Issued $2.5 million of shares to Direct Petroleum Exploration as partial liquidated damages for missing a drilling deadline on the Deventci-R2 well in Bulgaria, and reset the deadline to May 2014 with a further $2.5 million penalty if missed again.
Received a third NYSE MKT late-filing deficiency notice in seven months, this time for its Q1 2013 10-Q - a persistent reporting-timeliness problem heading into mid-2013.
Schroder Investment Management Ltd. Not Applicable reported a TRANSATLANTIC PETROLEUM LTD. shareholding of 32,950,575 shares (8.94% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
Received a NYSE MKT deficiency notice for failing to file its Q3 2012 10-Q on time, with until February 2013 to regain compliance - the first sign of reporting delays that would recur through 2013.
19 June 2012asset acquisition disposition● NeutralMajor
Closed the sale of its Viking oilfield-services business to the Dalea/Abraaj joint venture, and immediately signed ongoing master services agreements to keep buying drilling, stimulation and other oilfield services from the newly independent (but still insider-linked) Viking companies.
Signed a new services agreement with Viking Petrol Sahasi Hizmetleri, a company 97% owned by Chairman Mitchell, his children and son-in-law - yet another related-party administrative-services contract.
Signed the definitive agreement to sell Viking to Dalea for $164 million ($152.5 million cash plus an $11.5 million note from Dalea, guaranteed by Mr. Mitchell personally); the deal was negotiated and approved by a special committee of independent directors given the obvious conflict of interest, with Dalea expected to bring in Abraaj as a partner before closing.
Agreed, in a non-binding letter of intent, to sell its entire oilfield-services business (Viking International and Viking Geophysical) to a new entity jointly owned by Dalea Partners (Chairman Mitchell's company) and private-equity firm Abraaj Investment for $164 million - a major related-party divestment that would hand a profitable unit to the chairman's own venture.
Schroder Investment Management North America Ltd. Not Applicable, Schroder Investment Management Ltd. Not Applicable disclosed a new substantial TRANSATLANTIC PETROLEUM LTD. shareholding (8.82% of votes).
Extended repayment of its Dalea Partners credit line to March 2012 or the closing of a planned sale of its Viking oilfield-services subsidiaries, whichever came first - tying the insider loan's repayment to a divestment not yet publicly announced.
Got another short compliance-deadline extension on its Standard Bank facility, this time for Turkish regulatory approvals needed by its Amity and Petrogas subsidiaries.
Leased new Addison, Texas office space from Longfellow Energy - a company indirectly owned by Chairman Mitchell's family - adding another related-party contract to its books.
Increased its Standard Bank credit facility borrowing base to $95 million as Amity Oil formally joined as a borrower, reflecting the larger reserve base from 2010's acquisitions.