-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, EGoGOg2kNdmJ3HcDfLh8imWdTS8VWSQ4iMsh1QT+dxDYsmioMPhaZ8Al+3WTfu4S MeHutwMCJuNXdpEuUCpQ5A== 0001077048-07-000196.txt : 20070417 0001077048-07-000196.hdr.sgml : 20070417 20070417165738 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001077048-07-000196 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 10-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 6 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20061231 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070417 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070417 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PETROL OIL & GAS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001109348 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311] IRS NUMBER: 900066187 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-30009 FILM NUMBER: 07771427 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CORPORATE WOODS, BUILDING 51 STREET 2: 9393 WEST 110TH STREET, SUITE 500 CITY: OVERLAND PARK STATE: KS ZIP: 66210 BUSINESS PHONE: 913-323-4925 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: CORPORATE WOODS, BUILDING 51 STREET 2: 9393 WEST 110TH STREET, SUITE 500 CITY: OVERLAND PARK STATE: KS ZIP: 66210 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: EURO TECHNOLOGY OUTFITTERS DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20000315 10-K 1 poig-10k_123106.htm Filed by Securities Law Institute EDGAR Services (888) 546-6454 - Petrol Oil & Gas - 10-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-K

 

x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006

 

o TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Commission File Number: 000-30009

 

PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Nevada

 

90-0066187

(State or other jurisdiction of

 

(I.R.S. Employer

incorporation or organization)

 

Identification No.)

 

Corporate Woods Building 51, 9393 West 110th Street,

Suite 500, Overland Park, Kansas 66210

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(913) 323-4925

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Copies of Communications to:

Stoecklein Law Group

402 West Broadway, Suite 400

San Diego, CA 92101

(619) 595-4882

Fax (619) 595-4883

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:

None

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act:

Common Stock, $0.001 par value

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

Yes o  No x

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

Yes o  No x

 

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.

 

Yes x No o

 


Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.         o

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer ____

Accelerated filer ____

Non-accelerated filer    X      

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

 

Yes o

No x

 

As of June 30, 2006, the aggregate market value of the registrant’s voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant was $34,803,925.25 based on the closing sale price of the registrant’s common stock on the over-the-counter securities market through the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation Bulletin Board System.

 

The number of shares of Common Stock, $0.001 par value, outstanding on April 9, 2007 was 29,090,926 shares.

 


PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

 

FORM 10-K

 

For The Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2006

 

INDEX

 

PART I

Page

 

 

 

Item 1.

Business

5

Item 1A.

Risk Factors

17

Item 1B.

Unresolved Staff Comments

31

Item 2.

Properties

31

Item 3.

Legal Proceedings

34

Item 4.

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

34

 

 

 

PART II

 

 

 

 

 

Item 5.

Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

35

Item 6.

Selected Financial Data

39

Item 7.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation

39

Item 7A.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

56

Item 8.

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

57

Item 9.

Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.

57

Item 9A.

Controls and Procedures

57

Item 9B.

Other Information

57

 

 

 

PART III

 

 

 

 

 

Item 10.

Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

58

Item 11.

Executive Compensation

63

Item 12.

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

68

Item 13.

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

70

Item 14.

Principal Accountant Fees and Services

71

 

 

 

PART IV

 

 

 

 

 

Item 15.

Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules

72

 

 


FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This document contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact are “forward-looking statements” for purposes of federal and state securities laws, including, but not limited to, any projections of earnings, revenue or other financial items; any statements of the plans, strategies and objections of management for future operations; any statements concerning proposed new services or developments; any statements regarding future economic conditions or performance; any statements or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing.

 

Forward-looking statements may include the words “may,” “could,” “estimate,” “intend,” “continue,” “believe,” “expect” or “anticipate” or other similar words. These forward-looking statements present our estimates and assumptions only as of the date of this report. Except for our ongoing securities laws, we do not intend, and undertake no obligation, to update any forward-looking statement.

 

Although we believe that the expectations reflected in any of our forward-looking statements are reasonable, actual results could differ materially from those projected or assumed in any or our forward-looking statements. Our future financial condition and results of operations, as well as any forward-looking statements, are subject to change and inherent risks and uncertainties. The factors impacting these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to:

 

 

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increased competitive pressures from existing competitors and new entrants;

 

o

increases in interest rates or our cost of borrowing or a default under any material debt agreements;

 

o

deterioration in general or regional economic conditions;

 

o

adverse state or federal legislation or regulation that increases the costs of compliance, or adverse findings by a regulator with respect to existing operations;

 

o

hedging risks;

 

o

ability to attract and retain key personnel;

 

o

inability to achieve future sales levels or other operating results;

 

o

fluctuations of oil and gas prices;

 

o

the unavailability of funds for capital expenditures; and

 

o

operational inefficiencies in distribution or other systems.

 

For a detailed description of these and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement, please see Item 1A. Risk Factors in this document.

 

In this Form 10-K references to “PETROL”, “the Company”, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC. and its subsidiaries

 

 

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Throughout this document we may use certain terms or phrases that are specific to the oil and gas industry. We have included a glossary containing these terms and phrases. We encourage you to refer to the glossary to gain a better understanding of industry terms used throughout this filing.

 

GLOSSARY

 

Term

Definition

 

 

Adsorb

A process by which molecules are taken up on the surface of a solid by physical or chemical action. Large amounts of gases may be adsorbed on the surface of a porous material such as coal.

 

 

Barrel

In the energy industry, a barrel is a unit of volume measurement used for petroleum and is equivalent to 42 U.S. gallons measured at 60 ° Fahrenheit.

 

 

Basin

A depressed area where sediments have accumulated during geologic time and considered to be prospective for oil and gas deposits.

 

 

Blowout

An uncontrolled flow of oil, gas, water or mud from a wellbore caused when drilling activity penetrates a rock layer with natural pressures greater than the drilling mud in the borehole.

 

 

Coal rank

The classification of coal relative to other coals, according to their degree of metamorphism, or progressive alteration, in the natural series from lignite to anthracite. Synonymous with coal quality.

 

 

Coalification process

A progressive process (bacterial decay and heat) that turns decayed plant material (peat) into the various ranks of coal. The first stage (peat to lignite) is decay and the remaining stages are thermal. The major by-products are methane, carbon dioxide, and water.

 

 

Completion / Completing

A well made ready to produce oil or natural gas. Completion involves cleaning out the well, running and cementing steel casing in the hole, adding permanent surface control equipment, and perforating the casing so oil or gas can flow into the well and be brought to the surface.

 

 

Desorb

The release of materials (e.g., gas molecules) from being adsorbed onto a surface. The opposite of adsorb.

 

 

Development

The phase in which a proven oil or gas field is brought into production by drilling production (development) wells.

 

 

Division order

A contract for the sale of oil or gas, by the holder of a revenue interest in a well or property, to the purchaser (often a pipeline transmission company).

 

 

Drilling

The using of a rig and crew for the drilling, suspension, production testing, capping, plugging and abandoning, deepening, plugging back, sidetracking, redrilling or reconditioning of a well. Contrast to “Completion” definition.

 

 

Drilling logs

Recorded observations made of rock chips cut from the formation by the drill bit, and brought to the surface with the mud, as well as rate of penetration of the drill bit through rock formations. Used by geologists to obtain formation data.

 

 

 

 

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Exploration

The phase of operations which covers the search for oil or gas by carrying out detailed geological and geophysical surveys followed up where appropriate by exploratory drilling. Compare to “Development” phase.

 

 

Farm out

Assignment or partial assignment of an oil and gas lease from one lessee to another lessee

 

 

Gathering line / system

A pipeline that transports oil or gas from a central point of production to a transmission line or mainline.

 

 

Gross acre

An acre in which a working interest is owned. The number of gross acres is the total number of acres in which a working interest is owned

 

 

Gross well

A well in which a working interest is owned. The number of gross wells is the total number of wells in which a working interest is owned.

 

 

Held-By-Production (HBP)

Refers to an oil and gas property under lease, in which the lease continues to be in force, because of production from the property.

 

 

Land services

Services performed by an oil and gas company or agent, or landman, who negotiates oil and gas leases with mineral owners, cures title defects, and negotiates with other companies on agreements concerning the lease.

 

 

Logging (electric logging)

Process of lowering sensors into a wellbore to acquire downhole recordings that indicate a well’s rock formation characteristics and indications of hydrocarbons

 

 

Methane

An organic chemical compound of hydrogen and carbon (i.e., hydrocarbon), with the simplest molecular structure (CH4)

 

 

Mineral Lease

A legal instrument executed by a mineral owner granting exclusive right to another to explore, drill, and produce oil and gas from a piece of land

 

 

Natural gas quality

The value of natural gas is calculated by its BTU content. A cubic foot of natural gas on the average gives off 1000 BTU, but the range of values is between 500 and 1500 BTU. Energy content of natural gas is variable and depends on its accumulations which are influenced by the amount and types of energy gases they contain: the more non-combustible gases in a natural gas, the lower the Btu value.

 

 

Net acre

A net acre is deemed to exist when the sum of fractional working interests owned in gross acres equals one. The number of net acres is the sum of fractional working interests owned in gross acres expressed as whole numbers and fractions thereof.

 

 

Net well

A net well is deemed to exist when the sum of fractional working interests owned in gross wells equals one. The number of net wells is the sum of fractional working interests owned in gross wells expressed as whole numbers and fractions thereof.

 

 

Operator

A person, acting for himself or as an agent for others and designated to the state authorities as the one who has the primary responsibility for complying with its rules and regulations in any and all acts subject to the jurisdiction of the state

 

 

Pennsylvanian age

Geologic age of sediments deposited 320 to 286 million years ago

 

 

 

 

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Permeability

The property of a rock formation which quantifies the flow of a fluid through the pore spaces and into the wellbore.

Pooled, Pooled Unit

A term frequently used interchangeably with “Unitization” but more properly used to denominate the bringing together of small tracts sufficient for the granting of a well permit under applicable spacing rules.

 

 

Proved Reserves

Estimated quantities of crude oil, natural gas, condensate, or other hydrocarbons that geological and engineering data demonstrate with reasonable certainty to be commercially recoverable in the future from known reservoirs under existing conditions using established operating procedures and under current governmental regulations.

 

 

Re-completion

Completion of an existing well for production from one formation or reservoir to another formation or reservoir that exists behind casing of the same well.

 

 

Reserves

Generally the amount of oil or gas in a particular reservoir that is available for production.

 

 

Reservoir

The underground rock formation where oil and gas has accumulated. It consists of a porous rock to hold the oil or gas, and a cap rock that prevents its escape

 

 

Reservoir Pressure

The pressure at the face of the producing formation when the well is shut-in. It equals the shut in pressure at the wellhead plus the weight of the column of oil in the hole.

 

 

Shut-in well

A well which is capable of producing but is not presently producing. Reasons for a well being shut-in may be lack of equipment, market or other.

 

 

Stratigraphic Trap

A variety of sealed geologic containers capable of retaining hydrocarbons, formed by changes in rock type or pinch-outs, unconformities, or sedimentary features.

 

 

Structural Trap

A variety of sealed geologic structures capable of retaining hydrocarbons, such as a faults or a folds.

 

 

Tight gas sandstones

Low permeability (having lower capacity to flow fluids through pore spaces) sedimentary rocks with natural gas occurring in the pore spaces. Contrast to high permeability sandstone definition.

 

 

Undeveloped acreage

Leased acreage which has yet to be drilled on to test the potential for hydrocarbons.

 

 

Unitize, Unitization

Joint operations to maximize produced hydrocarbon recovery among separate operators within a common reservoir

 

 

Western Interior Basin

Ancient inland sea and area of sediment deposition which divided North America into two separate landmasses in the Late Cretaceous Period, approximately 75 to 80 million years ago.

 

 

Working Interest

The right granted to the lessee of a property to explore for and to produce and own oil, gas, or other minerals. The working interest owners bear the exploration, development, and operating costs on either a cash, penalty, or carried basis.

 

 

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PART I

 

ITEM 1.

BUSINESS

 

General Development of Business

 

Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc. was incorporated in the State of Nevada in March of 2000 as Euro Technology Outfitters. On August 19, 2002 we acquired approximately 289 oil and gas mineral leases from Petrol Energy, and concurrently changed our name to Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc. Our common stock trades on the over-the-counter securities market through the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation Bulletin Board System, under the trading symbol “POIG”.

 

Business of Issuer

 

We are an oil and gas exploration, development and production company. Our properties are located in the Cherokee and Forrest City Basins along the Kansas and Missouri border. Our corporate strategy is to continue building value in the Company through the development and acquisition of gas and oil assets that exhibit consistent, predictable, and long-lived production. Our current focus is Coal Bed Methane reservoirs in the central U.S., which produce both Coal Bed Methane (“CBM”) and at times conventional gas.

 

We have consolidated a strong lease position in CBM that contains quality proven gas reserves, some of which are adjacent to interstate pipeline systems which provide ready access to sales markets for our produced gas. Beginning in 2005 our focus turned to developing and producing the company’s leases so as to realize the value held within their reserves. With approximately 165,000 gross leased acres (132,000 net acres) as of December 31, 2006 the task of developing the properties with wells on 160 acre spacing could involve emplacing in excess of 1,000 production wells. Petrol holds a 100 % working interest and an average 80% net revenue interest in these leases and Petrol is the operator of all of its producing properties.

 

During 2006, Petrol’s total gas production was approximately 1.038 Billion cubic feet (Bcf) (0.831 net to Petrol) as compared to 2005 when its gas production totaled approximately 0.969 Bcf (0.812 net to Petrol). This represents an increase of approximately 2.33% and is the result of implementing our 2005-2006 development plan. With a mix of daily gas pricing and fixed forward pricing contracts or hedges Petrol’s revenues rose to $6,532,798.

 

In order to develop this large resource base we have segregated our leases into five separate Projects which include:

 

 

1.

Petrol-Neodesha Project - 10,000 gross acre (8,000 net acres) with approximately 104 production wells and 8 salt water disposal (SWD) wells.

 

2.

Coal Creek Project - current development of about 92,000 gross acres (73,000 net acres) with 51 production wells, 5 salt water disposal wells and gas gathering infrastructure.

 

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3.

Pomona Project – 35,000 gross acres (28,000 net acres) with 17 shut in production wells, 1 salt water disposal well and some gas gathering infrastructure.

 

4.

Missouri Project – 18,000 gross acres (12,000 net acres) with 5 test/evaluation wells.

 

5.

Oil Field Projects – 10,000 gross acres.

 

Coal Creek Project

 

The Coal Creek Project, centered in Coffey County, Kansas, includes leases covering about 92,000 gross acres. In October 2005 we finalized an agreement and other documents whereby Laurus Master Funds, Ltd. would provide a debt facility of up to $50,000,000 with the first $10,000,000 received in November 2005. In March 2006 we received the second installment of $5,000,000 and in May of 2006 we received the third installment of $10,000,000.

 

The Coal Creek development plan is based upon drilling and completing some 540 wells along with three gas gathering pipelines and gas processing systems. To better manage the development of this large acreage position and take advantage of the three interstate pipelines that cross our leases, we divided the project into three fully self contained areas:

 

 

1.

Burlington Area – about 15,000 gross acres located in southwestern Coffey County, Kansas. This was our assessment area in which we drilled our first test wells.

 

2.

Waverly Area – about 40,000 gross acres located in northeastern Coffey County, Kansas, Southern Osage County and Western Anderson County, Kansas.

 

3.

Lebo Area – about 37,000 acres located in northwestern Coffey County, Kansas.

 

The full development plan is expected to be executed in multiple phases. The pace of the development will obviously depend on the availability of the financing program, lender restrictions, general economic conditions, and potential other factors relevant to this type of development plan.

 

The first phase of our Coal Creek development plan included the drilling and completion of 32 production wells and 2 salt water disposal (SWD) wells in the Burlington area. These initial Phase 1 Burlington wells were incrementally connected to Petrol’s Coal Creek gas gathering, compressor and gas processing system as well as its salt water disposal system. Gas transport and sales, as well as testing and integration of these wells with the Enbridge Interstate pipeline began in April 2006.

 

Phase I development in the Waverly area began during the first quarter of 2006 and included drilling and completing 19 CBM production wells and 1 SWD well. By mid June, our new Waverly gas gathering pipeline system was integrated with these 19 production wells and our gas compressor station. Our field operations emplaced a second high pressure tap on the Enbridge Interstate Pipeline along with gas sales monitoring systems. By year end 2 new production wells were included in the Waverly area bringing the total to 21 production wells. All 21 Waverly production wells are in various stages of de-watering, as in Burlington.

 

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During the second half of 2006 it became evident that water production rates from the producing coal seams in both Burlington and Waverly were higher than anticipated and thus two additional salt water disposal wells were drilled, one in Burlington and one in Waverly. In early October after receiving approval from the Kansas Corporation Commission to operate both new SWD’s they were integrated into the production system. The inclusion of these new SWD’s has almost doubled the available salt water disposal capacity in Burlington and Waverly.

 

To further our understanding of the water and gas production mechanisms from these multiple coal seams Petrol has concentrated its technical efforts on a cluster of 5-6 closely spaced wells in Burlington and Waverly. Our objective is to de-water these wells and the area around these wells as quickly and efficiently as possible thus exposing the gas bearing coal seams directly to the wellbore. The methodology being employed to attain that objective includes:

 

 

increasing the size of the downhole pumps in order to produce as much water as the well can possibly produce.

 

employing new chemical additives and stronger pump rods that are anticipated to reduce down time and permit sustained and continuous de-watering periods.

 

gathering daily detailed measurements of these wells behavior which is captured and reviewed by the technical staff on a weekly basis.

 

Although the data from these cluster wells is being analyzed it is clear that the permeability of the coal beds manifested by early water production is high and therefore desorbed gas should also be capable of flowing to the wellbore through the same permeable fracture or cleat system. CBM gas production although still relatively modest appears to show improvement as water pressure is reduce in the wellbore and as the coal beds and the fracture system de-water.

 

The entire Coal Creek development plan includes drilling and completing about 540 production wells and adding one more gas gathering pipeline and gas processing system to the existing two systems. The timing and the extent of the development will obviously depend on the availability of the financing program, the economic and technical conclusions based on the analysis of our testing program and favorable market conditions

 

Petrol-Neodesha Project

 

Our gas producing leases known as Petrol-Neodesha, in the Neosho and Wilson counties, account for approximately 10,000 of the total 165,000 gross leased acres.

 

Gas production from Petrol-Neodesha during 2006 amounted to about 0.998 Bcf (0.793 Bcf net to Petrol) as compared to about 0.969 Bcf (0.770 Bcf net to Petrol) for 2005. This represents roughly a 2.95% increase year over year.

 

The Petrol-Neodesha project includes 104 CBM production wells, 8 SWD wells and a fully contained and integrated gas gathering pipeline and gas processing system. On average 101 of the 104 CBM producing wells are in active production. Our development plan is currently

 

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being implemented that includes drilling additional wells, improving and re-completing existing wells and enhancing the gas gathering system. This plan was designed to serve as the blueprint to enhance the Net Asset Value of these properties, increase production revenue and provide knowledge for development of remaining leases in this and our other Project areas. These Petrol-Neodesha properties have provided us with the bulk of our revenue stream and value in proven producing reserves.

 

In the spring and summer of 2005 we implemented Phase I of our Neodesha development plan that involved expanding the production capacity of our existing gas gathering pipeline system and drilling several new production wells. Pipeline enhancements included adding approximately 3.5 miles of high capacity gas gathering pipeline and strategically incorporating 2 new booster stations to reduce pipeline pressure as well as to provide a higher level of compressor redundancy. In addition, the reduced pipeline pressure was designed to increase production from existing production wells and in fact overall field production was found to increase by about 425 Mcfd. Furthermore, the capacity of the main pipeline gathering lines was doubled and will serve to accommodate production from 50 to 100 new development and re-completion wells. We also incorporated a new gas processing unit into our Neodesha pipeline system to support growing gas sales and enhance gas quality.

 

The second element of the Phase I development plan involved drilling a series of new multi-zone CBM production wells throughout the year. Since January 1, 2006, Petrol has re-completed or drilled 17 new multi-zone production wells on its Petrol-Neodesha properties, with a 100% success rate. These new wells are connected to Petrol’s gas gathering pipeline and gas processing system for further transport of produced gas through the Southern Star Interstate pipeline to our sales market.

 

The Neodesha development plan involves implementing a program employing advanced stimulation methodologies and staged re-completion techniques. The program is designed to improve our overall understanding of the effectiveness of multi-zone stimulations and their ability to enhance production and reduce stimulation costs. Petrol is actively involved in executing the data acquisition portion of this plan. Petrol has employed outside consultants with expertise in fracture stimulation of un-conventional reservoirs such as CBM to support our efforts in this technical program.

 

Overall gas production in 2006 was an all time high amounting to about 0.998 Bcf. Based on our current field performance and production levels, we plan to aggressively develop future production activities and lease acquisitions in and around Petrol-Neodesha.

 

Pomona Project

 

Located primarily in Franklin County, Kansas the Pomona Project includes leases covering about 35,000 acres. There are about 17 shut in production wells, a salt water disposal well and portions of a gas gathering infrastructure. Two interstate pipeline systems cross through our leases.

 

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Because Petrol remains committed to first developing Petrol-Neodesha and Coal Creek, the development and lease renewal of this Pomona project has been deferred pending financing opportunities or interested developmental partners

 

Missouri Project

 

Located in Cass and Bates Counties, Missouri, our Missouri Project includes leases covering about 15,000 gross acres. We drilled and tested 5 evaluation wells on our lease that abut or are in close proximity to an interstate pipeline system.

 

Currently Petrol’s Missouri leases amount to about 15,000 gross acres, however since Petrol has focused most of its resources in Petrol-Neodesha and the development of Coal Creek the development and lease renewal of these Missouri properties has been deferred pending financing opportunities or interested developmental partners.

 

Oil Field Project

 

Petrol holds a 100% working interest in several oil producing properties in eastern Kansas that produced approximately 22,249 barrels of oil (bbl) during 2006 (17,954 bbl net to Petrol). The oil producing wells on these properties and in the surrounding areas are generally defined as stripper wells and usually produce under the influence of a water flood.

 

Oil production from these wells is very dependent on weather conditions and the continuous injection of water in the water flood. As a consequence, production during winter months is often curtailed by cold weather particularly by freezing and during periods when rain fall is limited thereby reducing the amount of water that might be available for water flooding. As a consequence, monthly oil production varies considerably depending on the season and prevailing weather conditions.

 

Petrol continues to operate and improve these oil properties as efficiently and economically as possible. We employ contract pumpers to monitor and maintain production and local service companies to perform supportive maintenance on the wellbores and pumping equipment.

 

Although November and December of 2006 in eastern Kansas were not particularly plagued by continuous cold or freezing weather that changed significantly in Jan and Feb 2007 and the freezing weather tended to reduce production often by as much as 50%. These are not unusual circumstances for the Kansas plains and we expect production to increase as the milder spring weather approaches.

 

The Market: Natural Gas Supply and Demand

 

Petrol believes that the rising oil and gas prices, combined with geopolitical instability and soaring demand from burgeoning economies in China and India have increased the intrinsic value of predictable, secure, North American reserves, and we expect this trend to continue in light of tensions in the Middle East and certain other foreign countries (e.g., Venezuela, Nigeria).

 

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The National Petroleum council estimates the US demand for natural gas to increase from 22 Trillion cubic feet (TCF) in 1998 to over 31 TCF by 2015. This nearly 50% increase in demand for natural gas coupled with constrained supplies from conventional sources and storage facilities suggests an urgent need for new gas sources. Although conventional gas sources such as high permeability sandstones supply about 60% of the US demand (13 TCF in 1998), projections indicate a flat to declining supply through year 2015. The shortfall in conventional gas supply is expected to be taken up by production from un-conventional sources such as tight gas sandstones/shales, associated gas, and CBM.

 

CBM shows great promise as a future source of natural gas, with the US Geological Survey estimating some 700 TCF contained in 6 major CBM basins in the continental US. This constitutes an enormous reserve, almost the entire US demand for the next 25 years. The Western Interior Basin covering portions of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri is one of those 6 major basins. The Gas Research Institute estimates CBM gas reserves in the Forrest City and Cherokee basin, the two sub-basins of the Western Interior Basin, contain approximately 7 TCF. Petrol’s leases all lie within one or both of these sub-basins

 

Given the current volatility of the natural gas market, hedging has become a part of Petrol’s operating strategy. We believe the current supply and demand fundamentals will lead to a strengthening in prices. Consequently, Petrol intends to continually evaluate its hedge position, if any, and enter into contracts accordingly.

 

CBM Production

 

CBM production is similar to conventional natural gas production in terms of the physical production facilities and the product produced. However, surface mechanics and some production characteristics of CBM wells are quite different from traditional natural gas production wells. Methane gas is created as part of the coalification process. Coals vary in their methane gas content which is defined by the industry as cubic feet of gas per ton of coal. Conventional natural gas wells assume a porous and permeable reservoir, hydrocarbon migration and a natural structural or stratigraphic trap. However, CBM is trapped in the molecular structure of the coal itself until it is released by pressure changes, resulting from water removal from the coal-bed.

 

Water completely permeates coal-beds and the natural fracture system or cleats as they are normally referred. In good producing areas the cleats are pervasive throughout the coal-beds. CBM gas, principally methane, is adsorbed onto the grain surfaces of the coal. To produce CBM, the water must be drawn off first, lowering the pressure so that the methane gas will desorb from the coal thus allowing gas to flow from the coal into the de-watered cleats that act as high permeable conduits to the well bore, where gas can be produced at the well head. These cleats are assumed to have been formed during the coalification and uplifting processes. If cleat permeability is adequately developed it may allow commercial quantities of methane gas to be produced from the well. The qualities of productive CBM wells include coal quality, the content of natural gas per ton of coal, thickness of the coal-beds, reservoir pressure, existence of natural fractures, and overall permeability of the coal-bed.

 

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CBM production also differs from conventional gas production that normally starts at its highest production rate and then declines with time. Because coal-beds have water residing within the cleats, the water needs to be withdrawn in order to promote production of the adsorbed gases. Thus, for the case of CBM, initial water production is high and diminishes with time. CBM gas production, however, starts at a relatively low rate reaching a peak some months later and then begins to decline.

 

CBM production is attractive due to several geological factors. Coal stores six or seven times as much gas as a conventional natural gas reservoir of equal rock volume due to the large internal surface area of coal. Significant amounts of coal are accessible at shallow depths, making well drilling and completion relatively inexpensive. Finding costs are also low since methane occurs in coal deposits, and the location of the Nation’s coal resources is well defined by the USGS.

 

Corporate Business Objectives

 

Petrol’s primary business objective is to create value in the company through the production of economic quantities of natural gas from CBM and other producible intervals. In the 6 major US CBM basins, the coal-beds vary greatly in thickness, quality and gas content. They also range in depths from very near surface, less than 500 ft, to very deep, greater than 25,000 ft. The difficulty, risks and costs associated with extracting CBM from deep formations increases quite rapidly and nonlinearly with depth. Average depth for a well in the areas where Petrol holds leases range between 600 ft and 1,700 ft.

 

Petrol intends to achieve its objective of continuously creating value by:

 

 

(a)

Establishing suitable scaled and financed development programs to realize commercial production from proven reserves on our existing leased acreage.

 

(b)

Determining the appropriate financing and development methods to realize production from probable reserves in relative close proximity to our existing proven leased acreage.

 

(c)

Assessing farm out arrangements for non core leases or geographies.

 

(d)

Adding mineral leases in core areas to achieve economies of scale, while continually selling marginal and non strategic leased properties.

 

(e)

Acquiring and developing potentially high profit margin leased properties, including producing oil and gas fields.

 

(f)

Enhancing the value of our production through the use of marketing arrangements and forward sales of known production.

 

Developmental Program

 

Petrol acquired leases in the Forrest City and Cherokee Basins because the leased area had the following attributes:

 

 

relatively shallow CBM (<2,500 ft),

 

good coal rank, gas content and distribution within the basin,

 

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low cost mineral leases,

 

access to interstate pipeline systems, and

 

nearby oil and gas services.

 

The Western Interior Province located in the mid-continent, where the Petrol leases are located, shows great promise because the sub-basins embody an extensive aerial distribution of shallow buried coal-beds, sizeable portions appear to contain large quantities of high quality natural gas and have several readily available interstate pipelines for sales and distribution. It appeared that an area well suited for Petrol’s Coal Creek Project was in and around Coffey County, Kansas, where gas bearing coals are contained within the Forrest City and Cherokee basins, sub-basins of the larger Western Interior basin.

