
one-time basis, the Secured Promissory Notes may be refinanced by a
new loan (“Long-Term Financing”) by one or more third
party replacement lenders (“Replacement Lenders”), and
in such event the Company shall undertake commercially reasonable
best efforts to cause the Replacement Lenders to simultaneously
refinance both the Senior Notes and the New MIEJ Note as part of
such Long-Term Financing. If the Replacement Lenders are unable or
unwilling to include the New MIEJ Note in such financing, then the
Long-Term Financing may proceed without including the New MIEJ
Note, and the New MIEJ Note shall remain in place and shall be
automatically subordinated, without further consent of MIEJ, to
such Long-Term Financing. Furthermore, upon the occurrence of a
Long-Term Financing, the maturity of the New MIEJ Note is
automatically extended to the same maturity date of the Long-Term
Financing, but to no later than March 8, 2020. Additionally, in
connection with a contemplated Long-Term Financing:
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The
Long-Term Financing must not exceed $95 million;
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The
Company must make commercially reasonable best efforts to include
adequate reserves or other payment provisions whereby MIEJ is paid
all interest and fees accrued on the New MIEJ Note commencing as of
March 8, 2017 and annually thereafter, and to allow for quarterly
interest payments starting March 31, 2017 of not less than 5% per
annum on the outstanding balance of the New MIEJ Note, plus a
one-time payment of accrued interest (not to exceed $500,000) as of
March 31, 2017; and
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Commencing
on March 8, 2017, MIEJ shall have the right to convert the balance
of the New MIEJ Note into the Company’s common stock at a
price equal to 80% of the average closing price per share of our
stock over the then previous 60 days, subject to a minimum
conversion price of $3.00 per share. MIEJ shall not be permitted to
convert if the conversion would result in MIEJ holding more than
19.9% of the Company’s outstanding common stock without
approval from the Company’s shareholders, which approval the
Company obtained at its 2016 annual shareholder meeting held on
December 28, 2016.
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In the
event the Senior Notes are not refinanced, restructured or extended
by the Lenders, the maturity of both the New MIEJ Note and the
Senior Notes may be extended to no later than March 8, 2019,
without requiring the consent of MIEJ. However, (i) any such
maturity extension of the New MIEJ Note will give MIEJ the right to
convert the note into our common stock as described above,
commencing on March 8, 2017, and (ii) such extension agreement must
provide that MIEJ is paid all interest and fees accrued on the New
MIEJ Note as of March 8, 2018. The New MIEJ Note may be prepaid any
time without penalty.
As a
result of the Company’s May 2016 senior debt restructuring
pursuant to the Amended NPA (as described above under “Note
Purchase Agreement and Sale of Secured Promissory Notes”
– “2016 Senior Note Restructuring”), the maturity
date of the New MIEJ Note has automatically been extended to March
8, 2019, and as a result of the Company’s shareholders
approving the conversion terms of the MIEJ Note at the
Company’s annual shareholder meeting held on December 28,
2016, MIEJ has had the Right of Conversion (described above) since
March 8, 2017.
The
interest expense related to this note for the three and six months
ended June 30, 2017 and 2016 was $123,000 compared to $124,000 and
$246,000 compared to $248,000, respectively, with the total
cumulative interest equal to $1,231,000 through June 30,
2017.
For
financial reporting purposes, MIEJ was considered a related party
for all periods presented prior to the MIEJ Settlement Agreement
signed in February 2015. After that date, MIEJ is no longer
considered a related party.
Related Party Financings
Subordinated Note Payable Assumed
In
2015, the Company assumed approximately $8.35 million of
subordinated note payable from GGE in the acquisition of the GGE
Acquired Assets (the “RJC Junior Note”). The amount
outstanding on the RJC Junior Note as of June 30, 2017 and December
31, 2016 was $10,803,000 and $10,173,000, respectively. The lender
under the RJC Junior Note is RJC, which is one of the lenders under
the Senior Notes and is an affiliate of GGE. The note was
originally due and payable on December 31, 2017, but has been
extended to July 11, 2019 in connection with the May 2016
restructuring as described above. The assumed note payable is
subordinate to the Senior Notes, as well as any future secured
indebtedness from a lender with an aggregate principal amount of at
least $20,000,000. Should the Company repay the Senior Notes or
replace them with secured indebtedness from a lender with an
aggregate principal amount of at least $20,000,000, RJC agreed to
further amend the subordinated note payable to adjust the frequency
of interest payments or to eliminate the payments and replace them
with a single payment of the accrued interest to be paid at
maturity.
The
interest expense related to this note for the three and six months
ended June 30, 2017 and 2016 was $322,000 compared to $285,000 and
$630,000 compared to $561,000, respectively.
2016 RJC Subordinated Note Deferrals
On
January 29, 2016 and March 7, 2016, the Company entered into
agreements with RJC to defer until maturity the payment of interest
and principal due under the RJC Junior Note through March 31, 2016,
and reduce the interest rate to 12% per annum effective January 31,
2016.
The
deferral period was further extended on May 12, 2016, on which date
the Company entered into an Amendment No. 2 to Note and Security
Agreement with RJC (the “Second Amendment”). The
Company and RJC agreed to amend the RJC Junior Note to (i)
capitalize all accrued and unpaid interest under the RJC Junior
Note as of May 12, 2016, and add it to the note principal, making
the outstanding principal amount of the RJC Junior Note as of
June 12, 2016 equal to $9,379,432, (ii) extend the maturity
date from December 31, 2017 to July 11, 2019, (iii) provide that
all future interest accruing under the RJC Junior Note is deferred
until payable on the maturity date, with all future interest
amounts deferred being added to the principal on a monthly basis,
and (iv) subordinate the RJC Junior Note to the New Senior Notes.
The warrants previously granted to RJC on September 10, 2015 were
also amended to provide that such warrants are exercisable on a
cashless basis and to include a Blocker Provision (as defined
above).
As of
June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, interest deferred and
capitalized since May 12, 2016 under Amendment No. 2 to the Note
amounted to $1,424,000 and $794,000, respectively, and amounted to
total deferred interest of $630,000 since January 1, 2017. The
outstanding principal amount of the RJC Junior Note as of June 30,
2017 and December 31, 2016 was equal to $10,803,000 and
$10,173,000, respectively.
NOTE 9 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Office Lease
In June
2017, the Company entered into a second lease addendum to the
original lease agreement signed in July 2012 and the first lease
addendum signed in May 2016, as amended, which extends the term of
the lease by an additional one year, now ending in July 2018, for
its corporate office space located in Danville, California. The
obligation under this one-year lease extension for the remainder of
the lease through July 2018 is $58,000.
In
September 2014, the Company entered into a lease agreement for
office space located in Houston, Texas, with a term of five years
ending on March 1, 2020, which location served as the
Company’s operations office. Effective April 1, 2016, the
Company terminated this lease agreement and issued the landlord
70,000 shares of restricted common stock valued at $161,000, with
no further obligations due thereunder.
Leasehold Drilling Commitments
The
Company’s oil and gas leasehold acreage is subject to
expiration of leases if the Company does not drill and hold such
acreage by production or otherwise exercises options to extend such
leases, if available, in exchange for payment of additional cash
consideration. In the D-J Basin Asset, 6 net acres are due to
expire during the six months remaining in 2017 (409 net acres did
expire during the six months ended June 30, 2017), 561 net acres
expire in 2018, 129 net acres expire in 2019, 1,288 net acres
expire thereafter (net to our direct ownership interest only). The
Company plans to hold significantly all of this acreage through a
program of drilling and completing producing wells. If the Company
is not able to drill and complete a well before lease expiration,
the Company may seek to extend leases where able. As of June
30, 2017, the Company had fully impaired its unproved leasehold
costs based on management’s revised re-leasing
program.
Other Commitments
On
December 18, 2015, a complaint was filed against Red Hawk, our
wholly-owned subsidiary, in the District Court, County of Weld,
State of Colorado (Case Number: 2015CV31079) (the
“Court”), pursuant to which Liberty Oilfield Services,
LLC (“Liberty”) made various claims against Red Hawk in
connection with certain completion services provided by Liberty to
Red Hawk in November and December 2014, and accrued in accounts
payable as of December 31, 2014. The complaint alleges causes of
action for foreclosure of lien, breach of contract, quantum meruit
and account stated, and seeks payment of amounts allegedly owed,
pre- and post-judgment interest, attorneys’ fees and court
costs in connection with Red Hawk’s alleged failure to pay
Liberty approximately $2.9 million in fees due for completion
services provided by Liberty. On May 12, 2016, the Company and
Liberty entered into a settlement agreement, pursuant to which the
Company paid to Liberty $750,000 and issued 245,000 fully-vested
shares of the Company’s restricted common stock, valued at
$588,000, based on the market price on the grant date, as full
settlement of all amounts due for the services previously rendered,
for which the Company owed approximately $2.6 million. As a result
of the settlement, the Company recognized a gain on settlement of
payables of $1,282,000 during the year ended December 31,
2016.
