During 2006, pursuant to two share purchase agreements, the Company acquired a 45% interest in
McCallan Oil & Gas (UK) Ltd. ("McCallan"), a private company incorporated under the laws of the
United Kingdom. The Company paid a total of $1,942,821 in a combination of cash and shares for the
purchase price, due diligence expenses and other costs of completing the transactions, including an
advance to McCallan of $225,000 in the period ended December 31, 2006.
At the time of the purchase, McCallan held interests in two sets of concessions, one with respect to an oil
and natural gas concession (the “Carpathian Concession”) comprising approximately 3,480 square
kilometres in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland, and the other with respect to a coal bed methane gas
concession (the “Silesian Concession”) comprising 115 square kilometres in the Upper Silesian basin of
Poland.
Pursuant to the agreements, the Company has a contingent obligation to issue up to 36,700,000 additional shares (the "Contingent Shares") in the capital of the Company to Hans D. Dietmann (the "Vendor") on the basis of 1,468,000 shares for each oil, natural gas or coal bed methane well placed into commercial production by McCallan from the Carpathian or Silesian concessions held by McCallan's subsidiaries, to a total of 25 such wells.
No such wells have been placed into commercial production by McCallan to date.
Pursuant to the terms of the agreements, the Vendor also granted the Company an option to acquire an
additional 6% interest in the shares of McCallan in consideration for the issuance by the Company of
11,700,000 Contingent Shares to the Vendor. At the date of this management discussion, the Company
continues to hold the option without exercise.
McCallan's interest in the Carpathian oil and gas concessions is a 24% participating interest in a joint
operating agreement with Polskie Gornictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA (“PGNiG”) - 51% and Aurelian Oil & Gas PLC ("Aurelian") - 25%. PGNiG is the exploration and production arm of the Polish Oil and Gas Corporation, the Polish State Company. Aurelian is a United Kingdom public company.