Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
7 July 2006capital raising announcement● NeutralMajor
Far East Energy raised $8.94 million selling 6.6 million shares privately at about $1.35, paying 6.75% in fees. Another year, another placement, with no revenue yet in sight.
What it means for a shareholder
6.6m new shares at about $1.35 to raise about $8.9m. Shares on issue before the raise aren't in the record, so the dilution can't be worked out.
ConocoPhillips agreed to leave the $1 million drilling guarantee in escrow until March 2006 rather than call it, aligning the escrow with the extended exploration deadline. The penalty was deferred, not lifted.
Jeffrey Brown was hired to run the Bermuda subsidiary as president on $150,000 plus a $50,000 China allowance and up to $96,000 of housing - putting a dedicated executive on the ground in China for the first time.
Far East Energy got its Yunnan partner CUCBM to extend the phase-two exploration deadline at Enhong and Laochang all the way to June 2007, subject to Chinese government approval - the same slippage now affecting its second block as well as its first.
Warrant holders exercised at $1.00, bringing in $4.4 million of cash during October alone. Cheap warrants issued in earlier placements were now the company's most reliable funding source.
SOFAER CAPITAL ASIAN FUND, SOFAER CAPITAL GLOBAL FUND, SOFAER CAPITAL INC., RESTRUCTURING INVESTORS LIMITED, PASSLAKE LIMITED, PERSISTENCY reported a FAR EAST ENERGY CORP shareholding of 8,885,729 shares (9.60% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
A further 2.78 million shares were sold at $0.90 for $2.5 million under the December 2004 subscription agreement - a fraction of the $2.50 warrant price set a year earlier, showing how far the shares had fallen.
What it means for a shareholder
2.8m new shares at $0.900 to raise about $2.5m. Shares on issue before the raise aren't in the record, so the dilution can't be worked out.
Far East Energy raised $10.9 million selling 12.1 million shares privately, promising to register the shares within 60 days and to get its stock onto the American Stock Exchange within 180 days.
What it means for a shareholder
12.1m new shares at about $0.9008 to raise about $10.9m. Shares on issue before the raise aren't in the record, so the dilution can't be worked out.