Although
we may, from time to time, be involved in litigation and claims
arising out of our operations in the normal course of business, we
are not currently a party to any material legal proceeding. In
addition, we are not aware of any material legal or governmental
proceedings against us, or contemplated to be brought against
us.
As part
of its regular operations, the Company may become party to various
pending or threatened claims, lawsuits and administrative
proceedings seeking damages or other remedies concerning its
commercial operations, products, employees and other
matters.
Although
the Company provides no assurance about the outcome of these or any
other pending legal and administrative proceedings and the effect
such outcomes may have on the Company, the Company believes that
any ultimate liability resulting from the outcome of such
proceedings, to the extent not otherwise provided for or covered by
insurance, will not have a material adverse effect on the
Company’s financial condition or results of
operations.
NOTE 10 – SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
PREFERRED STOCK
At June
30, 2017, the Company was authorized to issue 100,000,000 shares of
preferred stock with a par value of $0.001 per share, of which
25,000,000 shares have been designated “Series A”
preferred stock.
On
February 23, 2015, the Company issued 66,625 Series A Preferred
shares to GGE as part of the consideration paid for the GGE
Acquired Assets. The grant date fair value of the Series A
Preferred stock was $28,402,000, based on a calculation using a
binomial lattice option pricing model. See Note 13
below.
The
66,625 shares of Series A Preferred stock issued to GGE were
originally contingently redeemable in 4 tranches as follows: (i)
15,000 shares in Tranche One; (ii) 15,000 shares in Tranche Two;
(iii) 11,625 shares in Tranche Three; and (iv) 25,000 shares in
Tranche Four.
In
addition, upon the original issuance of the 66,625 shares of Series
A Preferred stock issued to GGE, the Series A preferred stock had
the following features:
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a
liquidation preference senior to all of the Company’s common
stock equal to $400 per share;
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a
dividend, payable annually, of 10% of the liquidation
preference;
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voting
rights on all matters, with each share having 1 vote;
and
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a
conversion feature at GGE’s option which would allow the
Series A Preferred stock to be converted into shares of the
Company’s common stock on a 100:1 basis.
However,
following the October 7, 2015 approval of the Company shareholders
of the issuance of shares of common stock upon the conversion of
the Series A Preferred stock, the Series A Preferred features have
been modified as follows:
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the
Series A Preferred stock ceased accruing dividends and all accrued
and unpaid dividends have been automatically forfeited and
forgiven; and
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the
liquidation preference of the Series A Preferred stock has been
reduced to $0.001 per share from $400 per share.
GGE was
also subject to a lock-up provision that prohibited it from selling
the shares of common stock through the public markets for less than
$10 per share (on an as-converted to common stock basis) until
February 23, 2016, and subject to a provision which prohibits GGE
from converting shares of Series A Preferred stock if upon such
conversion it would beneficially own more than 9.99% of our
outstanding common stock or voting stock, subject to waiver by the
Company.
On
November 23, 2015, the Company lost the right to redeem any of the
Series A Preferred and the holder also lost the right to force any
redemption because, pursuant to the Series A Certificate of
Designations, the Company did not repurchase any shares within nine
months of the initial Series A issuance. Accordingly, the Series A
Preferred is no longer redeemable.
As of
June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, there were 66,625 shares of
the Company’s Series A Preferred outstanding, 10,000 shares
of which are now subject to cancellation and forfeiture as
described further in the Notes above due to RJC’s failure to
meet its RJC Funding obligations under the Amended
NPA.
COMMON STOCK
At June
30, 2017, the Company was authorized to issue 200,000,000 shares of
its common stock with a par value of $0.001 per share.
The
Company completed a 1-for-10 reverse split of its outstanding
common stock, which took effect as of market close on April 7,
2017. Before the split, the Company had approximately 54.9 million
shares of common stock issued and outstanding, and following the
reverse split, the Company now has approximately 5.49 million
shares of common stock issued and outstanding (subject to
adjustment for settlement of fractional shares which were rounded
up to the nearest whole share). All outstanding options, warrants,
preferred stock and other securities convertible into the Company's
common stock have been adjusted as a result of the reverse stock
split as required by the terms of such securities with a
proportional increase in the exercise price.
During
the six months ended June 30, 2017, the Company issued a total of
550,335 shares of common stock under the At Market Issuance Sales
Agreement with National Securities Corporation effective September
29, 2016 for gross proceeds of $587,000 and proceeds net of all
issuance costs equal to $495,000.
As of
June 30, 2017, there were 6,044,729 shares of common stock
outstanding.
Stock-based
compensation expense recorded related to the vesting of restricted
stock for the three and six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016 was
$214,000 compared to $438,000 and $462,000 compared to $809,000,
respectively. The remaining unamortized stock-based compensation
expense at June 30, 2017 related to restricted stock was
$139,000.
NOTE 11 – STOCK OPTIONS AND WARRANTS
Blast 2003 Stock Option Plan and 2009 Stock Incentive
Plan
Prior
to June 2005, we were known as Blast Energy Services, Inc.
(“Blast”). Under Blast’s 2003 Stock Option Plan
and 2009 Stock Incentive Plan, options to acquire 343 shares of
common stock were granted and remained outstanding and exercisable
as of June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016. No new options were
issued under these plans in 2017 or 2016.
2012 Incentive Plan
On July
27, 2012, the shareholders of the Company approved the 2012 Equity
Incentive Plan (the “2012 Incentive Plan”), which was
previously approved by the Board of Directors on June 27, 2012, and
authorizes the issuance of various forms of stock-based awards,
including incentive or non-qualified options, restricted stock
awards, performance shares and other securities as described in
greater detail in the 2012 Incentive Plan, to the Company’s
employees, officers, directors and consultants. The 2012 Incentive
Plan was amended on June 27, 2014, October 7, 2015 and December 28,
2016 to increase by 500,000, 300,000 and 500,000, respectively, the
number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the
Plan. A total of 1,500,000 shares of common stock are eligible to
be issued under the 2012 Incentive Plan as of June 30, 2017 and
December 31, 2016, of which 1,102,099 shares have been issued
as restricted stock, 396,700 shares are subject to issuance
upon exercise of issued and outstanding options,
and 1,201 remain available for future issuance as of June
30, 2017 and December 31, 2016.
PEDCO 2012 Equity Incentive Plan
As a
result of the July 27, 2012 merger by and between the Company,
Blast Acquisition Corp., a wholly-owned Nevada subsidiary of the
Company (“MergerCo”), and PEDCO pursuant to which
MergerCo was merged with and into PEDCO, with PEDCO continuing as
the surviving entity and becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of the
Company, in a transaction structured to qualify as a tax-free
reorganization (the “Merger”), the Company assumed the
PEDCO 2012 Equity Incentive Plan (the “PEDCO Incentive
Plan”), which was adopted by PEDCO on February 9, 2012. The
PEDCO Incentive Plan authorized PEDCO to issue an aggregate of
100,000 shares of common stock in the form of restricted shares,
incentive stock options, non-qualified stock options, share
appreciation rights, performance shares, and performance units
under the PEDCO Incentive Plan. As of June 30, 2017 and December
31, 2016, options to purchase an aggregate of 31,014 shares of the
Company’s common stock and 66,583 shares of the
Company’s restricted common stock have been granted under
this plan (all of which were granted by PEDCO prior to the closing
of the merger with the Company, with such grants being assumed by
the Company and remaining subject to the PEDCO Incentive Plan
following the consummation of the merger). The Company does not
plan to grant any additional awards under the PEDCO Incentive
Plan.
Options
The
Company did not grant any options during the six-month period
ending June 30, 2017.
During
the three and six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company
recognized stock option expense of $27,000 compared to $125,000 and
$55,000 compared to $256,000, respectively. The remaining amount of
unamortized stock options expense at June 30, 2017, was
$17,000.
The
intrinsic value of outstanding and exercisable options at June 30,
2017 was $-0-.
The
intrinsic value of outstanding and exercisable options at December
31, 2016 was $-0-.
Option
activity during the six months ended June 30, 2017
was:
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|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outstanding at
January 1, 2017
|
518,727
|
$5.00
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4.3
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Granted
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-
|
-
|
-
|
Exercised
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Forfeited and
cancelled
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
|
|
|
Outstanding at June
30, 2017
|
518,727
|
$5.00
|
3.8
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|
|
|
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Exercisable at June
30, 2017
|
451,614
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$5.38
|
3.7
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Warrants
During
the three and six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company
recognized warrant expense of $-0-. The remaining amount of
unrecognized warrant expense at June 30, 2017 was
$-0-.
