Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
25 June 2026debt default or forbearance▼ BadMajor
Permex's secured debenture holders, acting through collateral agent Jeffrey Eberwein, accelerated the $4,276,389 of 10% convertible debentures in April 2026 after the company failed to pay by 2 November 2025, and on 15 June served notice of a foreclosure sale over its Martin County, Texas oil and gas leases, set for 7 July 2026 at the county courthouse in Stanton.
Permex missed the 1 November 2025 maturity on the 2024 debentures, and the holders - through collateral agent Jeffrey Eberwein - demanded immediate repayment of $4.28 million plus 10% interest and warned they would take the secured assets. Chief executive Bradley Taillon had resigned six weeks earlier, chairman Richard Little took over on an interim basis, and the audited 2025 accounts went unfiled.
Permex's 2024 and 2025 secured lenders agreed to rank equally against the same collateral, and the 2024 holders signed a waiver amending their debentures - the first sign on the record that those notes were already in difficulty. The same day the company announced a non-binding understanding with Chisos Ltd over up to $25 million of Permian development funding.
For $75,000 Permex bought a six-month option over more than 50 producing wells, gathering facilities and 20,000 net acres held by Navidad Petroleum and TMR Exploration, exercisable at $3 million with at least $1.75 million of it in cash - money the company had no evident way of finding.
A non-binding letter of intent with Texas-based 360 Energy to look at putting gas-powered bitcoin mining units on Permex well sites, so gas that would otherwise be flared or stranded earns something. Speculative and not yet a contract, and announced while the company was two months from being served with a default notice.
17 July 2025capital raising announcement▼ BadMajor
A single investor put up $2 million for more 10% senior secured debentures, again charged over company assets, three and a half months before the 2024 debentures were due. Permex was borrowing fresh secured money while an earlier secured lender was still waiting to be repaid.
Permex took over operating 19 Permian Basin wells for a private owner for a fee of up to $75,000 a month - income that ties up none of its own capital, which matters for a company that has very little.
Permex closed $4.28 million of 10% senior secured convertible debentures, but a third of that was not new money - just the April debentures rolled over - and the chief executive was among the subscribers. These are the notes due on 1 November 2025 that the company would fail to pay.
Nine days later the new raise was repriced: warrant strike cut from $4.90 to $1.91, conversion price from $4.08 to $1.91, and more than twice as many warrants per unit. Investors would not take the September terms.
Permex's shares resumed trading in Canada after the British Columbia regulator lifted a cease-trade order imposed in April for missing a year of financial statements. The company scrapped the February debenture raise and launched a replacement, this time paying 15%.