UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
| x | QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010
| ¨ | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the transition period from to
Commission file number 1-4668
COASTAL CARIBBEAN OILS & MINERALS, LTD.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| BERMUDA | NONE | |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
| Clarendon House, Church Street, Hamilton, Bermuda | HM 11 | |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
(850) 878-2411
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. x Yes ¨ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). ¨ Yes ¨ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
| Large accelerated filer | ¨ | Accelerated filer | ¨ | |||
| Non-accelerated filer | ¨ (Do not check if smaller reporting company) | Smaller reporting company | x | |||
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ¨ Yes x No
The number of shares outstanding of the issuer’s single class of common stock as of November 11, 2010 was 70,661,604.
COASTAL CARIBBEAN OILS & MINERALS, LTD.
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Table of Contents
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FORM 10-Q
PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
(Expressed in U.S. dollars)
(A Bermuda Corporation)
A Development Stage Company
| September 30, 2010 |
December 31, 2009 |
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| (Unaudited) | (Note) | |||||||
| Assets | ||||||||
| Current assets: |
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| Cash and cash equivalents |
$ | 359,147 | $ | 9,207 | ||||
| Total current assets |
359,147 | 9,207 | ||||||
| Certificates of deposit - Restricted |
86,017 | 85,255 | ||||||
| Petroleum leases |
2,324,374 | 2,257,741 | ||||||
| Equipment, net |
2,005 | 3,895 | ||||||
| Total assets |
$ | 2,771,543 | $ | 2,356,098 | ||||
| Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | ||||||||
| Current liabilities: |
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| Accounts payable and accrued liabilities |
$ | 115,908 | $ | 242,693 | ||||
| Notes payable |
25,000 | 73,198 | ||||||
| Amounts due to related parties |
928,228 | 1,098,949 | ||||||
| Total current liabilities |
1,069,136 | 1,414,840 | ||||||
| Shareholders’ equity |
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| Common stock, par value $.12 per share: |
8,479,392 | 5,752,392 | ||||||
| Discount on common stock |
(1,842,625 | ) | (103,475 | ) | ||||
| Capital in excess of par value |
32,139,311 | 32,139,311 | ||||||
| Stock subscription |
— | 10,000 | ||||||
| 38,776,078 | 37,798,228 | |||||||
| Deficit accumulated during the development stage |
(37,073,671 | ) | (36,856,970 | ) | ||||
| Total shareholders’ equity |
1,702,407 | 941,258 | ||||||
| Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity |
$ | 2,771,543 | $ | 2,356,098 | ||||
Note: The balance sheet at December 31, 2009 has been derived from
the audited consolidated financial statements at that date.
See accompanying notes.
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FORM 10-Q
PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1 - Financial Statements
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Expressed in U.S. dollars)
(A Bermuda Corporation)
A Development Stage Company
(Unaudited)
|
Three months ended September 30, |
Nine months ended September 30, |
For the 1953 (inception) to |
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| 2010 | 2009 | 2010 | 2009 | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest and other income |
$ | — | $ | 417 | $ | 1,494 | $ | 764 | $ | 3,985,955 | ||||||||||
| Gain on settlement |
— | — | — | — | 8,124,016 | |||||||||||||||
| — | 417 | 1,494 | 764 | 12,109,971 | ||||||||||||||||
| Expenses: |
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| Legal fees and costs |
2,857 | 5,870 | 5,503 | 81,538 | 17,660,060 | |||||||||||||||
| Administrative expenses |
34,197 | 47,002 | 113,044 | 199,521 | 11,172,411 | |||||||||||||||
| Salaries |
31,250 | 31,250 | 95,609 | 93,750 | 4,492,040 | |||||||||||||||
| Shareholder communications |
821 | 2,175 | 4,039 | 16,881 | 4,153,655 | |||||||||||||||
| Goodwill impairment |
— | — | — | — | 801,823 | |||||||||||||||
| Write off of unproved properties |
— | — | — | — | 6,690,752 | |||||||||||||||
| Exploration costs |
— | — | — | — | 188,218 | |||||||||||||||
| Lawsuit judgments |
— | — | — | — | 1,941,916 | |||||||||||||||
| Minority interests |
— | — | — | — | (632,974 | ) | ||||||||||||||
| Other |
— | 45,000 | — | 45,000 | 364,865 | |||||||||||||||
| Contractual services |
— | 18,019 | — | 114,228 | 2,350,876 | |||||||||||||||
| 69,125 | 149,316 | 218,195 | 551,118 | 49,183,642 | ||||||||||||||||
| Income tax benefit |
— | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| Net loss |
$ | (69,125 | ) | $ | (148,899 | ) | $ | (216,701 | ) | $ | (550,354 | ) | ||||||||
| Deficit accumulated during the development stage |
$ | (37,073,671 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weighted average number of Shares outstanding (basic & diluted) |
65,861,604 | 46,436,326 | 62,747,715 | 46,285,688 | ||||||||||||||||
| Net loss per share (basic & diluted) |
$ | (.00 | ) | $ | (.00 | ) | $ | (.00 | ) | $ | (.01 | ) | ||||||||
See accompanying notes.