 

Since portions of Petrol’s acquired mineral leases have existing oil or gas wells, some of them are being considered for re-completion in sandstones or other conventional type reservoirs and coal-beds that appear economically productive. These will add to our knowledge base and may provide financial support for anticipated expansion. This developmental strategy is exemplified in our Petrol-Neodesha project which produced approximately 0.998 Bcf during 2006 or about 0.794Bcf of net production to Petrol.

 

Leasing Activities

 

As of December 31, 2006, we have about 900 signed lease agreements totaling approximately 165,000 gross acres (137,000 net acres). These leases are contained within Coffey County, Kansas and the adjacent counties of Anderson, Osage, Lyon, Franklin, Woodson, Wilson and Neosho as well as Cass and Bates counties in western Missouri. In the event that we are successful in the development phase of our plan and find commercially producible gas or oil, we intend to lease additional available mineral rights to the extent that we believe such land will further our exploration and development activities and provide increased value to Petrol.

 

All of the mineral leases that Petrol has executed grant it the exclusive right to explore for and develop oil, gas and other hydrocarbons and minerals that may be produced from wells drilled on the leased property without any depth restrictions. Each lease also grants us rights of way to easements for laying pipelines and servicing or drilling other wells in the vicinity of the leased property.

 

Our lease agreements vary both in term and price per acre. Some of our leases are for 2 year periods at $2/acre with extensions for 3 additional years, others are for 3 year periods at $3/acre with extensions for 3 additional years, while others are for 5 years at $1/acre with extensions for 3 additional years, and finally others are for 5 years at $10/acre with extensions for 3 additional years.

 

Our leases are on a paid up basis. Petrol has agreed to pay each lessor a royalty equal to 12.5% of any oil, gas or other minerals that may be produced from wells drilled on their leased property. In the event of a shut-in well capable of producing oil or gas, we have agreed to pay the lessor a royalty per net mineral acre. All the lease agreements allow Petrol to hold the lease with production.

 

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Petrol continually reviews its lease obligations to determine which leases it will not, or may not renew. As of the date of this filing, Petrol may not renew portions of its Coal Creek, Pomona or Missouri Project leases.

 

Under its leases, Petrol has the right to pool the leased property with other land owned or leased by it in the immediate vicinity for the production of oil or gas. With respect to shallow gas and associated hydrocarbons produced in conjunction therewith, we have the right to pool or unitize the leased properties into a development pool of a maximum of 3,000 acres if we have drilled at least 2 wells within the pooled unit no later than 1 year after the expiration of the primary term of the lease.

 

We have completed a standard due diligence process on our leased property, including obtaining a title or title insurance to confirm our rights to any oil, gas or other minerals produced pursuant to our leases. Our final interest in any oil, gas or other mineral that we produce may vary depending upon negotiations with the mineral owners, financers, if any, as well organizations that we may contract to perform drilling, completion and operating activities on our wells.

 

Petrol has rights to a 100% working interest in all of its leased acreage. A “working interest” is the operating interest that gives us, as the operator, the right to drill, produce and conduct operating activities on the property and a share of production. Petrol has a Net Revenue interest (NRI) between 79.5% and 84.375% on all leased acreage.

 

Until the acquisition of the Petrol-Neodesha, most of our capital expenditures were associated with the acquisition of oil and gas mineral leases, raising capital and administrative costs. Our strategy now shifts to that of realizing value from those expenditures through the drilling and production of our properties, starting in our proven reserve areas. We intend to continue to expand our lease base, as appropriate. The rate of development will be carefully designed to blend external financing with income from existing production and other sources.

 

Gas Purchase and Sale Agreement

 

To reduce our exposure to unfavorable changes in natural gas prices we utilize energy swaps in order to have a fixed-price contract. These contracts allow us to be able to predict with greater certainty the effective natural gas prices to be received for hedged production and benefit operating cash flows and earnings when market prices are less than the fixed prices provided under the contracts. However, we will not benefit from market prices that are higher than fixed prices in contracts for hedged production. If we are unable to provide the quantity that we have contracted for we will have to go to the open market to purchase the required amounts that we have contracted to provide.

 

In 2005, Petrol entered into contracts with Seminole Energy Services LLC to sell 60,000 mmbtu per month for the period of March 2005 to February 2006 at various fixed prices with the overall average price of $5.99. Additionally, Petrol had contracts with Virginia Power to sell certain of its gas production through March 2007 at various fixed prices with the overall average price of $8.13.

 

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From April 2007 through March 2008 Petrol has agreed to sell approximately 30,500 mmbtu at an average sales price of $7.32. The remainder of Petrol’s gas sales will be at current market price.

 

Governmental Regulations

 

Regulation of Oil and Natural Gas Production. Our oil and natural gas exploration, production and related operations, when developed, are subject to extensive rules and regulations promulgated by federal, state, tribal and local authorities and agencies. For example, some states in which we may operate require permits for drilling operations, drilling bonds and reports concerning operations and impose other requirements relating to the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. Such states may also have statutes or regulations addressing conservation matters, including provisions for the unitization or pooling of oil and natural gas properties, the establishment of maximum rates of production from wells, and the regulation of spacing, plugging and abandonment of such wells. Failure to comply with any such rules and regulations can result in substantial penalties. The regulatory burden on the oil and gas industry will most likely increase our cost of doing business and may affect our profitability. Although we believe we are currently in substantial compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, because such rules and regulations are frequently amended or reinterpreted, we are unable to predict the future cost or impact of complying with such laws. Significant expenditures may be required to comply with governmental laws and regulations and may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

 

Federal Regulation of Natural Gas. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) regulates interstate natural gas transportation rates and service conditions, which may affect the marketing of natural gas produced by us, as well as the revenues that may be received by us for sales of such production. Since the mid-1980’s, FERC has issued a series of orders, culminating in Order Nos. 636, 636-A and 636-B (“Order 636”), that have significantly altered the marketing and transportation of natural gas. Order 636 mandated a fundamental restructuring of interstate pipeline sales and transportation service, including the unbundling by interstate pipelines of the sale, transportation, storage and other components of the city-gate sales services such pipelines previously performed. One of FERC’s purposes in issuing the order was to increase competition within all phases of the natural gas industry. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit largely upheld Order 636 and the Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal from that decision. Generally, Order 636 has eliminated or substantially reduced the interstate pipelines’ traditional role as wholesalers of natural gas in favor of providing only storage and transportation service, and has substantially increased competition and volatility in natural gas markets.

 

The price we may receive from the sale of oil and natural gas liquids will be affected by the cost of transporting products to markets. Effective January 1, 1995, FERC implemented regulations establishing an indexing system for transportation rates for oil pipelines, which, generally, would index such rates to inflation, subject to certain conditions and limitations. We are not able to predict with certainty the effect, if any, of these regulations on our intended operations. However, the regulations may increase transportation costs or reduce well head prices for oil and natural gas liquids.

 

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Environmental Matters

 

Our operations and properties subject to extensive and changing federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to environmental protection, including the generation, storage, handling, emission, transportation and discharge of materials into the environment, and relating to safety and health. The recent trend in environmental legislation and regulation generally is toward stricter standards, and this trend will likely continue. These laws and regulations may:

 

require the acquisition of a permit or other authorization before construction or drilling commences and for certain other activities;

 

limit or prohibit construction, drilling and other activities on certain lands lying within wilderness and other protected areas; and

 

impose substantial liabilities for pollution resulting from our operations.

 

The permits required for our operations may be subject to revocation, modification and renewal by issuing authorities. Governmental authorities have the power to enforce their regulations, and violations are subject to fines or injunctions, or both. In the opinion of management, we are in substantial compliance with current applicable environmental laws and regulations, and have no material commitments for capital expenditures to comply with existing environmental requirements. Nevertheless, changes in existing environmental laws and regulations or in interpretations thereof could have a significant impact on us, as well as the oil and natural gas industry in general.

 

The Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) and comparable state statutes impose strict, joint and several liability on owners and operators of sites and on persons who disposed of or arranged for the disposal of “hazardous substances” found at such sites. It is not uncommon for the neighboring land owners and other third parties to file claims for personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by the hazardous substances released into the environment. The Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) and comparable state statutes govern the disposal of “solid waste” and “hazardous waste” and authorize the imposition of substantial fines and penalties for noncompliance. Although CERCLA currently excludes petroleum from its definition of “hazardous substance,” state laws affecting our operations may impose clean-up liability relating to petroleum and petroleum related products. In addition, although RCRA classifies certain oil field wastes as “non-hazardous,” such exploration and production wastes could be reclassified as hazardous wastes thereby making such wastes subject to more stringent handling and disposal requirements.

 

The Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) seeks to ensure that activities do not jeopardize endangered or threatened animal, fish and plant species, nor destroy or modify the critical habitat of such species. Under ESA, exploration and production operations, as well as actions by federal agencies, may not significantly impair or jeopardize the species or its habitat. ESA provides for criminal penalties for willful violations of the Act. Other statutes that provide protection to animal and plant species and that may apply to our operations include, but are not necessarily

 

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limited to, the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, the Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the National Historic Preservation Act. Although we believe that our operations will be in substantial compliance with such statutes, any change in these statutes or any reclassification of a species as endangered could subject us to significant expenses to modify our operations or could force us to discontinue certain operations altogether.

 

Competition

 

We compete with numerous other oil and gas exploration companies. Many of these competitors have substantially greater resources than we do. Should a larger and better financed company decide to directly compete with us, and be successful in its competitive efforts, our business could be adversely affected.

 

Personnel

 

We currently have eight full time employees and two part time employees as well as up to twelve contract personnel that support and operate our field operations. As drilling production activities increase, we intend to hire additional technical, operational and administrative personnel as appropriate. None of our employees are subject to any collective bargaining agreements; however, we have entered into an employment agreement with our CEO.

 

Consultants

 

On August 7, 2006, we renewed our consulting agreement with CEOcast, Inc., wherein CEOcast agreed to provide us with investor relations services. The term of the agreement is for one year. We agreed to compensate CEOcast $7,500 upon signing the agreement and 60,000 shares of our common stock. In addition, we will pay CEOcast $7,500 on or before the 7th day of each month during the term of the agreement. The 60,000 shares of common stock were issued to CEOcast on September 26, 2006.

 

On January 1, 2006, we entered into a consulting agreement with RJ Falkner & Company, Inc. for a period of one year. The consultant agreed to prepare two “Research Profile” reports and distribute such reports to over 10,000 investment professionals during the first twelve months of the agreement. We agreed to pay a retainer fee payable monthly, in advance, at a rate of $3,500 per month plus reimbursement of any expenses incurred in the provision of these services. In addition we agreed to grant the consultant a three year option to purchase 110,000 shares of our common stock at $1.76 per share.

 

Subsequent to year-end, our board of directors engaged the services of Duane Fadness, a current member of our board of directors, to assist in evaluating our field operations. Mr. Fadness will be paid $1,000 per day for services performed on our behalf along with being reimbursed for out of pocket costs and expenses.

 

Our proposed personnel structure could be divided into three broad categories: management and professional, administrative, and project field personnel. As in most small

 

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companies, the divisions between these three categories are somewhat indistinct, as employees are engaged in various functions as projects and work loads demand.

 

Available Information. Our Internet website address is www.petroloilandgas.com. Information contained on our website is not part of this report on Form 10-K. Our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K filed with (or furnished to) the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are available on our Internet website (in the “Investor Relations” section), free of charge, as soon as reasonably practicable after we file or furnish such material. Our governance documents are available in print to any stockholder that makes a written request to the Secretary of the Corporation at Corporate Woods, Building 51, 9393 West 110th Street, Suite 500, Overland Park, Kansas 66210.

 

ITEM 1A.

RISK FACTORS

 

Risks Associated with Laurus Funds Financing

 

We have substantial indebtedness to Laurus Master Fund, Ltd. which is secured by all of our assets. If an event of default occurs under the secured notes issued to Laurus Funds, Laurus Funds may foreclose on all of our assets and we may be forced to curtail our operations or sell some or all of our assets to repay the notes.

 

On October 28, 2004, we entered into an $8,000,000 credit facility with Laurus Master Fund, Ltd. pursuant to a secured convertible term note and related agreements. On October 31, 2005, we entered into a $50 million credit facility with Laurus Master Fund, Ltd., pursuant to a secured note and related agreements whereby we received an initial $10,000,000. On March 31, 2006, we entered into agreements with Laurus Master Fund, Ltd. to draw down an additional $5,000,000 under the credit facility provided by Laurus on October 31, 2005. On May 31, 2006, we entered into agreements with Laurus Master Fund, Ltd. to draw down an additional $10,000,000 under the credit facility provided by Laurus on October 31, 2005. Subject to certain grace periods, the notes and agreements provide for the following events of default (among others):

 

 

Failure to pay interest and principal when due;

 

An uncured breach by us of any material covenant, term or condition in any of the notes or related agreements;

 

A breach by us of any material representation or warranty made in any of the notes or in any related agreement;

 

Any money judgment or similar final process is filed against us for more than $50,000;

 

Any form of bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding is instituted by or against us;

 

A change in control of our stock ownership or a majority change in control in our board of directors; and

 

Suspension of our common stock from our principal trading market for five consecutive days or five days during any ten consecutive days.

 

 

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                In the event of a future default under our agreements with Laurus Funds, Laurus Funds may enforce its rights as a secured party and we may lose all or a portion of our assets or be forced to materially reduce our business activities.

 

The issuance of shares to Laurus Funds upon conversion of the convertible term note and exercise of its warrants may cause immediate and substantial dilution to our existing stockholders.

 

The issuance of shares upon conversion of the convertible term note and exercise of warrants may result in substantial dilution to the interests of other stockholders. Laurus Funds may ultimately convert and sell the full amount issuable on conversion. Although Laurus Funds in some cases may not, subject to certain exceptions, convert their term note and/or exercise their warrants if such conversion or exercise would cause them to own more than 4.99% of our outstanding common stock, this restriction does not prevent Laurus Funds from converting and/or exercising some of their holdings and then converting the rest of their holdings. In this way, Laurus Funds could sell more than this limit while never holding more than this limit, which will have the effect of further diluting the proportionate equity interest and voting power of holders of our common stock.

 

It is likely at the time shares of common stock are issued to Laurus Funds, the conversion price of such securities will be less than the market price of the securities. The issuance of common stock under the terms of our agreements with Laurus Funds will result in dilution of the interests of the existing holders of common stock at the time of the conversion. Furthermore, the sale of common stock owned by Laurus Funds as a result of the conversion of the convertible term note may result in lower prices for the common stock if there is insufficient buying interest in the markets at the time of conversion.

 

Laurus Funds has no obligation to convert shares if the market price is less than the conversion price.

 

Laurus has no obligation to cause us to issue common stock if the market price is less than the applicable conversion price ($1.50). In some of the days of the second and most of the third quarter our stock price was lower than the conversion discounted price granted to Laurus. Laurus has no obligation to convert the securities or to accept common stock as payment for interest if the market price of the securities for five trading days prior to a conversion date is less than 115% the conversion price. The amount of common stock that may be issued to Laurus is subject to certain limitations based on price, volume and/or the inventory of our common stock held by Laurus.

 

Risks Associated with Oil and Gas Operations

 

Because we face uncertainties in estimating proven recoverable natural gas reserves, you should not place undue reliance on such reserve information.

 

This Form 10-K contains estimates of natural gas reserves, and the future net cash flows attributable to those reserves, prepared by McCune Engineering, our independent petroleum and

 

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geological engineer. There are numerous uncertainties inherent in estimating quantities of proved reserves and cash flows from such reserves, including factors beyond our control and the control of McCune Engineering. Reserve engineering is a subjective process of estimating underground accumulations of natural gas and oil that cannot be measured in an exact manner. The accuracy of an estimate of quantities of reserves, or of cash flows attributable to these reserves, is a function of the available data; assumptions regarding future natural gas and oil prices; expenditures for future development and exploitation activities; and engineering and geological interpretation and judgment. Reserves and future cash flows may also be subject to material downward or upward revisions based upon production history, development and exploitation activities and natural gas and oil prices. Actual future production, revenue, taxes, development expenditures, operating expenses, quantities of recoverable reserves and value of cash flows from those reserves may vary significantly from the assumptions and estimates in this Form 10-K. Any significant variance from these assumptions to actual figures could greatly affect our estimates of reserves, the economically recoverable quantities of natural gas attributable to any particular group of properties, the classification of reserves based on risk of recovery, and estimates of the future net cash flows. In addition, reserve engineers may make different estimates of reserves and cash flows based on the same available data. The estimated quantities of proved reserves and the discounted present value of future net cash flows attributable to those reserves included in this Form 10-K were prepared by McCune Engineering in accordance with the rules of the SEC, and are not intended to represent the fair market value of such reserves.

 

The present value of future net cash flows from our proved reserves is not necessarily the same as the current market value of our estimated natural gas reserves. We base the estimated discounted future net cash flows from our proved reserves on prices and costs. However, actual future net cash flows from our natural gas and oil properties also will be affected by factors such as:

 

 

• 

geological conditions;

 

• 

changes in governmental regulations and taxation;

 

• 

assumptions governing future prices;

 

• 

the amount and timing of actual production;

 

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availability of funds;

 

• 

future operating and development costs; and

 

• 

capital costs of drilling new wells.

 

The timing of both our production and our incurrence of expenses in connection with the development and production of natural gas properties will affect the timing of actual future net cash flows from proved reserves, and thus their actual present value. In addition, the 10% discount factor we use when calculating discounted future net cash flows may not be the most appropriate discount factor based on interest rates in effect from time to time and risks associated with us or the natural gas and oil industry in general.

 

The SEC permits natural gas companies, in their filings with the SEC, to disclose only proved reserves that a company has demonstrated by actual production or conclusive formation tests to be economically and legally producible under existing economic and operating conditions. The SEC’s guidelines strictly prohibit us from including “probable reserves” and

 

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“possible reserves” in filings with the SEC. We also caution you that the SEC views such “probable” and “possible” reserve estimates as inherently unreliable and these estimates may be seen as misleading to investors unless the reader is an expert in the natural gas industry. Unless you have such expertise, you should not place undo reliance on these estimates. Potential investors should also be aware that such “probable” and “possible” reserve estimates will not be contained in any “resale” or other registration statement filed by us that offers or sells shares on behalf of purchasers of our common stock and may have an impact on the valuation of the resale of the shares. We undertake no duty to update this information and does not intend to update the information.

 

Drilling wells is speculative, often involving significant costs that may be more than our estimates, and may not result in any addition to our production or reserves. Any material inaccuracies in drilling costs, estimates or underlying assumptions will materially affect our business.

 

Developing and exploring for natural gas and oil involves a high degree of operational and financial risk, which precludes definitive statements as to the time required and costs involved in reaching certain objectives. The budgeted costs of drilling, completing and operating wells are often exceeded and can increase significantly when drilling costs rise due to a tightening in the supply of various types of oilfield equipment and related services. Drilling may be unsuccessful for many reasons, including title problems, weather, cost overruns, equipment shortages and mechanical difficulties. Moreover, the successful drilling of a natural gas or oil well does not ensure a profit on investment. Exploratory wells bear a much greater risk of loss than development wells. A variety of factors, both geological and market-related, can cause a well to become uneconomical or only marginally economic. Our initial drilling and development sites, and any potential additional sites that may be developed, require significant additional exploration and development, regulatory approval and commitments of resources prior to commercial development. Any success that we may have with these wells or any future drilling operations will most likely not be indicative of our current or future drilling success rate, particularly, because we intend to emphasize on exploratory drilling. If our actual drilling and development costs are significantly more than our estimated costs, we may not be able to continue our business operations as proposed and would be forced to modify our plan of operation.

 

Development of our reserves, when established, may not occur as scheduled and the actual results may not be as anticipated. Drilling activity may result in downward adjustments in reserves or higher than anticipated costs. Our estimates will be based on various assumptions, including assumptions required by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to natural gas and oil prices, drilling and operating expenses, capital expenditures, taxes and availability of funds. The process of estimating our natural gas and oil reserves is anticipated to be extremely complex, and will require significant decisions and assumptions in the evaluation of available geological, geophysical, engineering and economic data for each reservoir. Due to our inexperience in the oil and gas industry, our estimates may not be reliable enough to allow us to be successful in our intended business operations. Our actual production, revenues, taxes, development expenditures and operating expenses will likely vary from those anticipated. These variances may be material.

 

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Gas and Oil prices are volatile. This volatility may occur in the future, causing negative change in cash flows which may result in our inability to cover our capital expenditures.

 

Our future revenues, profitability, future growth and the carrying value of our properties is anticipated to depend substantially on the prices we may realize for our natural gas and oil production. Our realized prices may also affect the amount of cash flow available for capital expenditures and our ability to borrow and raise additional capital.

 

Natural gas and oil prices are subject to wide fluctuations in response to relatively minor changes in or perceptions regarding supply and demand. Historically, the markets for natural gas and oil have been volatile, and they are likely to continue to be volatile in the future. For example, natural gas and oil prices declined significantly in late 1998 and 1999 and, for an extended period of time, remained substantially below prices obtained in previous years. Among the factors that can cause this volatility are:

 

 

worldwide or regional demand for energy, which is affected by economic conditions;

 

the domestic and foreign supply of natural gas and oil;

 

weather conditions;

 

domestic and foreign governmental regulations;

 

political conditions in natural gas and oil producing regions;

 

the ability of members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to agree upon and maintain oil prices and production levels; and

 

the price and availability of other fuels.

 

It is impossible to predict natural gas and oil price movements with certainty. Lower natural gas and oil prices may not only decrease our future revenues on a per unit basis but also may reduce the amount of natural gas and oil that we can produce economically. A substantial or extended decline in natural gas and oil prices may materially and adversely affect our future business enough to force us to cease our business operations. In addition, our financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and ability to finance planned capital expenditures will also suffer in such a price decline. Further, natural gas and oil prices do not necessarily move together.

 

We may incur substantial write-downs of the carrying value of our gas and oil properties, which would adversely impact our earnings.

 

We periodically review the carrying value of our gas and oil properties under the full cost accounting rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under these rules, capitalized costs of proved gas and oil properties may not exceed the present value of estimated future net revenues from proved reserves, discounted at an annual rate of 10%. Application of this “ceiling” test requires pricing future revenue at the un-escalated prices in effect as of the end of each fiscal quarter and requires a write-down for accounting purposes if the ceiling is exceeded, even if prices were depressed for only a short period of time. We may be required to write down the carrying value of our gas and oil properties when natural gas and oil prices are depressed or unusually volatile, which would result in a charge against our earnings. Once incurred, a write-down of the carrying value of our natural gas and oil properties is not reversible at a later date.

 

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Currently the vast majority of our producing properties are located in the Cherokee Basin of southeastern Kansas, making us vulnerable to risks associated with having our production concentrated in one area.

 

The vast majority of our producing properties are geographically concentrated in the Cherokee Basin of southeastern Kansas. As a result of this concentration, we may be disproportionately exposed to the impact of delays or interruptions of production from these wells caused by significant governmental regulation, transportation capacity constraints, curtailment of production, natural disasters, adverse weather conditions or interruption of transportation of natural gas produced from the wells in this basin or other events which impact this area.

 

Competition in our industry is intense. We are very small and have an extremely limited operating history as compared to the vast majority of our competitors, and we may not be able to compete effectively.

 

We intend to compete with major and independent natural gas and oil companies for property acquisitions. We will also compete for the equipment and labor required to operate and to develop natural gas and oil properties. The majority of our anticipated competitors have substantially greater financial and other resources than we do. In addition, larger competitors may be able to absorb the burden of any changes in federal, state and local laws and regulations more easily than we can, which would adversely affect our competitive position. These competitors may be able to pay more for natural gas and oil properties and may be able to define, evaluate, bid for and acquire a greater number of properties than we can. Our ability to acquire additional properties and develop new and existing properties in the future will depend on our ability to conduct operations, to evaluate and select suitable properties and to consummate transactions in this highly competitive environment. In addition, some of our competitors have been operating in our core areas for a much longer time than we have and have demonstrated the ability to operate through industry cycles.

 

The natural gas and oil business involves numerous uncertainties and operating risks that can prevent us from realizing profits and can cause substantial losses.

 

Our development, exploitation and exploration activities may be unsuccessful for many reasons, including weather, cost overruns, equipment shortages and mechanical difficulties. Moreover, the successful drilling of a natural gas and oil well does not ensure a profit on investment. A variety of factors, both geological and market-related, can cause a well to become uneconomical or only marginally economical. In addition to their cost, unsuccessful wells can hurt our efforts to replace reserves.

 

The natural gas and oil business involves a variety of operating risks, including:

 

 

fires;

 

explosions;

 

blow-outs and surface cratering;

 

uncontrollable flows of oil, natural gas, and formation water;

 

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natural disasters, such as hurricanes and other adverse weather conditions;

 

pipe, cement, or pipeline failures;

 

casing collapses;

 

embedded oil field drilling and service tools;

 

abnormally pressured formations; and

 

environmental hazards, such as natural gas leaks, oil spills, pipeline ruptures and discharges of toxic gases.

 

If we experience any of these problems, it could affect well bores, gathering systems and processing facilities, which could adversely affect our ability to conduct operations. We could also incur substantial losses as a result of:

 

 

injury or loss of life;

 

severe damage to and destruction of property, natural resources and equipment;

 

pollution and other environmental damage;

 

clean-up responsibilities;

 

regulatory investigation and penalties;

 

suspension of our operations; and

 

repairs to resume operations.

 

Because we intend to use third-party drilling contractors to drill our wells, we may not realize the full benefit of worker compensation laws in dealing with their employees. Our insurance does not protect us against all operational risks. We do not carry business interruption insurance at levels that would provide enough funds for us to continue operating without access to other funds. For some risks, we may not obtain insurance if we believe the cost of available insurance is excessive relative to the risks presented. In addition, pollution and environmental risks generally are not fully insurable. If a significant accident or other event occurs and is not fully covered by insurance, it could impact our operations enough to force us to cease our operations.

 

The high cost of drilling rigs, equipment, supplies, personnel and other services could adversely affect our ability to execute on a timely basis our development, exploitation and exploration plans within our budget.

 

Shortages or an increase in cost of drilling rigs, equipment, supplies or personnel could delay or interrupt our operations, which could impact our financial condition and results of operations. Drilling activity in the geographic areas in which we conduct drilling activities may increase, which would lead to increases in associated costs, including those related to drilling rigs, equipment, supplies and personnel and the services and products of other vendors to the industry. Increased drilling activity in these areas may also decrease the availability of rigs. We do not have any contracts with providers of drilling rigs and we cannot assure you that drilling rigs will be readily available when we need them. Drilling and other costs may increase further and necessary equipment and services may not be available to us at economical prices.

 

 

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Our lease ownership may be diluted due to financing strategies we may employ in the future due to our lack of capital or due to our focus on producing leases.

 

To accelerate our development efforts we plan to take on working interest partners that will contribute to the costs of drilling and completion and then share in revenues derived from production. In addition, we may in the future, due to a lack of capital or other strategic reasons, establish joint venture partnerships or farm out all or part of our development efforts. These economic strategies may have a dilutive effect on our lease ownership and will more than likely reduce our operating revenues.

 

In addition, our lease ownership is subject to forfeiture in the event we are unwilling or unable to continue making lease payments. Our leases vary in price per acre and on the term period of the lease. Each lease requires payment to maintain an active lease. In the event we are unable or unwilling to make our lease payments or renew expiring leases, then we will forfeit our rights to such leases. Such forfeiture would prevent us from pursuing development activity on the leased property and could have a substantial impact on our gross leased acreage.

 

We are subject to complex laws and regulations, including environmental regulations, which can adversely affect the cost, manner or feasibility of doing business.

 

Development, production and sale of natural gas and oil in the United States are subject to extensive laws and regulations, including environmental laws and regulations. We may be required to make large expenditures to comply with environmental and other governmental regulations. Matters subject to regulation include:

 

 

location and density of wells;

 

the handling of drilling fluids and obtaining discharge permits for drilling operations;

 

accounting for and payment of royalties on production from state, federal and Indian lands;

 

bonds for ownership, development and production of natural gas and oil properties;

 

transportation of natural gas and oil by pipelines;

 

operation of wells and reports concerning operations; and

 

taxation.

 

Under these laws and regulations, we could be liable for personal injuries, property damage, oil spills, discharge of hazardous materials, remediation and clean-up costs and other environmental damages. Failure to comply with these laws and regulations also may result in the suspension or termination of our operations and subject us to administrative, civil and criminal penalties. Moreover, these laws and regulations could change in ways that substantially increase our costs. Accordingly, any of these liabilities, penalties, suspensions, terminations or regulatory changes could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations enough to possibly force us to cease our business operations.

 

 

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Our oil and gas operations may expose us to environmental liabilities.

