Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
14 Feb 2007debt financing● Neutral
PRB Gathering, a subsidiary, signed a five-year lease (effective Jan 24, 2007) with J-W Power Company for gas compression equipment on its Powder River Basin gathering pipelines. It will be booked as a capital lease of about $3,000,000 with a matching liability, a $650,000 cash prepayment for maintenance was made, and monthly payments run $100,000 to $150,000.
The American Stock Exchange sent a warning letter on January 8, 2007 because the company issued 1,250,000 shares in the December financing without first getting Amex approval. Amex decided not to start its formal continued-listing procedures, and the company filed an additional listing application for those shares on January 5, 2007.
West Coast Asset Management, Inc, Paul J. Orfalea, Lance Helfert, R. Atticus Lowe disclosed a new substantial Black Raven Energy, Inc. shareholding (8.80% of votes).
5 Jan 2007asset acquisition disposition● NeutralMajor
The Niobrara acquisition closed December 28, 2006 for $11.7 million cash (13 wells, about 330,000 net acres, about 159 identified drilling locations). It was funded by $15 million of 13% senior secured debentures due August 31, 2008, secured by substantially all company assets, plus 1,250,000 new shares issued to DKR Soundshore Oasis Holding Fund and West Coast Opportunity Fund, about 14% of fully diluted stock, which dilutes existing holders.
PRB Energy's subsidiary agreed to buy 13 wells (9 producing about 500 Mcf/d) and about 330,000 net acres in northeast Colorado and southwest Nebraska in the Niobrara formation, from Lance Oil and Gas and Western Gas Resources. Price to be set at closing, targeted before December 31, 2006, subject to due diligence. It adds a conventional play beyond the coal bed methane focus.