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FORM 10-Q
PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
September 30, 2010
ITEM 1 - Financial Statements
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Expressed in U.S. Dollars)
(A Bermuda Corporation)
A Development Stage Company
(Unaudited)
|
Nine months ended |
For the period from Jan. 31, 1953 (inception) to September 30, 2010 |
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| 2010 | 2009 | |||||||||||
| Operating activities: |
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| Net loss |
$ | (216,701 | ) | $ | (550,354 | ) | $ | (37,073,671 | ) | |||
| Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: |
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| Gain on settlement |
— | — | (8,124,016 | ) | ||||||||
| Goodwill impairment |
— | — | 801,823 | |||||||||
| Minority interest |
— | — | (602,949 | ) | ||||||||
| Depreciation |
1,890 | 1,890 | 10,968 | |||||||||
| Write off of unproved properties |
— | — | 6,690,752 | |||||||||
| Common stock issued for services |
— | — | 119,500 | |||||||||
| Compensation recognized for stock option grant |
— | — | 75,000 | |||||||||
| Recoveries from previously written off properties |
— | — | 252,173 | |||||||||
| Net change in: |
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| Accounts payable and accrued liabilities |
(79,656 | ) | 442,076 | 1,204,721 | ||||||||
| Net cash used in operating activities |
(294,467 | ) | (106,388 | ) | (36,645,699 | ) | ||||||
| Investing activities: |
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| Additions to oil, gas, and mineral properties net of assets acquired for common stock and reimbursements |
(66,633 | ) | (38,632 | ) | (6,519,885 | ) | ||||||
| Well drilling costs |
— | — | (1,071,011 | ) | ||||||||
| Sale of unproved nonoperating interests |
— | — | 512,595 | |||||||||
| Net proceeds from settlement |
— | — | 8,124,016 | |||||||||
| Proceeds from relinquishment of surface rights |
— | — | 246,733 | |||||||||
| Purchase of certificate of deposit |
(762 | ) | (764 | ) | (140,672 | ) | ||||||
| Redemption of certificate of deposit |
— | — | 54,655 | |||||||||
| Purchase of minority interest in CPC |
— | — | (801,823 | ) | ||||||||
| Purchase of fixed assets |
— | — | (74,623 | ) | ||||||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities |
(67,395 | ) | (39,396 | ) | 329,985 | |||||||
| Financing activities: |
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| Notes payable proceeds |
— | 73,198 | 184,988 | |||||||||
| Repayments of loans |
(48,198 | ) | — | (159,988 | ) | |||||||
| Sale of common stock net of expenses |
760,000 | 30,000 | 31,218,112 | |||||||||
| Shares issued upon exercise of options |
— | — | 891,749 | |||||||||
| Sale of shares by subsidiary |
— | — | 820,000 | |||||||||
| Sale of subsidiary shares |
— | — | 3,720,000 | |||||||||
| Net cash provided by financing activities |
711,802 | 148,198 | 36,674,861 | |||||||||
| Net increase in cash and cash equivalents |
349,940 | 2,414 | 359,147 | |||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period |
9,207 | 752 | — | |||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents at end of period |
$ | 359,147 | $ | 3,166 | $ | 359,147 | ||||||
See accompanying notes.
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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
September 30, 2010
| ITEM 1 | Financial Statements |
Note 1. Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements include Coastal Caribbean Oils & Minerals, Ltd. (“the Company”) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Coastal Petroleum Company (“Coastal Petroleum”) and have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. All such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature. Operating results for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2010 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2010. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009.