 

Any leakage of crude oil and/or gas from the subsurface portions of our wells, our gathering system or our storage facilities could cause degradation of fresh groundwater resources, as well as surface damage, potentially resulting in suspension of operation of the wells, fines and penalties from governmental agencies, expenditures for remediation of the affected resource, and liabilities to third parties for property damages and personal injuries. In addition, any sale of residual crude oil collected as part of the drilling and recovery process could impose liability on us if the entity to which the oil was transferred fails to manage the material in accordance with applicable environmental health and safety laws.

 

Risks Associated with Our Business

 

Our auditor’s report reflects the fact that without realization of additional capital, it would be unlikely for us to continue as a going concern.

 

As a result of our deficiency in working capital at December 31, 2006 and other factors, our auditors have included an explanatory paragraph in their audit report regarding substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include any adjustments as a result of this uncertainty. The going concern qualification may adversely impact our ability to raise the capital necessary for the expansion and continuation of operations.

 

Our internal controls may be inadequate, which could cause our financial reporting to be unreliable and lead to misinformation being disseminated to the public.

 

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. As defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f), internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, the principal executive and principal financial officer and effected by the board of directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and includes those policies and procedures that: (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of Petrol; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of Petrol are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of Petrol, and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of Petrol’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

 

Effective internal controls are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports, prevent fraud and operate successfully as a public company. We cannot be certain that our efforts to maintain internal controls will be successful, that we will be able to maintain adequate controls over our financial processes and reporting in the future or that we will be able to comply with our obligations under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Further, we have a limited number of personnel that are required to perform various roles and duties as well as be

 

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responsible for monitoring and ensuring compliance with our internal control procedures. As a result, our internal controls may be inadequate or ineffective, which could cause our financial reporting to be unreliable and lead to misinformation being disseminated to the public. Any failure to develop or maintain effective internal controls or difficulties encountered in implementing or improving our internal controls could harm operating results or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations. Ineffective internal controls also could cause our stockholders and potential investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information, which would likely have a negative effect on the trading price of our common stock. In addition, investors relying upon this misinformation may make an uninformed investment decision.

 

We may need additional capital in the future to finance our planned growth, which we may not be able to raise or it may only be available on terms unfavorable to us or our stockholders, which may result in our inability to fund our working capital requirements and harm our operational results.

 

We have had substantial capital expenditure and working capital needs associated with the development of our Coal Creek Project. We believe that current cash on hand and the other sources of liquidity are only sufficient enough to fund our operations through fiscal 2007. After that time we will need to rely on cash flow operations or raise additional cash to fund our operations, to fund our anticipated reserve replacement needs and implement our growth strategy, or to respond to competitive pressures and/or perceived opportunities, such as investment, acquisition, exploration and development activities.

 

If low natural gas and oil prices, operating difficulties or other factors, many of which are beyond our control, cause our revenues or cash flows from operations to decrease, we may be limited in our ability to spend the capital necessary to complete our development, production exploitation and exploration programs. If our resources or cash flows do not satisfy our operational needs, we will require additional financing, in addition to anticipated cash generated from our operations, to fund our planned growth. Additional financing might not be available on terms favorable to us, or at all. If adequate funds were not available or were not available on acceptable terms, our ability to fund our operations, take advantage of unanticipated opportunities, develop or enhance our business or otherwise respond to competitive pressures would be significantly limited. In such a capital restricted situation, we may curtail our acquisition, drilling, development, and exploration activities or be forced to sell some of our assets on an untimely or unfavorable basis.

 

If we raise additional funds through the issuance of equity or convertible debt securities, the percentage ownership of our stockholders would be reduced, and these newly issued securities might have rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of existing stockholders.

 

We currently employ only one executive officer. The loss of this officer, whose knowledge and technical expertise upon which we rely, may harm our ability to execute our business plan.

 

Our success depends heavily upon the continued contributions of our sole executive officer, whose knowledge and technical expertise may be difficult to replace, and on our ability to retain and attract experienced engineers, geoscientists and other technical and professional

 

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staff. We have entered into an employment agreement with this officer. If we were to lose his services, our ability to execute our business plan may be harmed and we may be forced to cease or limit our operations until such time as we could hire a suitable replacement for this officer.

 

Shortages of natural gas and oil field service personnel and equipment could adversely affect our business.

 

The demand for qualified and experienced field personnel to drill wells and conduct field operations, geologists, geophysicists, engineers and other professionals in the oil and natural gas industry can fluctuate significantly, often in correlation with oil and natural gas prices, causing periodic shortages. Due to recent high natural gas and oil prices, we have experienced shortages of drilling rigs and other equipment, as demand for rigs and equipment has increased along with the number of wells being drilled. Higher natural gas and oil prices generally stimulate increased demand and result in increased prices for drilling rigs, crews and associated supplies, oilfield equipment and services and personnel in our exploration and production operations. These types of shortages or price increases could significantly decrease our profit margin, cash flow and operating results or restrict or delay our ability to drill those wells and conduct those operations that we currently have planned and budgeted.

 

Risk Factors Relating to Our Common Stock

 

If we fail to remain current on our reporting requirements, we could be removed from the OTC Bulletin Board which would limit the ability of broker-dealers to sell our securities and the ability of stockholders to sell their securities in the secondary market.

 

Companies trading on the OTC Bulletin Board, such as us, must be reporting issuers under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and must be current in their reports under Section 13, in order to maintain price quotation privileges on the OTC Bulletin Board. More specifically, NASD has enacted Rule 6530, which determines eligibility of issuers quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board by requiring an issuer to be current in its filings with the Commission. Pursuant to Rule 6530(e), if we file our reports late with the Commission three times in a two-year period or our securities are removed from the OTC Bulletin Board for failure to timely file twice in a two-year period then we will be ineligible for quotation on the OTC Bulletin Board. As a result, the market liquidity for our securities could be severely adversely affected by limiting the ability of broker-dealers to sell our securities and the ability of stockholders to sell their securities in the secondary market.

 

Because our common stock is deemed a low-priced “Penny” stock, an investment in our common stock should be considered high risk and subject to marketability restrictions.

 

Since our common stock is a penny stock, as defined in Rule 3a51-1 under the Securities Exchange Act, it will be more difficult for investors to liquidate their investment even if and when a market develops for the common stock. Until the trading price of the common stock rises above $5.00 per share, if ever, trading in the common stock is subject to the penny stock rules of the Securities Exchange Act specified in rules 15g-1 through 15g-10. Those rules require broker-dealers, before effecting transactions in any penny stock, to:

 

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Deliver to the customer, and obtain a written receipt for, a disclosure document;

 

Disclose certain price information about the stock;

 

Disclose the amount of compensation received by the broker-dealer or any associated person of the broker-dealer;

 

Send monthly statements to customers with market and price information about the penny stock; and

 

In some circumstances, approve the purchaser’s account under certain standards and deliver written statements to the customer with information specified in the rules.     

 

Consequently, the penny stock rules may restrict the ability or willingness of broker-dealers to sell the common stock and may affect the ability of holders to sell their common stock in the secondary market and the price at which such holders can sell any such securities. These additional procedures could also limit our ability to raise additional capital in the future.

 

NASD sales practice requirements may also limit a stockholder’s ability to buy and sell our stock.

 

In addition to the “penny stock” rules described above, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) has adopted rules that require that in recommending an investment to a customer, a broker-dealer must have reasonable grounds for believing that the investment is suitable for that customer. Prior to recommending speculative low priced securities to their non-institutional customers, broker-dealers must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about the customer’s financial status, tax status, investment objectives and other information. Under interpretations of these rules, the NASD believes that there is a high probability that speculative low priced securities will not be suitable for at least some customers. The NASD requirements make it more difficult for broker-dealers to recommend that their customers buy our common stock, which may limit your ability to buy and sell our stock and have an adverse effect on the market for our shares.

 

We could be subject to class action litigation due to stock price volatility, which, if occurs, could result in substantial costs or large judgments against us.

 

The market for our common stock may experience extreme price and volume fluctuations, which may be unrelated or disproportionate to our operating performance or prospects. In the past, securities class action litigation has often been brought against companies following periods of volatility in the market prices of their securities. We may be the target of similar litigation in the future. Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and divert our management’s attention and resources, which could have a negative effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

 

Our common stock is an unsecured equity interest.

 

As an equity interest, our common stock will not be secured by any of our assets. Therefore, in the event of our liquidation, the holders of the common stock will receive a distribution only after all of our secured and unsecured creditors have been paid in full. There

 

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can be no assurance that we will have sufficient assets after paying our secured and unsecured creditors to make any distribution to the holders of the common stock.

 

Our Articles of Incorporation authorizes our Board of Directors to issue up to 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, which could adversely affect the voting power of our common stock holders.

 

Our Board of Directors is authorized, without further approval of our stockholders, to fix the dividend rights and terms, conversion rights, voting rights, redemption rights and terms, liquidation preferences, and any other rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions applicable to our preferred stock. The issuance of such stock could adversely affect the voting power of the holders of Common Stock and, under certain circumstances, make it more difficult for a third party to gain control of Petrol, discourage bids for the common stock at a premium, or otherwise adversely affect the market price of the common stock.

 

Provisions in Nevada law could delay or prevent a change in control, even if that change would be beneficial to our stockholders.

 

Certain provisions of Nevada law may delay, discourage, prevent or render more difficult an attempt to obtain control of Petrol, whether through a tender offer, business combination, proxy contest or otherwise. The provisions of Nevada law are designed to discourage coercive takeover practices and inadequate takeover bids. These provisions are also designed to encourage persons seeking to acquire control of Petrol to first negotiate with our board of directors.

 

The Nevada Revised Statutes (the “NRS”) contain two provisions, described below as “Combination Provisions” and the “Control Share Act,” that may make more difficult the accomplishment of unsolicited or hostile attempts to acquire control of Petrol through certain types of transactions.

 

Restrictions on Certain Combinations Between Nevada Resident Corporations and Interested Stockholders.  The NRS includes the Combination Provisions prohibiting certain “combinations” (generally defined to include certain mergers, disposition of assets transactions, and share issuance or transfer transactions) between a resident domestic corporation and an “interested stockholder” (generally defined to be the beneficial owner of 10% or more of the voting power of the outstanding shares of the corporation), except those combinations which are approved by the board of directors before the interested stockholder first obtained a 10% interest in the corporation’s stock. There are additional exceptions to the prohibition, which apply to combinations if they occur more than three years after the interested stockholder’s date of acquiring shares. The Combination Provisions apply unless the corporation elects against their application in its original articles of incorporation or an amendment thereto. Our articles of incorporation do not currently contain a provision rendering the Combination Provisions inapplicable.

 

Nevada Control Share Act.  Nevada’s Control Share Act imposes procedural hurdles on and curtails greenmail practices of corporate raiders. The Control Share Act temporarily disenfranchises the voting power of “control shares” of a person or group (“Acquiring Person”)

 

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purchasing a “controlling interest” in an “issuing corporation” (as defined in the NRS) not opting out of the Control Share Act. In this regard, the Control Share Act will apply to an “issuing corporation”, unless the articles of incorporation or bylaws in effect on the tenth day following the acquisition of a controlling interest provide that it is inapplicable. Our articles of incorporation and bylaws do not currently contain a provision rendering the Control Share Act inapplicable.

 

Under the Control Share Act, an “issuing corporation” is a corporation organized in Nevada which has 200 or more stockholders of record, at least 100 of whom have addresses in that state appearing on the company’s stock ledger, and which does business in Nevada directly or through an affiliated company. Our status at the time of the occurrence of a transaction governed by the Control Share Act (assuming that our articles of incorporation or bylaws have not theretofore been amended to include an opting out provision) would determine whether the Control Share Act is applicable. We currently conduct business in Nevada through an executive office located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 

The Control Share Act requires an Acquiring Person to take certain procedural steps before he or it can obtain the full voting power of the control shares. “Control shares” are the shares of a corporation (1) acquired or offered to be acquired which will enable the Acquiring Person to own a “controlling interest,” and (2) acquired within 90 days immediately preceding that date. A “controlling interest” is defined as the ownership of shares which would enable the Acquiring Person to exercise certain graduated amounts (beginning with one-fifth) of all voting power of the corporation in the election of directors. The Acquiring Person may not vote any control shares without first obtaining approval from the stockholders not characterized as “interested stockholders” (as defined below).

 

To obtain voting rights in control shares, the Acquiring Person must file a statement at the principal office of the issuer (“Offeror’s Statement”) setting forth certain information about the acquisition or intended acquisition of stock. The Offeror’s Statement may also request a special meeting of stockholders to determine the voting rights to be accorded to the Acquiring Person. A special stockholders’ meeting must then be held at the Acquiring Person’s expense within 30 to 50 days after the Offeror’s Statement is filed. If a special meeting is not requested by the Acquiring Person, the matter will be addressed at the next regular or special meeting of stockholders.

 

At the special or annual meeting at which the issue of voting rights of control shares will be addressed, “interested stockholders” may not vote on the question of granting voting rights to control the corporation or its parent unless the articles of incorporation of the issuing corporation provide otherwise. Our articles of incorporation and bylaws do not currently contain a provision allowing for such voting power.

 

If full voting power is granted to the Acquiring Person by the disinterested stockholders, and the Acquiring Person has acquired control shares with a majority or more of the voting power, then (unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation or bylaws in effect on the tenth day following the acquisition of a controlling interest) all stockholders of record, other than the Acquiring Person, who have not voted in favor of authorizing voting rights for the control

 

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shares, must be sent a notice advising them of the fact and of their right to receive “fair value” for their shares. Our articles of incorporation and bylaws do not provide otherwise. By the date set in the dissenter’s notice, which may not be less than 30 nor more than 60 days after the dissenter’s notice is delivered, any such stockholder may demand to receive from the corporation the “fair value” for all or part of his shares. “Fair value” is defined in the Control Share Act as “not less than the highest price per share paid by the Acquiring Person in an acquisition.”

 

The Control Share Act permits a corporation to redeem the control shares in the following two instances, if so provided in the articles of incorporation or bylaws of the corporation in effect on the tenth day following the acquisition of a controlling interest: (1) if the Acquiring Person fails to deliver the Offeror’s Statement to the corporation within 10 days after the Acquiring Person’s acquisition of the control shares; or (2) an Offeror’s Statement is delivered, but the control shares are not accorded full voting rights by the stockholders. Our articles of incorporation and bylaws do not address this matter.

 

ITEM 1B.

UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

 

None.

 

ITEM 2.

PROPERTIES

 

General Background

 

By the end of fiscal 2004, Petrol had built a solid asset base of mineral leases in SE Kansas and Missouri. In October 2005, Petrol acquired funding to purchase a 10,000 acre fully operational gas producing property we called Petrol-Neodesha. During 2005 we modified and enhanced the capacity of the Petrol-Neodesha gas gathering pipeline system to accommodate the full development of the property. In addition in 2005, we planned the development of our largest project area Coal Creek and began seeking financing to implement the planned development. In October 2005, we completed a financial agreement with Laurus Master Funds to begin developing Coal Creek. By late summer 2006, Petrol had developed two areas within Coal Creek with production wells, SWD wells and gas gathering pipelines and gas processing systems.

 

Although our focus will be on development of these existing properties, we also intend to continue seeking acquisition opportunities which compliment our current portfolio of producing and development properties. We intend to fund our development activity primarily through use of cash flow from operations and cash on hand, while pursuing substantial additional debt financing to fully develop our lease holdings and producing acquisitions.

 

 

 

 

 

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As of December 31, 2006, we had estimated net reserves and future net income of:

 

 

 

Proved

 

 

Developed

 

 

 

Total

 

 

Producing

 

Non-Producing

 

Undeveloped

 

Proved

Net Remaining Reserves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oil (stock-tank barrels)

 

154,725

 

74,665

 

0

 

229,390

Gas (mcf)

 

3,966,538

 

4,558,465

 

4,308,900

 

12,833,903

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Future Net Cash Flows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$46,592,000

Discounted FNCF @10%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$30,872,000

 

Current State of Operations

 

Petrol-Neodesha Project

 

On November 1, 2004, Petrol purchased producing mineral leases covering lands in Neosho and Wilson Counties, Kansas, that included 72 producing gas wells, SWD wells and a gas gathering system. The total purchase price was $10,000,000. Funding was accomplished using funds received from a unit offering and a convertible note from Laurus Master Fund. The producing property was named Petrol-Neodesha.

 

During 2005 Petrol modified and enhanced the capacity of the Petrol-Neodesha gas gathering pipeline system to accommodate the full development of the property and began drilling and completing new production wells. In 2006, Petrol drilled or re-completed 17 production wells in Petrol-Neodesha with a 100% success rate. All these new wells have been connected to our gas gathering pipeline system.

 

Petrol-Neodesha covers about 10,000 gross mineral acres (7,620 net acres) and currently includes approximately 104 production gas wells, 8 water disposal wells, about 70 miles of gas gathering pipelines and water lines as well as multiple gas compressor sites and a fully equipped operations and maintenance shop. 2006 cumulative gas production from Petrol-Neodesha amounted to about 0.998 Bcf (0.793 Bcf net to Petrol) for about a 2.95% increase over year end 2005.

 

Based on our current field production levels, we plan to aggressively develop future production activities in Petrol-Neodesha.

 

Coal Creek Project

 

The Coal Creek Project, centered in Coffey County, Kansas, includes leases covering about 92,000 gross acres. In October 2005, we finalized an agreement and other documents whereby Laurus Master Funds, Ltd. would provide a debt facility of up to $50,000,000 for the development of Coal Creek.

 

 

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Development of the Coal Creek plan accelerated in 2006 and the project area currently includes 51 production wells, 5 salt water disposal wells and two fully operational gas gathering pipelines and gas processing systems. Most of the production wells have been connected to the gas gathering systems and water disposal system in order to de-water the coals and promote gas production. Water production rates from the producing coal seams were substantially higher than anticipated and thus additional salt water disposal were drilled, one in Burlington and one in Waverly.

 

In late 2006 Petrol initiated a comprehensive testing and production analysis program in involving a set of cluster wells and is described in the Business section of this document. Although the data being derived from this from this testing and production analysis program is still being analyzed it is clear that the permeability of the coal beds manifested by early water production is high and gas rates although still modest appear to improve as the coal beds and the fracture system de-water.

 

The entire Coal Creek development plan includes drilling and completing about 540 production wells and adding one more gas gathering pipeline and gas processing system to the existing two systems. The timing and the extent of the development will obviously depend on the availability of the financing program, the economic and technical conclusions based on the analysis of our testing program and favorable market conditions

 

Missouri Project

 

In 2004 Petrol began evaluating CBM resources through the purchase of some mineral leases in NW Missouri. Petrol drilled and tested five (5) exploratory wells in Cass and Bates County, Missouri and based on that data began acquiring leases in the area which currently amounts to about 15,000 gross acres.

 

Petrol has focused its efforts and financing on its gas producing property in Petrol-Neodesha and the development of Coal Creek and thus the development and lease renewal of this Missouri property has been deferred pending financing opportunities or interested developmental partners.

 

Pomona Project

 

In 2004 Petrol acquired mineral leases amounting to about 35,000 gross acres from CBM Energy Inc., which we called our Pomona project. The acquisition included 17 wells, several miles of gas gathering and water disposal pipelines, and a salt water disposal well. The Pomona project leases are located in Douglas, Franklin and Osage counties, Kansas.

 

Petrol remains committed to first developing Petrol-Neodesha and Coal Creek and thus the development and lease renewal of this Pomona project has been deferred pending financing opportunities or interested developmental partners.

 

 

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Production

 

The following table shows the results of operations from our oil and gas producing activities during the years presented in the financial statements. Results of operations from these activities have been determined using historical revenues, production costs, depreciation, depletion and amortization of the capitalized costs subject to amortization. General and administrative expenses and interest expense have been excluded from this determination.

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

2006

2005

2004

Production revenues

$6,532,798

$ 5,244,806

$ 866,924

Production and pipeline costs

(3,819,432)

(3,315,438)

(221,339)

Depreciation and depletion

(1,793,788)

(808,138)

(134,568)

Income tax (allocated on gross profits based on statutory rates)

(285,000)

(345,000)

(145,000)

Results of operations for producing activities

$ 634,578

$ 776,230

$ 366,017

Executive and Field Offices

 

In April 2006 we relocated our principal executive offices to Kansas. The address is Corporate Woods, Building 51, 9393 West 110th Street, Suite 500, Overland Park, Kansas 66210. We executed a one year lease for 150 square feet. The monthly rental for the space is approximately $1,300.

 

We still maintain an executive office at 3161 E. Warm Springs Road, Suite 300, Las Vegas, Nevada 89120. The space consists of approximately 1,864 square feet, which houses administrative and executive offices. The monthly rental for the space is $3,450 per month (increasing by the consumer price index as defined in the lease with minimum annual increase of 3%) commencing April 15, 2004 and ending June 30, 2007 with the first three months free.

 

We also lease approximately 2,500 square feet of space in Waverly, Kansas, where our field and leasing offices are located. This facility is leased on a month-to-month basis with our monthly lease obligation being $300.

 

ITEM 3.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

 

Petrol is and may become involved in various routine legal proceedings incidental to its business. However, to Petrol’s knowledge as of the date of this report, there are no material pending legal proceedings to which Petrol is a party or to which any of its property is subject.

 

ITEM 4.

SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

 

Petrol did not submit any matters to vote of our stockholders during the fourth quarter of 2006.

 

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PART II

 

ITEM 5.

MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

 

(a) Market Information

 

Since March 4, 2004, we have been eligible to participate in the over-the-counter securities market through the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation Bulletin Board System, under the trading symbol “POIG”. The following table sets forth the quarterly high and low bid prices for our Common Stock during our last two fiscal years, as reported by a Quarterly Trade and Quote Summary Report of the OTC Bulletin Board. The quotations reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail mark-up, markdown or commission, and may not necessarily represent actual transactions.

 

 

2006

2005

 

High

Low

High

Low

1st Quarter

2.19

1.55

2.65

2.25

2nd Quarter

1.89

1.20

2.49

1.55

3rd Quarter

1.39

0.44

2.25

1.45

4th Quarter

0.78

0.43

1.76

1.69

 

(b) Holders of Common Stock

 

As of April 9, 2007, we had approximately 90 stockholders of record of the 29,090,926 shares outstanding. As of April 9, 2007, the closing price of our shares of common stock was $0.44 per share.

 

(c) Dividends

 

We have never declared or paid dividends on our Common Stock. We intend to follow a policy of retaining earnings, if any, to finance the growth of the business and do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. The declaration and payment of future dividends on the Common Stock will be the sole discretion of the Board of Directors and will depend on our profitability and financial condition, capital requirements, statutory and contractual restrictions, future prospects and other factors deemed relevant.

 

(d) Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans

 

2002/2003 Stock Option Plan

 

Effective December 16, 2002, we adopted a 2002/2003 Stock Option Plan. The maximum number of shares that may be issued pursuant to the plan is 3,000,000 shares. As of December 31, 2006, all 3,000,000 options have been granted under this plan.

 

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2006 Stock Option Plan

 

Effective December 21, 2005, we adopted a 2006 Stock Option Plan. The maximum number of shares that may be issued pursuant to the plan is 3,000,000 shares. As of December 31, 2006, 610,000 options have been granted under this plan.

 

Officers (including officers who are members of the board of directors), directors (other than members of the stock option committee to be established to administer the stock option plans) and other employees and consultants and its subsidiaries (if established) will be eligible to receive options under the stock option plans. The committee will administer the stock option plans and will determine those persons to whom options will be granted, the number of options to be granted, the provisions applicable to each grant and the time periods during which the options may be exercised. No options may be granted more than ten years after the date of the adoption of the stock option plans.

 

Non-qualified stock options will be granted by the committee with an option price equal to the fair market value of the shares of common stock to which the non-qualified stock option relates on the date of grant. The committee may, in its discretion, determine to price the non-qualified option at a different price. In no event may the option price with respect to an incentive stock option granted under the stock option plans be less than the fair market value of such common stock to which the incentive stock option relates on the date the incentive stock option is granted.

 

Each option granted under the stock option plans will be exercisable for a term of not more than ten years after the date of grant. Certain other restrictions will apply in connection with the plans when some awards may be exercised. In the event of a change of control (as defined in the stock option plans), the date on which all options outstanding under the stock option plans may first be exercised will be accelerated. Generally, all options terminate 90 days after a change of control.

 

The following table sets forth information as of December 31, 2006 regarding outstanding options granted under the plans, warrants issued to consultants and options reserved for future grant under the plan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plan Category

 

 

 

Number

of shares to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights

(a)

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted-average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights

(b)

 

Number of shares remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans (excluding shares reflected in column (a))

(c)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Equity compensation plans approved by stockholders

 

 

--

 

 

$ --

 

--

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equity compensation plans not approved by stockholders

 

 

4,810,000

 

 

$1.70

 

2,390,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

4,810,000

 

$1.70

 

2,390,000 (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1)

2,390,000 options available for the issuance under our 2006 stock option plan as of December 31, 2006.

 

These plans are intended to encourage directors, officers, employees and consultants to acquire ownership of common stock. The opportunity so provided is intended to foster in participants a strong incentive to put forth maximum effort for its continued success and growth, to aid in retaining individuals who put forth such effort, and to assist in attracting the best available individuals to the Company in the future. As of December 31, 2006, no shares remained available for issuance under the 2002/2003 stock option plan and 2,390,000 shares remained available for issuance under the 2006 stock option plan.

 

(e) Performance Graph

 

The following chart compares the subsequent value of $100 invested in Petrol’s Common Stock for the period from March 8, 2004, the date Petrol’s Common Stock began trading on the OTC:BB, through December 31, 2006 to Petrol’s SIC code index and to the Russell 3000 index. The graph assumes the reinvestment of all dividends. The graph shows the value of the investment at the end of each year.

 


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Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

 

Petrol did not repurchase any of its equity securities during the years ended December 31, 2006 or 2005.

 

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

 

On October 26, 2006, we issued 10,127 shares of our restricted common stock to ECON Investor Relations, Inc., pursuant to its consulting agreement dated June 15, 2004. We believe that the issuance of the shares was exempt from the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 by virtue of Section 4(2). The recipient of the shares was afforded an opportunity for effective access to files and records of Petrol that contained the relevant information needed to make its investment decision, including Petrol’s financial statements and 34 Act reports. We reasonably believe that the recipient, immediately prior to issuing the shares, had such knowledge and experience in its financial and business matters that it was capable of evaluating the merits mad risks of its investment. The recipient had the opportunity to speak with our president and directors on several occasions prior to its investment decision.

 

On December 19, 2006, we issued 50,000 shares of our restricted common stock to Lyons Capital, LLC, pursuant to its investor relations agreement dated August 14, 2006. We believe that the issuance of the shares was exempt from the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 by virtue of Section 4(2). The recipient of the shares was afforded an opportunity for effective access to files and records of Petrol that contained the relevant information needed to make its investment decision, including Petrol’s financial statements and 34 Act reports. We reasonably believe that the recipient, immediately prior to issuing the shares, had such knowledge and experience in its financial and business matters that it was capable of evaluating the merits mad risks of its investment. The recipient had the opportunity to speak with our president and directors on several occasions prior to its investment decision.

 

Subsequent Issuance

 

On January 30, 2007, we issued 6,329 shares of our restricted common stock to ECON Investor Relations, Inc., as final payment for the services performed pursuant to its consulting agreement dated June 15, 2004. We believe that the issuance of the shares was exempt from the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 by virtue of Section 4(2). The recipient of the shares was afforded an opportunity for effective access to files and records of Petrol that contained the relevant information needed to make its investment decision, including Petrol’s financial statements and 34 Act reports. We reasonably believe that the recipient, immediately prior to issuing the shares, had such knowledge and experience in its financial and business matters that it was capable of evaluating the merits mad risks of its investment. The recipient had the opportunity to speak with our president and directors on several occasions prior to its investment decision.

 

 

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ITEM 6.

SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

 

The following table sets forth summary financial data derived from our financial statements. The data should be read in conjunction with the financial statements, related notes and other financial information included in this Form 10-K.

