Pulse Oil Corp. (the “Company” or “
Pulse”) (TSXV:
PUL) announced that it is offering rights (the “
Rights
Offering”) to holders of its common shares
(“
Common Shares”) of record at the close of
business on December 15, 2023 (the “
Record Date”).
Pursuant to the Rights Offering, each holder of Common Shares (a
“
Shareholder”) will receive one-fifth of a
transferable right for each Common Share held of Pulse as of the
Record Date. Each whole right (a “
Right”) will
entitle the holder thereof to subscribe for one (1) Common Share at
a price of $0.04 per Common Share (the “
Basic Subscription
Privilege”) until 2:00 p.m. (Pacific time) (the
“
Expiry Time”) on January 12, 2024. If the Rights
are fully exercised, the Rights Offering will raise gross proceeds
of $4,156,000.
The Rights will be offered to Shareholders resident in each
province and territory of Canada (the “Eligible
Jurisdictions”) and Shareholders who have satisfied the
requirements of Pulse for those resident outside of the Eligible
Jurisdictions. Accordingly, and subject to the detailed provisions
of the right offering circular dated December 7, 2023 (the
“Circular”), Rights certificates (“Rights
Certificates”) will not be mailed to Shareholders resident
outside of the Eligible Jurisdictions, unless such Shareholders
are able to establish to the satisfaction of Pulse, on or before
December 29, 2023, that they are eligible to participate in the
Rights Offering. Shareholders who fully exercise their Rights will
be entitled to subscribe pro rata for Common Shares not otherwise
subscribed for by other holders of Rights prior to the expiry time,
if any, pursuant to the Basic Subscription Privilege.
Neither the Rights being offered or the Common Shares issuable
upon exercise of the Rights have been or will be registered under
the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
may not be exercised, offered or sold, as applicable, in the
United States absent registration or an applicable exemption
from the registration requirements. This news release shall not
constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy
the securities of Pulse. There shall be no offer or sale of these
securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or
sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification
of such securities under the laws of any such jurisdiction.
Standby Commitment Agreement
In connection with the Rights Offering, Pulse has entered into
standby commitment agreements (the "Standby Commitment
Agreements") with CDN Trustee Limited TR CDN Trust
and Andrew Ritchie TR AJ Trust No 2 (the "Standby
Purchasers"), insiders of Pulse currently owning 13.28%
and 15.40%, respectively, of Pulse’s Common Shares. The Standby
Purchasers have agreed, subject to certain terms and conditions, to
exercise their Basic Subscription Privilege in respect of any
Rights it holds, and, in addition thereto, acquire any additional
Common Shares available as a result of any unexercised Rights under
the Rights Offering (the "Standby Commitments"),
such that Pulse will, subject to the terms of the Standby
Commitment Agreement, be guaranteed to issue 98,000,000 Common
Shares in connection with the Rights Offering for aggregate gross
proceeds of $3,920,000. The Standby Commitment is being
guaranteed by CDN Trustee Limited TR CDN Trust in the amount of
$2,180,000 and Andrew Ritchie TR AJ Trust No 2 in the amount of
$1,740,000 and has been approved by the independent directors of
the Company. As consideration for the Standby Commitment, the
Company has agreed to issue non-transferable bonus warrants (the
“Standby Commitment Warrants”) to the Standby
Purchasers (being 25% of the amount of the Standby Commitment
exceeding the Basic Subscription Privilege). Each Standby
Commitment Warrant will be exercisable for sixty (60) months from
the date of issuance into one Common Share at a price of $0.05 per
share. CDN Trustee Limited TR CDN Trust and Andrew Ritchie TR AJ
Trust No 2 have undertaken not to exercise their Standby Commitment
Warrants if to do so would result in its beneficial shareholdings
of Pulse exceeding 20% unless Pulse disinterested shareholder
approval to the same has been obtained.
Each of the Standby Purchasers and Standby Guarantors is a
“related party” of Pulse under Multilateral Instrument 61-101
– Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special
Transactions (“MI 61-101”) because CDN
Trustee Limited TR CDN Trust and Andrew Ritchie TR AJ Trust No 2
each exercise control and direction over more than 10% of the
issued and outstanding Common Shares. The Rights Offering is
not subject to the related party rules under MI 61-101 based on a
prescribed exception related to rights offerings. With respect to
the issuance of the Standby Commitment Warrants to the Standby
Purchasers, Pulse is relying on exemptions from the formal
valuation and minority approval requirements of MI 61-101 pursuant
to sections 5.5(b) and 5.7(1)(a) thereof on the basis that Common
Shares are listed only on the TSX Venture Exchange and, at the time
the time the Standby Commitment Agreements were entered into,
neither the fair market value of the Standby Commitment Warrants,
nor the fair market value of the consideration for Standby
Commitment Warrants exceeded 25% of Pulse’s market capitalization,
respectively.