Note 2. Going Concern
As of September 30, 2010, the Company had no revenues, had recurring losses from operations and has had an accumulated deficit during the development stage. The Company’s current cash position is not adequate to fund existing operations or exploration and development of its oil and gas properties. Currently, management is actively pursuing funding to allow the Company to undertake exploration efforts on its own. During the third Quarter the Company sold shares to a director in order to raise funds for the Company to continue operations and exploration of its leases. The Company continues to be in contact with several parties interested in investing in the Company so that the Company could explore its leases on its own. In addition, the Company has been in contact with other parties interested in working with the Company, in buying some of the Company’s leases or in buying an interest in those leases. There is no assurance that the Company will be able to obtain any funding, that sufficient funding can be obtained, or that the Company will be able to raise necessary funds through the sale of some of its leases or interests in those leases.
These situations raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or amounts and classification of liabilities, which may result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
Note 3. Net loss per share
Net loss per share is based upon the weighted average number of common and common equivalent shares outstanding during the period. The Company’s basic and diluted calculations of EPS are the same because the exercise of options is not assumed in calculating diluted EPS, as the result would be anti-dilutive.
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| ITEM 1 | Financial Statements (Continued) |
Note 4. Unproved Oil, Gas and Mineral Properties
Farm-out Agreements and Drilling Activity
In May 2008, we entered an agreement with Cobra. Under the agreement, Cobra paid Coastal $180,000 for the option to acquire a half interest in approximately 87,000 acres of Coastal’s Valley County Leases. The agreement allowed the Company to pay its Lease rentals that were due on June 1, 2008, and brought in a new party to explore on the Leases. Cobra had until May 2010 to exercise the option by spending $1,000,000 on behalf of the Company, drilling wells on the leases covered by the agreement. No drilling was performed under this agreement and it expired by its terms.
Montana Leases
The Company’s primary presence in Montana is in Valley County, where it holds leases covering approximately 32,313 net acres, which are the remaining unexpired leases from those leases the Company acquired in three separate acquisitions between July 2005 and February 2006. The leases acquired in those acquisitions are contiguous to each other and are referred to collectively as “the Valley County Leases.”
The first acquisition of the Valley County Leases was in July 2005, when the Company acquired the rights to drill two 6,500 foot wells to test Mississippian Lodgepole reefs in Valley County, in northeast Montana for a one time fee of $50,000 from an entity controlled by one of the Company’s Directors. That acquisition included a small amount of acreage and the option to drill fifty additional prospects in the Valley County area.
The second acquisition of the Valley County Leases was in November 2005, when the Company acquired a group of oil and gas lease rights to approximately 109,423 net acres in eastern Montana for $1,568,000 from EOG Resources, Inc. and Great Northern Gas Company. These leases are subject to various overriding royalty interests to others ranging up to 19.5%. These leases expire in years from 2011 to 2014.
The final acquisition of acreage within the Valley County Leases was in February 2006, when the Company acquired additional oil and gas leases in eastern Montana covering 27,740 net acres contiguous to its existing Montana leases. These leases were acquired from the Bureau of Land Management and United States Department of the Interior.
The Company borrowed $126,000 in May 2007 to pay its lease obligations that were due in June 2007 on approximately 42,000 acres. Coastal assigned a 5% overriding royalty interest (before all expenses) in 8/8ths of the oil or natural gas produced from those Valley County Montana leases to the lender. The loan was repaid on October 15, 2007, prior to the spudding of the first well on the acreage, out of the money advanced by Western Standard to cover lease rentals under their agreement with the Company.
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| ITEM 1 | Financial Statements (Continued) |
Note 4. Unproved Oil, Gas and Mineral Properties (Continued)
North Dakota Leases
In July 2005, the Company acquired leases to the deeper rights in approximately 21,688 net acres in and near Slope County, North Dakota for a one-time fee of $50,000 from an entity controlled by one of the Company’s Directors and the Company has invested some additional funds to geochemically test and high-grade these and other prospects on the leases. Since that time, some of the leases have expired and the Company currently holds leases on approximately 1,280 net acres in North Dakota. The Company was obligated to drill a test well on the original leases totaling 7,031.08 acres before November 1, 2010, and was not able to do so. Pursuant to an agreement with the entity controlled by one of the Company’s Directors, the Company will now retain only the leases that covered Lodgepole Reef prospects, but will hold them without a deadline to drill. There were three such prospects on the leases and the Company now holds 1,280 acres of leases in Slope County. The Company intends to team with other entities to share the cost of the initial 9,700 foot test well, the total estimated drilling cost of which is estimated to be $1,750,000. The Company is actively seeking funding sufficient to allow it to explore its leases on its own.