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

(Audited)

 

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

Revenue

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oil and gas activities

$ 7,489,401

$ 6,040,957

$ 866,924

$ -

$ -

$ -

Royalties and overrides

956,603

796,151

-

-

-

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross profit

6,532,798

5,244,806

866,924

-

-

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct costs

2,908,693

3,084,494

221,339

-

-

-

Pipeline costs

910,739

230,944

-

-

-

-

General and administrative

1,649,028

1,616,334

607,617

343,941

63,737

349

Professional and consulting fees

1,957,177

2,577,970

1,906,036

1,374,754

639,508

-

Salaries and wages

262,436

264,049

225,745-

-

-

-

Salaries and wages – related party

753,009

234,636

166,667-

-

-

-

Depreciation, depletion and amortization

2,811,185

1,392,342

213,475

-

-

-

Acquisition costs

-

-

654,000

-

-

-

Total expenses

11,252,267

9,400,769

3,994,879

1,718,695

703,245

349

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net operating (loss)

(4,719,469)

(4,155,963)

(3,127,955)

(1,718,695)

(703,245)

(349)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other income (expense):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense

(3,075,739)

(1,807,833)

(1,395,952)

(15,089)

-

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net (loss)

$ (7,795,208)

$ (5,963,796)

$ (4,523,907)

$ (1,733,784)

$ (703,245)

$ (349)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average number of common shares outstanding – basic and fully diluted

28,777,494

25,632,220

20,647,542

14,721,438

8,338,208

6,454,360

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net (loss) per share – basic and fully

diluted

$ (0.27)

$ (0.23)

$ (0.22)

$ (0.12)

$ (0.08)

$ (0.00)

 

 

 

Balance Sheet Data:

As of December 31,

(Audited)

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Assets

$ 36,487,244

$ 26,927,034

$ 17,832,354

$ 2,577,447

$ 444,792

$ -

Total Liabilities

29,221,792

18,448,458

7,803,727

373,810

134,969

-

Stockholders’ Equity

$ 7,265,453

$ 8,478,576

$ 10,028,627

$ 2,203,637

$ 309,823

$ -

 

ITEM 7.      MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATION

 

OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK

 

We are an oil and gas exploration, development and production company. Our properties are located in the Cherokee and Forrest Basins along the Kansas and Missouri border. Our corporate strategy is to continue building value in Petrol through the development and acquisition of gas and oil assets that exhibit consistent, predictable, and long-lived production. Our current focus is Coal Bed Methane reservoirs in the central U.S., which produce both Coal Bed Methane (“CBM”) and at times conventional gas.

 

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Results of Operations for the Fiscal Years Ended December 31, 2006 and 2005.

 

The following table summarizes selected items from the statement of operations at December 31, 2006 compared to December 31, 2005.

 

INCOME:

 

 

Fiscal Year Ended

December 31,

 

 

 

 

2006

 

2005

 

Increase / (Decrease)

 

 

Amount

 

Amount

 

$

%

Revenues

 

6,532,798

 

5,244,806

 

1,287,992

25%

 

Revenues

 

Revenues for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 were $6,532,798 compared to revenues of $5,244,806 in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005. This resulted in an increase of $1,287,992 or 25%, from the same period one year ago. The increase in revenues is a result of increases in overall gas production and sales as well as higher hedged prices of our gas and higher daily spot gas prices for the first 8 months of 2006.

 

EXPENSES:

 

 

 

Fiscal Year Ended

December 31,

 

 

 

 

2006

 

2005

 

Increase / (Decrease)

 

 

Amount

 

Amount

 

$

%

Expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct Costs

 

2,908,693

 

3,084,494

 

$(175,801)

(6%)

Pipeline costs

 

910,739

 

230,944

 

679,795

294%

General and administrative

 

1,649,028

 

1,616,334

 

32,694

(2%)

Professional and consulting

Fees

 

1,957,177

 

2,577,970

 

 

(620,793)

 

(24%)

Salaries and wages

 

262,436

 

264,049

 

(1,613)

-

Salaries and wages – related

party

 

753,009

 

234,636

 

 

518,373

 

221%

Depreciation, depletion and

amortization

 

2,811,185

 

1,392,342

 

 

1,418,843

 

102%

Total expenses

 

11,252,267

 

9,400,769

 

1,851,498

20%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net operating (loss)

 

(4,719,469)

 

(4,155,963)

 

563,506

14%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other income (expense):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense

 

(3,075,739)

 

(1,807,833)

 

1,267,906

70%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

$(7,795,208)

 

$(5,963,796)

 

$1,831,412

31%

 

 

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Direct Costs

 

Direct costs are the costs associated with operating producing wells, and transporting the oil and natural gas to the market for sale. Direct cost for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 was $2,908,693, a decrease of $175,801, or 6%, from $3,084,494 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005. The decrease over the prior period is directly attributable to our reduction in costs related to work-overs, repairs and modification to the Neodesha wells and pipeline system that we had previously experienced during the same period in the previous year. We do not anticipate maintenance and work-over costs to that extent in the future and our current direct operating costs are more indicative of our overall production costs.

 

Pipeline Costs

 

Pipeline costs for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 were $910,739, an increase of $679,795, or 294%, from $230,944 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005. The increase in pipeline costs in the current period was partially the result of the addition of our Coal Creek Pipeline as well as additional maintenance costs required in order to maintain in a fully operational status.

 

General and Administrative Expenses

 

General and administrative expenses for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 were $1,649,028, an increase of $32,694 or 2%, from $1,616,334 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005. The minimal increase in general and administrative expenses is attributable to additional office and administrative costs associated with increased field operations.

 

Professional and Consulting Fees

 

Professional and consulting fees for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 was $1,957,177, a decrease of $620,793, or 24% from $2,577,970 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005. The decrease in professional and consulting fees in the current period was a result of decreased investor relations and accounting fees to our prior CFO.

 

Salaries and Wages

 

Salaries and wages for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 was $262,436, a decrease of $1,613, or 0.02% from $264,049. As expected, we did not intend to increase staffing levels during our project development stage. Our project managers and support staff for the development of our Coal Creek project were placed during 2005.

 

Salaries and Wages – Officer

 

Salaries and wages – Officer, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 was $753,009 compared to $234,636 in 2005. The increase in the amount of $518,373 or 221% is primarily due to the amortization of options granted pursuant to his employment agreement of October

 

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2005. In addition, a bonus in the amount of $100,000 was granted by the Board of Directors for the efforts of our CEO in connection with our financing agreements.

 

Depreciation, Depletion, and Amortization Expense

 

Depreciation, depletion, and amortization expense for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 was $2,811,185, an increase of $1,418,843, or 102%, from $1,392,342 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005. The increase in depreciation, depletion and amortization expense was a result of increased depletion on each unit of production due to our increase in capital expenditures and a decline in reserves.

 

Net Operating (Loss)

 

The net operating loss for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 was $4,719,469, versus a net operating loss of $4,155,963 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, a change in net loss of $563,506 or 14%. The increase in net operating loss is attributable to our increase in depletion which was offset slightly by our decrease in professional fees.

 

Other Income (Expense)

 

Interest expense

 

Interest expense for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 was $3,075,739, an increase of $1,267,906, or 70%, from $1,807,833 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005. The increase in interest expense is the result of the increased amount of debt financing received from Laurus Funds, including $1,295,726 attributable to the accretion of warrants issued to Laurus.

 

Net Loss

 

Our net loss for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 was $7,795,208, an increase of $1,831,412, or 31%, from $5,963,796 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005. The increase in net loss is the net result of increased interest expense and operating expense partially offset by increased revenues.

 

Contractual Obligations

 

Future payments due on our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2006 are as follows:  

 

 

 

Total

 

 

2007

 

 

2008-2009

 

 

2010-2011

 

 

Thereafter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laurus Convertible Note

 

$

3,432,360

 

 

$

3,432,360

 

 

$

--

 

 

$

--

 

 

$

--

Laurus Term Notes

 

 

23,893,449

 

 

 

10,748,640(1)

 

 

 

13,144,809

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asset retirement obligations

 

 

907,797

 

 

 

--

 

 

 

--

 

 

 

--

 

 

 

907,797

Notes Payable

 

 

37,674

 

 

 

12,588

 

 

 

25,086

 

 

 

--

 

 

 

--

Derivatives

 

 

58,133

 

 

 

--

 

 

 

58,133

 

 

 

--

 

 

 

--

Total

 

$

28,329,413

 

 

$

14,193,588

 

 

$

13,228,028

 

 

$

--

 

 

$

907,797

(1) See footnote number 5 in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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Analysis and Discussion of Cash Flow

 

In the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 our cash position decreased by $2,589,024. Our operating activities utilized $2,895,855 of cash mainly from operating expenses we incurred. We also used $12,536,423 of our cash for the capitalized costs of the pipeline, the capitalized cost of drilling more wells and for the acquisition and renewal of oil and gas leases. We repaid $1,833,053 on our notes, borrowed $15,000,000 and paid loan fees of $563,634.

 

Results of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2005 and 2004

 

The following overview provides a summary of key information concerning our financial results for the fiscal years ended on December 31, 2005, and 2004.

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

2005

2004

 

 

 

 

 

Revenue

 

 

 

 

Oil and gas activities

$

6,040,957

$

866,924

Operator fees

 

796,151

 

-

Total revenue

 

5,244,806

 

866,924

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses:

 

 

 

 

Direct costs

 

3,084,494

 

221,339

Pipeline costs

 

230,944

 

-

General and administrative

 

1,616,334

 

607,617

Professional and consulting fees

 

2,577,970

 

1,906,036

Salaries and wages

 

264,049

 

225,745

Salaries and wages – related party

 

234,636

 

166,667

Depreciation, depletion and amortization

 

1,392,342

 

213,475

Acquisition costs

 

-

 

654,000

Total expenses

 

9,400,769

 

3,994,879

 

 

 

 

 

Net operating (loss)

 

(4,155,963)

 

(3,127,955)

 

 

 

 

 

Other income (expense):

 

 

 

 

Interest expense, net

 

(1,807,833)

 

(1,395,952)

Total other income (expense)

 

(1,807,833)

 

(1,395,952)

 

 

 

 

 

Net (loss)

$

(5,963,796)

$

(4,523,907)

 

Fiscal Year Ended on December 31, 2005 Compared to Fiscal Year Ended on December 31, 2004

 

Revenue: Total revenue was $6,040,957 and $866,924 for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively, for an increase of $5,174,033 or 597%. The increase in revenues is a result of our acquisition in September of 2004 of 10,000 gross acres of

 

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leaseholds which included 71 producing gas wells in Wilson and Neosho counties in Eastern Kansas. Additionally, we added 14 new wells to our Petrol-Neodesha Project by year end 2005. Revenues from Petrol-Neodesha were our primary source of revenues for year end 2005.

 

Direct costs are the costs associated with operating producing wells, and transporting the oil and natural gas to the market for sale. Direct costs totaled $3,084,494 and $221,339 for the fiscal year of 2005 and 2004, respectively, for an increase of $2,863,155. The increase in direct costs is primarily the result of increased costs associated with the production of gas in our Petrol-Neodesha project. As a result of our revenue increase related to the Petrol-Neodesha, we had increased costs directly related to the production of gas.

 

Pipeline costs totaled $230,944 and $0 for the fiscal year of 2005 and 2004, respectively, for an increase of $230,944, relating to our increased production of gas in our Petrol-Neodesha project.

 

General and administrative expenses for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 were $1,616,334 compared to $607,617 in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, respectively, for an increase of $1,008,717. The increase is attributable to expenses associated with additional staff and expenses related thereto as the result of increased operations.

 

Professional and consulting fees were $2,577,970 and $1,906,036 for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively, an increase of $671,934. The increase is a result of increased oil and gas operations and increased consulting costs associated with the increased operations in addition to increases of legal and accounting related to registrations of our securities primarily related to our additional financing during 2005.

 

Salaries and wages were $264,049 and $225,745 for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively, and increase of $38,304. The increase is attributable to increased field operations with the acquisition of our Neodesha field.

 

Salaries and Wages- Officer’s were $234,636 and $166,667 for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively, and increase of $67,969 pursuant to Board authorized compensation increase.

 

Depreciation, depletion, and amortization expense for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 were $1,392,342 and $213,475 for an increase of $1,178,867. Historically, as a development stage company, we had not placed in service depreciable assets nor had we begun production eliminating the need for a depletion expense. The increase was a result of recently completed acquisition obligations and commencement of production.

 

Other Income (Expense):

 

Interest Expense for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 was $(1,807,833) and $(1,395,952), respectively, for an increase of $411,881. The increase in interest expense is the result of increased financing in the sum of $8,000,000, which we borrowed in December of 2004.

 

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Net Loss: Our net loss for fiscal years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 was $5,963,796 and $4,523,907, respectively, for an increase in net loss in the amount of $1,439,889.

 

Analysis and Discussion of Cash Flow

 

During fiscal year 2005 our cash position increased by approximately $6,642,000. The increase in the cash flow position was from our net financing activities of $9,972,154. This was the result of note proceeds in excess of payments and fee amortization of $9,484,654 and proceeds from the exercise of warrants of $487,500.

 

We used our cash to acquire and develop oil and gas properties for a net total of $1,694,495. In our operations we used $1,653,341 of cash which is the results of Petrol becoming an operating company for a full year.

 

Operation Plan

 

In 2007 we plan to continue to focus our efforts on increasing production, improving our asset base, and enhancing our net asset value. We expect to achieve this through the:

 

 

sustained development and production of CBM and other natural gases on our existing properties at the Petrol-Neodesha Project,

 

assessing the technical, economic and pace of development of our 92,000 gross acre Coal Creek Project

 

pursuing strategic acquisitions of producing properties; and

 

creating value by furthering our business plan.

 

Coal Creek Project

 

Petrol began implementing its development program on the Coal Creek Project in November 2005 with the first $10,000,000 draw down from our $50,000,000 financing arrangement with Laurus Master Funds.

 

The net proceeds derived from the first Laurus Master Funds Financing transaction were used in the development of two areas within the Coal Creek project, specifically the Burlington area and the Waverly area. This first round of financing allowed Petrol to emplace or complete production wells, salt water disposal wells and install miles of gas gathering pipelines, salt water disposal lines, compressor stations and gas processing systems within those production areas.

 

Petrol received an additional $15,000,000 from its Laurus Credit facility during the spring of 2006. A portion of these additional funds were used to finalize the completion of some of the original Phase I wells, drilled new CBM wells and add 2 new salt water disposal wells, as well as to continue the integration of the gas gathering and water disposal system and pipelines. In addition to the drilling process Petrol undertook a comprehensive testing program to identify, quantify and rank the most productive water producing intervals.

 

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The Coal Creek Project includes 51 production wells and 5 salt water disposal wells. Initially most of the production wells were connected to the gas gathering systems and water disposal system in order to de-water these CBM wells and promote gas production as quickly and efficiently as possible. During the second half of 2006 it began evident that water production rates from the producing coal seams in both Burlington and Waverly were higher than anticipated and thus two additional salt water disposal were drilled, one in Burlington and one in Waverly. The inclusion of these new SWD’s has almost doubled the available salt water disposal capacity in Burlington and Waverly.

 

To further our understanding of the water and gas production mechanisms from these multiple coal seams Petrol has concentrated its technical efforts on a cluster of 5-6 closely spaced wells in Burlington and Waverly. Our objective is to de-water these wells and the area around these wells as quickly and effectively as possible thus exposing the gas bearing coal seams directly to the wellbore. The methodology being employed to attain that objective includes:

 

 

increasing the size of the downhole pumps in order to produce as much water as the well can possibly produce.

 

employing new chemical additives and stronger pump rods that should reduce down time and permit sustained and continuous production periods.

 

gathering daily detailed measurements of these wells behavior which is captured and reviewed by the technical staff on a weekly basis.

 

Although the data from these cluster wells is ongoing and being analyzed it is clear that the permeability of the coal beds manifested by early water production is high and gas rates although still modest appears to improve as the coal beds and the fracture system de-waters.

 

Since the Burlington area was developed first those wells in addition to having longer and sustained de-watering times also have some conventional sandstone reservoirs and therefore have been selling gas into the Enbridge Interstate pipeline since late April 2006. However the implementation of our testing and analysis efforts involving our cluster wells described above has at times interrupted or curtailed gas production and thus sales.

 

The Waverly wells have been in various stages of de-watering and the sustained disposal rates improved substantially following the inclusion and operation of a new SWD well in early October 2006. Gas production from the wells is modest and has not as yet reached the level or sustainability to meet Enbridge pipeline requirements.

 

The entire Coal Creek development plan includes drilling and completing about 540 production wells along with three gas gathering pipeline and gas processing systems. The pace of the development will obviously depend on the availability of the financing program, the economic and technical conclusions based on the analysis of our cluster well program and favorable market conditions.

 

Our future financial results will depend primarily on: (i) the ability to continue to produce gas and oil from existing wells; (ii) the ability to discover commercial quantities of natural gas

 

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and oil; (iii) the market price for oil and gas; and (iv) the ability to fully implement our exploration and development program, which is dependent on the availability of capital resources. In order to be successful in all or any of these respects, the prices of oil and gas prevailing at the time of production must be at a level allowing for profitable production, and we must be able to obtain additional funding to increase our capital resources.

 

Petrol-Neodesha Project

 

Petrol-Neodesha and our oil properties currently provide ongoing revenue and cash from sales of oil and gas. As we expand development and operational activities, we will weigh the pace of further drilling and development against the availability of internal and external funding. The technical and base economics issues in Petrol-Neodesha are clear and thus continued development involves far less risk than might be expected in new un-development areas. Given appropriate economics we plan to continue with that development rate.

 

With the enhancements to gas gathering pipeline systems that Petrol finalized late spring and early summer of 2005 we now have additional pipeline capacity to fully develop this 10,000 gross acre property. During 2006 we have added a total of 17 new or re-completed production wells to the 14 new production wells we drilled and completed in 2005. All 31 new production wells were 100% successes.

 

During the second and third quarters of 2006 we initiated a technical program designed to improve our overall understanding of the effectiveness of multi-zone stimulations and their ability to enhance production and reduce stimulation costs. Our expectations are to implement this program throughout the year employing advanced stimulation methodologies and re-completion techniques. Real time data acquisition and state-of-the-art fracture modeling were employed on several of our multi-stage fracture stimulations. The information derived during these tests provided both our field project personnel and the fracture service company with a much improved understanding of the physical processes that may be occurring about 1,500 ft below the surface. Further with real time data and modeling it allows the fracture stimulation process to be altered and improved instantly. Petrol retained Pinnacle Technologies of Houston and Pentagon Technical Services of Denver to provide technical consulting and field support on specific fracturing/chemical strategies to optimize our completion techniques, reduce operational costs and improve production at our Neodesha and Coal Creek project areas.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

The following table summarizes total assets, accumulated deficit, stockholders’ equity and working capital at December 31, 2006 compared to December 31, 2005.

 

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December 31,

 

Increase / (Decrease)

2006

2005

$

%

 

 

 

 

 

Current Assets

$6,580,774

$9,049,017

$(2,468,243)

(27%)

 

 

 

 

 

Current Liabilities

$15,085,967

$4,810,902

$10,275,065

214%

 

 

 

 

 

Working Capital (deficit)

$(8,505,193)

$4,238,115

$4,267,078

101%

 

Financing. On October 28, 2004, we entered into agreements with Laurus Master Fund, Ltd., a Cayman Islands corporation. Under the terms of the Laurus Funds agreements we issued a Secured Convertible Term Note (the “Note”) in the aggregate principal amount of $8,000,000 and a five-year warrant (the “Warrant”) to purchase 3,520,000 shares of our common stock at $2.00 per share and 1,813,333 shares of our common stock at $3.00 per share. On June 2, 2006, Laurus transferred the 5,333,333 warrants to Pallas Production Corp. (“Pallas”). The Note is convertible into shares of our common stock at a fixed conversion price of $1.50 per share. The Note has a three-year term and bears an interest rate equivalent to the “prime rate” published by the Wall Street Journal from time to time plus 3%, subject to a floor of 7.5% per annum.

 

On January 28, 2005, we amended the Laurus Note and the Registration Rights Agreement. Laurus agreed to move five months of principal payments (January through May of 2005) to be paid on the Maturity Date (October 28, 2007). Additionally, Laurus agreed to extend certain filing and effectiveness dates under the registration rights agreement. In consideration for the amendment, we issued an additional common stock purchase warrant to Laurus to purchase up to 1,000,000 shares of our common stock at $2.50 per share for the first 666,667 shares and $3.00 per share for the remaining 333,333 shares. On June 20, 2006, Laurus transferred the 1,000,000 warrants to Pallas. Further, pursuant to the amendment agreement executed on April 28, 2004, we have agreed to file semi-annual registration statements to register shares of our common stock issued to Laurus for the conversion of interest under the Note.

 

As of December 31, 2006, Laurus has converted $2,283,823 of principal payments into 1,522,550 shares of our common stock and $779,352 of accrued interest into 519,568 shares of our common stock (2,042,118 shares in total). The conversion of principal and accrued interest allowed us additional cash to use in our operations.

 

On October 31, 2005, we entered into another financing agreement with Laurus, under which $10,000,000 was funded into an escrow account and was disbursed to us in November 2005 after finalization of certain closing requirements. We issued a three-year Secured Term Note in the aggregate principal amount of $10,000,000 and a five-year warrant to purchase 1,000,000 shares of our common stock at $2.00 per share. The note bears an interest rate equivalent to the “prime rate” published by the Wall Street Journal from time to time plus 3.25%, subject to a floor of 10% and a ceiling of 14% per annum. In addition, Laurus, in their sole discretion, may purchase additional notes from us in an aggregate principal amount of up to $40,000,000 pursuant to substantially similar terms of the initial note dated October 31, 2005.

 

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On March 31, 2006, we entered into agreements with Laurus to draw down an additional $5,000,000 under the credit facility provided by Laurus in October 2005. Under the terms of the Laurus agreements we issued a Secured Term Note in the aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 and a five-year warrant to purchase 200,000 shares of our common stock at $1.80 per share. On June 20, 2006, Laurus transferred the 200,000 warrants to Pallas. The Note has a three-year term and bears an interest rate equivalent to the “prime rate” published by the Wall Street Journal from time to time plus 3.25%, subject to a floor of 10% and a ceiling of 14% per annum. Concurrently with the agreements listed above, we amended and restated our previous $10,000,000 Secured Term Note dated October 31, 2005 with Laurus.

 

On April 7, 2006, the funds were released from Escrow. Net proceeds to Petrol from the financing, after payment of fees and expenses to Laurus and its affiliates, were $4,806,688. The proceeds are being utilized by Petrol for drilling activities on our Coal Creek Project.

 

On May 31, 2006, we entered into agreements with Laurus to draw down an additional $10,000,000 under the credit facility provided by Laurus in October 2005. Under the terms of the Laurus agreements we issued a Secured Term Note in the aggregate principal amount of $10,000,000 and a five-year warrant to purchase 400,000 shares of our common stock at $1.65 per share. The Note has a three-year term and bears an interest rate equivalent to the “prime rate” published by the Wall Street Journal from time to time plus 3.25%, subject to a floor of 10% and a ceiling of 14% per annum. Concurrently with the execution of the new Laurus Funds agreements, Petrol amended and restated its previous $10,000,000 Secured Term Note dated October 31, 2005 and the $5,000,000 Secured Term Note dated March 31, 2006 with Laurus Funds.

 

On June 2, 2006, the funds were released from Escrow. Net proceeds to Petrol from the financing, after payment of fees and expenses to Laurus Funds and its affiliates, were $9,629,679. The proceeds will be utilized by Petrol for drilling activities on Petrol’s Coal Creek Project.

 

Cash Flows. Since inception, we have financed cash flow requirements through debt financing, the issuance of common stock and revenues generated from the sale of oil and gas. As we expand operational activities, we may experience net negative cash flows from operations, pending receipt of sales or development fees, and may be required to obtain additional financing to fund operations through common stock offerings and debt borrowings to the extent necessary to provide working capital.

 

Satisfaction of our cash obligations for the next 12 months.

 

A critical component of our operating plan impacting our continued existence is to efficiently manage the production from our Petrol-Neodesha Development and successfully develop our Coal Creek Project. Our ability to obtain additional capital through additional equity and/or debt financing, and Joint Venture or Working Interest partnerships will also be important to our expansion plans. In the event we experience any significant problems assimilating acquired assets into our operations or cannot obtain the necessary capital to pursue our strategic

 

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plan, we may have to reduce the growth of our operations. This may materially impact our ability to increase revenue and continue our growth.

 

We believe that our existing capital combined with cash flow from operations will only be sufficient to sustain our operations, without additional financing, through fiscal 2007.

 

We may incur operating losses over the next twelve months. Our lack of operating history particularly at Coal Creek makes predictions of future operating results difficult to ascertain. Our prospects must be considered in light of the risks, expenses and difficulties frequently encountered by companies in their early stage of development and production, particularly companies in the oil and gas industry. Such risks include, but are not limited to, an evolving and unpredictable business model and the management of growth. To address these risks we must, among other things, implement and successfully execute our business and marketing strategy, continue to develop and upgrade technology and products, respond to competitive developments, and attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in addressing such risks, and the failure to do so can have a material adverse effect on our business prospects, financial condition and results of operations.

 

Under our current operating plan, we are required to make certain lease payments to maintain our rights to develop and drill for oil and gas. These lease payments are material obligations to us.

 

Summary of product and research and development that we will perform for the term of our plan.

 

Field Development

 

Our original Operation Plan for field development included a mix of lease acquisition and the purchase of existing producing properties. It started with identifying the most promising and cost-effective drill sites on our current leased acres, drilling and testing wells to prove reserves, completing the more promising test wells, extracting the gas, oil and other hydrocarbons that we find, and delivering them to market.

 

In October 2004 we purchased an existing 10,000 gross area gas producing property we called Petrol-Neodesha. Petrol-Neodesha provided us with revenue and an opportunity to enhance production in a producing area as well as gain important hands on experience and insight into the field wide development slated for Coal Creek.

 

In 2005 we believed that we had leased sufficient mineral acreage in and around Coffey County, KS to move forward with field development of the area and with the proceeds of financing with Laurus Master Funds we proceeded with the development of our Coal Creek Project. That development accelerated in early 2006 and continues throughout the year.

 

 

 

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Coal Creek

 

Our plan called for an exploration and development phase involving the drilling and testing of 18 exploratory wells in the Coal Creek project. Data and analysis acquired from these initial test wells provided our geologists and engineers with information that supported the quantitative determination concerning the gas content, reserve estimates and potential to produce commercial rates of CBM and other types of more conventional natural gas. By design most of these wells were located in proximity to an existing interstate gas pipeline. The total drilling depth of exploratory wells in Coal Creek was approximately 1,700 ft.

 

Kansas Geologic Society (KGS) joined us in our field operations to help in assessing the gas reserves from our CBM exploratory/test wells in the Coal Creek Project. KGS took samples from multiple coal beds found at various depths in these test wells. They performed laboratory type analysis to acquire gas content in the coals. Their laboratory results yielded values similar to those obtained by our geologist, Mr. William Stoeckinger, from sampling of some of our other exploratory/test wells. We view these independent gas content values quite favorably since they indicate quantitative similarities to the CBM producing coal beds found in our Petrol-Neodesha Project just south of the Coal Creek Project.

 

Based on our first series of exploratory/test wells and current bid pricing we anticipate that each well in our Coal Creek Project will cost approximately $180,000, which includes locating, drilling, testing, hydraulically fracturing and connecting to the gas gathering pipeline. Operational costs are expected to be about $1,150 per month per well to pay for electricity, pulling and repairs, pumping, general maintenance and other miscellaneous charges. In support of these operations we have working agreements with local third parties to monitor and maintain our wells and perform drilling and work-over activities

 

Our Independent Reserve Report dated December 31, 2005 indicated we had significant proven undeveloped gas reserves on our leases in the Coal Creek Project to warrant development and thus in November 2005 with these and the other technical data described above we began the development of the Coal Creek Project with the intent of producing those reserves, increasing revenues and enhancing the Net Asset Value of that Project area.

 

Coal Creek has 51 production wells and 5 SWD wells with 32 of those production wells and 3 SWD wells located in the Burlington area and 19 of those production wells and 2 SWD well located in the Waverly area. Each area has its own gas gathering pipelines, water disposal lines, compressors and gas processing equipment to make connections with the Enbridge interstate pipeline.

 

Early water production from these Coal Creek producing intervals was found to be considerably higher than those found in the more mature production intervals of our Neodesha wells. Further, as many as 10-12 coal beds and shales were completed in the Coal Creek project wells compared to 2-3 coal beds normally completed in the Neodesha wells thus compounding the comparison between the two areas. To further our understanding of the water and gas production mechanisms from these multiple coal seams in Coal Creek Petrol has concentrated its technical efforts on some closely spaced cluster wells. Our objective is to de-water these wells

 

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and the area around these wells as quickly and efficiently as possible thus exposing the gas bearing coal seams directly to the wellbore and acquire as much technical data as possible.

 

Although the data from these cluster wells is ongoing and being analyzed it is clear that the permeability of the coal beds manifested by early water production is high and gas rates although still modest appears to improve as the coal beds and the fracture system de-waters.

