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Note 2 - Acquisitions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Notes to Financial Statements  
Mergers, Acquisitions and Dispositions Disclosures [Text Block]

2. ACQUISITIONS

 

Acquisition of industrial gas acreage

 

On January 7, 2025, the Company entered into, and simultaneously closed the related party transactions contemplated by, a Purchase and Sale Agreement (the “Synergy Purchase Agreement”), with Synergy Offshore LLC (“Synergy”). Synergy is controlled by Mr. Duane H. King, a member of the Board of Directors of the Company, who serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Manager of Synergy, and John A. Weinzierl, the Company’s Chairman, who is an approximate sixty percent beneficial owner of Synergy.

 

Pursuant to the Synergy Purchase Agreement, the Company purchased from Synergy, 24,000 net operated acres located across the Kevin Dome structure in Toole County, Montana, which are highly contiguous to the assigned rights the Company acquired in the Wavetech acquisition, including all leases, wells, rights and interests in, under or derived from all communalization, unitization, or pooling agreements or pooling orders, easements, mineral interests, contracts, production, equipment, claims, receivables, indemnities, permits, seismic studies and records, associated therewith (collectively, the “Property”), subject to Synergy retaining an undivided twenty percent (20.00%) of Synergy’s right, title, and interest in the Property, and certain excluded assets (the “Synergy Reserved Interest”).

 

The Property was acquired in consideration for (a) $2.0 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments; (b) 1,400,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (representing 4.76% of the Company’s outstanding common stock at the time of the entry into the Purchase Agreement) (the “Closing Shares”); (c) a carried working interest whereby the Company agreed to cover and pay for 100% of Synergy’s costs attributable to the Synergy Reserved Interest, until the earlier of (i) 78 months from the closing date; or (ii) the date the total costs associated therewith total $20 million; (d) the Company's agreement to pay Synergy 18% of the cash amounts it actually realizes following the closing in, so much as they result from, are generated by, or are credited to the Company, pursuant to any law or regulation allowing for benefits resulting from our sequestration of carbon oxides or similar substances derived directly from the area of mutual interest (“AMI”) surrounding the Property; and (e) the Company's agreement to pay Synergy 18% of the gain we may receive in connection with the sale of the future, first, gas processing plant located on the Property (which includes any expansions connected to the initial installation that processes production from within the AMI in which the Company has a financial interest), in the same form as the consideration we receive upon such sale. Total consideration was $4.7 million. The transaction was accounted for as an asset acquisition and recorded as an unevaluated industrial gas asset upon closing.