In an effort to explore the North Dakota leases, in December of 2008, the Company entered a new farm-out agreement with Western Standard. Under the agreement, the Company assigned leases over four of its high-graded Lodgepole Reef prospects to Western Standard in return for $80,000, which was recorded as a reduction in capitalized petroleum lease costs. The Company has also retained a back-in working interest of 20% in the leases after payout. Oil For America has agreed to waive the drilling obligation on these four prospects. The Company still retains additional Lodgepole reef prospects on its North Dakota leases that are not covered by this farm-out agreement. In the third Quarter the Company used $20,000 of the funds from the sale of shares to a director to repurchase leases previously sold to Western Standard, increasing the number of the Company’s Lodgepole Reef prospects in North Dakota by four.
Note 5. Income Taxes
For the three and nine month periods ending September 30, 2010 and 2009, the Company reported a loss for both financial statement reporting and income tax purposes. The Company has provided a 100% valuation allowance on its deferred tax asset as a result of its net operating loss carryforwards. The Company had approximately $10,000,000 in net operating loss carryforwards at December 31, 2009.
Note 6. Related Party Transactions
Through May 2009, the Company paid a monthly retainer to the law firm of Angerer & Angerer one of the principals of which had been litigation counsel to the Company for more than twenty-five years and also served the Company in that capacity as well as others including general counsel services, management services, public relations, shareholder relations and representing the Company
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| ITEM 1 | Financial Statements (Continued) |
Note 6. Related Party Transactions (Continued)
before state and federal agencies for permitting. The principals of the law firm included two individuals who are collectively shareholders and a director of the Company. The Company expensed $60,000 in legal fees for the six months ended September 30, 2009. There were no legal fees paid to Angerer & Angerer for the three months ended September 30, 2009 or for 2010. The Company owes $150,000 in accrued legal fees to Angerer & Angerer as of September 30, 2010.
Beginning in June 2009, the Company was no longer represented by Angerer & Angerer and retained Robert J. Angerer, Sr. as legal counsel. Mr. Angerer has been litigation counsel to the Company for more than twenty-five years and resigned as counsel on January 14, 2010. As counsel for the Company he served the Company as litigation counsel, but also provided the Company with general counsel services and management services and represented the Company before state and federal agencies for permitting. Mr. Angerer, Sr. is also a shareholder and a director of the Company. There were no legal fees paid to Mr. Angerer, Sr. for 2010. The Company expensed $11,600 and $11,600 in legal fees to Mr. Angerer, Sr. for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2009, respectively.
Also since June 2009, the Company has retained Robert J. Angerer, Jr. who serves as the Company’s corporate secretary and handles management services, public relations, shareholder relations and management of the Company’s website. There was no compensation paid to Mr. Angerer, Jr. for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2010 and 2009.
The Company has retained the law firm of Igler & Dougherty, P.A. as securities counsel. Mr. Herbert D. Haughton, a shareholder of the firm, was elected a director of Coastal Caribbean and of Coastal Petroleum in December 2005. The Company expensed $10,974 and $12,528 in legal fees and costs for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively, including $3,179 and $6,270 in legal fees for the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
Note 7. Certificates of Deposit – Restricted
The Company has pledged certificates of deposit for pollution bond requirements under three previous well permits.
Note 8. Notes Payable
During the first six months of 2009, the Company borrowed $48,198 from two individuals, which was used to make annual rental payments on specific leases. The loans are non interest bearing and have no set repayment terms. The individuals were granted a 0.5% royalty interest in the leases for which the borrowed money was used to pay rentals, which are located primarily in the Starbuck prospect area in Montana. These loans were repaid in January 2010.
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| ITEM 1 | Financial Statements (Continued) |
Note 8. Notes Payable (Continued)
During August 2009, the Company borrowed $25,000 from a consultant and also agreed to pay the consultant a fee of $25,000 to identify investors to consummate an agreement and fund the Drilling Plan. The funds from the loan were used to pay the Company’s annual corporate fee to Bermuda as well as certain other operational expenses. The loan is non interest bearing and has no set repayment terms. No investor agreements have been consummated by the consultant at September 30, 2010, therefore the $25,000 loan is not currently due and the $25,000 fee has not been earned.
