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HK EBUS Corp

US:HKEB
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Past year: ▼ 100%(0.01c – 16.0c USD)

Market cap
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Shares on issue
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Story beats
7 since 2008
Last event
4 May 2012

History

Starting as Cobra Oil & Gas, the company bought oil and tar sand interests in 2008-09, funded by share sales, then went quiet, paying officers in shares in 2012.

2008: Building an oil and gas portfolio

The company, filing then as Cobra Oil & Gas Company, set out to assemble oil and gas interests in 2008. In May it paid Coastal Petroleum Company $180,000 for a two-year option to buy a 50% interest in Valley Creek, Montana leases (about 82,800 net acres) for $1,000,000. It funded this partly by selling 1,000,000 units at $0.25 each ($250,000) to one subscriber; each unit was a share plus a three-year warrant at $0.40. A 35-for-1 forward stock split that month took shares outstanding from 2,004,000 to 70,140,000, and President Massimiliano Pozzoni returned 4,000,000 of his 5,000,000 shares for cancellation. He signed a one-year contract at $120,000 a year in June. In July the company bought a 25% interest in a farmout (a deal to share drilling costs) on the North Semitropic Prospect in Kern County, California for $34,000, plus $100,437.50 paid to Transco Oil & Gas, and it owed its share of drilling and testing costs.

2009: Utah tar sands and a financing line

In July 2009 the company signed a Share Issuance Agreement with Baden Energy Group Ltd., under which Baden could buy units at 80% of the recent average share price, up to $6,000,000 (possibly $10,000,000), through July 6, 2010. Baden could refuse requests and held a right of first refusal on other financings. Later that month the company agreed to buy from Enercor, Inc. a 35%-40% interest in tar sand extraction rights over about 33,632 acres in Uintah County, Utah, for up to $5,000,000, paid in $4,000,000 of restricted shares plus $500,000-$1,000,000 in cash. The Bureau of Land Management had not yet issued the leases, and there was no assurance it would. The company issued 4,147,237 shares to Enercor on July 31, diluting existing holders. In August it bought a 37.5% working interest in a 640-acre Utah lease from Enercor for 300,000 shares.

2010-2012: A quiet record and a change of management

The filings say little about the Montana, California and Utah interests or the Baden facility after 2009, so their outcomes are unknown. The company later operated under the names Viper Resources, Rambo Medical Group and finally HK EBUS Corp, though the filings do not explain the changes. New officers took over in April 2011. In May 2012 the board approved paying Dianwen Ju, Xiao Chen and Jimmy Wang $100,000 each for their unpaid first year by issuing 5,000,000 restricted shares each at $0.02, 15,000,000 new shares in all. As of January 2019, no producing assets were confirmed in the filings, and Jimmy Wang was serving as CEO and CFO.

Written from the 7 story beats below (2008 to 4 May 2012), which come from the company's own announcements and filings.

Beat by beat

The events that changed the company's story, in plain English, each written against everything known about the company at the time. The dot shows whether it was good, bad or neutral for shareholders.

shares on issue market cap (log scale)

201284.1m shares · US$1.7m market cap

  1. 4 May

    The board approved paying Dianwen Ju (President/CEO), Xiao Chen (CFO) and Jimmy Wang (Treasurer) $100,000 each for the year from April 25, 2011 to April 24, 2012, when they had served unpaid, by issuing 5,000,000 restricted shares each at $0.02 per share. That is 15,000,000 new shares to the three officers, which dilutes other holders.

    capital raising announcement

    84.1m shUS$1.7m

2009

  1. 11 Aug

    The company bought a 37.5% working interest in a 640-acre lease in Uintah County, Utah from Enercor for 300,000 shares, next to the July 2009 tar sand rights. It also issued 4,147,237 shares to Enercor on July 31, 2009 as the stock payment under the July 25 agreement, which dilutes existing holders.

    capital raising announcement

  2. 30 July

    The company agreed to buy from Enercor, Inc. a 35%-40% interest in contract rights to tar sand extraction on about 33,632 acres in Southern Uintah County, Utah, for up to $5,000,000: $4,000,000 in restricted shares plus $500,000-$1,000,000 in cash. The leases have not yet been issued by the Bureau of Land Management and the filing says there is no assurance they will be, or when extraction could start.

    material agreement

  3. 14 July

    The company signed a Share Issuance Agreement with Baden Energy Group Ltd. under which Baden may, at the company's request, buy units (one share plus a three-year warrant) at 80% of the recent average share price, in $100,000 multiples, up to $6,000,000 (possibly $10,000,000) through July 6, 2010. Baden can refuse requests, and during the term the company may only do equity (not debt) financing and Baden has a right of first refusal on other financings.

    material agreement

2008

  1. 2 July

    The company bought a 25% interest in a farmout on the North Semitropic Prospect in Kern County, California from West Canyon Energy Corp. for $34,000, plus $100,437.50 paid to Transco Oil & Gas on about June 12, 2008, and it must pay its share of drilling and testing costs. It also reported that it signed the formal agreement with Coastal on June 10, 2008, following the May option deal.

    material agreement

  2. 6 June

    The company signed a one-year employment agreement with President Massimiliano Pozzoni at $120,000 a year, with three months' salary payable if he is terminated without cause or leaves for good reason. It also disclosed that Pozzoni returned 4,000,000 of his 5,000,000 shares for cancellation, and that a 35-for-1 forward stock split took shares outstanding from 2,004,000 to 70,140,000 in May 2008.

    material agreement

  3. 27 May

    The company, filing as Cobra Oil & Gas Company (the name used in these filings; the filer is the same company, HK EBUS Corp, under an earlier name), paid Coastal Petroleum Company $180,000 on May 23, 2008 for a two-year option to buy a 50% interest in Valley Creek, Montana leases (about 82,800 net acres) for $1,000,000. It also sold 1,000,000 units at $0.25 each ($250,000) to one subscriber, each unit being one share plus a three-year warrant at $0.40.

    capital raising announcement