History
Alamo Energy Corp. grew from a golf-business shell into a small oil and gas company across several states and the UK, then sold or handed back its major assets and deregistered in 2015.
2009-2010: From golf shell to oil and gas
Alamo Energy Corp. began as Green Irons, a former golf-business shell. On November 18, 2009 it bought assets from Alamo Oil Limited, changed management, entered oil and gas and took the Alamo name. Alamo Oil received 350,000 shares, about 22% of the 1,622,284 then issued. The company also bought back and cancelled 4,616,666 shares from Mr. McDougall for $61,073. It described itself as early stage, with no acquisition agreements yet in place.
Funding came mainly from a lender called Eurasian, which agreed to lend up to $2,000,000 in instalments through notes convertible into shares at $0.50, each with warrants (rights to buy shares) at $1.00. By December 2010 roughly $1.6 million had been drawn, by the company's own sums. Auditor churn marked the period: by May 2010 Alamo was on its fifth auditor since November 2009, Q Accountancy Corporation.
The money went into many small stakes. In January 2010 Alamo signed a letter agreement to take 90% of a licence over onshore blocks in southern England. It then bought eight units in a Kentucky well program for $303,986, took part in a Texas well in Brown County, and entered West Virginia with Allied Energy, starting with the Florence Valentine Lease for $153,500. It added the Dillon lease with options on sixteen more Allied re-entries, and in September 2010 bought 6.5 units in two Tennessee wells for $97,500.
2011: The Kentucky bet
On April 12, 2011 Alamo made its largest move, buying three Kentucky companies (KYTX Oil and Gas, Pipeline and Drilling) from Range Kentucky Holdings for $6,775,000. It paid $400,000 in cash and 8,500,000 new shares valued at $0.75. For 5,500,000 of those shares Range had price protection, meaning extra shares could be issued if the price fell to certain levels. The same day Alamo signed a second Eurasian facility of up to $2,400,000.
In July 2011 it agreed to sell about $1,310,621 of discount convertible debentures, with warrants, for about $1,114,000, guaranteed by the KYTX subsidiaries. Their conversion price could reset as low as $0.50. In November it sold 45% of its interest in UK Licence 245 to Northdown Energy for £60,000. Each side put £325,000 into escrow for a seismic survey, and Alamo stayed operator. Shares on issue reached 58,774,337 by year end.
2012-2013: Unwinding
On August 1, 2012 Alamo swapped all the 2011 debentures and warrants for 16,724,329 new shares, plus 335,410 more for a separate warrant exchange. That removed about $1,076,612 of principal and interest but diluted existing holders; shares on issue were 77,379,955 at the end of 2012. In December 2012 Alamo sold the rest of its UK licence, and its operator role, to Northdown for £156,250.
On December 23, 2013, after Range started a Kentucky lawsuit, Alamo settled. It handed back all three KYTX companies, and the development agreement, share top-up agreement and $2,860,000 of Range-held notes were terminated. Range paid $70,000 and returned 6,889,353 Alamo shares, and both sides released all claims.
2014-2015: Deregistration
The record for 2014 is quiet. On March 13, 2015 Alamo deregistered its securities, ending its obligation to file reports with the SEC. At its latest beat, Kentucky and the UK were gone. The filings did not update the status of its Texas, Tennessee and West Virginia interests or of the Eurasian notes.
Written from the 15 story beats below (2009 to 13 Mar 2015), which come from the company's own announcements and filings.