Note 9. Stock Transactions
On January 14, 2010, the Company and Coastal Petroleum entered into a letter agreement with Robert J. Angerer, Sr. for the funding of immediate cash needs and granted Mr. Angerer an option to fund the Company’s and Coastal Petroleum’s future obligations. Under the agreement Mr. Angerer provided compensation to the Company including $300,000 cash and the forgiveness of $150,000 of legal fees owed to his law firm, Angerer & Angerer, forgiveness of $21,500 in director fees owed to him and credit of $240,000 for the completion of the Company’s purchase of leases on which there is a Red River oil and gas development prospect. In return, Mr. Angerer was issued 14,400,000 Rule 144 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock and was provided an option to further fund the Company. Under the agreement, Mr. Angerer could exercise up to four options by paying $3 million for each option beginning three months after the date of the agreement and thereafter in three month intervals. In return for the funding, Mr. Angerer would earn up to a total of 36% of the Company’s operations in North Dakota and Montana in increments per exercised option and a 20% interest in Coastal Petroleum. There was also one extension available to extend the time to exercise the first option for three months in exchange for the payment of $50,000. Simultaneous with this transaction, Mr. Angerer resigned as the Vice President of both the Company and Coastal, but will remain as a Director and the Chairman of the Board of Directors for both the Company and Coastal Petroleum.
On April 29, 2010, Mr. Angerer paid $50,000 and elected to extend the option to fund the Company’s operations. However, Mr. Angerer did not exercise his option within the required time and in July 2010, the agreement expired by its terms.
On May 28, 2010, the Company entered agreements with two individuals who paid $10,000 each in return for each individual receiving 162,500 shares of the Company’s common stock and a 1/4% overriding royalty in Coastal Petroleum’s Starbuck East Montana shallow gas leases. An entity that brought the investors to the Company also received a similar overriding royalty and 67,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. The Company used this money to pay the lease rentals that were due on September 1, 2010.
On August 26, 2010, the Company entered into a letter agreement with Robert J. Angerer, Sr. a Director and the Chairman of the Board of Directors for both the Company and Coastal, for the sale of 8,000,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock for $400,000, to be used for exploration, prospect acquisition and operating costs. Approximately $250,000 of the
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| ITEM 1 | Financial Statements (Continued) |
proceeds from the sale of the stock is to be used to drill a test well on Coastal’s Starbuck East shallow gas prospect in Valley County, Montana and another $40,000 will be used to acquire additional Lodgepole prospects in North Dakota.
Note 10. Subsequent Events
During the fourth quarter, the Company has drilled a shallow gas exploratory well on its Starbuck East prospect in Montana and the well has been logged and cased. The results and information gathered from the well are being evaluated and the well is expected to be fully evaluated during the fourth quarter in order to provide an assessment of the potential for natural gas production from the several target horizons drilled through at this location.
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| ITEM 2 | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations |
Forward Looking Statements
Statements included in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, which are not historical in nature are intended to be forward looking statements. The Company cautions readers that forward looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward looking statements. Among the risks and uncertainties are: the uncertainty of securing additional funding through the sale of shares of Coastal Petroleum and/or Coastal Caribbean; changes in the income tax laws relating to tax loss carry forwards; the failure of the Company’s test wells to locate oil or gas reserves or the failure to locate oil or gas reserves which are economically feasible to recover; reductions in world wide oil or gas prices; adverse weather conditions; or mechanical failures of equipment used to explore the Company’s leases.
Critical Accounting Policies
The Company follows the full cost method of accounting for its oil and gas properties. All costs associated with property acquisition, exploration and development activities whether successful or unsuccessful are capitalized. As our properties are unproven, these costs are temporarily exempt from amortization. Once the Company has proved reserves the capitalized costs will be amortized using the unit-of-production basis.
The Company assesses whether its unproved properties are impaired at least on a quarterly basis. This assessment is based upon work completed on the properties to date, the expiration date of its leases and technical data from the properties and adjacent areas. Our capitalized costs are subject to a ceiling test which basically limits such costs to the aggregate of the estimated present value discounted at a 10% rate of future net revenues from proved reserves based on current economic and operating conditions, plus the cost of properties not being amortized. As of September 30, 2010, no impairment was identified.
Sales of unproved nonoperating interests in oil and gas leases are accounted for as a reduction in the capitalized amount of the leases.