 

Some of the Coal Creek wells that were developed first in addition to having longer and sustained de-watering times also have some conventional sandstone reservoirs and therefore have been selling gas into the Enbridge Interstate pipeline. However the implementation of our testing and analysis efforts involving our cluster wells described above has at times interrupted or curtailed gas production and thus sales.

 

Petrol plans to continue the development of its Coal Creek Project with the pace and timing of the development depending on the availability of financing, the economic and technical conclusions based on the analysis of our cluster well program and favorable market conditions.

 

Petrol-Neodesha

 

Our Petrol-Neodesha project has room for another 50 to 100 wells to be drilled or re-completed in new reservoirs in order to fully develop this existing 10,000 gross leased mineral acreage. In 2005, we finalized enhancing the production capacity of our gas gathering system which included the addition of several new booster pumps and miles of larger diameter trunk lines that will accommodate production for all our new or re-completed wells. During 2006, Petrol drilled or re-completed 17 production wells on the Petrol-Neodesha properties, with a 100% success rate. All these new wells have been connected to our gas gathering pipeline system.

 

We plan to continue implementing our Neodesha development that includes implementing technical programs employing advanced stimulation methodologies and re-completion techniques. These technical programs are designed to improve our overall understanding of the effectiveness of multi-zone stimulations and their ability to enhance production and reduce stimulation costs.

 

With cumulative gas production for 2006 from Petrol-Neodesha reaching a new high of about 0.998 Bcf we expect to continue seeking acquisition opportunities which compliment this current production area and expand the field wide development of Petrol-Neodesha.

 

General Operations  

 

Petrol’s field development plans and strategies are employed throughout its multiple project areas and incorporates several assessment stages. Each new well is drilled through all possible CBM reservoirs and individually evaluated. Upon a favorable evaluation of its overall production capacity the well will be fully completed in as many gas producing intervals as possible and then connected to our local gas gathering and water disposal pipelines.

 

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When a proposed drilling site is identified, as a licensed operator in the State of Kansas and Missouri, Petrol is engaged in all aspects of well site operations. As a state licensed operator we are responsible for permitting the well, which includes obtaining permission from the Kansas Oil and Gas Commission or Missouri relative to spacing requirements and any other county, state and federal environmental regulatory issues required at the time that the permitting process commences. Additionally, Petrol formulates and delivers to all interest owners an operating agreement establishing each participant’s rights and obligations in that particular well based on the location of the well and the ownership. In addition to the permitting process, we as the operator are responsible for hiring the driller, geologist and land men to make final decisions relative to the zones to be targeted, confirming that we have good title to each leased parcel covered by the spacing permit and to actually drill the well to the target zones. Petrol is responsible for completing each successful well and connecting it to the most appropriate section of the gas gathering system.

 

As the operator we are also the caretaker of the well once production has commenced. We are responsible for paying bills related to the drilling and development of the well, billing working interest owners for their proportionate expenses in drilling and completing the well, and selling the production from the well. Once the production is sold, we anticipate that the purchaser thereof carries out its own research with respect to ownership of that production and sends out a division order to confirm the nature and amount of each interest owned by each interest owner. Once a division order has been established and confirmed by the interest owners, the production purchaser issues the checks to each interest owner in accordance with its appropriate interest. From that point forward, we as operator are responsible for maintaining the well and the well site during the entire term of the production or until such time as we have been replaced or the site appropriately abandoned.

 

Along with the drilling and completion of our production wells our subsidiary pipeline companies formulate, design and install a gas gathering and compression system to transport the gas from wellhead to the high pressure interstate pipeline tap and sales market. Our experience in Petrol-Neodesha is being brought to bear on our new development area in Coal Creek and eventually to Missouri. We have identified several major interstate distribution pipelines that operate within and pass through the counties in which we have lease holdings. These include pipelines owned and operated by Southern Star, CMS Energy, Enbridge and Kinder Morgan. We have initiated contact with these companies to ascertain the specific locations of their pipelines, their requirements to transport gas from us (including volume of gas and quality of gas), and the costs to connect to their pipelines. We currently have agreements with Southern Star in our Petrol-Neodesha Project and Enbridge in our Coal Creek Project

 

Petrol continues to update the costs of transporting our gas products from the producing wells to the nearest appropriate interstate pipeline. The cost of installing a distribution infrastructure or local gathering system varies depending upon the distance the gas must travel from wellhead to the compressor station and high pressure pipeline tap, and whether the gas must be treated to meet the purchasing company’s quality standards. However, based on the close proximity of several major distribution pipelines to our leased properties, plus our intent to drill as close to these pipelines as practicable, at present we estimate the total cost of installing a distribution infrastructure for a group of about 50-75 producing wells to be approximately

 

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$6,500-7,500 each plus a one-time expense of $5,000 per well to tap into the high pressure interstate pipeline and support a compressor and monitoring system.

 

The price obtained for produced oil and gas is dependent on numerous factors beyond our control, including domestic and foreign production rates of oil and gas, market demand and the effect of governmental regulations and incentives. To reduce the impact of these extraneous factors we often enter into forward sales contracts for a portion of the gas and oil we produce. However, we do not have any delivery commitments for gas or oil from wells not currently drilled or producing. Because the U.S. government’s has been encouraging increases in domestic production of energy, coupled with the high demand for natural gas, we do not anticipate any difficulties in selling any oil and gas we produce, once it has been delivered to a distribution facility.

 

The timing of most of our capital expenditures is discretionary. Currently there are no material long-term commitments associated with any capital expenditure plans or that are currently in the investigative planning stage. Consequently, we have a significant degree of flexibility to adjust the level of such expenditures as circumstances warrant. The level of our capital expenditures will vary in future periods depending on energy market conditions and other related economic factors.

 

Significant changes in the number of employees

 

We currently have eight full time employees and two part time employees as well as twelve contract personnel that support and operate our field operations. We do not anticipate a significant change in the number of full time employees over the next twelve months. We intend to use the services of independent consultants and contractors to perform various professional services, particularly in the area of land services, drilling, water hauling, pipeline construction, well design, well-site monitoring and surveillance, permitting and environmental assessment. We believe that this use of third-party service providers may enhance our ability to contain general and administrative expenses.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results or operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that is material to investors.

 

Derivatives

 

To reduce our exposure to unfavorable changes in natural gas prices we have entered into an agreement to utilize energy swaps in order to have a fixed-price contract. This contract allows us to be able to predict with greater certainty the effective natural gas prices to be received for hedged production and benefit operating cash flows and earnings when market prices are less than the fixed prices provided under the contracts. However, we will not benefit from market prices that are higher than the fixed prices in our contracts for hedged production. If we are

 

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unable to provide the quantity that we have contracted for we will have to go to the open market to purchase the required amounts that we have contracted to provide.

 

The following table summarizes our fixed price contracts as of December 31, 2006:

 

 

Year Ending December 31,

 

2007

2008

Gas

 

 

Contract volume

460,500

91,500

Weighted-average price

$7.95

$7.32

 

 

 

Oil

Contract volume

 

--

 

--

Weighted-average price

--

--

 

 

 

Fair value asset (liability)

$974,752

($58,133)

 

On October 9, 2006, we entered into a “Fixed Price Contract” to sell 1,000.0 DTH per day of our natural gas productions at a fixed price of $7.32 per DTH. The contract period begins April 1, 2007 and expires on March 31, 2008.

 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

Our accounting estimates include bad debts on our receivables, amount of depletion of our oil and gas properties subject to amortization, the asset retirement obligation and the value of the options and warrants that we issue. Our trade receivables have been fully collectible since inception and we only have sales to a small base of customers. We believe that all of our receivables are collectible. The depletion of our oil and gas properties is based in part on the evaluation of our reserves and an estimate of our reserves. We obtain an evaluation of the proved reserves from a professional engineering company and on a quarterly basis we review the estimates and determine if any adjustments are needed. If the actual reserves are less than the estimated reserves we would not fully deplete our costs. The asset retirement obligation relates to the plug and abandonment costs when our wells are no longer useful. We determine the value of the liability by obtaining quotes for this service and estimate the increase we will face in the future. We then discount the future value based on an intrinsic interest rate that is appropriate for Petrol. If costs rise more than what we have expected there could be additional charges in the future however we monitor the costs of the abandoned wells and we will adjust this liability if necessary. The value we assign to the options and warrants that we issue is based on the fair market value as calculated by the Black-Scholes pricing model. To perform a calculation of the value of our options and warrants we determine the volatility of our stock. We believe our estimate of volatility is reasonable and we review the assumptions used to determine this whenever we have an equity instrument that needs a fair market value. Although the offset to the valuation is in paid in capital were we to have an incorrect material volatility assumption our expenses could be understated or overstated. The preparation of our financial statements requires us to make assumptions and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses as well as the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. We base our

 

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assumptions and estimates on historical experience and other sources that we believe to be reasonable at the time. Actual results may vary from our estimates due to changes in circumstances, weather, politics, global economics, mechanical problems, general business conditions and other factors.

 

Effects of Inflation and Pricing

 

The oil and natural gas industry is very cyclical and the demand for goods and services of oil field companies, suppliers and others associated with the industry puts extreme pressure on the economic stability and pricing structure within the industry. Material changes in prices impact revenue stream, estimates of future reserves, borrowing base calculations of bank loans and value of properties in purchase and sale transactions. Material changes in prices can impact the value of oil and natural gas companies and their ability to raise capital, borrow money and retain personnel. We anticipate the increased business costs will continue while the commodity prices for oil and natural gas, and the demand for services related to production and exploration, both remain high (from a historical context) in the near term.

 

ITEM 7A.         QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURE ABOUT MARKET RISK

 

Commodity Price Risk

 

Our major market risk exposure is in the pricing applicable to our oil and gas production. Realized pricing is primarily driven by the prevailing worldwide price for crude oil and spot prices applicable to natural gas production. Historically, prices received for oil and gas production have been volatile and unpredictable and price volatility is expected to continue.

 

Monthly oil price realizations ranged from a low of approximately $40.73 per barrel to a high of approximately $64.00 per barrel during 2005 and as high as $56.00 per barrel during the year ended December 31, 2006. Gas price realizations ranged from a monthly low of approximately $4.24 per Mcf to a monthly high of approximately $9.37 per Mcf during the same period.

 

Since new well development is an ongoing program, management expects revenue to grow in the foreseeable future. In order to reduce natural gas price volatility, we have entered into hedging transactions.

 

Normal hedging arrangements have the effect of locking in for specified periods the prices we would receive for the volumes and commodity to which the hedge relates. Consequently, while hedges are designed to decrease exposure to price decreases, they also have the effect of limiting the benefit of price increases.

 

 

 

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Interest Rate Risk

 

Our long term debt with Laurus Funds has a floating interest rate of prime plus 3% to 3.25%, with a floor of 7.5% to 14%. Therefore, interest rate changes will impact future results of operations and cash flows.

 

ITEM 8.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

 

See Index to Financial Statements and Financial Statement Schedules appearing on page F-1 through F-31 of this Form 10-K.

 

ITEM 9.

CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

 

Petrol has had no disagreements with its independent auditors on accounting or financial disclosures.

 

ITEM 9A.

CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

 

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the specified time periods. As of the end of the period covered by this report, Paul Branagan, our Chief Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-15. Based on the evaluation, which disclosed no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses, Mr. Branagan, our Chief Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective in timely alerting him to material information required to be included in our periodic SEC filings.

 

It should be noted, however, that no matter how well designed and operated, a control system can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. In addition, the design of any control system is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events. Because of these and other inherent limitations of control systems (including faulty judgments in decision making or breakdowns resulting from simple errors or mistakes), there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential conditions. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by individual acts, collusion or by management override of the controls in place.

 

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during our most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

ITEM 9B.

OTHER INFORMATION

 

 

None.

 

 

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PART III

 

ITEM 10.

DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, AND CORPORATE GOVERANCE

 

The members of our board of directors serve for one year terms and are elected at the next annual meeting of stockholders, or until their successors have been elected. The officers serve at the pleasure of the board of directors.

 

Election of New Directors

 

On December 8, 2006, the Registrant’s Board of Directors nominated and elected Robert H. Kite and Duane D. Fadness to serve on the Board of Directors for the Registrant. Mr. Kite’s and Mr. Fadness’ term will continue until the next annual stockholder’s meeting or until their successors are duly appointed.

 

Information as to our current directors and executive officers is as follows:

 

Name

Age

Title

Term

Independent

Committees

Paul T. Branagan

63

President, CEO, Director, Secretary/Treasurer

Since 2002

No

Nominating

Loren Moll

50

Chairman

Since 2002

No

None

Suzanne Herring

42

Director

Since 2005

No

None

Robert H. Kite

52

Director

Since December 2006

Yes

Nominating

Duane D. Fadness

58

Director

Since December 2006

Yes

None

 

Duties, Responsibilities and Experience

 

Paul Branagan, age 63, is the President, CEO and a Director of Petrol and has been a director since 2002. Mr. Branagan graduated from the University of Las Vegas Nevada with a B.S. in physics. From 1993 to the present Mr. Branagan has been the President and Senior Scientist of Branagan & Associates, Inc. From 1975 to 1993 he was the Project Manager, Assistant Oil and Gas Division Manager and Senior Scientist of CER Corporation of Las Vegas, Nevada.

 

Loren W. Moll, age 50, is Chairman of Petrol, has been a member of the law firm of Caldwell & Moll, L.C. in Overland Park, Kansas since its establishment in November 1996. Mr. Moll concentrates his practice in all areas of real estate law, including commercial real estate transactions, breach of contract, escrow and title disputes, commercial leasehold disputes, real estate broker liability, and oil and gas. Mr. Moll holds a B.A. degree from the University of Kansas (1983) and his Juris Doctor degree, Order of the Coif, from the University of Kansas School of Law (1986) where he was Research Editor for the University of Kansas Law Review. Mr. Moll was formerly a partner of the real estate law firm Lewis, Rice & Fingersh from 1986 to 1994 and was associated with the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP from 1994 to 1996.

 

 

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Suzanne Herring, age 42, has been a director of Petrol since 2005. Ms. Herring has over 19 years of experience in the public and private accounting arenas. She has worked as an auditor of public and non-public companies and has served as a chief financial officer for multiple businesses. Further, Ms. Herring has a broad individual and corporate taxation background. Since February 2005, Ms. Herring has been president of Accuity Financial Services, Inc. (formerly Opus Pointe), a Las Vegas, Nevada based consulting firm specializing in providing contract CFO services and internal control compliance and implementation to publicly traded small business issuers. From 1995 to present, Ms. Herring has owned and operated American West Financial Services, a Las Vegas, Nevada based financial and taxation consulting firm. From 2003 through 2005, Ms. Herring was an auditor for a Las Vegas, Nevada based CPA firm, Beckstead and Watts, LLP. Ms. Herring is also a former director of New Vista Ranch Charitable Organization. In addition, Ms. Herring also serves as the Chief Financial Officer of AFV Solutions, Inc., a 34 Act reporting company in the alternative fuel industry (OTC:BB-“AFVS”), and as a director of Rubicon Financial Incorporated, a 34 Act reporting company in the financial services industry (OTC:BB-“RBCF”).

 

Robert H. Kite, age 52, has been director of Petrol since December 8, 2006. Since 1991, Mr. Kite has served on the Board of Directors, and Audit Committee Member, of National Energy Group, Inc., a management company engaged in the business of management, development, production and operations of oil and natural gas properties, primarily located in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana (both onshore and in the Gulf of Mexico). Since 1981, Mr. Kite has served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of KFC Inc., the managing general partner of KFT LLP, a family-owned company with operations that include real estate development, investments and medical MRI clinics. Since 1982, Mr. Kite has also served as President and CEO of Roamin’ Korp. Inc., a private holding company involved in real estate, equities, and other investments. Since 2002, Mr. Kite has served on the Board of Directors of E-2020, a private educational resource company, and has also served on the Board of Directors, Governance Committee and is a Member of the Audit Committee of ANTs software, inc. In addition, since 2005, Mr. Kite has served on the Board of Directors of Jardinier Corporation. Between 1995 and 2005, Mr. Kite served on the Board of the FBI Citizens Academy Charter Board of Phoenix, Arizona and served as the Board’s President in 1998. From 1998 to present, Mr. Kite has served on the Board of Directors of Child Help USA, a non-profit organization. Mr. Kite earned a B.S. Degree in Psychology and Political Science with a minor in Business from Southern Methodist University.

 

Duane D. Fadness, age 58, has been director of Petrol since December 8, 2006. Mr. Fadness has more than 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry in the United States, Canada and Europe. His board-level experience includes virtually all aspects of the financing and management of oil and gas properties. He has successfully managed the coordination of oil and gas exploration and development projects and has structured lease/property acquisitions and drilling ventures. In the early 1980s, Mr. Fadness served as a Special Projects Landman for the Hunt family of Dallas, Texas. From 1998 to present, Mr. Fadness has been employed by Western Gas Resources, Inc./Lance Oil & Gas Co., Inc. in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Fadness has served as their Consulting Petroleum Landman (1998-2001), as their Senior Business Development Representative (2001-2002) and as their Land Manager (2002 to present). Mr. Fadness, a Certified Professional Landman, earned his Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Denver.

 

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Directors Declining to Run For Re-election

 

Subsequent to year-end, Messrs. Branagan and Moll have each provided us with information indicating their intentions not to stand for re-election to the board of directors at the next annual stockholders’ meeting.

 

Limitation of Liability of Directors

 

Pursuant to the Nevada General Corporation Law, our Articles of Incorporation exclude personal liability for our Directors for monetary damages based upon any violation of their fiduciary duties as Directors, except as to liability for any breach of the duty of loyalty, acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, or any transaction from which a Director receives an improper personal benefit. This exclusion of liability does not limit any right which a Director may have to be indemnified and does not affect any Director’s liability under federal or applicable state securities laws. We have agreed to indemnify our directors against expenses, judgments, and amounts paid in settlement in connection with any claim against a Director if he acted in good faith and in a manner he believed to be in our best interests.

 

Election of Directors and Officers.

 

Directors are elected to serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified. Officers are appointed to serve until the meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified.

 

Family Relationships.

 

Julie Heimerman, step-daughter of Paul Branagan, Petrol’s chief executive officer, is an administrative employee at Petrol’s executive office.

 

Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings

 

No Executive Officer or Director of the Corporation has been the subject of any Order, Judgment, or Decree of any Court of competent jurisdiction, or any regulatory agency permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring suspending or otherwise limiting him/her from acting as an investment advisor, underwriter, broker or dealer in the securities industry, or as an affiliated person, director or employee of an investment company, bank, savings and loan association, or insurance company or from engaging in or continuing any conduct or practice in connection with any such activity or in connection with the purchase or sale of any securities.

 

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No Executive Officer or Director of the Corporation has been convicted in any criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations) or is the subject of a criminal proceeding which is currently pending.

 

Change in Control Arrangements

 

Pursuant to our financing agreements with Laurus Master Fund, Ltd., the occurrence of a change of control in the controlling ownership of Petrol would be a default under the agreements. A change in control (as defined below) shall occur with respect to Petrol, unless Laurus shall have expressly consented to such change of control in writing. A “Change of Control” shall mean any event or circumstance as a result of which (i) any “Person” or “Group” (as such terms are defined in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than Laurus, is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of 35% or more on a fully diluted basis of the outstanding voting equity interest of Petrol, (ii) the Board of Directors of Petrol shall cease to consist of a majority of Petrol’s board of directors at the time of the execution of the Laurus Agreements (Paul Branagan, Loren Moll and Suzanne Herring were the only board members at the time of the execution of the Laurus Agreements subject to this provision), as amended or ratified, or (iii) Petrol or any of its Subsidiaries merges or consolidates with, or sells all or substantially all of its assets to, any other person or entity.

 

Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

 

Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), requires our executive officers and directors, and persons who beneficially own more than ten percent of our common stock, to file initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in ownership with the SEC. Executive officers, directors and greater than ten percent beneficial owners are required by SEC regulations to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file. Based upon a review of the copies of such forms furnished to us and written representations from our executive officers and directors, we believe that as of the date of this filing they were all current in there filings.

 

Code of Business Conduct and Ethics

 

On November 18, 2005, we adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to our Directors, officers and employees. A copy of the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics is attached as Appendix A to the proxy filed with the SEC on November 22, 2005 and is also available on our website at www.petroloilandgas.com.

 

Corporate Governance

 

Nominating and Governance Committee

 

Name

Term

Independent

Paul T. Branagan, Chairman

Since December 2006

No

Robert H. Kite

Since December 2006

Yes

 

 

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The Nominating and Governance Committee is responsible for, among other things:

 

 

Assisting the Board in identifying prospective director nominees and recommending to the Board director nominees for each annual meeting of stockholders;

 

Developing and recommending to the Board governance principles applicable to us;

 

Overseeing the evaluation of the Board of Directors and management; and

 

Making an annual report to the Board on succession planning.

 

Director Nomination Procedures

 

At present, the Nominating Committee determines nominees for Directors. Our Directors approved the selection of the nominees for Directors named in this proxy statement.

 

Generally, nominees for Directors are identified and suggested by the members of the Board or management using their business networks. The Board has not retained any executive search firms or other third parties to identify or evaluate director candidates in the past and does not intend to in the near future. In selecting a nominee for director, the Nominating Committee considers the following criteria:

 

 

1.

whether the nominee has the personal attributes for successful service on the Board, such as demonstrated character and integrity; experience at a strategy/policy setting level; managerial experience dealing with complex problems; an ability to work effectively with others; and sufficient time to devote to the affairs of Petrol;

 

2.

whether the nominee has been the chief executive officer or senior executive of a public company or a leader of a similar organization, including industry groups, universities or governmental organizations;

 

3.

whether the nominee, by virtue of particular experience, technical expertise or specialized skills or contacts relevant to Petrol’s current or future business, will add specific value as a Board member; and

 

4.

whether there are any other factors related to the ability and willingness of a new nominee to serve, or an existing Board member to continue his service.

 

The Nominating Committee has not established any specific minimum qualifications that a candidate for director must meet in order to be recommended for Board membership. Rather the Nominating Committee will evaluate the mix of skills and experience that the candidate offers, consider how a given candidate meets the Board’s current expectations with respect to each such criterion and make a determination regarding whether a candidate should be recommended to the stockholders for election as a director. During 2006, Petrol received no recommendation for Directors from its stockholders.

 

Petrol will consider for inclusion in its nominations of new Board of Director nominees proposed by stockholders who have held at least 1% of the outstanding voting securities of Petrol for at least one year. Board candidates referred by such stockholders will be considered on the same basis as Board candidates referred from other sources. Any stockholder who wishes to

 

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recommend for Petrol’s consideration a prospective nominee to serve on the Board of Directors may do so by giving the candidate’s name and qualifications in writing to Petrol’s Secretary at the following address: Corporate Woods, Building 51, 9393 West 110th Street, Suite 500, Overland Park, Kansas 66210.

 

A copy of the Governance and Nominating Committee Charter is available on our website at www.petroloilandgas.com.

 

Audit Committee  

 

Prior to December 20, 2005, we did not have an Audit Committee and our Board of Directors performed the necessary functions of an Audit Committee, such as: recommending a firm of independent certified public accountants to audit the annual financial statements; reviewing the independent auditors independence, the financial statements, and their audit report; and reviewing management’s administration of the system of internal accounting controls.

 

On December 20, 2005, we established and appointed members of the Board to the Audit Committee in accordance with section 3(a)(58)(A) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in anticipation of making an application to list our common stock on the American Stock Exchange. The Audit Committee was comprised of two directors; Ms. Herring (Chairman) and Mr. Moll.

 

On October 5, 2006, we disbanded the Audit Committee because of our inability to meet the initial listing standards for the American Stock Exchange. We currently have an audit committee charter in place but as a result of the disbandment of the Audit Committee we no longer operate under the charter and our Board of Directors will now perform certain functions as the Audit Committee.

 

ITEM 11.

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

 

Overview of Compensation Program

 

The Board of Director’s (the “Board”) has responsibility for establishing, implementing and continually monitoring adherence with Petrol’s compensation philosophy. The Board ensures that the total compensation paid to the Executives is fair, reasonable and competitive. We do not currently have a Compensation Committee.

 

Compensation Philosophy and Objectives

 

The Board believes that the most effective executive compensation program is one that is designed to reward the achievement of specific annual, long-term and strategic goals by Petrol, and which aligns executives’ interests with those of the stockholders by rewarding performance above established goals, with the ultimate objective of improving stockholder value. As a result of the size of Petrol and only having one executive officer, the Board evaluates both performance and compensation on an informal basis. Upon hiring additional executives, the Board intends on establishing a Compensation Committee to evaluate both performance and compensation to ensure that Petrol maintains its ability to attract and retain superior employees in key positions

 

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and that compensation provided to key employees remains competitive relative to the compensation paid to similarly situated executives of our peer companies. To that end, the Board believes executive compensation packages provided by Petrol to its executives, including the named executive officers, should include both cash and stock-based compensation that reward performance as measured against established goals.

 

Role of Executive Officers in Compensation Decisions

 

The Board makes all compensation decisions for the Executives and approves recommendation regarding equity awards to all elected officers of Petrol. Decisions regarding the non-equity compensation of other executive officers are made by the Board.

 

Setting Executive Compensation

 

Based on the foregoing objectives, the Board has structured Petrol’s annual and long-term incentive-based cash and non-cash executive compensation to motivate executives to achieve the business goals set by Petrol and reward the executives for achieving such goals.

 

2006 Executive Compensation Components

 

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, Petrol continued to have only one executive officer, whose contract was executed on November 2, 2005. Therefore, Petrol took no actions during 2006 relative to Executive Compensation.

 

SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE

 

The table below summarizes the total compensation paid or earned by our executive officer Paul Branagan and our former non-executive employee Gary Bridwell for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006.

 

SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE

 

 

 

 

Name and Principal Position

(a)

 

 

 

 

 

Year

(b)

 

 

 

 

 

Salary ($)

(c)

 

 

 

 

 

Bonus ($)

(d)

 

 

 

 

Stock Awards ($)

(e)

 

 

 

 

Option Awards ($)

(f)

Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compen-sation ($)

(g)

 

 

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings ($)

(h)

 

 

 

All Other Compen-sation ($)

(i)

 

 

 

 

 

Total ($)

(j)

Paul Branagan,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CEO/President

2006

$230,625

$105,000

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

$76,511(1)

$412,136

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gary Bridwell,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field Operations Manager (2)

 

2006

 

$120,000

 

$5,000

 

-0-

 

-0-

 

-0-

 

-0-

 

-0-

 

$125,000

 

 

(1)

Includes $36,000 in non-accountable expenses and automobile allowance and $40,511 of royalties associated with Mr. Branagan’s employment agreement.

 

(2)

Mr. Bridwell resigned his position on January 1, 2007.

 

 

 

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Employment and Other Contracts; Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change-in-Control

 

Employment Contract with Paul Branagan

 

On November 2, 2005, we entered into an employment agreement with Paul Branagan, wherein Mr. Branagan agreed to serve as Petrol’s Chief Executive Officer and President. The term of employment is for five (5) years, ending on September 30, 2010. We agreed to pay Mr. Branagan annual compensation of $225,000, and effective the 30th of September for each successive year that his Agreement is in effect, his compensation is adjusted by a ten percent (10%) increase. In addition to the cash compensation, we granted Mr. Branagan an extension of previously granted stock options to purchase 1,250,000 shares of our common stock at prices ranging from $0.05 per share to $2.50 per share, exercisable at any time and expiring on September 30, 2010. We also granted Mr. Branagan additional options to purchase 500,000 shares of our common stock at $1.75 per share, exercisable at any time and expiring on September 30, 2010. Mr. Branagan will also receive a 1/100 Over Riding Royalty on production from any wells completed on our current and future leased acreage. The Over Riding Royalty shall be paid as determined by our Board of Directors and the term of the payment of the Over Riding Royalty shall be in perpetuity.

 

Additional Benefits. During his employment term, Mr. Branagan is entitled to receive all other benefits of employment generally available to Petrol’s other executive and managerial employees, in addition to the following:

 

 

Vacation. After first year of employment, paid annual vacation of 4 weeks a year, however, the vacation time may only accumulate up to 6 months beyond the year in which they were accrued.

 

Personal Leave. Executive is entitled to 5 days personal leave in each fiscal year, without payment deduction. Such personal leave may not be carried to subsequent years.

 

Plans. Executive is entitled to participate in any and all plans, arrangements, or distributions established by Petrol in connection with pension, bonus, profit sharing, stock options, or similar benefits.

 

Medical and Disability Coverage. Executive shall have the right to all medical coverage and long term disability coverage on the same terms and conditions as provided to other employees of Petrol.

