Petroneft Resources Plc

Capital/Financing Update • Jan 7, 2022

National Storage Mechanism | Additional information

RNS Number : 6946X

Petroneft Resources PLC

07 January 2022

January 07, 2022

PetroNeft Resources plc ('PetroNeft' or 'the Company')

Financing Update

PetroNeft (AIM: PTR) an oil and gas exploration and production company, operating in the Tomsk Oblast, Russian Federation and 90% owner and operator of Licence 67 and 50% owner and operator of Licence 61, is pleased to provide a financing update. 

Convertible Loan facility

In June 2019, PetroNeft agreed a convertible loan facility of US$1.3 million with a group of five lenders with a revised Convertible loan maturity date of 31st December 2021. Throughout 2021, the group of five lenders at various times elected to convert 65% of their loan advance into Ordinary Equities of PetroNeft Resources plc. The Company is now pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with the five lenders to extend the term of the remaining loan balance of $0.455 million under the following terms:

·      Extension to the Maturity date from 31st December 2021 to 31st December 2022.

·      Interest rate to remain at 8% above LIBOR. 

·      The remaining loan balance may be converted fully at Stg0.06p per Ordinary Equity Share in PetroNeft, at any time up to the revised maturity date at the option of the loan holders.

The loan was provided by a group of five investors. Four of the investors are related parties (as defined in the AIM Rules and Euronext Growth Market Rules). Details of the loan amounts which remain outstanding to these related parties are outlined in the table below. The directors of the Company, other than Alastair McBain, Daria Shaftelskaya, and David Sturt, having consulted with the Company's Nominated Advisor and Euronext Growth Market adviser, consider the terms for the extension of the loan facility to be fair and reasonable insofar as the Company's shareholders are concerned. 

Lender	Amount provided (US$)	Relationship
Natlata Partners LLP.	196,000	Substantial shareholder
ADM Consulting FZE	140,000	Beneficial owner substantial shareholder and Chairman of PetroNeft.
Daria Shaftelskaya	84,000	PetroNeft Director and substantial shareholder of PetroNeft.
David Sturt	17,500	PetroNeft CEO & Director

PetroNeft Chief Executive Officer, David Sturt, welcomed the extension:

"PetroNeft is a tight team, and we continue to benefit from the experience and expertise of our senior Management team to devise and deliver a fiscally robust capital structure to drive the business forward.  I believe the agreed loan extension is a welcome development, combined with the added opportunity for the investors to convert at Stg0.06p per Ordinary Equity Share, which represents a significant 52.6 % premium above the average closing for the last 5 trading days and is a further vote of confidence in the growth momentum PetroNeft can achieve in the coming year."

For further information, contact:

David Sturt, PetroNeft Resources plc	+971 55 1919 808
John Frain / Ciara O'Mongain, Davy (NOMAD, Euronext Growth Market Adviser and Broker)	+353 1 679 6363
Joe Heron / Douglas Keatinge / Jackie Phelan, Murray	+353 1 498 0300

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com or visit www.rns.com.

RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.

END

UPDQQLFBLFLXBBB