Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
17 Feb 2023material agreement termination▼ BadMajor
Both 2021 ventures ended together and quietly: the helicopter joint venture with Unity Accipiter and the South African fuels arrangement with Himmelhoch were mutually terminated before either began any activity. Neither produced anything, which is the pattern for every venture Sky announced after Albania.
Sastaro - the subsidiary created in 2005 to hold the UAE oil interest - was repurposed to enter a joint venture supplying refurbished Black Hawk helicopters to Indonesia's defence ministry, a contract valued at $400-480 million. A company with no revenue announcing a deal larger than anything in its history, in an industry it has never worked in.
Sky agreed to form a joint venture with South African firm Himmelhoch Petroleum & Gas to trade fuels off Himmelhoch's wholesale licence - a third business direction in four years, and still nothing operating.
Sky signed a second and far bigger Libyan crude contract - 3 million barrels a month for two years from the same Benghazi authority. Nothing in the filings shows the first contract ever produced a cargo, and a company that could not raise $2 million had no plausible way to pay for this.
After two silent years Sky reappeared with something entirely different: a contract to buy 5 million barrels of crude from the Benghazi-based National Oil Corporation in Libya. This is oil trading, not exploration, with no disclosed funding, no Albanian follow-through, and a counterparty that was the rival of the internationally recognised Libyan oil authority.
A $500,000 two-year convertible note at $0.08 was Sky's last real financing, and on this evidence the company was worth less each time it asked. Its regular reporting stops shortly after this.
Sky raised $400,000 at $0.05 a unit, again with its former chief executive's vehicle OceanRidge taking part. The price was a fifth of the 2012 placements and a twentieth of the $1.00 raised in 2005 - the Albanian licences were not attracting outside capital.
The director loan was rolled over a second time, to May 2015, with $25,000 of interest paid up front, and Jobanputra's one-man executive role was confirmed again.
Sky could not repay director Rachovides' $150,000 note and pushed the maturity out four months; at the same time Karim Jobanputra was formally reinstalled as interim chief executive, finance chief and secretary - one man holding every executive office.
Sky opened a second front, putting a UK subsidiary into a 75/25 joint venture with SO Ventures through Northern Ireland company Hyde Resources to chase oil and gas licences - with Sky undertaking to find the funding, which was precisely what it could not do in Albania.
Unable to place stock, Sky borrowed $150,000 from its own director Mark Rachovides on an 8% note convertible at $0.25. Small money, and from the boardroom - the same insider-funding pattern as the 2012 placements.