curious about Porto since reading Danny's pump
Why couldn't the "wholly owned" Mohave Oil and Gas Corp in Texas raise money to fund this gas exploration prior to the Amalgamation with Porto? Perhaps because they have been at it for far too long and found Canadian money when the American money stopped flowing?
- looks like there was approx 75 million shares issued under the Amalgamation and pre-Amalgamation to form the current Proto Energy Corp. Explains how these two companies merged. You can read this on the history of the Company on their filed prospectus on Feb. 1, 2011 and how shares were distributed to different individuals in March on SEDAR.
Mohave Corp shares office space with the National office of Centerprise. https://www.centerprisegroup.com/locations.htm according to both Porto's and Centerprise websites.
- I like to search addresses of these companies to see where they are and what else pops up.
some more info about Mohave properties
https://metododirecto.pt/CM2010/index.php/vol/article/viewFile/129/30
The following is from the Oil and Gas Journal.
https://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-95/issue-49/in-this-issue/exploration/exploratory-well-to-start-in-lusitanian-basin-portugal.html
- looks like they have been at it for approx. 20 years.
https://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/national_energy_grid/portugal/PortugalCountryAnalysisBrief.html
- analysis of Portugal and their oil and gas.
As of May 31,2012 according to financial statements on SEDAR. They had approximately $4.6 million in Cash. Explains why they needed the JV to drill this deep gas play. I can't imagine how they will proceed if this well doesn't hit pay. They had $59 Million in May, 2011 and only $4.6 Million on May, 2012. With the Galp JV; Galp is basically paying the full cost of the $7 million dollar well to earn their 50%.
Current working capital as of May 31,2012 is approx. $6 Million.
So since Dec, 2010 where Porto raised $17 million and the Inital public offering of $70 Million in March,2011 they had raised approx. $87 Million. They have less than $4.6 Million in cash as of May,31,2012. Wow.. in only 1.6 years they spent a ton of cash and not even producing yet. If you throw in the amount of money that Mohave has spent in the 20 years previous to the Amalgamation.. it's becomes somewhat staggering.
On the July 4,2012 document on Sedar. It appears that Galp can increase their interest according to Preemptive Rights. I'm not entirely sure of the Lawyer Speak on this one. But it looks like Galp can become operator of this well if it is successful.