Early Warning Disclosure
CDN Trustee Limited TR CDN Trust and Andrew Ritchie TR AJ Trust
No 2 are providing the following additional information pursuant to
the early warning requirements of applicable Canadian securities
laws:
CDN Trustee Limited TR CDN Trust:
Prior to the entering into of the Standby Commitment Agreements,
CDN Trustee Limited TR CDN Trust beneficially owned an aggregate of
69,000,000 Common Shares, representing approximately 13.28% of the
issued and outstanding Common Shares. Patrick Harrison, a
director of Pulse, is a director of the corporate trustee of CDN
Trustee Limited TR CDN Trust. Assuming none of the holders of
Rights (other than the Standby Purchasers) take up their Basic
Subscription Privilege and the Standby Purchasers provide their
respective Standby Commitment in full, CDN Trustee Limited TR CDN
Trust would acquire an aggregate of 54,500,000 Common Shares, in
connection with the Rights Offering and 10,175,000 Standby
Commitment Warrants in connection with the Standby Commitment.
Following closing of the Rights Offering, CDN Trustee Limited TR
CDN Trust would beneficially own an aggregate of 123,500,000 Common
Shares, which would represent approximately 19.9982% of the
issued and outstanding Common Shares. In addition, if CDN Trustee
Limited TR CDN Trust exercises it’s Standby Commitment Warrants and
all other Common Share purchase rights, options and other rights to
acquire Common Shares held by it, it would own 133,675,000 Common
Shares or approximately 21.29%.
The Common Shares are being acquired for investment purposes.
CDN Trustee Limited TR CDN Trust may from time to time acquire
additional securities, dispose of some or all of the existing or
additional securities, or may continue to hold the securities of
Pulse.
Andrew Ritchie TR AJ Trust No 2:
Prior to the entering into of the Standby Commitment Agreements,
Andrew Ritchie TR AJ Trust No 2 beneficially owned an aggregate of
80,000,000 Common Shares, representing approximately 15.40% of the
issued and outstanding Common Shares. Assuming none of the holders
of Rights (other than the Standy Purchasers) take up their Basic
Subscription Privilege and the Standby Purchasers provide their
Standby Commitment in full, Andrew Ritchie TR AJ Trust No 2 would
acquire an aggregate of 43,500,000 Common Shares, in connection
with the Rights Offering and 6,875,000 Standby Commitment Warrants
in connection with the Standby Commitment. Following closing of the
Rights Offering, Andrew Ritchie TR AJ Trust No 2 would beneficially
own an aggregate of 123,500,000 Common Shares, which would
represent approximately 19.9982% of the issued and outstanding
Common Shares. In addition, if Andrew Ritchie TR AJ Trust No 2
exercises it’s Standby Commitment Warrants and all other Common
Share purchase rights, options and other rights to acquire Common
Shares held by it, it would own 130,375,000 Common Shares or
approximately 20.88%.
The Common Shares are being acquired for investment purposes.
Andrew Ritchie TR AJ Trust No 2 may from time to time acquire
additional securities, dispose of some or all of the existing or
additional securities, or may continue to hold the securities of
Pulse.
Pulse understands that certain directors and officers of Pulse
who own Common Shares may intend to exercise their rights to
purchase Common Shares under the Rights Offering.
Operational Update:
The net proceeds from the Rights Offering will primarily be used
on the first of two 100% owned Bigoray Nisku Pinnacle Reefs by
funding growth opportunities within Pulse’s Bigoray Enhanced Oil
Recovery (Bigoray EOR) project that Pulse believes will result in
significant production, cashflow and oil reserve growth for many
years.
Pulse has recently completed an extensive technical analysis and
update of its EOR program that consisted of retaining an
experienced and independent reservoir engineer to update Pulse’s
EOR reservoir modelling on the Nisku D and E pinnacle reefs that
was initially completed by Schlumberger International in 2018.
During this recent technical analysis, Pulse was excited to
learn that within the Nisku D pool there is an additional
opportunity to increase the efficiency of the EOR by accessing
incremental oil and gas production. The updated reservoir modelling
indicated that a part of the Nisku D reef was not swept efficiently
by the water flood that was completed prior to Pulse acquiring the
Bigoray project. Pulse intends to continue the solvent flood
currently underway while also adding a water flooding project to be
conducted over the next 12 to 18 months, and then adding a second
solvent injection well after the water flood is complete to work in
combination with Pulse’s current solvent injection well in the D
pool.
Reservoir Engineering has also concluded that there is potential
for strong incremental production growth and stable production over
the first five years of production and then declining over the next
twenty years.
In addition, the EOR modeling update offered other opportunities
for Pulse to enhance production growth and ultimate recovery of oil
and gas within the Bigoray EOR project.
Specifically, the proceeds of this Offering will allow Pulse to
do the following:
- Workover and
stimulate one Bigoray well located in the Nisku E pool in order to
place the well on production.