The
intrinsic value of outstanding as well as exercisable warrants at
June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016 was
$-0-
and $-0-, respectively.
Warrant
activity during the six months ended June 30, 2017
was:
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Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
|
Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contract
Term
(#
years)
|
Outstanding at
January 1, 2017
|
1,256,618
|
$8.00
|
2.4
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Granted
|
-
|
-
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-
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Exercised
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Forfeited and
cancelled
|
(8,573)
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52.50
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-
|
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Outstanding at June
30, 2017
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1,248,045
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$7.70
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1.9
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Exercisable at June
30, 2017
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1,248,045
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$7.70
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1.9
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NOTE 12 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Note Amendments and Warrant Issuances to RJC
See
Note 8 above for a discussion of certain amendments to the Senior
Note and RJC Junior Note held by RJC.
See
Note 8 above for a discussion of certain warrants issued to RJC by
the Company in connection with the amendment of the Senior Note and
RJC Junior Note held by RJC.
GGE Acquisition
As a
result of the 66,625 restricted shares of the Company’s
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock issued to GGE which can be
converted into shares of the Company’s common stock on a
100:1 basis as described below in greater detail, and the
appointment by GGE of a representative to the Company’s Board
of Directors, GGE became a related party to the Company in 2015.
The following table reflects the related party amounts for GGE
included in the June 30, 2017 balance sheet (in
thousands):
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Accrued
expenses
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$1,201
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Long-term notes
payable - Secured Promissory Notes, net of discount of
$1,720,000
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14,615
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Long notes payable
– Subordinated
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10,803
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Total
liabilities
|
$26,619
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NOTE 13 – FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
As
defined in our accounting policy on the fair value of financial
instruments, financial assets and liabilities are classified based
on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value
measurement. The Company’s assessment of the significance of
a particular input to the fair value measurement requires judgment,
and may affect the valuation of the fair value of assets and
liabilities and their placement within the fair value hierarchy
levels.
The
following table sets forth by level within the fair value hierarchy
our financial instruments that were accounted for at fair value as
of June 30, 2017 (in thousands):
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Fair Value
Measurements At June 30, 2017
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Quoted Prices in
Active Markets for Identical Assets
|
Significant
Other Observable Inputs
|
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
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Series A
Convertible Preferred Stock
|
$-
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$-
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$28,402
|
$28,402
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The
Company believes there is no active market or significant other
market data for the Series A Preferred as it is held by a limited
number of closely held entities, therefore the Company has
determined it should use Level 3 inputs.
The
Series A Convertible Preferred was valued using the binomial
lattice model of which the significant assumptions were
expected term and expected volatility. The binomial lattice model
used a probablistic approach in which the Company assigned
percentages to each scenario based on the chance of repayment.
The percentages used were as follows: the non-repayment scenario
was assigned a 25% probability and the repayment scenario was
assigned a 75% probability.
NOTE 14 – INCOME TAXES
Due to
the Company’s net losses, there was no provision for income
taxes for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016.
The
difference between the income tax expense of zero shown in the
statement of operations and pre-tax book net loss times the federal
statutory rate of 34% is principally due to the increase in the
valuation allowance.
Deferred
income tax assets as of June 30, 2017 and December 31,
2016 are as follows (in thousands):
|
For
the
Six Months
Ended
June
30,
|
For
the
Year
Ended
December 31,
|
|
|
|
Deferred
Tax Assets (Liabilities)
|
|
|
Difference in
depreciation, depletion, and capitalization methods – oil and
natural gas properties
|
$(255)
|
$479
|
Net operating
losses
|
2,839
|
5,507
|
Impairment –
oil and natural gas properties
|
-
|
-
|
Other
|
27
|
438
|
Total deferred tax
asset
|
2,611
|
6,424
|
|
|
|
Less: valuation
allowance
|
(2,611)
|
(6,424)
|
Total deferred tax
assets
|
$-
|
$-
|
In
assessing the realization of deferred tax assets, management
considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or
all of deferred assets will not be realized. The ultimate
realization of the deferred tax assets is dependent upon the
generation of future taxable income during the periods in which
those temporary differences become deductible.
Based
on the available objective evidence, management believes it is more
likely than not that the net deferred tax assets will not be fully
realizable. Accordingly, management has applied a full valuation
allowance against its net deferred tax assets at June 30, 2017. The
net change in the total valuation allowance from December 31, 2016
to June 30, 2017 was a decrease of $3,813,000.
The
Company’s policy is to recognize interest and penalties
accrued on any unrecognized tax benefits as a component of income
tax expense. As of June 30, 2017, the Company did not have any
significant uncertain tax positions or unrecognized tax benefits.
The Company did not have associated accrued interest or penalties,
nor were there any interest expense or penalties recognized during
the period from February 9, 2011 (Inception) through June 30,
2017.
As of
June 30, 2017, the Company had net operating loss carryforwards
(“NOLs”) of approximately $82,290,000 and $49,922,000
(subject to limitations) for federal and state tax purposes. If not
utilized, these losses will begin to expire beginning in 2033 and
2023, respectively, for both federal and state
purposes.
Utilization
of NOL and tax credit carryforwards may be subject to a substantial
annual limitation due to ownership change limitations that may have
occurred or that could occur in the future, as required by the
Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”), as amended, as well
as similar state provisions. In general, an “ownership
change” as defined by the Code results from a transaction or
series of transactions over a three-year period resulting in an
ownership change of more than 50% of the outstanding stock of a
company by certain stockholders or public groups.
The
Company currently has tax returns open for examination by the
Internal Revenue Service for all years
since 2009.
NOTE 15 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
On July
24, 2017, the Company sold 40,000 shares of common stock under the
At Market Issuance Sales Agreement with National Securities
Corporation effective September 29, 2016, at a purchase price of
$0.90 per share, for gross proceeds of $36,000, to which an
underwriter’s fee of 3.0% was applied.
ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL
CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Forward-Looking Statements
Some of
the statements contained in this report discuss future
expectations, contain projections of results of operations or
financial condition, or state other “forward-looking”
information. The words “believe,”
“intend,”
“plan,”
“expect,”
“anticipate,”
“estimate,”
“project,”
“goal”
and similar expressions identify such a statement was made,
although not all forward-looking statements contain such
identifying words. These statements are subject to known and
unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause
the actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by
the statements. The forward-looking information is based on various
factors and is derived using numerous assumptions. Factors that
might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are
not limited to, the risks discussed in this and our other SEC
filings. We do not promise to or take any responsibility to update
forward-looking information to reflect actual results or changes in
assumptions or other factors that could affect those statements
except as required by law. Future events and actual results could
differ materially from those expressed in, contemplated by, or
underlying such forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking
statements may include statements about our:
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business
strategy;
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reserves;
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technology;
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cash
flows and liquidity;
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financial
strategy, budget, projections and operating results;
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oil and
natural gas realized prices;
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timing
and amount of future production of oil and natural
gas;
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availability
of oil field labor;
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the
amount, nature and timing of capital expenditures, including future
exploration and development costs;
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availability
and terms of capital;
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drilling
of wells;
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government
regulation and taxation of the oil and natural gas
industry;
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marketing
of oil and natural gas;
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exploitation
projects or property acquisitions;
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costs
of exploiting and developing our properties and conducting other
operations;
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general
economic conditions;
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competition
in the oil and natural gas industry;
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effectiveness
of our risk management activities;
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environmental
liabilities;
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counterparty
credit risk;
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developments
in oil-producing and natural gas-producing countries;
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future
operating results;
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future
acquisitions and combinations;
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planned
debt conversions and equity investment transactions;
and
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estimated
future reserves and the present value of such reserves; and plans,
objectives, expectations and intentions contained in this Quarterly
Report that are not historical.
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All
forward-looking statements speak only at the date of the filing of
this Quarterly Report. The reader should not place undue reliance
on these forward-looking statements. Although we believe that our
plans, intentions and expectations reflected in or suggested by the
forward-looking statements we make in this Quarterly Report are
reasonable, we provide no assurance that these plans, intentions or
expectations will be achieved. We disclose important factors that
could cause our actual results to differ materially from our
expectations under “Risk Factors” and
“Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations” and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and
our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 27,
2017. These cautionary statements qualify all forward-looking
statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf. We
do not undertake any obligation to update or revise publicly any
forward-looking statements except as required by law, including the
securities laws of the United States and the rules and regulations
of the SEC.
The
following is management’s discussion and analysis of the
significant factors that affected the Company’s financial
position and results of operations during the periods included in
the accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements. You
should read this in conjunction with the discussion under
“Item 7.
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
and Results of Operations” and the audited
consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016, and the
unaudited consolidated financial statements included in this
quarterly report.
Certain
abbreviations and oil and gas industry terms used throughout
this Quarterly Report are described and defined in greater detail
under “Glossary of
Oil And Natural Gas Terms” on page 31 of our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016, as
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 27,
2017.
