Prairie Provident Announces Closing of Rights Offering
31 October 2024 - 8:30PM
Prairie Provident Resources Inc. (“Prairie Provident” or the
“Company”) (TSX:PPR) is pleased to announce the successful
completion of its previously announced equity rights offering (the
“Rights Offering”), which expired at 5:00 p.m. (Mountain time) on
October 28, 2024.
Prairie Provident issued an aggregate of
480,000,000 common shares of the Company (“Common Shares”) pursuant
to the Rights Offering and the Standby Commitment (defined below)
at a price of $0.025 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds of
$12.0 million. This includes the 400,000,000 Common Shares issued
in the initial closing described below. Following completion, there
are 1,196,405,336 Common Shares issued and outstanding.
As previously announced, the Company’s principal
shareholder, PCEP Canadian Holdco, LLC (“PCEP”), fully exercised
its basic subscription privilege under the Rights Offering to
purchase 400,000,000 Common Shares in an initial closing completed
on September 27, 2024, and also provided a standby commitment to
purchase up to an additional 64,000,000 Common Shares not otherwise
subscribed for under the Rights Offering by others (the “Standby
Commitment”). In addition to the 400,000,000 Common Shares
purchased on the early exercise of its basic subscription
privilege, PCEP acquired 15,434,906 Common Shares under the Standby
Commitment at the same subscription price of $0.025 per share.
Following closing of the Rights Offering and Standby Commitment,
PCEP holds 956,360,015 Common Shares, or approximately 79.9% of the
total Common Shares outstanding.
Of the 64,565,094 Common Shares purchased under
the Rights Offering by shareholders other than PCEP, 41,429,021
were issued pursuant to exercise of the basic subscription
privilege and 26,136,073 were issued pursuant to exercise of the
additional subscription privilege. These numbers include 16,600,046
Common Shares acquired by directors and management of the Company
under the Rights Offering (2,087,453 pursuant to the basic
subscription privilege and 14,512,593 pursuant to the additional
subscription privilege).
No fees or commissions were paid by the Company
in connection with the Rights Offering or the Standby
Commitment.
Net proceeds from the Rights Offering are
expected to fund a capital program focused on drilling at least two
wells in the Basal Quartz formation before the end of 2024,
workovers to enhance the productivity of existing wells and general
corporate purposes. A portion of the net proceeds was also used to
settle a US$2.3 million advance under the Company’s second lien
note facility, by way of a $3.13 million setoff (being the Canadian
dollar equivalent of the advance) against the $10.0 million
subscription price paid by PCEP on the early exercise of its basic
subscription privilege.
For details regarding the Rights Offering,
please see Prairie Provident’s rights offering circular dated
September 13, 2024, a copy of which is available under
the Company’s issuer profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca or from
its website at www.ppr.ca.
ABOUT PRAIRIE PROVIDENT
Prairie Provident is a Calgary-based company
engaged in the exploration and development of oil and natural gas
properties in Alberta, including a position in the emerging Basal
Quartz trend in the Michichi area of Central Alberta.
For further information, please contact:
Dale Miller, Executive ChairmanPhone: (403) 292-8150Email:
investor@ppr.ca
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