BW ENERGY COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF SECURITIES OF RECONNAISSANCE ENERGY
2024年8月1日 - 8:30PM
BW ENERGY COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF
SECURITIES OF RECONNAISSANCE ENERGY
Oslo, Norway – (August 1, 2024) –
BW Energy Limited ("BW Energy") announces that it
has acquired indirect beneficial ownership of an aggregate of
17,600,000 common shares ("Common Shares") and
17,600,000 common share purchase warrants
("Warrants") of Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd.
(the "Company"). BW Energy, indirectly through its
wholly owned subsidiary BW Energy Services Limited
("BWESL"), acquired the Common Shares and Warrants
pursuant to the previously announced public offering (the
"Offering") by the Company of 30,944,000 units of
the Company ("Units"), including 2,944,000 Units
issued pursuant to the partial exercise by the underwriters of
their over-allotment option, completed on July 31, 2024. The Units
were acquired at a purchase price of C$1.25 per Unit, for an
aggregate purchase price of C$22,000,000.
Each Unit is comprised of one Common Share and one
Warrant, with each Warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase
one Common Shares at a price of C$1.75 at any time prior to 4:30
p.m. (Toronto time) on the date which is 24 months following the
closing of the Offering, subject to and in accordance with the
terms and conditions of the warrant indenture entered into between
the Company and Odyssey Trust Company, as warrant agent.
Following the closing of the Offering and as of the
date hereof, BW Energy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary BWESL,
beneficially owns 17,600,000 Common Shares and 17,600,000 Warrants,
representing approximately 6.6% of the issued and outstanding
Common Shares on an undiluted basis and approximately 12.4% of the
issued and outstanding Common Shares assuming the exercise in full
of the Warrants acquired by BWESL pursuant to the Offering. Prior
to closing of the Offering, neither BW Energy nor any of its
associates or affiliates held any securities of the Company.
BW Energy, through BWESL, has acquired the Common
Shares and Warrants for investment purposes and strategically in
connection with BW Energy Rundu Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary
of BW Energy, entering into a farmout agreement with Reconnaissance
Energy Namibia Pty Ltd. ("RECON"), a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Company, providing for the terms of a farmout
transaction, including the transfer to an affiliate of BW Energy of
20% of RECON’s participating interest in the Petroleum Agreement
dated January 26, 2015 between the Government of the Republic of
Namibia represented by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the
National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Pty) Ltd. and RECON and
the Petroleum Exploration Licence, Licence No. 0073 issued January
29, 2015.
BW Energy may, in the future, take such actions in
respect of its holdings in the Company as BW Energy may deem
appropriate in light of the circumstances then existing, including
the purchase of additional securities of the Company through open
market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise,
or the sale of all or a portion of BW Energy's holdings in the open
market, in privately negotiated transactions or otherwise to one or
more purchasers, subject in each case to applicable securities law
and other relevant factors.
This news release is issued pursuant to National
Instrument 62-103 The Early Warning System and Related Take-Over
Bid and Insider Reporting Issues of the Canadian Securities
Administrators, which also requires an early warning report
containing additional information with respect to the foregoing to
be filed with the applicable Canadian securities regulators. Such
early warning report will be available under the Company's profile
at www.sedarplus.ca and may also be obtained by contacting:
For further information, please
contact:
Brice Morlot, CFO BW Energy, +33.7.81.11.41.16
ir@bwenergy.no
BW Energy's head office is located at Washington
Mall Phase 2, 4th Floor, Suite 400, 22 Church Street, Hamilton HM
1189, Bermuda. The Company's head office is located at Suite 1250 –
635 8th Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 0R3.
About BW Energy:
BW Energy is a growth E&P company with a
differentiated strategy targeting proven offshore oil and gas
reservoirs through low risk phased developments. BW Energy has
access to existing production facilities to reduce time to first
oil and cashflow with lower investments than traditional offshore
developments. BW Energy's assets are 73.5% of the producing Dussafu
Marine licence offshore Gabon, 100% interest in the Golfinho and
Camarupim fields, a 76.5% interest in the BM-ES-23 block in Brazil,
a 95% interest in the Maromba field in Brazil and a 95% interest in
the Kudu field in Namibia, all operated by BW Energy, as well as
approximately 6.6% (on an undiluted basis) of the common shares of
Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. Total net 2P+2C reserves and
resources were 580 million barrels of oil equivalent at the start
of 2024.
This information is subject to the disclosure
requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities
Trading Act.