General
We are an active independent oil and gas exploration company and through our subsidiary, Coastal Petroleum, we hold mineral rights in Montana and North Dakota in the oil producing region known as the Williston Basin. Our objective formations on those leases include the Lodgepole and the Eagle among others. The Company’s future growth will be driven primarily by exploration and development activities. Our business strategy is to increase shareholder value by acquiring and drilling reasonably priced prospects that have good potential, whether in the Williston Basin or in other parts of the United States, with the goal of shaping the Company into a producing independent oil and gas firm. We will continue to seek high quality exploration projects with potential for providing long-term drilling inventories that generate high returns.
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In Montana, we have obtained the rights to explore for oil and gas in one area which will be our primary area of focus. This primary area is a large assembly of leases covering approximately 32,313 net acres in Valley County, located in northeastern Montana close to known production from a Lodgepole reef. While the Company originally held a greater amount of acreage, some of those leases have expired. This area of Montana has a number of other producing formations in addition to the Lodgepole, including the Eagle sands. We also hold leases in southwestern North Dakota and have an agreement covering four Lodgepole prospects on those leases.
We continue to seek funding for our Drilling Program. The Drilling Program is an aggressive $9,500,000 exploration operation which would allow us to explore the potential of each of the areas we hold under lease. The Drilling Program covers exploration in three areas: a development Red River Formation prospect in Slope County, North Dakota, on approximately 400 acres we acquired; the drilling of three Lodgepole Formation prospects we have on our North Dakota Leases; and twelve step-out wells from the Federal 1-19 well on the Starbuck East prospect in Montana. The Company is proceeding with the relatively inexpensive process of permitting wells in its main block of leases in Valley County, Montana, in order to accommodate the drilling of the expected wells.
During 2009 and so far in 2010, we have been primarily focused on and engaged in raising capital to fund the Company so that we could recommence the exploration of our leases. Due to the recession and the fragile state of the country’s financial market, capital was a scarce commodity to obtain. While we contacted, met with and negotiated with various individuals and groups during the year, none were able to provide the capital necessary. While we were close to consummating an agreement with one entity and amended the articles of our subsidiary to be prepared to complete the transaction, the other party could not deliver the capital as promised. The combination of the broken deal and the state of the economy left the Company with no other viable alternative other than to sell shares of its common stock to raise capital necessary to remain a viable public company and to retain its most valuable leases. We sold a total of 1,191,333 shares of common stock and raised $67,500, while continuing to search for the capital needed to fund our Drilling Plan.
On January 14, 2010, Robert J. Angerer, Sr., the chairman of the board of directors and vice president of the Company at the time, entered into a letter agreement for the funding of immediate cash needs and granted Mr. Angerer an option to fund the Company’s and Coastal’s future obligations. The agreement was similar to the deal that was not consummated by a third party during 2009. Under the agreement Mr. Angerer provided compensation to the Company including $300,000 cash and the forgiveness of $150,000 of legal fees owed to his law firm, Angerer & Angerer, forgiveness of $21,500 in director fees owed to him and credit of $240,000 to him for the completion of the Company’s purchase of leases on which there is a Red River oil and gas development prospect. In return, Mr. Angerer was issued 14,400,000 Rule 144 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock and was provided an option to further fund the Company under specific terms.
The agreement with Mr. Angerer provided up to four options for $3 million each, beginning three months after the date of the agreement and thereafter in three month intervals. In return for the funding, Mr. Angerer would earn up to a total of 36% of the Company’s operations in North Dakota and Montana in increments per exercised option and a
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20% interest in Coastal Petroleum. There was also one extension available to extend the time to exercise the first option for three months in exchange for the payment of $50,000, which was exercised April 29, 2010. The time period for exercising the option has since passed and the agreement is no longer in place, however, Mr. Angerer and the Company continued to discuss funding of the Company.
On August 26, 2010, after the January agreement expired, the Company entered into a separate letter agreement with Mr. Angerer for the sale of 8,000,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock for $400,000, to be used for exploration, prospect acquisition and operating costs. Approximately $250,000 of the proceeds from the sale of the stock is to be used to drill a test well on Coastal’s Starbuck East shallow gas prospect in Valley County, Montana and another $40,000 is to be used to acquire additional Lodgepole prospects in North Dakota.