Certain
capitalized terms used below but not otherwise defined, are defined
in, and shall be read along with the meanings given to such terms
in, the notes to the unaudited financial statements of the Company
for the three and six months ended June 30, 2017,
above.
Unless
the context requires otherwise, references to the
“Company,”
“we,”
“us,”
“our,”
“PEDEVCO” and
“PEDEVCO
Corp.” refer specifically to PEDEVCO Corp. and its
wholly and majority-owned subsidiaries.
In
addition, unless the context otherwise requires and for the
purposes of this report only:
● “Exchange
Act” refers to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended;
● “SEC”
or the “Commission” refers to the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission; and
● “Securities
Act” refers to the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
General Overview
We are
an energy company engaged primarily in the acquisition,
exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas
shale plays in the Denver-Julesberg Basin (“D-J Basin”) in Colorado,
which contains hydrocarbon bearing deposits in several formations,
including the Niobrara, Codell, Greenhorn, Shannon, J-Sand, and
D-Sand. As of March 31, 2017, we held approximately 11,129 net D-J
Basin acres located in Weld County, Colorado through our
wholly-owned operating subsidiary, Red Hawk Petroleum, LLC
(“Red
Hawk”), which asset we refer to as our
“D-J Basin
Asset.” As of June 30, 2017, we hold interests in 61
gross (17.4 net) wells in our D-J Basin Asset, of which 14 gross
(12.5 net) wells are operated by Red Hawk and currently producing,
25 gross (4.9 net) wells are non-operated and 22 wells have an
after-payout interest.
We have
listed below the total production volumes and total
revenue net to the Company for the three and six months ended
June 30, 2017 and 2016 attributable to our D-J Basin
Asset.
|
Three Months Ended
June 30, 2017
|
Three Months Ended
June 30, 2016
|
Oil volume
(BBL)
|
14,296
|
29,167
|
Gas volume
(MCF)
|
36,747
|
56,973
|
Volume equivalent
(BOE) (1)
|
20,421
|
38,663
|
Revenue
(000’s)
|
$812
|
$1,203
|
|
Six Months
Ended
June
30,
2017
|
Six Months
Ended
June
30,
2016
|
Oil volume
(BBL)
|
26,222
|
48,405
|
Gas volume
(MCF)
|
55,179
|
83,215
|
Volume equivalent
(BOE) (1)
|
35,419
|
62,274
|
Revenue
(000’s)
|
$1,546
|
$1,785
|
(1)
Assumes 6 Mcf of natural gas is equivalent to 1 barrel of
oil.
Strategy
We believe that the D-J Basin shale play represents among the most
promising unconventional oil and natural gas plays in the U.S. We
plan to opportunistically seek additional acreage proximate to our
currently held core acreage located in the Wattenberg and
Wattenberg Extension areas of Weld County, Colorado. Our strategy
is to be the operator, directly or through our subsidiaries and
joint ventures, in the majority of our acreage so we can dictate
the pace of development in order to execute our business plan. The
majority of our capital expenditure budget for the next twelve
months will be focused on the development of our D-J Basin Asset.
Our development plan calls for the development of approximately
$11.1 million in capital expenditures in order to drill and
complete, participate in the drilling and completion of, and/or
acquire approximately 3.3 net wells in our D-J Basin Asset in
2017. We expect our projected cash flow from operations
combined with our existing cash on hand, up to $2.0 million of
gross proceeds available from the issuance of our common shares
through National Securities Corporation under our current “at
the market offering” (of which $1.359 million remains
available for issuance, subject to limitation under applicable SEC
rules), and
approximately $18.0 million gross available under our
current senior debt facility will be sufficient to fund our
drilling plans and our operations in 2017, noting
that the advancement of all
or any portion of the approximately $18.0 million gross available
under our current senior debt facility is in the sole and absolute
discretion of the senior lenders and no senior lender is obligated
to fund all or any part of the requested funding.
In addition, we may seek
additional funding through asset sales, farm-out arrangements,
lines of credit, or public or private debt or equity financings to
fund additional 2017 capital expenditures and/or repay or refinance
a portion or all of our outstanding debt. If market conditions
are not conducive to raising additional funds, the Company may
choose to extend the drilling program and associated capital
expenditures further into 2018.
Recent Developments
Termination of GOM Merger and Pursuit of New Debt Conversion and
Equity Investment Transaction
On June 22, 2017, we terminated our then pending merger with GOM
Holdings, LLC (“GOM”), in order to pursue an alternative
transaction with a Hong Kong-based investor group as contemplated
pursuant to a non-binding term sheet entered into by us and the
investor group (the “Debt Conversion and
Equity Investment Transaction”), which term sheet includes a binding
90-day no-shop period expiring in late August 2017, during which
time we are prohibited from discussing or pursuing the merger with
GOM, while the parties conduct in-depth due diligence on one
another, prepare definitive documentation, and move to closing. The
merger with GOM was originally contemplated by that certain
Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization (the
“GOM Merger
Agreement”) with White
Hawk Energy, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger
Sub”), and GOM, dated
December 29, 2015, as amended. We have no further obligations or
termination liabilities due or owing to GOM under the GOM Merger
Agreement as a result of the termination of the transactions
contemplated thereunder.
On July 18, 2017, we announced that we successfully completed the
investor’s asset due diligence stage which was conducted by
Netherland Sewell & Associates, and were moving into corporate
and financial due diligence and the drafting of the definitive
investment documents with a view to closing the equity investment
concurrent with the restructuring of our debt no later than August
31, 2017.
The planned Debt Conversion and Equity Investment Transaction calls
for substantially all of our fixed debt, except for the
approximately $6 million senior secured position that matures May
2019 (which is contemplated to be modified to have more favorable
terms to the Company), to convert into 75% of the equity of the
Company, followed by an equity investment of $12 million to be made
by the new investor for approximately 51% of the common stock of
the Company. The result would be a company with only approximately
$6 million in debt and an estimated $70 million in assets,
including $12 million in cash. If the transaction is consummated as
planned, we would immediately increase our stockholders’
equity by approximately $70 million, remove most of the debt burden
on the Company, and provide the development capital needed to
execute the development plan of our current key assets. Assuming
the closing of these transactions, we believe the Company would
emerge properly capitalized and positioned to initially grow
through execution of our development plan, including increasing
cash flow, and then plan to seek to expand through accretive
acquisitions of oil and gas properties and operating companies,
funding permitted.
The Company has not yet entered into binding definitive agreements,
and the contemplated transaction remains subject to corporate and
financial due diligence, completion of documentation, NYSE American
approval, and final sign-off by the Company’s lenders, and
may not be consummated on terms and conditions acceptable to the
Company, its lenders and the investor, if at all.
Reverse Stock Split
On April 7, 2017, we completed a 1-for-10 reverse stock split of
our common stock, effective as of the close of business on April 7,
2017 and effective in the marketplace on April 10, 2017. The
reverse stock split was done pursuant to the authorization provided
by the Company’s stockholders at the Company’s December
28, 2016 annual meeting, and in order to meet the continued listing
standards of the NYSE American. As a result of the reverse stock
split, each 10 shares of outstanding common stock of the Company
was combined into one new share, with no change in authorized
shares or par value per share, and the number of common stock
shares outstanding was reduced from approximately 54.9 million
shares to approximately 5.49 million shares (prior to rounding).
Fractional shares resulting from the reverse stock split have been
rounded up to the nearest whole share. Proportional adjustments
were made to the conversion and exercise prices of the
Company’s outstanding convertible preferred stock, warrants
and stock options, and to the number of shares issued and issuable
under the Company’s stock incentive plans. The reverse stock
split did not affect any shareholder’s ownership percentage
of the Company’s common stock, except to the limited extent
that the reverse stock split would result in any shareholder owning
a fractional share. Following the reverse stock split, the common
stock of the Company now trades under a new CUSIP number, 70532Y
303. Except as otherwise noted, all share and per share amounts set
forth in this Quarterly Report have been adjusted to reflect the
1-for-10 reverse stock split of our common stock that was effected
on April 7, 2017.