 

Automobile. For the term of the Agreement and any extensions thereof, Executive shall be provided with an automobile allowance not to exceed $1,000 per month.

 

Cell Phone. For the term of his employment, Executive is to be provided with a company cell phone; however, executive shall be responsible for personal calls related to the use of the cell phone.

 

Computers. For the term of the Agreement Executive is to be provided on personal computer and one lap top computer for use by Executive, which computers are to be returned upon termination of the Agreement.

 

Business Expenses. Executive is provided the use of American Express for purposes of paying business expenses.

 

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Fringe Benefits. Executive is also provided with a monthly cash non-accountable expense allowance of $2,000 per month, to cover expenses of Executive.

 

Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control

 

We have entered into an employment agreement with Paul Branagan, our chief executive officer. Mr. Branagan’s employment agreement allows for him to resign for good reason upon a change in control of Petrol. Upon his resignation for good reason, Mr. Branagan would continue to receive, through the end of the Term of this Agreement, his salary at the rate then in effect. Further, Mr. Branagan’s stock options shall remain exercisable for the entire term of the options.

 

For purposes of Mr. Branagan’s agreement, a change in control is defined as:

 

 

(i)

a merger or consolidation in which securities possessing more than fifty percent (50%) of the total combined voting power of Petrol’s outstanding securities are transferred to a person or persons different from the persons holding those securities immediately prior to such transaction in a transaction approved by the stockholders, or the sale, transfer, or other disposition of more than fifty percent (50%) of the total combined voting power of Petrol’s outstanding securities to a person or persons different from the persons holding those securities immediately prior to such transaction; or

 

(ii) the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of Petrol’s assets in complete liquidation or dissolution of Petrol other than in connection with a transaction described in (i) above.

 

Non-Executive Employment Agreement

 

On November 1, 2003, Petrol executed an Employment Agreement with Gary Bridwell, wherein Mr. Bridwell agreed to serve as Petrol’s Field Operations Manager. We agreed to pay Mr. Bridwell a starting salary of $10,000 per month and he is entitled to participate in Petrol’s group health insurance and also is entitled to utilize Petrol credit card, which is for the sole use of Company business and is subject to the policies of Petrol covering such matters. On January 11, 2005, we issued 100,000 shares to Mr. Bridwell for completing on year of employment with Petrol. On August 25, 2005, we issued 10,000 shares to Mr. Bridwell as a bonus for his work as field engineering supervisor. On January 1, 2007 Mr. Bridwell terminated his employment with Petrol.

 

Compensation Committee

 

We currently do not have a compensation committee of the board of directors. However, the board of directors intends to establish a compensation committee, which is expected to consist of three inside directors and two independent members. Until a formal committee is established our entire board of directors will review all forms of compensation provided to our executive officers, directors, consultants and employees including stock compensation and loans.

 

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Termination of Employment

 

There are no compensatory plans or arrangements, including payments to be received from Petrol, with respect to any person named in Cash Consideration set out above which would in any way result in payments to any such person because of his resignation, retirement, or other termination of such person’s employment with Petrol, or any change in control of Petrol, or a change in the person’s responsibilities following a change in control of Petrol.

 

Director Compensation

 

Directors of Petrol who are not employees receive compensation of $1,000 for each meeting of the board, as well as travel expenses if required. From time to time, certain directors who are not employees may receive grants of options to purchase shares of our common stock. In addition, we have compensated Suzanne Herring, a member of our board of directors, $60,000 per annum for her services as a director.

 

DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

Name

(a)

Fees Earned or Paid in Cash ($)

(b)

Stock Awards ($)

(c)

Option Awards ($)

(d)

Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensa-

tion ($)

(e)

Non-Qualified Deferred Compensa-

tion Earnings ($)

(f)

All Other Compensa

-tion ($)

(g)

Total ($)

(j)

Loren Moll (1)

$6,000

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

$242

$6,242

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suzanne Herring (2)

$60,000

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

$60,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duane Fadness

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Kite

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

 

 

(1)

The $242 was reimbursement of expenses incurred by Mr. Moll. In addition, during fiscal 2006, the law firm of Caldwell & Moll, L.C. billed Petrol $71,403 for legal fees and $24,792 in expenses related to services performed on behalf of Petrol. Mr. Moll is a partner in the firm. As of December 31, 2006, $20,384 was owed to Caldwell & Moll, L.C. and $2,000 was owed to Mr. Moll.

 

(2)

During fiscal 2006, Accuity Financial Services, Inc. (formerly Opus Pointe), an accounting services company, billed Petrol $82,500 for fees related to services performed on behalf of Petrol. Ms. Herring is the President of Accuity Financial Services, Inc. As of December 31, 2006, $18,000 was owed to Accuity Financial Services, Inc. and $5,000 was owed to Ms. Herring.

 

Compensation Discussion and Analysis

 

The salary administration program for Petrol’s non-contract personnel, which currently consists of 7 people, is administered in an informal manner by Petrol’s CEO. As a result of Petrol’s business as a small oil and gas development company, Petrol’s non-contract personnel are generally on site, in the field employees. Petrol’s salary program is administered in such a way as

 

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to promote productivity. Currently, as a result of the informal nature of the program, it is not designed to accomplish internal equity among personnel. The above principles are applied to all Petrol employees who are non-contract employees (non-executives).

 

As a result of our lack of a Compensation Committee, our Board of Directors acts in such capacity. Additionally, as a result of our having only one executive officer, our CEO and President, who is under contract as discussed elsewhere herein, we have no formal process for consistent annual reviews of compensation for executives. Our intention is to establish a Compensation Committee, and upon the establishment of the Compensation Committee, we intend for such committee to administer our compensation overview for our executives, and oversee the salary administration program for non-contract employees as administered by our CEO.

 

At current cash compensation levels, our Board of Directors acting in the capacity of our Compensation Committee does not expect Internal Revenue Service regulations regarding maximum deductibility of executive compensation to have any application to Petrol.

 

CEO Employment Contract. Effective as of November 2, 2005, Petrol entered into a five (5) year employment contract with Paul Branagan pursuant to which Mr. Branagan serves as Chief Executive Officer of Petrol. Mr. Branagan’s employment contract is discussed in more detail above under the heading “Employment and Other Contracts; Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control.” Mr. Branagan’s annual base salary for the year ended December 31, 2006 was $230,625. Mr. Branagan received no stock option grants in 2006. However, in addition to Mr. Branagan’s base salary, and as part of his agreement with Petrol, Mr. Branagan received $40,511 from his royalty payments and $36,000 in non-accountable expense allowances. As a result of Mr. Branagan’s position as our CEO and President during 2006, and his acting in the capacity of our principal financial officer, we paid Mr. Branagan a $105,000 cash bonus. Additionally, as a result of previously issued options and the extension of options, we accreted $381,384 in stock option value for 2006.

 

ITEM 12.

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.

 

The following table presents information, to the best of our knowledge, about the beneficial ownership of our common stock on April 9, 2007, held by those persons known to beneficially own more than 5% of our capital stock and by our directors and executive officers. The percentage of beneficial ownership for the following table is based on 29,090,926 shares of common stock outstanding as of April 9, 2007.

 

Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and does not necessarily indicate beneficial ownership for any other purpose. Under these rules, beneficial ownership includes those shares of common stock over which the stockholder has sole or shared voting or investment power. It also includes (unless footnoted) shares of common stock that the stockholder has a right to acquire within 60 days after April 9, 2007 through the exercise of any option, warrant or other right. The percentage ownership of the outstanding common stock, however, is based on the assumption, expressly required by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, that only the person or entity

 

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whose ownership is being reported has converted options or warrants into shares of our common stock.

 

Security Ownership of Management

 

 

 

 

Name of Beneficial Owner (1)

 

 

 

 

Number

of Shares

 

 

 

Percent of Outstanding Shares of Common Stock (2)

Paul Branagan, President

 

2,250,000 (3)

 

8%

Loren Moll, Director

 

3,100,000

 

11%

Suzanne Herring, Director

 

0

 

*

Duane Fadness, Director

 

0

 

*

Robert Kite, Director

 

7,142

 

*

Directors and Officers as a Group

 

5,350,000

 

19%

(1)

As used in this table, “beneficial ownership” means the sole or shared power to vote, or to direct the voting of, a security, or the sole or shared investment power with respect to a security (i.e., the power to dispose of, or to direct the disposition of, a security). The address of each person is care of Petrol.

(2)

Figures are rounded to the nearest whole percent. * represents less than 1%.

(3)

Includes 1,750,000 options to purchase our restricted common stock at prices ranging from $0.50 to $2.50 per share.

 

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners

 

 

 

Name of Beneficial Owner (1)

 

 

 

Number

of Shares

 

 

 

Percent of

Class (2)

Spindrift Investors (Bermuda) L.P. (3) (5) (6)*

Clarendon House, 2 Church Street

Hamilton

 

1,817,300

 

6%

Spindrift Partners, L.P. (4) (6) (7)*

75 State Street

Boston, MA 02109

 

1,502,900

 

5%

Wellington Management Company, LLP (6)(8)*

75 State St.

Boston, MA 02109

 

4,601,100 (9)

 

16%

Beneficial Owners as a Group*

 

7,921,300

 

27%

 

(1)

As used in this table, “beneficial ownership” means the sole or shared power to vote, or to direct the voting of, a security, or the sole or shared investment power with respect to a security (i.e., the power to dispose of, or to direct the disposition of, a security).

 

(2)

Figures are rounded to the nearest whole percent.

 

(3)

Spindrift Investors (Bermuda) L.P., Wellington Global Holdings, Ltd., and Wellington Global Administrator, Ltd. have shared dispositive power over 1,817,300 shares, assuming exercise of warrants.

 

(4)

Spindrift Partners, L.P., Wellington Hedge Management, LLC, and Wellington Hedge Management, Inc. have shared dispositive power over 1,502,900 assuming exercise of warrants.

 

(5)

A Bermuda limited partnership.

 

(6)

Each has the right to receive, or the power to direct the receipt of, dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, such securities. No other person is known to have such right or power with respect to more than five percent of this class of securities, except for Wellington Management Company, LLP.

 

(7)

A Massachusetts limited partnership.

 

(8)

A Bermuda limited liability partnership.

 

(9)

The 4,601,100 shares represent the amount of shares Wellington Management Company, LLP (“WMC”) may

 

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be deemed to beneficially own as investment advisor, which are held of record by clients of WMC. No such client of WMC is known to have such right or power with respect to more than five percent of this class of securities, except for Spindrift Investors (Bermuda) L.P. and Spindrift partners, L.P.

 

*The information used for the table of Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners is based on the information reported on the beneficial owners Schedule 13G filings.

 

ITEM 13.        CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

 

Paul Branagan

 

As part of Mr. Branagan’s employment agreement, as amended, we are obligated to pay Mr. Branagan a perpetual 1/100 Over Riding Royalty on production from any wells completed on our leased acreage. For the year ended December 31, 2006, Mr. Branagan earned a total of $40,511 as part of the Over Riding Royalty.

 

Loren Moll

 

During fiscal 2006, the law firm of Caldwell & Moll, L.C. billed Petrol $71,403 for legal fees and $24,792 in expenses related to services performed on behalf of Petrol. Mr. Moll is a partner in the firm.

 

Suzanne Herring

 

During fiscal 2006, Opus Pointe, an accounting services company, was paid $82,500 for fees related to services performed on behalf of Petrol. Ms. Herring is the President of Opus Pointe (now known as Accuity Financial Services, Inc.).

 

Director Independence

 

The Board of Directors has analyzed the independence of each director and has concluded that Robert Kite and Duane Fadness are considered independent Directors in accordance with the director independence standards of the American Stock Exchange, and has determined that neither of them has a material relationship with Petrol which would impair his independence from management or otherwise compromise his ability to act as an independent director.

 

Review, approval or ratification of transactions with related persons

 

Transactions between related persons (including directors and executive officers of Petrol and their immediate family members) and Petrol or their affiliates are subject to approval by the board of directors. Petrol has no written policy setting forth the procedures for the review and approval of related party transactions. Officers and directors will be regularly reminded of their obligation to seek board approval of any related party transaction or potential conflict of interest. The board will consider all factors that it deems relevant, including the nature of the related party’s interest in the transaction, whether the terms are no less favorable than could be obtained

 

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in arms-length dealings with unrelated third parties, and the materiality of the transaction to Petrol.

 

ITEM 14.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

 

(1) AUDIT FEES

 

The aggregate fees billed for professional services rendered by Weaver & Martin, LLC, for the audit of our annual financial statements and review of the financial statements included in our Form 10-QSB or services that are normally provided by the accountant in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements for fiscal years 2006, 2005 and 2004 were $120,737, $105,702 and $98,127, respectively.

 

(2) AUDIT-RELATED FEES

 

 

NONE

 

(3) TAX FEES

 

The aggregate fees to be billed by Weaver & Martin LLC for professional services to be rendered for tax fees for fiscal years 2006, 2005 and 2004 were $13,650, $10,250 and $5,000, respectively.

 

(4) ALL OTHER FEES

 

The aggregate fees for professional services for audit related services relating to the Registration Statement on Form SB-2 for fiscal years 2006, 2005 and 2004 were $33,725, $30,750 and $20,426, respectively. There were no other fees to be billed by Weaver & Martin LLC for the fiscal years 2006, 2005 and 2004 other than the fees described herein and above.

 

(5) AUDIT COMMITTEE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

 

We do not have an audit committee.

 

(6) If greater than 50 percent, disclose the percentage of hours expended on the principal accountant’s engagement to audit the registrant’s financial statements for the most recent fiscal year that were attributed to work performed by persons other than the principal accountant’s full-time, permanent employees.

 

 

Not applicable.

 

 

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PART IV

 

ITEM 15.

EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

 

 

(a)

Exhibits. The following documents are filed as a part of this report:

 

 

(1)

The consolidated financial statements of Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc. are listed on the Index to this report, page 76.

 

(2)

Financial statement schedules have been omitted because they are not required, not applicable or the information is included in the Petrol’s consolidated financial statements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Incorporated by reference

Exhibit

number

 

 

Exhibit description

 

Filed

herewith

 

 

Form

 

Period

ending

 

 

Exhibit No.

 

Filing

date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

Asset Purchase Agreement between Petrol Energy, Inc. and Euro Technology Outfitters, August 19, 2002

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

2

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3i(a)

 

Certificate of Amendment of Articles of Incorporation of Euro Technology Outfitters, filed on August 20, 2002

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

3(i)(a)

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3i(b)

 

Articles of Incorporation for Euro Technology Outfitters, filed on March 3, 2000

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

3(i)(b)

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3ii

 

Bylaws for Euro Technology Outfitters

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

3(ii)

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.1

 

Amendment to Translation and Business Consulting agreement with Goran Blagojevic dated December 20, 2002

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.1

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.2

 

Service and Water Disposal Agreement dated November 15, 2002

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.2

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.3

 

Employment agreement with Paul Branagan dated December 19, 2002

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.3

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.4

 

Geologist/Technical Advisor Consulting Agreement with William Stoeckinger dated December 19, 2002

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.4

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.5

 

Land Services Consulting Agreement with Russell Frierson dated December 27, 2002

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.5

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.6

 

Land Services Consulting Agreement with Lawrence Kehoe dated December 27, 2002

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.6

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.7

 

Land Services Consulting Agreement with Cody Felton dated December 27, 2002

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.7

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.8

 

Waverly Kansas Office Lease dated January 21, 2003

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.8

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.9

 

2002 Master Stock Option Plan

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.9

 

1/22/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.10

 

Term Sheet of Compensation for Enutroff, dated 7/01/03

 

 

 

10-QSB

 

9/30/03

 

10.1

 

11/14/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

72

 


 

10.11

 

Consultant Agreement of CSC Group LLC

 

 

 

10-KSB

 

12/31/03

 

10.10

 

4/15/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.12

 

Employment Agreement of David Polay

 

 

 

10-KSB

 

12/31/03

 

10.11

 

4/15/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.13

 

Addendum to Employment Agreement of Paul Branagan

 

 

 

10-KSB

 

12/31/03

 

10.12

 

4/15/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.14

 

Employment Agreement of Gary Bridwell

 

 

 

10-KSB

 

12/31/03

 

10.13

 

4/15/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.15

 

Letter Agreement with William D. Burke

 

 

 

10-KSB

 

12/31/03

 

10.14

 

4/15/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.16

 

Purchase and Sale Agreement with CBM Energy Inc.

 

 

 

10-KSB

 

12/31/03

 

10.15

 

4/15/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.17

 

Research Agreement with Joseph E. Blankenship

 

 

 

10-KSB

 

12/31/03

 

10.16

 

4/15/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.18

 

Research Agreement Scope of Work and Compensation

 

 

 

10-KSB

 

12/31/03

 

10.17

 

4/15/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.19

 

Business Partnership Term Sheet with John Haas, Mark Haas, and W.B. Mitchell

 

 

 

10-KSB

 

12/31/03

 

10.18

 

4/15/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.20

 

Addendum #2 Employment Agreement of Paul Branagan

 

 

 

10-QSB

 

3/31/04

 

10.6

 

5/17/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.21

 

Securities Purchase Agreement for Laurus

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.21

 

2/7/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.22

 

Registration Rights Agreement for Laurus

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.22

 

2/7/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.23

 

Subscription and Registration Rights Agreement for Unit Offering

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.23

 

2/7/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.24

 

Warrant Agreement for Unit Offering

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.24

 

2/7/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.25

 

Amendment No. 1 to the Secured Convertible Term Note & Registration Rights Agreement with Laurus, dtd 1/28/05

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.25

 

2/7/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.26

 

Common Stock Purchase Warrant of Laurus, dated 01/28/05

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.26

 

2/7/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.27

 

Letter Amendment Agreement with Laurus, dated 04/28/05

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.27

 

5/12/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.28

 

Consulting Agreement with CEOcast, dated 08/7/04

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.28

 

5/12/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.29

 

Amendment No. 1 to October 2004 Securities Purchase Agreement

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.29

 

12/1/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.30

 

Securities Purchase Agreement dated October 31, 2005

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.30

 

12/1/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.31

 

Secured Term Note dated October 31, 2005

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.31

 

12/1/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.32

 

Common Stock Purchase Warrant dated October 31, 2005

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.32

 

12/1/05

 

 

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10.33

 

Registration Rights Agreement dated October 31, 2005

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.33

 

12/1/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.34

 

Amended and Restated Mortgage

 

 

 

SB-2

 

 

 

10.34

 

12/1/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21.1

 

List of Subsidiaries of Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc.

 

 

 

10-KSB

 

12/31/05

 

21

 

3/31/06

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21.2

 

List of Subsidiaries of Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc. – December 31, 2006

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

31

 

Certification of Paul Branagan pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

32

 

Certification of Paul Branagan pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

99.1

 

Audit Committee Charter

 

 

 

10-KSB

 

12/31/05

 

99

 

3/31/06

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

99.2

 

Governance and Nominating Committee Charter

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SIGNATURES

 

In accordance with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act, the registrant caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

 

 

 

By:/s/ Paul Branagan                                        

 

Paul Branagan, President

 

 

Date: April 17, 2007

 

In accordance with the Exchange Act, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

Title

Date

 

 

 

/s/ Paul Branagan                     

President, Secretary/Treasurer,

April 17, 2007

Paul Branagan

CEO, Director,

 

 

Principal Accounting Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Loren Moll                           

Chairman of the Board

April 17, 2007

Loren Moll

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Suzanne Herring                  

Director

April 17, 2007

Suzanne M. Herring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Duane Fadness                      

Director

April 17, 2007

Duane D. Fadness

 

 

 

 

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Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc.

Index To Consolidated Financial Statements

 

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

F-1

 

 

Consolidated Balance Sheets, December 31, 2006 and 2005

F-2

 

 

Consolidated Statement of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

F-3

 

 

Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

F-4

 

 

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

F-6

 

 

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

F-8 – F-31

 

 

 

 

 

76

 


 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

Stockholders and Directors

Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc.

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc. as of December 31, 2006 and 2005 and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2006. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatements. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc. as of December 31, 2006 and 2005 and the consolidated results of its operations and cash flows for each of the years in the three–year period ended December 31, 2006 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations and is dependent upon the continued sale of its securities or obtaining debt financing for funds to meet its cash requirements. These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans with regard to these matters are also described in Note 2. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

/S/ Weaver & Martin, LLC

 

Weaver & Martin, LLC

Kansas City, Missouri

April 16, 2007

 

 

 

F-1

 


Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

2006

 

2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

5,917,958

 

$

8,435,203

 

Accounts receivable

 

624,731

 

 

613,814

 

Prepaid expenses

 

38,085

 

 

-

 

 

Total current assets

 

6,580,774

 

 

9,049,017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pipeline

 

5,331,028

 

 

2,324,717

 

Equipment and vehicles

 

341,310

 

 

291,848

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,672,338

 

 

2,616,560

 

Less accumulated depreciation

 

471,600

 

 

171,657

Fixed assets, net

 

5,200,738

 

 

2,444,903

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oil and gas properties using full cost accounting:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Properties not subject to amortization

 

1,210,174

 

 

954,002

 

 

Properties subject to amortization

 

21,856,363

 

 

13,662,783

 

Capitalized loan costs, net

 

662,511

 

 

816,329

 

Deposits

 

1,932

 

 

-

 

Derivative asset

 

974,752

 

 

-

 

 

 

Total other assets

 

24,705,732

 

 

15,433,114

 

 

 

 

 

$

36,487,244

 

$

26,927,034

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

$

462,188

 

$

1,374,938

 

Accrued liabilities

 

430,190

 

 

151,168

 

Short-term derivative liability

 

-

 

 

1,183,685

 

Current portion of long term debt

 

14,193,588

 

 

2,101,111

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

 

15,085,966

 

 

4,810,902

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asset retirement obligation

 

907,797

 

 

749,618

Long-term derivative liability

 

58,133

 

 

512,931

Long-term debt, less current portion

 

13,169,895

 

 

12,375,007

 

 

 

 

 

 

14,135,825

 

 

13,637,556

Commitments and contingencies

 

 

 

 

 

Stockholders’ Equity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred stock, $0.001 par value, 10,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

shares authorized, no shares issued and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

outstanding

 

-

 

 

-

 

Common stock, $0.001 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

29,084,597 and 26,890,083 shares issued and outstanding at

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005, respectively

 

29,084

 

 

26,889

 

Stock bought or for services not issued, 6,329 and 740,449 at

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005, respectively

 

6

 

 

740

 

Unamortized cost of stock, warrants & options issued for services

(1,461,747)

 

 

(2,380,365)

 

Prepaid share-based compensation

 

(47,600)

 

 

-

 

Subscription receivable

 

-

 

 

(75,000)

 

Additional paid-in capital

 

28,555,484

 

 

25,534,114

 

Other comprehensive income (loss)

 

916,619

 

 

(1,696,616)

 

Accumulated (deficit)

 

(20,726,393)

 

 

(12,931,186)

 

 

 

 

 

 

7,265,453

 

 

8,478,576

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

36,487,244

 

$

26,927,034

 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

F-2 


Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc.

Consolidated Statement of Operations

 

 

 

 

For the Year Ended

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2006

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oil and gas activities

$

7,489,401

 

$

6,040,957

 

$

866,924

 

Royalties and overrides

 

956,603

 

 

796,151

 

 

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross profit

 

6,532,798

 

 

5,244,806

 

 

866,924

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct costs

 

2,908,693

 

 

3,084,494

 

 

221,339

 

Pipeline costs

 

910,739

 

 

230,944

 

 

-

 

General and administrative

 

1,649,028

 

 

1,616,334

 

 

607,617

 

Professional and consulting fees

 

1,957,177

 

 

2,577,970

 

 

1,906,036

 

Salaries and wages

 

262,436

 

 

264,049

 

 

225,745

 

Salaries and wages - related party

 

753,009

 

 

234,636

 

 

166,667

 

Depreciation, depletion and amortization

 

2,811,185

 

 

1,392,342

 

 

213,475

 

Acquisition costs

 

-

 

 

-

 

 

654,000

 

 

Total expenses

 

11,252,267

 

 

9,400,769

 

 

3,994,879

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net operating (loss)

 

(4,719,469)

 

 

(4,155,963)

 

 

(3,127,955)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other income (expense):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense

 

(3,075,739)

 

 

(1,807,833)

 

 

(1,395,952)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net (loss)

$

(7,795,208)

 

$

(5,963,796)

 

$

(4,523,907)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average number of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

common shares outstanding - basic and fully diluted

 

28,770,494

 

 

25,632,220

 

 

20,647,542

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net (loss) per share - basic and fully diluted

$

(0.27)

 

$

(0.23)

 

$

(0.22)

 

 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

F-3

 


Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity

 

 

 

 

Stock

Unamortized

 

Prepaid

 

 

 

 

Additional

Bought or

Cost of

Other

Share-based/

 

Total

 

Common Stock

Paid-in

for Services

Stock Issued

Comprehensive

Subscription

Accumulated

Stockholders’

 

Shares

Amount

Capital

Not Issued

For Services

Loss

Receivable

Deficit

Equity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, December 31, 2003

17,247,466

$ 17,247

$ 4,630,713

$ 160

$ (1,000)

$ -

$ -

$(2,443,483)

$ 2,203,637

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares issued for services

413,861

415

904,085

-

-

-

--

-

904,500

Shares issued

160,000

160

-

(160)

-

-

--

-

-

Shares issued for asset acquisition

765,000

765

764,235

-

-

-

--

-

765,000

Warrants and options issued for services

-

-

548,600

-

-

-

--

-

548,600

Shares for services not yet issued

-

-

200,873

126

-

-

-

-

200,999

Shares for acquisition not yet issued

-

-

94,950

50

-

-

--

-

95,000

Options exercised

1,350,000

1,350

836,150

-

-

-

--

-

837,500

Shares returned from collateral

(1,000,000)

(1,000)

-

-

1,000

-

--

-

-

Shares held by lender as collateral

50,000

50

-

-

(50)

-

-

-

-

Shares issued for cash

5,633,333

5,633

6,135,567

-

-

-

-

-

6,141,200

Beneficial conversion of convertible stock

-

-

1,013,000

-

-

-

-

-

1,013,000

Warrants issued in financing

-

-

2,072,534

-

-

-

-

-

2,072,534

Other comprehensive loss

-

-

-

-

-

(229,435)

-

-

(229,435)

Net loss

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

(4,523,907)

(4,523,907)

Balance, December 31, 2004

24,619,660

24,620

17,200,707

175

(50)

(229,435)

-

(6,967,390)

10,028,627

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares issued for services

252,785

252

537,747

-

-

-

-

-

537,999

Warrants and options issued for services

-

-

803,050

-

(537,230)

-

-

-

265,820

Warrants issued in financing

-

-

1,376,803

-

-

-

-

-

1,376,803

Shares issued for debt conversion

1,297,565

1,297

1,945,048

-

-

-

-

-

1,946,345

Warrants exercised

550,073

550

561,825

125

-

-

(75,000)

-

487,500

Shares authorized and unissued for services

-

-

93,468

54

-

-

-

-

93,522

Shares used to acquire property

10,000

10

1,108,529

546

-

-

-

-

1,109,085

Shares previously authorized now issued

160,000

160

-

(160)

-

-

-

-

-

Options granted for services - related party

 

-

1,906,937

-

(1,843,085)

-

-

-

63,852

Other Comprehensive loss

-

-

-

-

-

(1,467,181)

-

-

(1,467,181)

Net loss

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

(5,963,796)

(5,963,796)

Balance, December 31, 2005

26,890,083

26,889

25,534,114

740

(2,380,365)

(1,696,616)

(75,000)

(12,931,186)

8,478,576

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

 

F-4

 


Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity

(Continued)

 

 

 

 

Stock

Unamortized

 

Prepaid

 

 

 

 

Additional

Bought or

Cost of

Other

Share-based/

 

Total

 

Common Stock

Paid-in

for Services

Stock Issued

Comprehensive

Subscription

Accumulated

Stockholders’

 

Shares

Amount

Capital

Not Issued

For Services

Loss

Receivable

Deficit

Equity

Shares issued for services

95,317

95

165,505

-

-

-

(47,600)

-

118,000

Warrants and options issued for services

-

-

145,252

-

-

-

-

-

67,252

Warrants granted for financing

 

 

661,778

-

-

-

-

-

661,778

Shares issued for interest

135,533

136

203,164

-

-

-

-

-

203,300

Shares issued for debt conversion

609,020

609

912,921

-

-

-

-

-

913,530

Warrants exercised

205,000

205

241,670

-

-

-

-

-

241,875

Subscription cancelled for services

-

-

-

-

-

-

75,000

-

75,000

Shares authorized and unissued for services

-

-

14,994

6

-

-

-

-

15,000

Shares used to acquire property

409,195

409

676,088

-

-

-

-

-

676,498

Shares previously authorized now issued

740,449

740

-

(740)

-

-

-

-

-

Amortization of options for services

-

-

-

-

918,618

-

-

-

996,618

Other Comprehensive loss

-

-

-

-

-

2,613,235

-

-

2,613,235

Net loss

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

(7,795,208)

(7,795,208)

Balance, December 31, 2006

29,084,597

$ 29,084

$28,555,486

$ 6

$(1,461,747)

$ 916,619

$ (47,600)

$(20,726,394)

$ 7,265,454

 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

F-5

 


Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc.

