FAR Ltd has completed a placement to institutional and sophisticated investors to raise $46.7 million before expenses by issuing 424,961,685 shares. The capital raising follows the significant oil discovery in FAN-1, offshore Senegal with its partners Cairn Energy plc, ConocoPhillips and Petrosen.
The semi-submersible drilling unit "Cajun Express” used to drill the FAN-1 well has now mobilised to complete
the second exploration well in the Senegalese drilling program, SNE-1.
Cath Norman FAR managing director said, “We won very strong support for this capital raising. Given the state
of the market we are very pleased to have been oversubscribed with particularly strong support from Australian
institutions and our existing shareholders.”
“The discovery of oil in FAN-1 and an extended period of unscheduled maintenance have resulted in an increase
to the forecast cost of the Senegal drilling program that exceeds our funding cap for both wells. The additional
funds raised will now allow us to complete this very exciting drilling program.”
“The discovery of oil in FAN-1 has gone some way to increasing the chance of success in the SNE-1 well so we
eagerly await the results from this next well and hope to repeat the success of FAN-1. FAR also looks forward to
advancing our other exploration ventures in Kenya, Guinea Bissau and Australia and embarking on new
ventures.”
This capital raising leaves FAR with approximately A$85 million of cash and in a very strong position from which
to complete our near term corporate objectives.”
The placement was arranged by Bell Potter Securities Limited as Sole Lead Manager.
The price per new share of 11 cents under the placement represents an 18.5% discount to the company’s latest
market price on the ASX and a 10.3% discount to the 10 day volume weighted average price on the ASX.
Upon completion of the placement, the placement shares will represent approximately 13.6% of the enlarged
share capital of the company, which will have 3,126,808,427 ordinary shares on issue. The placement shares,
when issued, will rank equally in all respects with the existing ordinary shares. Application will be made to the
ASX for the placement shares to be admitted to be quoted on the ASX. Settlement of the placement shares is
expected to occur on Friday 24 October 2014 with normal trading to occur on Monday 27 October 2014.
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