At The Market Offering
On September 29, 2016, we entered into an At Market Issuance Sales
Agreement (the “Sales
Agreement”) with National
Securities Corporation (“NSC”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of National
Holdings Corporation (NasdaqCM:NHLD), pursuant to which the Company
may issue and sell shares of its common stock, having an aggregate
offering price of up to $2,000,000 (the “Shares”)
from time to time, as the Company deems prudent, through NSC (the
“Offering”),
with the maximum shares of common stock issuable in the Offering
further subject to limitation pursuant to General Instruction I.B.6
of Form S-3, which limits us, until such time, if ever, as our
public float exceeds $75 million, from selling securities in a
public primary offering under Form S-3 with a value exceeding more
than one-third of the aggregate market value of the common stock
held by non-affiliates of the Company every twelve months (the
so-called “Baby Shelf
Rules”). Upon delivery of
a placement notice and subject to the terms and conditions of the
Sales Agreement, NSC may sell the Shares by methods deemed to be an
“at the market offering” as defined in Rule 415
promulgated under the Securities Act. With the Company’s prior written approval,
NSC may also sell the Shares by any other method permitted by law,
including in negotiated transactions. The Company may elect not to
issue and sell any Shares in the Offering (other than those sold to
date as described below) and the Company or NSC may suspend or
terminate the offering of Shares upon notice to the other party and
subject to other conditions. NSC will act as sales agent on a
commercially reasonable efforts basis consistent with its normal
trading and sales practices and applicable state and federal law,
rules and regulations and the rules of the NYSE
American. The Company has agreed to pay NSC commissions for
its services in acting as agent in the sale of the Shares in the
amount equal to 3.0% of the gross sales price of all Shares sold
pursuant to the Agreement. The Company also agreed to pay various
expenses in connection with the offering, including reimbursing
$30,000 of NSC’s legal fees, which has been paid to date. The
Company has also agreed to provide NSC with customary
indemnification and contribution rights. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from
the offering, if any, to fund development and for working capital
and general corporate purposes, including general and
administrative purposes. The Company is not obligated to make any
sales of common stock under the Sales Agreement, and no assurance
can be given that the Company will sell any additional shares under
the Sales Agreement, or, if it does, as to the price or amount of
Shares that it will sell, or the dates on which any such sales will
take place. The Company has filed a final prospectus in connection
with such offering with the SEC (as part of a Form S-3 registration
statement).
On
April 24, 2017, the Company sold 872 shares of common stock under
the Sales Agreement and the prospectus associated therewith, at a
purchase price of approximately $1.05 per share, for an aggregate
purchase price of $1,000, to which an underwriter’s fee of
3.0% was applied.
On May 15, 2017, the Company sold 369,603 shares of common stock
under the Sales Agreement and the prospectus associated therewith,
at a purchase price of approximately $1.12 per share, for an
aggregate purchase price of $415,000, to which an
underwriter’s fee of 3.0% was applied.
On June 27, 2017, the Company sold 179,860 shares of common stock
under the Sales Agreement and the prospectus associated therewith,
at a purchase price of approximately $1.05 per share, for an
aggregate purchase price of $189,000, to which an
underwriter’s fee of 3.0% was applied.
On July 24, 2017, the Company sold 40,000 shares of common stock
under the Sales Agreement and the prospectus associated therewith,
at a purchase price of approximately $0.90 per share, for an
aggregate purchase price of $36,000, to which an
underwriter’s fee of 3.0% was applied.
No other securities have been sold under the Sales Agreement as of
the date of this filing.
Critical Accounting Policies
The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles requires us to make judgments,
estimates and assumptions in the preparation of our consolidated
financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could
differ from those estimates. We believe there have been no
significant changes in our critical accounting policies as
discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2016.
Results of Operations and Financial Condition
All of
the numbers presented below are rounded numbers and should be
considered as approximate.
Comparison of the Three Months Ended June 30, 2017 with the Three
Months Ended June 30, 2016
Oil and Gas Revenue. For the three months ended
June 30, 2017, we generated a total of $812,000 in revenues from
the sale of oil and gas, compared to $1,203,000 for the three
months ended June 30, 2016. The decrease of $391,000 was primarily
due to a decline in production from our oil and gas assets. This
decline was a result of a natural decline in well production, and
wells being shut-in periodically.
Lease Operating Expenses. For the three months ended
June 30, 2017, lease operating expenses associated with our oil and
gas properties were $397,000, compared to $414,000 for the
three months ended June 30, 2016. The decrease of $17,000 was
primarily due to lower variable lease operating expenses associated
with the lower volume resulting from the natural decline in well
production and periodic wells being shut-in.
Exploration Expense. For the three months ended June
30, 2017, exploration expense was $-0-, compared to $86,000
for the three months ended June 30, 2016. The decrease of $86,000
was primarily due to no exploration activity undertaken by the
Company in the current period.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. For the three
months ended June 30, 2017, selling, general and administrative
(“SG&A”) expenses were $694,000, compared to
$1,305,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2016. The decrease
of $611,000 was primarily due to decreases in stock compensation
expense, as well as cost reductions in various areas as shown in
the table below. The components of SG&A expenses for the three
months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, are summarized below (amounts
in thousands):
|
For the Three
Months Ended
|
|
|
|
|
(in
thousands)
|
|
|
|
Payroll and related
costs
|
$267
|
$241
|
$26
|
Stock-based
compensation expense
|
241
|
724
|
(483)
|
Legal
fees
|
21
|
35
|
(14)
|
Accounting and
other professional fees
|
93
|
157
|
(64)
|
Insurance
|
27
|
25
|
2
|
Travel and
entertainment
|
1
|
1
|
-
|
Bad debt
expense
|
-0-
|
50
|
(50)
|
Office rent,
communications and other
|
44
|
72
|
(28)
|
Total selling,
general and administrative expenses
|
$694
|
$1,305
|
$(611)
|
Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization and Accretion
(“DD&A”). For the three months ended
June 30, 2017, DD&A costs were $873,000, compared to $522,000
for the three months ended June 30, 2016. The $351,000 increase was
primarily the result of higher depletion rates in the current
period due to changes in the reserve values relative to the same
period in the prior year.
Gain on Settlement of Payables. For the three months
ended June 30, 2017, gain on settlement of payables was $-0-
compared to a gain of $1,282,000 for the three months ended June
30, 2016. The gain in 2016 was related to a Settlement
Agreement entered into with Liberty Oilfield Services, LLC
(“Liberty”) for vendor obligations that was recorded in
the three months ended June 30, 2016.
Other Expense. For the three months ended June 30,
2017, interest expense was $3,162,000, compared to $3,592,000 for
the three months ended June 30, 2016. The decrease in other expense
was primarily due to lower debt amortization interest expense
during the three months ended June 30, 2017 compared to the prior
year’s period.
Net Loss. For the three months ended June 30, 2017, net
loss was $4,314,000, compared to a net loss of $3,434,000 for the
three months ended June 30, 2016. The increase in net loss of
$880,000 was primarily due to the one-time gain on settlement of
payables recorded during the three months ended June 30, 2016 and
the decrease in revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2017,
compared to 2016.
Comparison of the Six Months Ended June 30, 2017 with the Six
Months Ended June 30, 2016
Oil and Gas Revenue. For the six months ended June 30,
2017, we generated a total of $1,546,000 in revenues from the sale
of oil and gas, compared to $1,785,000 for the six months ended
June 30, 2016. The decrease of $239,000 was primarily due to a
decline in production from our oil and gas assets. This decline was
a result of a natural decline in well production, and wells being
shut-in periodically.
Lease Operating Expenses. For the six months ended June
30, 2017, lease operating expenses associated with our oil and gas
properties were $727,000, compared to $678,000 for the six
months ended June 30, 2016. The increase of $49,000 was primarily
due to workover expenses incurred in the current
period.
Exploration Expense. For the six months ended June 30,
2017, exploration expense was $-0-, compared to $203,000 for
the six months ended June 30, 2016. The decrease of $203,000 was
due to no exploration activity undertaken by the Company in the
current period.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. For the six
months ended June 30, 2017, SG&A expenses were $1,494,000,
compared to $2,721,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2016. The
decrease of $1,227,000 was primarily due to a decrease in stock
compensation expense, as well as cost reductions in various areas
as shown in the table below. The components of SG&A expenses
for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, are summarized
below (amounts in thousands):
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in
thousands)
|
|
|
|
Payroll and related
costs
|
$548
|
$792
|
$(244)
|
Stock-based
compensation expense
|
517
|
1,226
|
(709)
|
Legal
fees
|
45
|
50
|
(5)
|
Accounting and
other professional fees
|
201
|
263
|
(62)
|
Insurance
|
54
|
50
|
4
|
Travel and
entertainment
|
2
|
9
|
(7)
|
Bad debt expense
(recovery)
|
(25)
|
156
|
(181)
|
Office rent,
communications and other
|
152
|
175
|
(23)
|
Total selling,
general and administrative expenses
|
$1,494
|
$2,721
|
$(1,227)
|
Depreciation, Depletion, Amortization and
Accretion. For the six months ended June 30, 2017,
DD&A costs were $1,553,000, compared to $1,799,000 for the six
months ended June 30, 2016. The $246,000 decrease was primarily the
result of lower production volumes due to a natural decline in well
production.
Gain on Settlement of Payables. For the six months
ended June 30, 2017, gain on settlement of payables was $-0-
compared to a gain of $1,282,000 for the six months ended June 30,
2016. The gain in 2016 was related to a Settlement Agreement
entered into with Liberty for vendor obligations that was recorded
in the six months ended June 30, 2016.