- Drill and complete
one new vertical well within the Bigoray Nisku D pool to grow
Pulse’s oil and gas production immediately, while also adding an
EOR production well in an ideal location within the Nisku D pool,
expediting production growth from Pulse’s existing EOR
program.
- Fund continued
solvent injection into the Nisku D pool.
Pulse believes that the resultant cashflow from the above
operations will allow Pulse to expand the EOR operational plan as
follows:
- Drill a new
horizontal well near the newly water flooded section and completing
the well with sliding sleeve technology that will allow for
expedited production growth during the EOR program.
- Drill a new vertical
production well ideally located within the Nisku D pool, to
maximize production rates and increase maximize ultimate oil
recovery within the pool.
- Convert a third well
in the Nisku D pool to a solvent injection well in order to enhance
solvent injection.
The Rights Offering is subject to regulatory approval, including
the final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the
“TSXV”).
Complete details of the Rights Offering are set out in the
Circular and the rights offering notice (the
“Notice”), which are filed under Pulse’s profile
at www.sedarplus.ca. Registered Shareholders
who wish to exercise their Rights must complete and forward the
Rights Certificate, together with applicable funds, to
Computershare Investor Services Inc., the depositary for the
Rights Offering, on or before the Expiry Time of the Rights
Offering. Shareholders who own their Common Shares through an
intermediary, such as a bank, trust company, securities dealer or
broker, will receive materials and instructions from their
intermediary.
Pulse CEO, Garth Johnson commented, “The work our team has done
has created a lot of excitement for Pulse’s future. We have a
technically supported, well thought out operational plan to enhance
near term production while also expediting our Bigoray EOR project.
We will update all shareholders soon as specific operations get
underway. We thank all our shareholders for their continued support
and patience as we have worked through the initial challenges over
the past year during the start-up of our solvent injection process.
We are happy to have achieved consistent injection rates for the
last couple of months and we have a plan to increase those
injection rates soon.”
Pulse is a Canadian company incorporated under the Business
Corporations Act (Alberta) that is primarily focused on a 100%
Working Interest Enhanced Oil Project Located in West Central
Alberta, Canada. The project includes two established Nisku
pinnacle reef reservoirs that have been producing sweet light crude
oil for over 40 years. The Company plans to institute a proven
recovery methodology (NGL solvent injection) to further enhance the
ultimate oil recovery from these two proven pools. With under 10
million barrels of oil recovered to date, and representing
approximately 30% recovery factor from the pools, Pulse is moving
forward to execute the EOR project and unlock significant value for
shareholders. Pulse’s total reclamation liabilities are just $2.96
million which, when compared to many peers in the industry in
Western Canada, are very low.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation
Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the
TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this release.
For further information contact:
Pulse Oil Corp.
Garth
JohnsonCEO604-306-4421garth@pulseoilcorp.com
Forward Looking Statements:
This news release contains “forward-looking information” within
the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. All
statements, other than statements of historical fact, included
herein are forward-looking information. In particular, this news
release contains forward-looking information regarding: the Rights
Offering, including the expiry time of the Rights Offering, the
potential use of proceeds, forecasted operations and the results of
such operations. There can be no assurance that such
forward-looking information will prove to be accurate, and actual
results and future events could differ materially from those
anticipated in such forward-looking information. This
forward-looking information reflects Pulse’s current beliefs and
is based on information currently available to Pulse and on
assumptions Pulse believes are reasonable. These assumptions
include, but are not limited to: the underlying value of Pulse and
its Common Shares; market acceptance of the Rights Offering; TSX
Venture Exchange final approval of the Rights Offering; operational
timing and results; and the market acceptance of Pulse’s business
strategy. Forward-looking information is subject to known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the
actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of
Pulse to be materially different from those expressed or implied
by such forward-looking information. Such risks and other factors
may include, but are not limited to: general business, economic,
competitive, political and social uncertainties; general capital
market conditions and market prices for securities; delay or
failure to receive board or regulatory approvals; the actual
results of future drilling and workover operations; production
growth anticipated from drilling operations, EOR operational
results, competition; changes in legislation, including
environmental legislation, affecting Pulse; the timing and
availability of external financing on acceptable terms; and loss
of key individuals. A description of additional risk factors that
may cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking
information can be found in Pulse’s disclosure documents on the
SEDAR+ website at www.sedarplus.ca. Although Pulse has attempted
to identify important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those contained in forward-looking
information, there may be other factors that cause results not to
be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Readers are cautioned
that the foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. Readers are
further cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking
information as there can be no assurance that the plans,
intentions or expectations upon which they are placed will occur.
Forward-looking information contained in this news release is
expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. The
forward-looking information contained in this news release
represents the expectations of Pulse as of the date of this news
release and, accordingly, is subject to change after such date.
However, Pulse expressly disclaims any intention or obligation to
update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as
expressly required by applicable securities law.
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