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the Year Ended

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006

 

2005

 

2004

Cash flows from operating activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net (loss)

 

$

(7,795,208)

 

$

(5,963,796)

 

$

(4,523,907)

Depreciation, depletion and amortization

 

 

2,811,185

 

 

946,585

 

 

383,987

Warrant accretion

 

 

1,295,726

 

 

943,800

 

 

-

Accretion of asset retirement obligation

 

 

71,779

 

 

51,041

 

 

-

Shares issued for interest

 

 

203,300

 

 

627,093

 

 

-

Stock subscriptions for services

 

 

75,000

 

 

-

 

 

 

Shares issued for asset acquisition

 

 

-

 

 

-

 

 

654,000

Stock, warrants and options issued for services

 

 

1,196,870

 

 

1,505,140

 

 

1,557,598

Beneficial conversion

 

 

-

 

 

-

 

 

1,013,000

Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) to cash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

used in operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts receivable

 

 

(10,917)

 

 

(300,832)

 

 

(312,982)

 

 

Prepaid and other assets

 

 

(38,085)

 

 

27,305

 

 

(11,526)

 

 

Accounts payable

 

 

(912,750)

 

 

912,786

 

 

194,081

 

 

Accrued liabilities

 

 

279,023

 

 

(114,463)

 

 

203,513

 

 

Accrued liabilities - related party

 

 

-

 

 

(270,000)

 

 

270,000

Net cash used in operating activities

 

 

(2,824,077)

 

 

(1,635,341)

 

 

(572,236)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchase of fixed assets

 

 

(3,055,781)

 

 

(884,748)

 

 

(1,685,214)

 

Additions to oil and gas properties

 

 

(9,224,470)

 

 

(1,521,979)

 

 

(10,241,023)

 

Purchase of oil and gas leases

 

 

(256,172)

 

 

(140,114)

 

 

(367,506)

 

Additions to deposits

 

 

(1,933)

 

 

-

 

 

-

 

Release of restricted cash

 

 

-

 

 

852,346

 

 

(852,346)

 

Investments

 

 

-

 

 

-

 

 

184,222

Net cash used in investing activities

 

 

(12,538,356)

 

 

(1,694,495)

 

 

(12,961,867)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additions to loan fees

 

 

(563,634)

 

 

-

 

 

-

 

Amortized loan fees

 

 

-

 

 

(79,329)

 

 

(707,500)

 

Proceeds from loans payable

 

 

15,000,000

 

 

10,026,880

 

 

8,000,000

 

Payments on notes payable

 

 

(1,833,053)

 

 

(462,952)

 

 

(4,050)

 

Proceeds from sales of common stock

 

 

-

 

 

-

 

 

6,978,700

 

Proceeds from exercising of warrants

 

 

241,875

 

 

487,500

 

 

-

Net cash provided from financing activities

 

 

12,845,188

 

 

9,972,099

 

 

14,267,150

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash

 

 

(2,517,245)

 

 

6,642,263

 

 

733,047

Cash - beginning

 

 

8,435,203

 

 

1,792,885

 

 

1,059,838

Cash - ending

 

$

5,917,958

 

$

8,435,148

 

$

1,792,885

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplemental disclosures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest paid

 

$

2,505,161

 

$

182,956

 

$

26,685

 

Income taxes paid

 

 

-

 

 

-

 

 

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-cash transactions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stock issued for oil & gas properties

 

$

676,497

 

$

1,108,538

 

$

859,950

 

Stock issued for debt conversions

 

 

1,116,830

 

 

1,946,347

 

 

-

 

Stock, warrants and options issued for services

 

 

1,196,870

 

 

4,718,997

 

 

2,621,134

 

Asset retirement obligation

 

 

86,400

 

 

51,041

 

 

-

 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

F-6

 


PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

1. Significant Accounting Policies

 

Nature of Business

 

The Company was organized on March 3, 2000, under the laws of the State of Nevada, as Euro Technology Outfitters (Euro). On August 19, 2002 Euro acquired, in an asset purchase agreement, land leases and accumulated expenditures and assumed liabilities from Petrol Energy, Inc. On August 20, 2002, the Company amended its Articles of Incorporation to rename the Company, Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc. and increased the authorized capital stock to 100,000,000 shares of Common Stock, $0.001 par value, and 10,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, $0.001 par value.

 

We are now engaged in the exploration, development, production and marketing of oil and natural gas. The Company’s primary objective is the development of Coalbed Methane (CBM) gas production projects. We have focused our efforts to eastern Kansas and western Missouri where leases were acquired that appeared geologically suitable for CBM exploration.

 

Principles of Consolidation

 

Our consolidated financial statements include the accounts of our wholly owned subsidiaries, Neodesha Pipeline, LLC and Coal Creek Pipeline, LLC after elimination of intercompany transactions.

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

Trade Accounts Receivable

 

Trade accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount and do not bear interest. We regularly review collectability and establish or adjust an allowance for uncollectible accounts as necessary using the specific identification method. Account balances are charged off against the allowance after all means of collection have been exhausted and the potential for recovery is considered remote. There were no reserves for uncollectible amounts in the periods presented.

 

Stock-Based Compensation

 

In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123 (revised 2004) “Share-Based Payment” (“SFAS No. 123R”), which replaces SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation” and supersedes APB Opinion 25. SFAS No. 123R requires all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, to be recognized in the financial statements based on the fair values beginning with the first interim period in fiscal year

 

F-7

 


PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

2006. The pro forma disclosures previously permitted under SFAS No. 123 are no longer an alternative to financial statement recognition.

 

Common stock, warrants and options issued for services by non-employees are accounted for based on the fair market value at the date the services are performed. If the services are to be performed over a period of time the value is amortized over the life of the period that services are performed.

 

We account for our stock option plan in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 123R, “Accounting for Stock Based Compensation”. The cost of options are included as an expense when the options are vested.

 

Income Taxes

 

We account for income taxes under SFAS 109, Accounting for Income Taxes. The asset and liability approach requires the recognition of deferred tax liabilities and assets for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the carrying amounts and the tax basis of assets and liabilities. The provision for income taxes differ from the amounts currently payable because of temporary differences in the recognition of certain income and expense items for financial reporting and tax reporting purposes.

 

Fair value of financial instruments

 

At December 31, 2006 and 2005, our financial instruments consist of accounts receivable and long-term debt. Interest rates currently available to us for long-term debt with similar terms and remaining maturities are used to estimate fair value of such financial instruments. Accordingly, since interest rates on substantially all of our debt are variable, market based rates, the carrying amounts are a reasonable estimate of fair value.

Earnings per common share

 

SFAS No. 128, Earnings Per Share. This standard requires dual presentation of basic and diluted earnings per share on the face of the income statement for all entities with complex capital structures and requires a reconciliation of the numerator and denominator of the diluted loss per share computation.

 

Potentially issuable shares of common stock pursuant to outstanding stock options and warrants are excluded from the diluted computation, as their effect would be anti-dilutive.

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

We consider all highly liquid investment instruments purchased with remaining maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents for purposes of the consolidated statements of cash flows and other statements. We maintain cash on deposit in non-interest bearing accounts, which, at times, exceed federally insured limits. We have not experienced any losses on such accounts and believe we are not exposed to any significant credit risk on cash and equivalents.

 

 

F-8

 


PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Revenue recognition

 

The Company follows the “sales” (takes or cash) method of accounting for oil and gas revenues. Under this method, we recognize revenues on production as it is taken and delivered to its purchasers. The volumes sold may be more or less than the volumes we are entitled to base our ownership interest in the property. These differences result in a condition known in the industry as a production imbalance. Our crude oil and natural gas imbalances are not significant.

Debt issue costs

 

Debt issuance costs incurred are capitalized and subsequently amortized over the term of the related debt on an interest method of accretion over the estimated life of the debt.

Property and Equipment

 

Property and equipment are recorded at cost. Depreciation is on a straight-line method using the estimated lives of the assets (5-30 years). Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are charged to expense.

 

Oil and gas properties

 

We follow the full cost method of accounting for oil and gas properties. Accordingly, all costs associated with acquisition, exploration, and development are capitalized.

 

All capitalized costs included in the estimated future costs to develop proved reserves, are amortized on the unit-of-production method using estimates of proved reserves. Investments in unproved properties and major development projects are not amortized until proved reserves associated with the projects can be determined or until impairment occurs. If the results of an assessment indicate that the properties are impaired, the amount of the impairment is added to the capitalized costs to be amortized. Abandonment’s of oil and gas properties are charged to the full cost pool and amortized.

 

Under the full cost method, the net book value of oil and gas properties are subject to a “ceiling”. The ceiling is the estimated after-tax future net revenue from proved oil and gas properties, discounted at 10% per annum plus the lower of cost or fair market value of unproved properties. In calculating future net revenues, prices and costs in effect at the time of the calculation are held constant indefinitely, except for changes that are fixed and determinable by existing contracts. The excess, if any, of the net book value above the ceiling is written off as an expense.

 

Sales of proved and unproved properties are accounted for as adjustments of capitalized costs with no gain or loss recognized, unless such adjustments would significantly alter the relationship between capitalized costs and proved reserves of oil and gas, in which case the gain or loss is recognized as income.

 

Long-lived assets

 

Impairment of long-lived assets is recorded when indicators of impairment are present and the undiscounted cash flows estimated to be generated by those assets are less than the assets’ carrying value. The carrying value of the assets is then reduced to their estimated fair value which

 

F-9

 


PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

is usually measured based on an estimate of future discounted cash flows. No adjustments were necessary during the periods presented.

 

Asset retirement obligations

 

We adopted the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 143, “Asset Retirement Obligations” (“SFAS 143”) which requires us to recognize an estimated liability for the plugging and abandonment of our oil and gas wells and associated pipelines and equipment. The liability and the associated increase in the related long-lived asset are recorded in the period in which our asset retirement obligation (“ARO”) is incurred. The liability is accreted to its present value each period and the capitalized cost is depreciated over the useful life of the related asset.

The estimated liability is based on historical experience in plugging and abandoning wells, estimated remaining lives of those wells based on reserves estimates and federal and state regulatory requirements. The liability is discounted using an assumed credit-adjusted risk-free rate.

Revisions to the liability could occur due to changes in estimates of plugging and abandonment costs, changes in the risk-free rate or remaining lives of the wells, or if federal or state regulators enact new plugging and abandonment requirements. At the time of abandonment, we recognize a gain or loss on abandonment to the extent that actual costs do not equal the estimated costs. .

Concentration of credit risk

 

We substantially sell all oil and gas production to two customers. In 2006 and 2005 the two largest customers accounted for 75% and 12% and 81% and 18%, of sales, respectively. In 2004 one customer accounted for 83% of all sales.

 

Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities

 

We seek to reduce our exposure to unfavorable changes in natural gas prices by utilizing energy swap contracts (effectively fixed price contracts). We have adopted SFAS 133, as amended by SFAS 138, Accounting for Derivative Contracts and Hedging Activities. It requires that all derivative instruments be recognized as assets or liabilities in the statement of financial position, measured at fair value. Accounting for changes in the fair value of the derivative depends on the intended use of the derivative and the resulting designation. For derivatives that are designated as cash flow hedges changes in fair value are recognized in other comprehensive income until the hedged item is recognized in earnings. Hedge effectiveness is measured at least quarterly based on the relative changes in fair value between the derivative contract and the hedged item over time. Any change in fair value resulting from ineffectiveness is recognized immediately in earnings.

 

Although our fixed price contracts may not qualify for special hedge accounting treatment from time to time under specific guidelines of SFAS 133, we refer to these contracts as hedges inasmuch as this was the intent when such contracts were executed, the characterization is consistent with the actual economic performance of the contracts, and we expect the contracts to continue to mitigate our commodity price risk in the future. The accounting for the contracts is consistent with the requirements of SFAS 133.

 

F-10

 


PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

We have established the fair value of all derivative instruments using estimates determined by using established index prices and bases adjustments. The values reported in the financial statements change as these estimates are revised to reflect actual results, changes in market conditions or other factors.

 

Recent issued accounting Standards

 

In September 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff (“SEC”) issued SAB 108. SAB 108 was issued to provide consistency to how companies quantify financial statement misstatements. SAB 108 establishes an approach that requires companies to quantify misstatements in financial statements based on effects of the misstatement on both the consolidated balance sheet and statement of operations and the related financial statement disclosures. Additionally, companies must evaluate the cumulative effect of errors existing in prior years that previously had been considered immaterial. We adopted SAB 108 in connection with the preparation of our annual financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2006 and found no adjustments necessary.

In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements (“SFAS No. 157”). SFAS No. 157 defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 does not require any new fair value measurements, rather, its application will be made pursuant to other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements. SFAS No.157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and interim periods within those years. The provisions of SFAS No. 157 are to be applied prospectively upon adoption, except for limited specified exceptions. We are evaluating the requirements of SFAS No. 157 and do not expect the adoption to have a material impact on our Consolidated Balance Sheet or Statement of Operations.

 

In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Interpretation No.48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes-an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109 (“FIN 48”). FIN 48 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in a company’s financial statements in accordance with FASB Statement No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes. It prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. FIN 48 also provides guidance on de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. FIN 48 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006 and will be adopted by us on January 1, 2007. We have not been able to complete our evaluation of the impact of adopting FIN 48 and as a result, are not able to estimate the effect the adoption will have on our financial position and results of operations, including our ability to comply with current debt covenants.

 

Reclassifications

 

Certain reclassifications have been made to prior periods to conform to current presentation.

 

2. Going concern

 

Our financial statements are prepared using generally accepted accounting principles applicable to a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities in the normal course of business. Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon us

 

F-11

 


PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

obtaining additional sources of capital or borrowings until the time when we are able to attain future profitable operations. The accompanying financial statements do not include any adjustments that might be necessary should the company be unable to continue as a going concern.

 

3. Stockholders’ Equity

 

Common stock

 

As of December 31, 2006 and 2005, there were 6,329 and 740,449 shares unissued, respectively. The shares that were not issued at December 31, 2005 were issued in 2006.

 

Stock Transactions

 

Fiscal 2004

 

We entered into a geologist/technical advisor consulting agreement with Mr. William Stoeckinger. The agreement was for a one-month term and Mr. Stoeckinger received 20,000 shares valued at $20,000. The fair market value of the stock was determined based on the price that we were selling shares to our investors. Professional and consulting expense was charged $20,000 in 2004.

 

On January 14, 2004, we entered into a twelve-month consulting agreement with Consulting Solutions whereby Consulting solutions would provide introduction to international strategic alliance partners for investment in drilling activities related to CBM production. At December 31, 2004, we issued 35,000 shares in the name of Fidelity Insurance Co. on behalf of Consulting Solutions for services provided per the consulting agreement. The value of the stock as determined by the market price of our stock on the day of the agreement was $73,500 and this was recorded as professional and consulting fee expense.

 

On January 15, 2004, we agreed to exchange 765,000 shares of our stock to Mr. John Haas, Mr. Mark Haas and Mr. W.B. Mitchell, principals of CBM Energy, Inc. for oil and gas mineral leases covering approximately 36,000 acres and title to approximately 10 existing wells. The value of the transaction is $765,000. $31,000 of value was assigned to property not subject to amortization based on the remaining lease cost of each leased acre. $80,000 of value was assigned to property subject to amortization based on the fair market value of the test wells on the leased property. The remaining $654,000 was expensed in January 2004.

 

On February 9, 2004, we agreed to issue 10,000 shares of common stock to Joseph Blankenship. The value of the stock of $10,000 was recorded as a professional and consulting fees expense. The shares were issued to Mr. Blankenship in 2005.

 

On May 3, 2004, we issued 100,000 shares of our common stock to CPA Directed Investments (CDI) pursuant to a secured promissory note agreement dated May 5, 2004. CDI will return 50,000 shares for cancellation at such time the loan and interest are paid in full. The remaining 50,000 shares will be retained by CDI as a loan fee. Due to the nature of this being a short-term loan the loan fee was expensed. The amount was determined based on the market value of our stock on the date of the agreement and totalled $132,500. The par value ($50) of the 50,000 shares held as collateral was recorded as unamortized cost of stock issued for services until such time as the shares are returned.

 

F-12

 


PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

On June 17, 2004, we issued 120,000 shares of our common stock to XXR Consulting Inc. pursuant to a consulting agreement we executed on June 4, 2004. The value of the stock as determined by the market price of our stock on the day of the agreement was $276,000 and was recorded as professional and consulting fee expense.

 

On June 15, 2004, we agreed to a consulting agreement with ECON Investor Relations, Inc. The monthly fee is $10,000 of which $6,000 is payable in stock. The agreement is for one year with either party able to terminate the agreement based on 30 days written notice. Stock earned but not issued to the consultant at December 31, 2004 was recorded at par value.

 

On September 20, 2004, we entered into an agreement with Haas Oil Group whereby we agreed to issue 50,000 shares of common stock in exchange for 100% working interest in certain leases that Hass owned. The shares were valued at $1.90 per share, which was the trading price of our common stock on September 20, 2004 the date the agreement was signed. As of December 31, 2004 the shares were not issued.

 

On November 1, 2004 we recorded as additional compensation $152,000 that represented the market value (as determined based on the price our shares were trading on that day) of 100,000 shares of our common stock that was earned by Mr. Gary Bidwell. The shares were not issued as of December 31, 2004.

 

On December 2, 2004, we issued 90,000 shares of common stock to Hard Funding, Inc. pursuant to the twelve-month financial consulting agreement entered into on January 14, 2004. The value of the stock as determined by the market price of our stock on the day of the agreement was $189,000 and was recorded as professional and consulting fee expense.

 

On December 16, 2004, we issued 90,000 shares of common stock to CEOcast pursuant to the consulting agreement entered into on June 2004. The value of the stock as determined by the market price of our stock on the day of the agreement was $152,100 and was recorded as professional and consulting fee expense.

 

We sold 5,633,333 shares of our common stock in 2004. Each share was sold for $1.20 and it included a warrant to purchase an additional share of common stock for a price of $1.50 per share expiring on September 8, 2007. The proceeds raised totaled $6,760,000. The proceeds were offset by direct costs relating to commissions paid, totaling $479,800, legal fees of $131,500 and other costs of $7,500. We also issued 845,000 warrants as additional commission to Energy Capital Solutions (see options and warrants below). The value assigned to the warrants would normally be recorded as additional paid-in capital, however, since this was a cost of the offering there was no additional paid-in capital. The net amount received from the sale was $6,141,200.

 

A supplier has agreed to be paid in stock for 10% of any invoice. Stock earned but not issued to the supplier at December 31, 2004 was recorded at par value.

 

Fiscal 2005

 

On January 11, 2005, we awarded Mr. David Polay 50,000 shares and Mr. LoCascio 10,000 shares of our common stock for services. The value of the stock was determined based on the closing value of its stock on the date the stock was issued. We recorded $141,000 as professional fee expense.

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

On January 11, 2005, we issued 60,000 shares of its common stock in lieu of cash compensation to Russell A. Frierson for land and administrative support rendered to the Company. The value of the stock was determined based on the closing value of its stock on the date the stock was issued. We recorded $141,000 as professional fee expense.

 

We entered into consulting agreements with CEOcast, Inc., in 2005 wherein we agreed to issue 100,000 shares of our common stock to CEOcast. The value of the stock was determined based on the closing value of the stock on the date the stock was issued. We recorded $186,800 as professional fee expense

 

On August 8, 2005, we issued 22,785 shares of our common stock (valued at $54,000) to ECON Investor Relations, Inc. pursuant to its consulting agreement.

 

On August 25, 2005, we issued 10,000 shares of our common stock to Gary Bridwell as a bonus for his work as field engineering supervisor. The value of our common stock on the day of the bonus was used to record the wage expense of $15,200.

 

During fiscal 2005 Laurus Master Fund Ltd. Converted $1,370,294 of principal and $576,053 of accrued interest under the convertible term note. Pursuant to the conversion rate of $1.50 they were issued 1,297,565 shares of common stock.

 

In connection with our financing we agreed to issue 50,000 shares of our common stock to Draper & Associates. The value of our common stock on the day the services were agreed to was used to record a loan fee of $90,000. The shares were not issued as of December 31, 2005.

 

A supplier agreed to take our common stock in lieu of cash payments. The liability was $3,522. The shares were not issued as of December 31, 2005.

 

We purchased an operating asset in exchange for 10,000 shares of our common stock. The value of our common stock on the day of the purchase was used to record a value of $16,400.

 

We acquired working interests in producing wells for 546,342 shares of our common stock. The value of our stock on the day of the acquisition was used to value the purchase at $1,092,684. The shares were not issued as of December 31, 2005.

 

Fiscal 2006

 

During fiscal 2006, Laurus Master Fund Ltd. Converted $913,530 of principal and $203,300 of accrued interest under the convertible term note. Pursuant to the conversion rate of $1.50 they were issued 744,553 shares of common stock.

 

On February 16, 2006, we issued 40,334 shares of our common stock in exchange for working interest in producing wells valued at $60,500.

 

On March 31, 2006, we expensed $75,000 subscription receivable in exchange for services rendered in connection with investor relations services.

 

On May 9, 2006, we issued 368,861 shares of our common stock for the purchase of working interests in producing wells valued at $615,997.

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

During the year ended December 31, 2006, we issued 95,317 shares of our common stock for various services received. The Company recorded an expense in the amount of $118,000, the fair value of the underlying shares. The remaining value of the services at December 31, 2006 was $47,600 and this was recorded as prepaid share-based compensation and will be amortized over the term of the underlying agreement.

 

At December 31, 2006, we authorized the issuance of 6,329 shares of our common stock pursuant to our 2004 investor relations agreement. The agreement was cancelled as of October 31, 2006. The Company recorded an expense in the amount of $15,000, the fair value of services rendered. As of December 31, 2006, the shares were un-issued.

 

Options and warrants

 

All values of options and warrants were determined based on the Black-Scholes pricing model.

 

The weighted average of the assumptions used to value options and warrants in 2004 were: Interest rate-2.32%, Days to expiration-936, Stock price $1.41, Strike price-$1.39, Volatility-23%, Yield-0%.

 

The weighted average of the assumptions used to value options and warrants in 2005 were: Interest rate-5.62%, Days to expiration-1,797, Stock price $1.94, Strike price-$1.99, Volatility-49%, Yield-0%.

 

The weighted average of the assumptions used to value options and warrants in 2006 were: Interest rate-6.43%, Days to expiration-1,689, Stock price $1.70, Strike price-$1.74, Volatility-82%, Yield-0%.

 

The Board of Directors on December 16, 2002 adopted the 2002 stock option plan for 3,000,000 shares. On December 20, 2005 the Board approved the 2006 stock option plan for 3,000,000 shares. At December 31, 2005 the options issued to Mr. Branagan are part of the 2006 plan.

 

Options

 

Fiscal 2004

 

On February 9, 2004, we granted Joseph Blankenship an option to purchase 50,000 shares at $2.50 per share for the first 25,000 shares and $4.00 for the remaining 25,000 shares. The option was granted pursuant to the Research Agreement. The term of the option was for two years. The value of the options was $200 and was recorded as a professional and consulting fees expense.

 

On March 1, 2004, we issued 100,000 stock options with an exercise price of $1.25 per share and 200,000 stock options with an exercise price of $1.50 per share to Mr. William Burk. Mr. Burk has performed consulting services for the Company. The options expired in three years. The value of the options was $38,500 and this was recorded as a professional and consulting fees expense.

 

In 2004, 700,000 options were exercised at an average price of $0.50 per share.

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Fiscal 2005

 

On March 16, 2005, we executed an agreement with CSC Group, wherein Steve Cochennet, (an Advisory Board Member) President of CSC Group, agreed to provide the Company with services to further the Company’s long-term strategy. The term of the agreement began on January 1, 2005. The Company agreed to pay Mr. Cochennet $5,000 per month plus grant 150,000 options to CSC Group at $2.04 per share for a period of five years. Mr. Cochennet will also receive 3% of any debt facility or mezzanine financing he puts in place prior to December 31, 2005. The value of the options was $138,795 and was recorded as professional fee expense.

 

On March 18, 2005, we executed an agreement with Robert Howell, (an Advisory Board Member) wherein Mr. Howell agreed to provide the Company with services on specified assignments as needed by the Company. The term of the agreement is for three months and began on February 1, 2005. We agreed to compensate Mr. Howell $10,000 for each month plus pay for all reasonable business and travel expenses, and grant Mr. Howell 125,000 options to purchase common stock at $2.33 per share. The options are fully vested and will have five years in which to exercise them. If Mr. Howell is involved in finding sources of debt for the Company, he will work with Mr. Cochennet and be paid an additional fee by Mr. Cochennet. The value of the warrants was $86,825 and was recorded as professional fee expense.

 

On May 9, 2005, we entered into an agreement with an employee to provide services to the Company. As part of the agreement the employee will receive 60,000 options vesting 20,000 per year at $2.33 per share expiring in five years. The value of the options was $40,200. The employee left the Company before any of the options were vested and the value was charged to wage expense.

 

On October 29, 2005, we entered into an employment agreement with Mr. Branagan, the CEO of the Company. We granted Mr. Branagan 500,000 options at an exercise price of $1.75 per share. The options have a 5-year term. The value of the options was $509,707 and was recorded as unamortized cost of stock issued for services. The cost will be amortized over the five-year contract period. We also extended Mr. Branagan’s previously issued options (250,000 options with the following strike prices-$0.50, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, and $2.50 for a total of 1,250,000 options) for an additional five-year period. The additional value of extending these options was $1,397,230 and recorded as Unamortized cost of stock, warrants, and options issued for services that will be amortized over the five-year period of the contract. We amortized as wage expense $63,852 in 2005.

 

On December 20, 2005, we entered into an agreement with Steve Cochennet whereby we granted Mr. Cochennet 150,000 options at a strike price of $1.75 and 150,000 at strike price of $2.00 for a six-month term. We also extended Mr. Cochennet’s existing $1.50 and $2.50 warrants for an additional 4 years. The value of the options and warrants was $537,230 and was recorded as unamortized cost of stock, warrants and options issued for services and will be amortized over the six-month term of the agreement which begins in fiscal 2006.

 

Fiscal 2006

 

On January 1, 2006, we entered into a one year agreement with R. J. Falkner whereby we granted Mr. Falkner 110,000 options at a strike price of $1.76 exercisable for a period of thirty-six months. The value of the option was $104,004.

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

On June 30, 2006, we extended the term of options previously issued to a consultant and have recorded an expense in the amount of $30,910.

 

On September 15, 2006, we granted CSC Group 25,000 options at a strike price of $1.75 exercisable for a period of twenty-four months. The value of the option was $10,338 and was recorded as consulting expense.

 

Warrants

 

Fiscal 2004

 

On January 15, 2004, we entered into an agreement with Mr. John Haas, Mr. Mark Hass and Mr. W.B. Mitchell whereas we would be allowed six months access to approximately 10,000 acres of leased mineral rights for the purpose of exploring, and evaluating gas production. Mr. John Haas agreed to join the Board of Directors of the Company. Mr. Mark Hass agreed to be a project manager and consultant for the Company. Mr. W.B. Mitchell agreed to provide consulting support for lease/land acquisitions. Each of the three individuals received 600,000 stock warrants (1,800,000 total) to purchase shares at a price of $1.20 per share; 400,000 stock warrants (1,200,000 total) to purchase shares at a price of $1.50 per share; and 300,000 stock warrants (900,000 total) to purchase shares at a price of $2.00 per share. The warrants expire on July 15, 2006. The value of the warrants was $420,700 and was recorded in January 2004 as a professional and consulting fee expense.

 

On February 18, 2004, we granted to CSC Group, LLC a stock warrant giving CSC the right to purchase 200,000 shares of our common stock. The number of shares, exercise price and term of the warrants shall be: (i) 100,000 shares at $1.50 per share for a term of two years; and (ii) 100,000 shares at $2.50 per share for a term of two years. The value of the warrants was $7,400 and was recorded as a professional fees expense. The warrants were subsequently extended for an additional 4 years.