Other Income (Expense). For the six months ended June
30, 2017, interest expense was $6,258,000, compared to $7,678,000
for the six months ended June 30, 2016. The decrease in other
expense was primarily due to due to lower debt amortization
interest expense during the six months ended June 30, 2017 compared
to the prior year’s period.
Net Loss. For the six months ended June 30, 2017, net
loss was $8,486,000, compared to a net loss of $10,012,000 for the
six months ended June 30, 2016. The decrease in net loss of
$1,526,000 was primarily due to lower SG&A and lower interest
expense in the current period, offset somewhat by the one-time gain
on settlement of payables recorded during the six months ended June
30, 2016.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We
expect to incur substantial expenses and generate significant
operating losses as we continue to explore for and develop our oil
and natural gas prospects, and as we opportunistically invest in
additional oil and natural gas properties, develop our discoveries
which we determine to be commercially viable and incur expenses
related to operating as a public company and compliance with
regulatory requirements.
Our
future financial condition and liquidity will be impacted by, among
other factors, the success of our exploration and appraisal
drilling program, the number of commercially viable oil and natural
gas discoveries made and the quantities of oil and natural gas
discovered, the speed with which we can bring such discoveries to
production, and the actual cost of exploration, appraisal and
development of our prospects.
Our
current liquidity uses and debt service requirements are managed
under the terms of our senior debt facility whereby we are subject
to a cash sweep of our net revenues after operating costs and funds
raised pursuant to our “at the market offering”,
described below. The debt service arrangement provides for budgeted
general and administrative cost allowance of $150,000 each month
which we believe is sufficient to meet our foreseeable recurring
costs. Such financing arrangement is sufficient to manage
recurring cash requirements but provides no additional funds for
extraordinary items, execution of our capital expenditure program
or the repayment of outstanding debt obligations other than our
senior debt facility. Any equity funds we are able to raise
through offerings is not subject to the cash sweep and is not
subject to payment to or approval by the senior lenders. If we
are able to complete the anticipated Debt Conversion and Equity
Investment Transaction our senior lenders have verbally agreed to
remove the cash sweep moving forward.
Subject
to the availability of the additional funding, which is not
currently in place and requires approval of our senior lenders in
the event of a debt offering, we plan to make capital expenditures,
excluding capitalized interest and general and administrative
expense, of up to approximately $11.1 million during the period
from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 in order to achieve
our plans. We expect our projected cash flow from operations
combined with our existing cash on hand, up to $2.0 million of
gross proceeds available from the issuance of our common shares
through NSC under our current “at the market offering”
(of which $1.359 million remains available for issuance, subject to
limitation under the SEC’s “Baby Shelf Rules”),
and the approximately $18.0 million available under our
current senior debt facility will be sufficient to fund our
drilling plans and our operations in 2017, noting that the advancement of all or any portion of the
approximately $18.0 million gross available under our current
senior debt facility is in the sole and absolute discretion of the
senior lenders and no senior lender is obligated to fund all or any
part of the requested funding. In addition, we may seek
additional funding through asset sales, farm-out arrangements,
lines of credit, or public or private debt or equity financings to
fund additional 2017 capital expenditures and/or repay or refinance
a portion or all of our outstanding debt.
Our
capital budget may be adjusted as business conditions warrant. The
amount, timing and allocation of capital expenditures are largely
discretionary and within our control. If oil and natural gas prices
continue to decline or fail to improve or costs increase
significantly, we could defer a significant portion of our budgeted
capital expenditures until later periods to prioritize capital
projects that we believe have the highest expected returns and
potential to generate near-term cash flows. We routinely monitor
and adjust our capital expenditures in response to changes in
prices, availability of financing, drilling and acquisition costs,
industry conditions, timing of regulatory approvals, availability
of rigs, success or lack of success in drilling activities,
contractual obligations, internally generated cash flows and other
factors both within and outside our control.
The
Company maintains additional sources of liquidity including
$891,000 of cash on-hand, and existing receivables of $416,000. If
we are successful in consummating our anticipated Debt Conversion and Equity Investment Transaction
(described above), we would convert all but approximately $6
million of our fixed debt into equity, modify the terms of the
surviving debt to be more favorable to us, and receive an aggregate
of $12 million in additional equity financing, which funds would be
used to fund our drilling plans after payment of
transaction-related fees and expenses.
As of
June 30, 2017, the Company had a working capital deficit of $1.7
million. We plan to manage this working capital deficit through the
use of our existing cash resources and collections of accounts
receivable as well as by managing payment terms with vendors, as
necessary. This deficit includes revenue held in suspense, unpaid
vacation compensation, estimated 2018 taxes, PIK interest,
principal and other payables that will not require payment over the
next 12 months, and we believe that liabilities due within the next
12 months should be covered by our $1.4 million in current
assets.
We
acknowledge that adequate funds may not be available when needed or
may not be available on favorable terms. If we need to raise funds
in the future by issuing equity securities (including in connection
with the planned Debt Conversion and
Equity Investment Transaction and additional sales under the
“at the market offering”), dilution to existing
shareholders will result, and such securities may have rights,
preferences, and privileges senior to those of our common stock. If
funding is insufficient at any time in the future and we are unable
to generate sufficient revenue from new business arrangements, to
complete planned acquisitions or operations, our results of
operations and the value of our securities could be adversely
affected.
Financial Summary
We had
total current assets of $1.4 million as of June 30, 2017, including
cash of $0.9 million, compared to total current assets of $1.3
million as of December 31, 2016, including a cash balance of $0.7
million.
We had
total assets of $57.3 million as of June 30, 2017 compared to $58.8
million as of December 31, 2016. Included in total assets as of
June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, were $55.9 million and $57.4
million, respectively, of proved oil and gas properties subject to
amortization. We have no unproved oil and gas properties not
subject to amortization.
We had
total liabilities of $66.8 million as of June 30, 2017, including
current liabilities of $3.1 million, compared to total liabilities
of $60.7 million as of December 31, 2016, including current
liabilities of $3.3 million.
We
had negative working capital of $1.7 million, a total
shareholders’ deficit of $9.4 million and a total accumulated
deficit of $110.2 million as of June 30, 2017, compared to negative
working capital of $2.0 million, a total shareholders’
deficit of $2.0 million and a total accumulated deficit of $101.7
million as of December 31, 2016.
See
also the description of the Company’s accounts receivable
(Note 6), Notes Payable (Note 8), and related party transactions
(Note 12), as described in the footnotes to the Company’s
consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1, of
this report, which are incorporated herein by reference, for more
details regarding the Company’s balance sheet line
items.
Cash Flows From Operating Activities. We had net cash
used in operating activities of $233,000 for the six months
ended June 30, 2017, which was a decrease in cash used of
$6,404,000 compared to the prior year’s period of $6,637,000.
This decrease was primarily due to a lower net loss and favorable
changes in accounts payable and accrued expenses during the current
period compared to the prior period.
Cash Flows From Investing Activities. We had no
net cash used by investing activities for the six months ended
June 30, 2017, which was a decrease in cash used of $64,000
compared to the prior year’s period of $64,000. Net cash used
by investing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2016 was
due to $64,000 of drilling costs paid.
Cash Flows From Financing Activities. We had net cash
provided by financing activities of $465,000 for the six months
ended June 30, 2017, compared to net cash provided by financing
activities of $6,221,000 for the prior year’s
period. The change from
the prior period was primarily due to the proceeds of $6,295,000
from notes payable collected in the prior period.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements.
In
August 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board
(“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update
(“ASU”) 2014-15, Disclosure of Uncertainties about an
Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern. The
new standard requires management to assess the company’s
ability to continue as a going concern. Disclosures are required if
there is substantial doubt as to the Company’s continuation
as a going concern within one year after the issue date of
financial statements. The standard provides guidance for making the
assessment, including consideration of management’s plans
which may alleviate doubt regarding the Company’s ability to
continue as a going concern. ASU 2014-15 is effective for years
ending after December 15, 2016. The Company adopted this standard
for the three and six months ended June 30, 2017 and the year ended
December 31, 2016, and management has concluded that there is
substantial doubt as to the Company’s continuation as a going
concern within one year after the issue date of the financial
statements.
In May
2014, the FASB issued a comprehensive new revenue recognition
standard that will supersede nearly all existing revenue
recognition guidance under U.S. GAAP. The standard’s core
principle (issued as ASU 2014-09 by the FASB), is that a company
will recognize revenue when it transfers promised goods or services
to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which
the company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or
services. These may include identifying performance obligations in
the contract, estimating the amount of variable consideration to
include in the transaction price and allocating the transaction
price to each separate performance obligation. The new guidance
must be adopted using either a full retrospective approach for all
periods presented in the period of adoption or a modified
retrospective approach. In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU No.