We have acquired four additional high-graded Lodgepole Reef prospects in North Dakota for $20,000. We have also begun drilling an exploratory shallow gas well on our Starbuck East prospect. We continue to search for capital in order to secure capital to fund our Drilling Program.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Liquidity
The Company has $359,000 of available cash, excluding certificate of deposits pledged for drilling permits, at September 30, 2010. The Company had $9,000 of available cash at December 31, 2009. Our current liabilities exceed our current assets by approximately $710,000 at September 30, 2010. We have suspended payments to our directors, general legal counsel, and employee since the second quarter of 2007 and have accrued approximately $928,000 in expenses to them as of September 30, 2010. We expect to continue to suspend payments to these parties until sufficient funding can be secured to resume exploration operations and cover normal operating expenses. In January 2010, we received $290,000 in cash from Mr. Angerer and forgiveness of $171,500 of amounts owed to him or credits for amounts remaining to be paid to acquire leases, in exchange for the issuance of common stock and an option to further fund the Company. In April 2010, we received $50,000 from the exercise of this contract extension from Mr. Angerer. In June 2010, we received $20,000 from the sale of common stock which was applied to lease payments of approximately $27,398 that were due and were paid in June 2010. In August 2010, we received $400,000 from Mr. Angerer in exchange for the issuance of 8,000,000 shares of common stock. Our next lease rental payments are due on June 1, 2011, in the amount of $27,300.
We are actively engaged in pursuing funding for our Drilling Program. The Program is an aggressive $9,500,000 exploration operation which would allow us to explore the potential of each of the areas we hold under lease. The Drilling Program covers exploration in three areas: a development Red River Formation prospect in Slope County, North Dakota, on approximately 400 acres we acquired; the drilling of three Lodgepole Formation prospects we have on our North Dakota Leases; and twelve step out wells from the Federal 1-19 well on the Starbuck East prospect in Montana. The Company is proceeding with the relatively inexpensive process of permitting wells in its main block of leases in Valley County, Montana, in order to accommodate the drilling of the expected wells. Meanwhile, with the funds raised in the recent sale of stock, we have begun drilling an exploratory well on our Starbuck East shallow gas prospect.
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As of September 30, 2010, we had no revenues, had recurring losses prior to 2005 and since 2005, and had an accumulated deficit during the development stage. Our current cash position is not adequate to fund existing operations or exploration and development of its oil and gas properties. These situations raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
Capital Resources
In North Dakota, we control the working interest on approximately 1,280 net acres in Slope, Billings, and Stark Counties, on which a number of drillable prospects have been mapped to date. The depth of wells in North Dakota is greater than in Montana (approximately 9,500 feet versus approximately 5,000 feet), and thus the cost of drilling is higher. A typical North Dakota wildcat well costs about $1.75 million to drill. We had originally intended to bring in others to share the risk and investment in wells it drills in North Dakota until the Company is in a stronger financial position, but are now actively seeking funding to allow us to begin such exploration on our own.
If our funding efforts are successful, we plan to drill or participate in as many as sixteen exploratory wells under our Drilling Plan. However, the number of wells that we drill in 2010 and their cost will be subject to various factors, including whether or not we can obtain sufficient funding to carry out the Drilling Program, the availability of drilling rigs that we can hire and whether we drill alone or with other participants. In addition, we could reduce the number of wells that we drill if oil and natural gas prices were to decline significantly. We expect the cost of drilling the sixteen wells to depend upon many factors, including those above, which may affect the cost of operations and whether and to what extent others participate with the Company.
We expect to continue to participate with others or to obtain sufficient funding to allow us to drill additional wells both in Montana and North Dakota on our own.
Results of Operations
Nine months ended September 30, 2010 vs. September 30, 2009
We did not conduct drilling activities during the first nine months of 2010 or 2009. Our efforts have been focused on soliciting funding or potential partners for our Drilling Program. We reduced our legal fees by $36,000 per quarter beginning September 1, 2009, and our director’s fee expense by $12,500 per quarter effective April 1, 2009. Therefore, our expenses are primarily administrative and our 2010 expenses remained consistent with 2009 amounts.
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We did not conduct drilling activities in the third quarter of 2010 or 2009. Our efforts have been focused on soliciting funding or potential partners for our Drilling Program. We reduced our legal fees by $36,000 per quarter beginning June 1, 2009, and our director’s fee expense by $12,500 per quarter effective April 1, 2009. Therefore, our expenses are primarily administrative and our 2010 expenses remained consistent with 2009 amounts.
| ITEM 3 | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk |
The Company does not have any significant exposure to market risk as there were no investments in marketable securities at September 30, 2010.
| ITEM 4 | Controls and Procedures |
| a. | Management’s evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures. As required by Rule 13a-15(b) under the Exchange Act, management carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on that evaluation, management believes that, as of September 30, 2010, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, accumulated, processed, summarized, reported, and communicated on a timely basis within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. |
| b. | Changes in internal controls. The Company made no changes in its internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the Company’s third fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or which is reasonably likely to materially affect the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. |
| c. | Limitations on the Effectiveness of Controls. Our management, including our Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and internal controls will prevent all error and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of the control. |
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The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions; over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.
