Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.
On October 12, 2021, Viking Energy Group, Inc. (“Viking”) entered into an Assignment of Membership Interests (the “Assignment Agreement”) with TO Elysium 2021, L.L.C. (“Assignee”), pursuant to which Viking assigned all of its membership interests in Elysium Energy Holdings, LLC (“Holdings”) to the Assignee, effective October 12, 2021.
Holdings is the owner of all of the membership interests in Elysium Energy, LLC (“Elysium Energy”), which owns all of the membership interests of Elysium Energy LA, LLC (“Elysium LA”), Elysium Energy TX, LLC (“Elysium TX”), Turtle Bayou, L.L.C. (“Turtle Bayou”), Ramos Field, L.L.C. (“Ramos”), Point a La Hache, L.L.C. (“Point”), and Potash, L.L.C. (“Potash” and, together with Holdings, Elysium Energy, Elysium LA, Elysium TX, Turtle Bayou, Ramos, and Point, the “Elysium Entities”), which collectively owned approximately 70 producing wells, 19 salt water disposal wells, and 34 shut in wells as of June 30, 2021. The assets held by the Elysium Entities were acquired by the Elysium Entities in February 2020 from an affiliate of the Assignee (the “Original Acquisition”).
In connection with the Original Acquisition, the Elysium Entities entered into that certain Term Loan Agreement, dated as of February 3, 2020, by and among the Elysium Entities and 405 Woodbine LLC, as administrative agent, and the lenders signatory thereto (the “Term Loan”). The obligations under the Term Loan are secured by mortgages on the oil and gas leases of the Elysium Entities, a security agreement covering all assets of Elysium Energy, Elysium LA, Elysium TX, Turtle Bayou, Ramos, Point and Potash, and a pledge by Elysium Holdings of all if the membership interests in Elysium Energy. Viking is not a party to the Term Loan. Concurrent with the closing of the Original Acquisition and entrance into the Term Loan in February 2020, Elysium Energy also entered into one or more hedge contracts with respect to a certain percentage of the estimated oil and gas production from Elysium Energy’s oil and gas assets, expiring on or about August 2022.
The consideration for the conveyance of the Elysium Entities by Viking was the assumption by Assignee of all of the obligations associated with the Elysium Entities. Please see the pro forma financial statements provided herewith as Exhibit 99.1 for more detailed information on treatment of the transactions under the Assignment Agreement.
The foregoing description of the Assignment Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified by, the full text of the Assignment Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 2.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.