2015-14, which defers the effective date of ASU 2014-09 by one
year, and would allow entities the option to early adopt the new
revenue standard as of the original effective date. This ASU is
effective for public reporting companies for interim and annual
periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company has
evaluated the adoption of the standard and due to the nature of the
Company’s oil and gas revenue agreements method there will be
no impact of the standard on its consolidated financial
statements.
In
April 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-10, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers:
Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing”
(topic 606). In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-08,
“Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Principal versus
Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross verses Net)”
(topic 606). These amendments provide additional clarification and
implementation guidance on the previously issued ASU 2014-09,
“Revenue from Contracts with Customers”. The amendments
in ASU 2016-10 provide clarifying guidance on materiality of
performance obligations; evaluating distinct performance
obligations; treatment of shipping and handling costs; and
determining whether an entity's promise to grant a license provides
a customer with either a right to use an entity's intellectual
property or a right to access an entity's intellectual property.
The amendments in ASU 2016-08 clarify how an entity should identify
the specified good or service for the principal versus agent
evaluation and how it should apply the control principle to certain
types of arrangements. The adoption of ASU 2016-10 and ASU 2016-08
is to coincide with an entity's adoption of ASU 2014-09, which
would be adopted for interim and annual reporting periods beginning
after December 15, 2017. The Company has evaluated the
adoption of the standard and due to the nature of the
Company’s oil and gas revenue agreements method there will be
no impact of the standard on its consolidated financial
statements.
In
February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, a new lease standard
requiring lessees to recognize lease assets and lease liabilities
for most leases classified as operating leases under previous U.S.
GAAP. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. The Company will
be required to use a modified retrospective approach for leases
that exist or are entered into after the beginning of the earliest
comparative period in the financial statements. The Company has
evaluated the adoption of the standard and due to only one
operating lease currently in place there will be minimal impact of
the standard on its consolidated financial statements.
In
April 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, “Compensation – Stock
Compensation” (topic 718). The FASB issued this update
to improve the accounting for employee share-based payments and
affect all organizations that issue share-based payment awards to
their employees. Several aspects of the accounting for share-based
payment award transactions are simplified, including: (a) income
tax consequences; (b) classification of awards as either equity or
liabilities; and (c) classification on the statement of cash flows.
The updated guidance is effective for annual periods beginning
after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those
fiscal years. Early adoption of the update is permitted.
The Company has evaluated the adoption of the standard
and due to the nature of the Company’s employee share-based
payments there will be no impact of the standard on its
consolidated financial statements.
In
August 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15, “Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230):
Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash
Payments” (“ASU 2016-15”). ASU 2016-15
will make eight targeted changes to how cash receipts and cash
payments are presented and classified in the statement of cash
flows. ASU 2016-15 is effective for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2017. The new standard will require adoption on a
retrospective basis unless it is impracticable to apply, in which
case it would be required to apply the amendments prospectively as
of the earliest date practicable. The Company is currently in the
process of evaluating the impact of ASU 2016-15 on its consolidated
financial statements.
In
November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, “Statement of Cash Flows (Topic
230)”, requiring that the statement of cash flows
explain the change in the total cash, cash equivalents, and amounts
generally described as restricted cash or restricted cash
equivalents. This guidance is effective for fiscal years, and
interim reporting periods therein, beginning after December 15,
2017 with early adoption permitted. The provisions of this guidance
are to be applied using a retrospective approach which requires
application of the guidance for all periods presented. The Company
is currently evaluating the impact of the new
standard.
The
Company does not expect the adoption of any recently issued
accounting pronouncements to have a significant impact on its
financial position, results of operations, or cash
flows.
Subsequent Events. The Company has evaluated all
transactions through the date the consolidated financial statements
were issued for subsequent event disclosure
consideration.
ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET
RISK
Pursuant
to Item 305(e) of Regulation S-K (§ 229.305(e)), the Company
is not required to provide the information required by this Item as
it is a “smaller
reporting company,” as defined by Rule
229.10(f)(1).
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Disclosure
controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information
required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under
the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported,
within the time period specified in the SEC’s rules and forms
and is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s
management, as appropriate, in order to allow timely decisions in
connection with required disclosure.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Under
the supervision and with the participation of our management,
including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer,
we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and
operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in
Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act as of the end
of the period covered by this Quarterly Report. Based on this
evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
concluded as of June 30, 2017, that our disclosure controls and
procedures were not effective.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There
were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting
during the three months ended June 30, 2017, that have materially
affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our
internal control over financial reporting, including any corrective
actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material
weaknesses.
PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Although we may, from time to time, be involved in litigation and
claims arising out of our operations in the normal course of
business, we are not currently a party to any material legal
proceeding. In addition, we are not aware of any material legal or
governmental proceedings against us, or contemplated to be brought
against us.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
There
have been no material changes from the risk factors previously
disclosed in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2016, filed with the Commission on March
27, 2017, other than as described below, and investors are
encouraged to review such risk factors in the Form 10-K, prior to
making an investment in the Company.
We have not entered into any definitive agreements related to the
Debt Conversion and Equity Investment, the planned transaction is
subject to various risks and closing conditions, and the planned
transaction may not occur on a timely basis, if at
all.
We
have not yet entered into any binding definitive agreements related
to the Debt Conversion and Equity Investment, and the contemplated
transaction remains subject to corporate and financial due
diligence, completion of documentation, NYSE American approval,
final sign-off by the Company’s lenders, and other closing
and post-closing conditions to be reflected in definitive
agreements, which are currently in the process of being drafted.
There can be no assurance that the contemplated transaction will be
consummated on terms and conditions acceptable to the Company, its
lenders and the investor, if at all.
We require significant additional financing to pay our outstanding
liabilities and in the event we cannot raise additional funding or
undertake a business combination transaction prior to the due date
of such liabilities, we may be forced to sell assets, our debtors
may foreclose on our assets or we may be forced to seek bankruptcy
protection.
We
currently have significant indebtedness and our debt agreements
require us to use a significant portion of our revenues to pay down
our outstanding debt. Due to the nature of oil and gas interests,
i.e., that rates of production generally decline over time as oil
and gas reserves are depleted, if we are unable to drill additional
wells and develop our reserves, either because we are unable to
raise sufficient funding for such development activities, or
otherwise, or in the event we are unable to acquire additional
operating properties, we believe that our revenues will continue to
decline over time. Furthermore, in the event we are unable to raise
additional funding in the future, we will not be able to
participate in the drilling of additional wells, will not be able
to complete other drilling and/or workover activities, and may not
be able to make required payments on our outstanding liabilities.
We are currently working to complete the Debt Conversion and Equity
Investment, which we believe will provide us additional capital,
but in the event we are unable to raise necessary funding in the
future or complete a business combination or similar transaction in
the near term, we may not be able to pay our debts (or make
required amortization and principal payments on such debts) as they
come due or continue to drill wells and/or participate in their
drilling.
If
this were to happen, we may be forced to scale back our business
plan, sell or liquidate assets to satisfy outstanding debts (or our
creditors may undertake a foreclosure of such assets in order to
satisfy amounts we owe to such creditors, with or without our
assistance) and/or take other steps which may include seeking
bankruptcy protection, all of which could result in the value of
our outstanding securities declining in value or becoming
worthless.
Failure to complete the Debt Conversion and Equity Investment could
negatively impact our stock price and future business and financial
results.
If
the Debt Conversion and Equity Investment is not completed, our
ongoing business may be adversely affected and we would be subject
to a number of risks, including the following:
●
we
will not realize the benefits expected from the Debt Conversion and
Equity Investment, including a potentially enhanced competitive and
financial position, expansion of assets and therefore
opportunities, and will instead be subject to all the risks we
currently face as an independent company;
●
we may
experience negative reactions from the financial markets and our
partners and employees; and
●
matters relating
to the Debt Conversion and Equity Investment (including integration
planning) may require substantial commitments of time and resources
by our management, which would otherwise have been devoted to other
opportunities that may have been beneficial to us as an independent
company.
Failure to consummate the Debt Conversion and Equity Investment
transaction could negatively impact the Company.
In
the event the Debt Conversion and Equity Investment transaction is
not consummated, our business may be adversely impacted by our
failure to pursue other beneficial opportunities due to the focus
of management on the Debt Conversion and Equity Investment, and the
market price of our common stock might decline to the extent that
the current market price reflects a market assumption that the Debt
Conversion and Equity Investment will be completed. If the Debt
Conversion and Equity Investment transaction is not consummated and
our board of directors seeks another transaction or business
combination, our stockholders cannot be certain that we will be
able to find a party willing to offer equivalent or more attractive
consideration than the consideration provided for by the Debt
Conversion and Equity Investment.
We will be subject to business uncertainties and contractual
restrictions while the Debt Conversion and Equity Investment is
pending.