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| ITEM 1 | Legal Proceedings |
During the third quarter of 2009, the Company was involved as a defendant in a case entitled American Pipe & Supply Co. v. Coastal Petroleum Company, et.al, Cause No. DV 08-63, in the Montana Seventeenth Judicial District Court in Valley County, Montana. This claim is in relation to the failure of our farmee, F-Cross, who has filed for bankruptcy, to pay for pipe purchased from the Plaintiff to drill the State 7-16 well. The claim seeks relief against Coastal Petroleum: to foreclose an oil and gas lien on the single part of one lease involved which is held in Coastal Petroleum’s name; and damages for breach of contract and quantum meruit in the amount of about $80,000. Because the farmee has filed bankruptcy the proceeding is in abeyance. Coastal Petroleum has filed an answer and its counsel advises it is likely that only the claim to foreclose the lien should withstand a motion for summary judgment by Coastal Petroleum. While it is likely that the Plaintiff will obtain the lien, this lien would only apply to the small area under that specific lease that was drilled, which lease was transferred to F-Cross on September 27, 2007.
Except as described in the preceding paragraph, to the best knowledge of our management, there are no material litigation matters pending or threatened against us.
| ITEM 5 | Other Information |
The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, provides special rules for distributions received by U.S. holders on stock of a passive foreign investment company (PFIC), as well as amounts received from the sale or other disposition of PFIC stock. Under the PFIC rules, a non-U.S. corporation will be classified as a PFIC for U.S. federal income tax purposes in any taxable year in which, after applying certain look-through rules, either (1) at least 75 percent of its gross income is passive income or (2) at least 50 percent of the gross value of its assets is attributable to assets that produce passive income or are held for the production of passive income.
The Company believes that it would not be classified as a PFIC for the year 2009, because it derived the majority of its gross income in 2009 from the sale of interests in parts of its leases to other companies through farm-out agreements, and received a relatively small amount of interest the Company. However, the Company may have been considered a PFIC in previous years, which could result in negative tax consequences to a shareholder. The determination of whether the Company will be considered a PFIC for United States federal income tax purposes is an annual determination that cannot be made until the close of the fiscal year. Also, how the Company was classified last year does not affect how it will be classified this year.
If, for any taxable year, the Company’s passive income or assets that produce passive income exceed levels provided by U.S. law, the Company would be a “passive foreign investment company,” or PFIC, for U.S. federal income tax purposes. For the years 1987 through 2004 and in 2006, Coastal Caribbean’s passive income and assets that produce passive income exceeded those levels and for those years Coastal Caribbean constituted a PFIC. If Coastal Caribbean is a PFIC for any taxable year, then the Company’s U.S. shareholders potentially would be subject to adverse U.S. tax consequences of holding and disposing of shares of our common stock for that year and for future tax years. Any gain from
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the sale of, and certain distributions with respect to, shares of the Company’s common stock, would cause a U.S. holder to become liable for U.S. federal income tax under section 1291 of the Internal Revenue Code (the interest charge regime). The tax is computed by allocating the amount of the gain on the sale or the amount of the distribution, as the case may be, to each day in the U.S. shareholder’s holding period. To the extent that the amount is allocated to a year, other than the year of the disposition or distribution, in which the corporation was treated as a PFIC with respect to the U.S. holder, the income will be taxed as ordinary income at the highest rate in effect for that year, plus an interest charge.
For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009.
| ITEM 6 | Exhibits |
| 31.1 | Certification pursuant to Rule 13a-14 by Phillip W. Ware | |
| 32.1 | Certification pursuant to Section 906 by Phillip W. Ware | |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| COASTAL CARIBBEAN OILS & MINERALS, LTD. | ||||||
| Registrant | ||||||
| Date: November 11 2010 | By | /s/ Phillip W. Ware | ||||
| Phillip W. Ware | ||||||
| Chief Executive Officer, | ||||||
| President and Treasurer | ||||||
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