Uncertainty
about the effect of the Debt Conversion and Equity Investment on
employees and partners may have an adverse effect on us. These
uncertainties may impair our ability to attract, retain and
motivate key personnel until the Debt Conversion and Equity
Investment is completed, and could cause partners and others that
deal with us to seek to change existing business relationships,
cease doing business with us or cause potential new partners to
delay doing business with us until the Debt Conversion and Equity
Investment has been successfully completed. Retention of certain
employees may be challenging during the pendency of the Debt
Conversion and Equity Investment, as certain employees may
experience uncertainty about their future roles or compensation
structure. If key employees depart because of issues relating to
the uncertainty and difficulty of integration or a desire not to
remain with the business, our business following the Debt
Conversion and Equity Investment could be negatively impacted. In
addition, the non-binding letter of intent entered into by the
Company and the equity investor in connection with the Debt
Conversion and Equity Investment Agreement includes a binding
90-day no-shop provision expiring in late August 2017 which
restricts us from discussing or pursuing certain merger, sale, and
acquisition transactions, and transactions involving the conversion
of the Company’s debt and raising of equity capital with
other parties. These restrictions may prevent us from pursuing
attractive business opportunities that may arise prior to the
completion of the Debt Conversion and Equity
Investment.
Future sales of our common stock could cause our stock price to
decline.
If our shareholders sell substantial amounts of
our common stock in the public market, the market price of our
common stock could decrease significantly. The perception in the
public market that our shareholders might sell shares of our common
stock could also depress the market price of our common stock. We
are permitted to issue securities pursuant to a
“shelf”
registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-214415) that we
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 20,
2016, and which was declared effective on January 17, 2017. To
date, an aggregate of approximately $17.5 million in securities
have been sold by us under the prior Form S-3 which the December
2016 Form S-3 replaced. We have also entered into an At Market
Issuance Sales Agreement, or sales agreement, with National
Securities Corporation, or NSC, relating to up to $2.0 million of
shares of our common stock which may be offered from time to time
in “at the market
offerings” (of
which $1.359 million remains available for issuance, subject to
limitation under the SEC’s “Baby Shelf Rules”)
and filed a final prospectus in
connection with such offering with the SEC. To date, we have sold
590,335 shares of our common stock to date in the offering under
the At Market Issuance Sales Agreement and the prospectus
associated therewith. Additionally, if we consummate the Debt
Conversion and Equity Investment, and/or if our existing
shareholders sell, or indicate an intention to sell, substantial
amounts of our common stock in the public market, the trading price
of our common stock could decline significantly. The market price
for shares of our common stock may drop significantly when such
securities are sold in the public markets. A decline in the price
of shares of our common stock might impede our ability to raise
capital through the issuance of additional shares of our common
stock or other equity securities.
ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF
PROCEEDS
None.
Use of Proceeds From Sale of Registered Securities
Our Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Reg. No. 333-214415) in
connection with the potential sale by us of up to $100 million in
securities (common stock, preferred stock, warrants and units),
subject to limitations under the Baby Shelf Rules, was declared
effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 17,
2017.
On September 29, 2016, we entered into an At Market Issuance Sales
Agreement (the “Sales
Agreement”) with National
Securities Corporation (“NSC”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of National
Holdings Corporation (NasdaqCM:NHLD), pursuant to which the Company
may issue and sell shares of its common stock, having an aggregate
offering price of up to $2,000,000 (the “Shares”)
from time to time, as the Company deems prudent, through NSC (the
“Offering”)
(of which $1.359 million remains available for issuance, subject to
limitation under the SEC’s “Baby Shelf
Rules”). Upon delivery of a
placement notice and subject to the terms and conditions of the
Sales Agreement, NSC may sell the Shares by methods deemed to be an
“at the market offering” as defined in Rule 415
promulgated under the Securities Act.
With the Company’s prior written approval, NSC may also sell
the Shares by any other method permitted by law, including in
negotiated transactions. The Company may elect not to issue and
sell any additional Shares in the Offering and the Company or NSC
may suspend or terminate the offering of Shares upon notice to the
other party and subject to other conditions. NSC will act as sales
agent on a commercially reasonable efforts basis consistent with
its normal trading and sales practices and applicable state and
federal law, rules and regulations and the rules of the NYSE
American.
The Company has agreed to pay NSC commissions for its services in
acting as agent in the sale of the Shares in the amount equal to
3.0% of the gross sales price of all Shares sold pursuant to the
Agreement. The Company also paid various expenses in connection
with the offering, including reimbursing $30,000 of NSC’s
legal fees, which has been paid to date. The Company has also
agreed to provide NSC with customary indemnification and
contribution rights.
The Company has used, and intends to use, the net proceeds from the
offering to fund development and for working capital and general
corporate purposes, including general and administrative purposes.
The Company is not obligated to make any sales of common stock
under the Sales Agreement, and no assurance can be given that the
Company will sell any additional shares under the Sales Agreement
(other than as described below), or, if it does, as to the price or
amount of Shares that it will sell, or the dates on which any such
sales will take place.
The Company has filed a final prospectus in connection with such
offering with the SEC (as part of the Form S-3 registration
statement).
On April 24, 2017, the Company sold 872 shares of common stock
under the Sales Agreement and the prospectus associated therewith,
at a purchase price of approximately $1.05 per share, for an
aggregate purchase price of $1,000, to which an underwriter’s
fee of 3.0% was applied.
On May 15, 2017, the Company sold 369,603 shares of common stock
under the Sales Agreement and the prospectus associated therewith,
at a purchase price of approximately $1.12 per share, for an
aggregate purchase price of $415,000, to which an
underwriter’s fee of 3.0% was applied.
On June 27, 2017, the Company sold 179,860 shares of common stock
under the Sales Agreement and the prospectus associated therewith,
at a purchase price of approximately $1.05 per share, for an
aggregate purchase price of $189,000, to which an
underwriter’s fee of 3.0% was applied.
On July 24, 2017, the Company sold 40,000 shares of common stock
under the Sales Agreement and the prospectus associated therewith,
at a purchase price of approximately $0.90 per share, for an
aggregate purchase price of $36,000, to which an
underwriter’s fee of 3.0% was applied.
No other securities have been sold under the Sales Agreement as of
the date of this filing.
No payments for our expenses will be made in connection with the
offering described above directly or indirectly to (i) any of our
directors, officers or their associates, (ii) any person(s) owning
10% or more of any class of our equity securities or (iii) any of
our affiliates. We plan to use the net proceeds from the offering
as described in our final prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to
Rule 424(b).
There has been no material change in the planned use of proceeds
from our offering as described in our final prospectuses filed with
the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b).
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
None.
ITEM 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
None.
ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not
Applicable.
ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION
Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement
On June 22, 2017, we terminated our then pending merger with GOM,
in order to pursue an alternative transaction with a Hong
Kong-based investor group as contemplated pursuant to a non-binding
term sheet entered into by us and the investor group, which term
sheet includes a binding 90-day no-shop period expiring in
late August 2017, during which time we are prohibited from
discussing or pursuing the merger with GOM, while the parties
conduct in-depth due diligence on one another, prepare definitive
documentation, and move to closing. The merger with GOM was
originally contemplated by the GOM Merger Agreement with White Hawk Energy, LLC, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Company and GOM, dated December 29, 2015, as
amended. We have no further obligations or termination liabilities
due or owing to GOM under the GOM Merger Agreement as a result of
the termination of the transactions contemplated
thereunder.
ITEM 6. EXHIBITS
See the
Exhibit Index following the signature page to this Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q for a list of exhibits filed or furnished with this
report, which Exhibit Index is incorporated herein by
reference.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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PEDEVCO Corp.
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August
10, 2017
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By:
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/s/ Michael
L. Peterson
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Michael
L. Peterson
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Chief
Executive Officer
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(Principal
Executive Officer)
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PEDEVCO Corp.
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August 10,
2017
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By:
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/s/ Gregory
L. Overholtzer
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Gregory
L. Overholtzer
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Chief
Financial Officer
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(Principal
Financial and Accounting Officer)
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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Incorporated By
Reference
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Exhibit No.
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Description
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Form
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Exhibit
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Filing
Date/Period End Date
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File
Number
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10.1
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At
Market Issuance Sales Agreement, dated September 29, 2016, by and
among PEDEVCO CORP. and National Securities
Corporation
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8-K
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1.1
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September
29, 2016
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001-35922
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Certification
of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
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Certification
of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
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Certification
of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as
Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002
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Certification
of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as
Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002
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101.INS*
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XBRL
Instance Document
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101.SCH*
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XBRL
Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
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101.CAL*
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XBRL
Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
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101.DEF*
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XBRL
Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
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101.LAB*
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XBRL
Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
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101.PRE*
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XBRL
Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
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* Filed herewith.
** Furnished herewith.
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