 

In connection with the sale of 5,633,333 shares of common stock in 2004 each share purchased included a warrant to purchase an additional share of common stock for a price of $1.50 per share expiring on September 8, 2007.

 

On October 7, 2004, we issued 845,000 warrants to Energy Capital Solutions in connection with stock sales. The warrants are for the purchase of common stock at a price of $1.35 per share and expire October 29, 2009. The value of the warrants was $447,850. The warrants were part of the cost of the offering and therefore no entry was made to additional paid-in capital.

 

On October 28, 2004, we issued 5,333,333 warrants to Laurus Master Fund, Ltd., in connection with the convertible note agreement entered into on the same day. Pursuant to the agreement, Laurus Master Fund was issued 3,520,000 warrants to purchase common stock for a price of $2.00 per share expiring on October 28, 2009 and an additional 1,813,333 warrants to purchase common stock at a price of $3.00 per share expiring on October 28, 2004. The value of the warrants was $2,072,534, which was offset against the long-term liability and will be accreted to interest expense over the life of the loan. We issued 100,000 warrants to Draper & Associates in connection with the financing arrangement. These warrants are for the purchase of common stock at a price of $2.00 per share and will expire on October 29, 2007. The value of the warrants was $38,860 and was recorded as capitalized loan costs and will be amortized over a three-year period.

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

In 2004, 650,000 warrants were exercised at an average price of $0.75.

 

Fiscal 2005

 

On January 28, 2005, in exchange for delaying its monthly principal payment until June 2005 on the note due to Laurus Master Fund, we issued Laurus 666,667 warrants at an exercise price of $2.50 and 333,333 warrants at an exercise price of $3.00. The value of the warrants was $549,000 and was recorded as professional fee expense.

 

On October 31, 2005, we granted Laurus Master Fund 1,000,000 warrants at a strike price of $2.00 per share for a five-year period in connection with the new note. The value of the warrants was $827,003. The value will be accreted to interest expense over the estimated term of the loan.

 

In 2005, 425,000 warrants were exercised at an average price of $1.32. Included in subscription receivable is $75,000 due on the exercise of warrants. There were 845,000 warrants exercised on a cashless basis for 250,073 shares. At December 31, 2005 125,000 shares were not issued for exercised warrants.

 

Fiscal 2006

 

On February 22, 2006, we issued 100,000 shares of our common stock for the exercise of warrants in exchange for cash totaling $150,000.

 

On April 1, 2006 we granted Laurus Master Fund 200,000 warrants at a strike price of $1.80 per share for a five-year period in connection with the new note. The value of the warrants was $265,015. The value will be accreted to interest expense over the estimated term of the loan.

 

On April 28, 2006, we issued 105,000 shares of our common stock for the exercise of warrants in exchange for cash totaling $91,875.

 

On May 31, 2006, we granted Laurus Master Fund 400,000 warrants at a strike price of $1.65 per share for a five-year period in connection with the new note. The value of the warrants was $396,763. The value will be accreted to interest expense over the estimated term of the loan.

 

A summary of stock options and warrants is as follows:

 

Options

Weighted Average Price

Warrants

Weighted Average Price

Outstanding 1/1/04

2,050,000

$1.12

2,400,000

$ 0.75

Granted

350,000

1.68

16,011,666

1.68

Cancelled

--

--

--

--

Exercised

(700,000)

0.50

(650,000)

0.75

Outstanding12/31/04

1,700,000

$1.49

17,761,666

$1.49

 

 

 

 

 

Outstanding 1/1/05

1,700,000

$1.49

17,761,666

$1.49

Granted

1,135,000

1.92

2,000,000

2.33

Cancelled

(60,000)

2.23

--

--

Exercised

--

--

(1,270,000)

1.34

Outstanding12/31/05

2,775,000

$1.67

18,491,666

$1.83

 

 

 

 

 

Outstanding 1/1/06

2,775,000

$1.67

18,491,666

$1.83

Granted

135,000

1.76

600,000

1.70

Cancelled

(100,000)

0.75

(3,950,000)

1.47

Exercised

--

--

(205,000)

1.18

Outstanding12/31/06

2,810,000

$1.70

14,936,666

$1.93

 

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

4.

Commitments

 

On April 2, 2004, we entered into a 39-month lease for office space in Las Vegas, Nevada. The monthly lease payment is $3,448.40. On April 13, 2006, we entered into an additional 24-month lease for office space located in Kansas. The monthly lease payment is $1,700. Total rent expense for 2006 and 2005 was approximately $56,780 and $57,000 respectively. Future minimum rent payments are 2007-$34,200 and 2008-$20,400.

 

5. Long-Term Debt

 

Long-term debt consists of the following:

 

 

December 31,

 

2006

2005

Convertible note

$ 3,432,360

$ 6,172,942

Secured term note

25,000,000

10,000,000

Note payable to GMAC

16,930

16,791

Note payable to bank

20,739

26,879

Total

28,470,029

16,216,612

Less unamortized cost of warrants

(1,106,546)

(1,740,494)

 

27,363,483

14,476,118

Less current portion

(14,193,588)

(2,101,111)

Long-term debt

$ 13,169,895

$ 12,375,007

 

Convertible note

 

On October 2004 we issued an $8,000,000 secured convertible term note (“Note”) to Laurus Master Fund, Ltd. (“Laurus”). The Note is convertible into shares of our common stock at an fixed conversion price of $1.50 per share. Pursuant to this agreement, we also issued to Laurus a warrant (“Warrant”) to purchase up to 5,333,333 shares of our common stock, of which 3,520,000 shares will have an exercise price of $2.00 and 1,813,333 shares will have an exercise price of $3.00.

 

There was a beneficial conversion feature to the convertible note. On the day the note was issued the difference between the conversion price of the note and the market value based on the current trading price of our common stock was $1,103,000. The beneficial conversion was recorded as interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2004.

 

The Laurus Note has a term of three years and accrues interest at the prime rate plus 3% per year. During 2006 interest ranged from 11.0% to 11.75%. At December 31, 2006 the rate was 11.5%. Interest ranged from 8.25% to 10.5 % for the year ended at December 31, 2005 with the rate being 10.5% at December 31, 2005 and 8% to 8.25% for the year ended December 31, 2004 and 8.25% at December 31, 2004. The Note is secured by substantially all our assets. .

 

Interest on the unrestricted principal amount is payable monthly, in arrears, on the first business day of each calendar month until the maturity date. Under the terms of the Note, the monthly interest payment and the monthly principal payment are payable either in cash at 102% of the respective monthly amortization amounts or, if certain criteria are met, in shares of our common stock. The minimum monthly principal repayment of $228,000 together with any accrued or unpaid interest, commenced on December 1, 2004, and will continue through the maturity date.

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

The principal criteria for the monthly payments to be made in shares of our common stock include:

 

 

§

the effectiveness of a current registration statement covering the shares of our common stock into which the principal and interest under the Note are convertible;

 

 

§

an average closing price of our common stock for the previous five trading days greater than or equal to 115% of the fixed conversion price; and

 

 

§

the amount of such conversion not exceeding 25% of the aggregate dollar-trading volume of our common stock for the previous 22 trading days.

 

We may prepay the non-restricted and the restricted facility of the Note at a time by paying 130% of the amortizing principal amount then outstanding, together with accrued but unpaid interest thereon. Upon an event of default under the Note, Laurus may demand repayment of the outstanding principal balance at a rate of 130% of the Note plus any accrued interest.

 

On a month-by-month basis, if we register the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Note and upon exercise of the Warrant on a registration statement declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the market price of our common stock for five consecutive trading days exceeds the conversion price by at least 25%, then the interest rate on the Note for the succeeding calendar month shall be reduced by 1% for every 25% increase in the market price of our common stock above the conversion price of the Note, but in no event shall the interest rate be less than 7.5%.

 

Laurus also has the option to convert all or a portion of the Note into shares of our common stock at any time, subject to limitations described below, at a conversion price of $1.50 per share. Laurus is limited on its ability to convert the Note or exercise the warrants if the conversion or exercise would cause the shares then held by Laurus to exceed 4.99% of our outstanding shares of common stock unless there has been an event of default or Laurus provides us with 75 days prior notice.

 

Secured term notes

 

In October 2005, we borrowed $10,000,000 from Laurus on a secured term note. The interest on the note is prime plus 3.25%. Principal payments will begin in May, 2006 in an amount based on 80% of net revenues as defined in the note agreement that principally consists of net revenue on new producing wells. The loan will mature on October 31, 2008. Interest rates ranged from 11% to 11.75% during fiscal 2006. At December 31, the rate was 11.5%

 

On March 31, 2006, we borrowed $5,000,000 from Laurus under the credit facility provided in October 2005. Under the terms of the agreement the Company issued a Secured Term Note (the “Note”) in the aggregate principal amount of $5 million. The Note has a three-year term and bears an interest rate equivalent to the “prime rate” published by the Wall Street Journal from time to time plus 3.25%, subject to a floor of 10% and a ceiling of 14% per annum. Concurrently with the agreements listed above, the Company amended and restated its previous $10 million Secured Term Note dated October 31, 2005 with Laurus Funds. Interest rates ranged from 11% to 12% during fiscal 2006. At December 31, the rate was 12%

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

On May 31, 2006, we borrowed $10,000,000 from Laurus under the credit facility provided in October 2005. Under the terms of the agreement the Company issued a Secured Term Note (the “Note”) in the aggregate principal amount of $5 million. The Note has a three-year term and bears an interest rate equivalent to the “prime rate” published by the Wall Street Journal from time to time plus 3.25%, subject to a floor of 10% and a ceiling of 14% per annum. Concurrently with the agreements listed above, the Company amended and restated its previous $10 million Secured Term Note dated October 31, 2005 with Laurus Funds. Interest rates ranged from 11% to 11.75% during fiscal 2006. At December 31, the rate was 11.5%

 

The master security agreement establishes substantially all of our assets as collateral for the convertible note as well as for this note.

 

We acquired a truck on September 10, 2003 and financed the purchase with a five-year loan from GMAC bearing an interest rate of 8.74%.

 

We financed a vehicle with Cornerstone bank in 2005 with a four-year loan at an interest rate of 7.00%.

 

The aggregate principal payments of long-term debt are approximately 2007-$14,193,588, 2008-$10,106,337, and 2009-$3,063,558.

 

Loan fees

 

During the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, we have incurred loan fees in connection with our financing activities as follows:

 

 

Financing Fees

 

 

 

Balance, December 31, 2003:

$

-0-

2004 Laurus Note

 

804,000

Current amortization

 

(67,000)

Balance, December 31, 2004:

$

737,000

 

 

 

Balance, January 1, 2005

$

737,000

2005 Laurus Note

 

525,086

Current amortization

 

(445,757)

Balance, December 31, 2005

$

816,329

 

 

 

Balance, January 1, 2006

$

816,329

2006 Laurus Notes

 

563,634

Current amortization

 

(717,452)

Balance, December 31, 2006

$

662,511

 

Additionally, we have granted warrants for the secured notes to purchase up to 1,600,000 of our common stock at exercises prices ranging from $1.65 to $2.00 per share.

 

In 2006, 2005 and 2004 we accreted $1,295,726, $989,789 and $170,054, respectively to interest expense based on the value of the warrants when they were issued using the interest method.

 

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Capitalized Interest

 

We capitalize interest cost incurred on funds used in the development of our oil and gas properties. Capitalized interest is recorded as part of our capitalized oil and gas properties and is depleted over the estimated useful life of the assets. Interest cost capitalized for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005 was $808,714 and $0, respectively.

 

6. Income Taxes

 

Deferred income taxes are determined based on the tax effect of items subject to differences in book and taxable income. We had no income tax provision for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004. There are approximately $22,500,000 of net operating loss carry-forwards, which expire in 2018-2021. The net deferred tax is as follows:

 

 

December 31,

Non-current deferred tax asset (liabilities):

2006

2005

2004

Net operating loss carry-forward

$7,650,000

$3,940,000

$2,146,000

Oil & gas properties

Valuation allowance

(5,226,000)

(2,424,000)

(1,217,000)

(2,723,000)

 

(839,000)

(1,307,000)

Total deferred tax, net

$ --

$ --

$ --

Year ended

 

A reconciliation of the provision for income taxes to the statutory federal rate for continuing operations is as follows:

  

 

Year ended December 31, 2006

 

2006

2005

2004

Statutory tax rate

34.0%

34.0%

34.0%

Non-deductible expense

7.8

9.5

40.0

Oil & gas properties

(21.4)

(5.8)

(40.0)

Change in valuation allowance

(20.4)

(37.7)

(34.0)

Effective tax rate

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

 

7. Related Party Transactions

 

During the year ended December 31, 2004, we paid the outstanding balance due to an officer in the amount of $47,500.

 

Total interest paid to CDI , a shareholder of the Company, for the year ended December 31, 2004 was $15,778.

 

Total fees paid to Mr. David Polay and his company for the year ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 were $117,450 and $13,342, respectively.

 

We acquired oil and gas leases and existing wells on properties from BTB Energy for $270,000. This was included as an accrued liability at December 31, 2004. We also paid $150,000 to two of our shareholders for an operating property.

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

On June 30, 2006, we expensed a subscription receivable in the amount of $75,000 for one of our shareholders in exchange for public relation services rendered.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2006, we expensed compensation totalling $753,009 for our President and CEO. Pursuant to his employment agreement, $235,625 was paid as base salary and an additional $36,000 was included as compensation for non-accountable reimbursed expenses. On June 20, 2006, the board of directors authorized the issuance of a $100,000 cash bonus for services performed in connection with the new credit facility with Laurus Master Fund. The remaining balance of $381,384 represents the current year amortization of the executive options previously granted and extended.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2006, we paid fees to Caldwell & Moll, L.C. totalling $71,403 for legal services provided to us and $24,792 in expenses. Loren Moll, our Chairman, is a partner with the firm. As of December 31, 2006, the balance owed to Caldwell & Moll was $20,384. Additionally, Director fees and expenses payable to Mr. Moll totalling $6,242 were incurred at December 31, 2006, $2,000 were unpaid.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2006, we paid fees to Accuity Financial Services, Inc. (formerly Opus Pointe) totalling $82,500 for accounting services provided to us. Ms. Herring is a Director of the Company and is also an officer of Accuity Financial Services, Inc. As of December 31, 2006, the balance owed to Accuity Financial Services, Inc. was $18,000. Additionally, Director fees and expenses payable to Ms. Herring totalling $60,000 were incurred as of December 31, 2006, $5,000 were unpaid.

 

8. Acquisitions

 

On January 15, 2004, we agreed to issue 765,000 shares of stock to Mr. John Haas, Mr. Mark Haas and Mr. W.B. Mitchell, principals of CBM Energy, Inc. in exchange for oil and gas mineral leases covering approximately 36,000 acres and title to approximately 10 existing wells. The value of the transaction is $765,000. $31,000 of value was assigned to properties not subject to amortization based on the unamortized lease cost of each leased acre. $80,000 of value was assigned to properties subject to amortization costs based on the fair market value of the test wells on the leased property. The remaining $654,000 was expensed.

 

Effective November 4, 2004, we completed the acquisition of certain assets owned by Savage Resources, LLC and Savage Pipeline, LLC for the purchase price of $10 million. The acquisition included leasehold rights to approximately 10,000 acres and 71 producing gas wells in Southeast Kansas.

 

In accordance with the terms of the purchase agreement, the purchase price was allocated as follows:

 

Proved producing properties

$ 8,410,000

Equipment and vehicles

90,000

Pipeline

1,500,000

Total

$ 10,000,000

 

 

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

9. Derivatives

 

Description of contracts.

 

We utilize energy swaps to reduce exposure to un-favorable changes in natural gas prices through fixed-price contracts. These contracts allow us to predict with greater certainty the effective natural gas prices received for hedged production. These contracts also benefit operating cash flows and earnings when market prices are less than the fixed prices provided under the contracts. However, we will not benefit from market prices that are higher than fixed prices in contracts for hedged production. If we are unable to provide the quantity that we have contracted for we will have to go to the open market to purchase the required amounts that we have contracted to provide. For the year ended December 31, 2006 and 2005 fixed price contracts hedged approximately 84% and 80%, respectively, of our oil & gas production.

 

The following table summarizes our fixed price contracts as of December 31, 2006:

 

 

Year Ending December 31,

 

2007

2008

Gas

 

 

Contract volume

460,500

91,500

Weighted-average price

$7.95

$7.32

 

 

 

Oil

Contract volume

 

--

 

--

Weighted-average price

--

--

 

 

 

Fair value liability

$ 974,752

($ 58,133)

 

Accounting.

 

All fixed price contracts have been executed in connection with our natural gas hedging program. The differential between the fixed price and the floating price for each contract settlement period multiplied by the associated contract volume is the contract profit or loss. All of our contracts are considered to be cash flow hedges and there were no realized gains or losses in the years ending December 31, 2006 and 2005. The change in the fair value is shown as an adjustment to other comprehensive income with a corresponding balance sheet asset or liability recorded.

 

Credit risk.

 

The counter parties to our fixed-price contracts are the customers buying our product. Should the counter party default on a contract there can be no assurance that we will be able to enter into a new contract with a third party on terms comparable to the original contract. We have not experienced non-performance. Cancellation or termination of a fixed-price contract would subject a greater portion of our gas and oil production to market prices, which in a low price environment, could have an adverse effect on our operating results.

 

Market risk.

 

Market risk has been significantly hedged through fixed-price contracts.

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

10.

Asset Retirement Obligations

 

Our asset retirement obligations relate to the abandonment of oil and gas wells. The amounts recognized were based on numerous estimates and assumptions, including future retirement costs, inflation rates and credit adjusted risk-free interest rates. The following shows the changes in asset retirement obligations for the financial statements presented.

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

2006

2005

2004

Asset retirement obligation, beginning of year

$ 749,618

$ 445,617

$ 6,200

Liabilities incurred during the year

86,400

252,960

432,760

Liabilities settled during the year

--

--

--

Accretion of expense

71,779

51,041

6,657

Asset retirement obligations, end of year

$ 907,797

$ 749,618

$ 445,617

 

11.

Cost of Oil and Gas Properties

 

 

(a)

General.

 

The following information on our oil and gas development and producing activities is in accordance with SFAS No. 69, “Disclosures about Oil and Gas Producing Activities”.

 

 

(b)

Results of operations from oil and gas producing activities

 

The following table shows the results of operations from our oil and gas producing activities during the years presented in the financial statements. Results of operations from these activities have been determined using historical revenues, production costs, depreciation, depletion and amortization of the capitalized costs subject to amortization. General and administrative expenses and interest expense have been excluded from this determination.

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

2006

2005

2004

Production revenues

$6,532,798

$ 5,244,806

$ 866,924

Production and pipeline costs

(3,819,432)

(3,315,438)

(221,339)

Depreciation and depletion

(1,793,788)

(808,138)

(134,568)

Income tax (allocated on gross profits based on statutory rates)

(285,000)

(345,000)

(145,000)

Results of operations for producing activities

$ 634,578

$ 776,230

$ 366,017

 

 

 

 

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

(c) Capitalized costs for oil and gas producing activities

 

Our aggregate capitalized costs related to natural gas and oil producing activities are as follows:

 

 

 

Years ended December 31,

 

2006

2005

2004

Proved

$24,573,664

$14,586,296

$10,921,805

Unproved

1,210,174

954,002

1,621,256

 

25,783,838

15,540,298

12,543,061

Accumulated depreciation and depletion

(2,717,301)

(923,513)

(115,375)

Net capitalized costs

$23,066,537

$14,616,785

$12,427,686

    

Unproved properties not subject to amortization consisted mainly of leases, and wells that haven’t been completed. We will continue to evaluate our unproved properties; however, the timing of ultimate evaluation and disposition of the properties has not been determined.

 

(d) Costs incurred

 

Capitalized costs incurred in natural gas and oil property acquisition, exploration and development activities are summarized as follows:

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

2006

2005

2004

Acquisition of properties proved & unproved

$ 256,172

$ 140,114

$ 8,912,126

Development costs

9,987,368

1,521,979

1,911,023

Total

$10,243,540

$1,662,093

$10,823,149

 

12. Supplemental Oil and Gas Reserve Information (Unaudited)

 

(a) General

 

Our estimated net proved oil and gas reserves and the present value of estimated cash flows from those reserves are summarized below. The reserves were estimated by McCune Engineering, an independent petroleum engineer, using market prices at the end of each of the years presented in the financial statements. Those prices were held constant over the estimated life of the reserves. There are numerous uncertainties inherent in estimating quantities and values of proved oil and gas reserves and in projecting future rates of production and the timing of development expenditures, including factors involving reservoir engineering, pricing and both operating and regulatory constraints. All reserves estimates are to some degree speculative, and various classifications of reserves only constitute attempts to define the degree of speculation involved. Accordingly, oil and gas reserve information represents estimates only and should not be construed as being exact.

 

 

 

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

(b)

Estimated Oil and Gas Reserve Quantities

 

Our ownership interests in estimated quantities of proved oil and gas reserves and changes in net proved reserves, all of which are located in the United States, are summarized below.

 

 

Gas –mcf

Oil –bbls

Proved reserves:

 

 

Balance December 31, 2003

---

---

Purchase of reserves-in-place

12,837,406

111,296

Production

(142,968)

(306)

Balance December 31, 2004

12,694,438

110,990

 

 

Gas –mcf

Oil –bbls

Proved reserves:

 

 

Balance December 31, 2004

12,694,438

110,990

Revisions of previous estimates

(295,642)

33,121

Extensions and discoveries

3,546,303

---

Production

(812,366)

(21,056)

Balance December 31, 2005

15,132,733

123,055

 

 

 

 

Gas – mcf

Oil –bbls

Proved reserves:

 

 

Balance December 31, 2005

15,132,733

123,055

Revisions of previous estimates

(1,913,483)

8,354

Extensions and discoveries

445,662

115,935

Production

(831,009)

(17,954)

Balance, December 31, 2006

12,833,903

229,390

 

 

There were no revisions of previous estimates of reserves.

 

 

Gas-mcf

Oil-bbls

Proved developed reserves at the end of the year:

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, December 31, 2004

5,799,463

110,990

 

 

 

Balance, December 31, 2005

7,585,183

123,055

 

 

 

Balance, December 31, 2006

8,525,003

229,390

 

 

 

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

(c) Standardized measure of discounted future cash flows

 

The standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows from our proved reserves for each of the years presented in the financial statements is summarized below. The standardized measure of future cash flows as of December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004 is calculated using a price per Mcf of natural gas of $7.50, $8.64 and $6.20, respectively and a price per barrel of oil at $54.00, $54.15 and $49.55 respectively. The gas price was the Southern Star spot gas price (inside FERC index) at the end of the year. The oil price was what we were receiving at each year end. The resulting estimated future cash inflows are reduced by estimated future costs to develop and produce the estimated proved reserves. These costs are based on year-end cost levels. Future income taxes are based on year-end statutory rates.

 

The future net cash flows are reduced to present value by applying a 10% discount rate. The standardized measure of discounted future cash flows is not intended to represent the replacement cost or fair market value of the Company’s oil and gas properties.

Year ended December 31, 2004

 

Future production revenue

$ 84,195,000

Future production costs

(24,012,000)

Future development costs

(6,093,000)

Future cash flows before income taxes

54,090,000

Future income taxes

(17,613,000)

Future net cash flows

36,477,000

10% annual discount for estimating of future cash flows

(13,198,000)

Standardized measure of discounted net cash flows

$ 23,279,000

 

Year ended December 31, 2005

 

 

Future production revenue

 

137,410,000

Future production costs

(50,919,000)

Future development costs

(11,027,000)

Future cash flows before income taxes

75,464,000

Future income taxes

(25,996,000)

Future net cash flows

49,468,000

10% annual discount for estimating of future cash flows

(14,888,000)

Standardized measure of discounted net cash flows

$ 34,580,000

 

 

Year ended December 31, 2006

 

Future production revenue

$ 109,137,000

Future production costs

(50,029,000)

Future development costs

(4,586,000)

Future cash flows before income tax

54,522,000

Future income taxes

(7,930,000)

Future net cash flows

46,592,000

10% annual discount for estimating of future cash flows

(15,720,000))

Standardized measure of discounted net cash flows

$ 30,872,000

 

 

 

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PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

(d)

Changes in Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows

 

The following table summarizes the changes in the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows from estimated production of the Company’s proved oil and gas reserves after income taxes for each of the years presented in the financial statements. There are no revisions of quantity estimates. There were no extensions, discoveries and improved recoveries for the year ended December 31, 2004.

 

Balance January 1, 2004

$ ---

Sales, net of production costs

(645,585)

Acquisition of oil and gas in place

23,924,585

Balance December 31, 2004

$ 23,279,000

 

 

Balance January 1, 2005

$ 23,279,000

Sales, net of production costs

(919,000)

Net changes in pricing and production costs

1,267,000

Extensions and discoveries

19,016,000

Revisions

(652,000)

Development costs incurred that were previously estimated

3,225,000

Net change in estimated future development costs

(8,159,400)

Accretion of discount

44,000

Change in income taxes

(2,521,000)

Balance December 31, 2005

$ 34,580,000

 

 

Balance January 1,2006

$ 34,580,000

Sales, net of production costs

(8,237,000)

Net changes in pricing and production costs

(14,394,000)

Extensions and discoveries

4,601,000

Revisions

(10,344,000) )

Development costs incurred that were previously estimated

4,816,000

Net change in estimated future development costs

1,625,000

Accretion of discount

52,000

Change in income taxes

18,173,000

Balance December 31, 2006

$ 30,872,000

13. Quarterly Financial Data (unaudited)

 

 

 

Summarized unaudited quarterly financial data for 2006, 2005 and 2004 are as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quarters Ended

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

June 30,

 

 

March 31,

 

 

 

2006

 

 

2006

 

 

2006

 

 

2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total revenues

 

$

1,544,137

 

 

$

1,947,729

 

 

$

1,824,907

 

 

$

1,216,025

 

Operating (loss)

 

 

(2,155,136)

)

 

 

(422,825)

)

 

 

(996,632

)

 

 

(1,144,876

)

Net (loss)

 

 

(2,368,989)

)

 

 

(1,495,603)

)

 

 

(2,095,420

)

 

 

(1,835,196

Net (loss) per common share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and fully diluted

 

$

(0.08

)

 

$

(0.05

)

 

$

(0.07

)

 

$

(0.07

)

 

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

 

Quarters Ended

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

June 30,

 

 

March 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

 

2005

 

 

2005

 

 

2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total revenues

 

$

754,934,

 

 

$

1,493,770

 

 

$

1,805,491

 

 

$

1,190,611

 

Operating (loss)

 

 

(1,871,566)

)

 

 

(811,768)

 

 

(183,087

 

 

(1,289,542

)

Net (loss)

 

 

(2,444,050)

)

 

 

(1,217,594)

)

 

 

(630,448

)

 

 

(1,671,704

)

Net (loss) per common share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and fully diluted

 

$

(.04)

)

 

$

(0.05

)

 

$

(0.03

)

 

$

(.06)

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quarters Ended

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

June 30,

 

 

March 31,

 

 

 

2004

 

 

2004

 

 

2004

 

 

2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total revenues(1)

 

$

822,739

 

 

$

44,185

 

 

$

--

 

 

$

--

 

Operating (loss)

 

 

(660,072

 

 

(410,016

 

 

(681,569

 

 

(1,376,298

)

Net (loss)(4)

 

 

(2,073,679

)

 

 

(413,314

)

 

 

(679,589

)

 

 

(1,357,325

)

Net (loss) per common share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and fully diluted

 

$

(0.07

)

 

$

(0.02

)

 

$

(0.04)

 

 

$

(0.09

)

 

 

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EX-21 2 ex21-2.htm LIST OF SUBSIDIARIES OF PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC. ??? DECEMBER 31, 2006 Filed by Securities Law Institute EDGAR Services (888) 546-6454 - Petrol Oil & Gas - Exhibit 21

Exhibit 21.2

Subsidiaries of Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc.

As of December 31, 2006

 

Name of Subsidiary

State of Incorporation

 

 

Neodesha Pipeline, Inc.

Nevada

Coal Creek Pipeline, Inc.

Nevada

 

 

 

EX-31 3 ex31.htm CERTIFICATION OF PAUL BRANAGAN PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT. Filed by Securities Law Institute EDGAR Services (888) 546-6454 - Petrol Oil & Gas - Exhibit 31

EXHIBIT 31

CERTIFICATION

 

I, Paul Branagan, certify that:

 

 

1.

I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc.;

 

 

2.

Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

 

3.

Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

 

4.

The registrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the small business issuer and have:

 

 

(a)

Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

 

(b)

Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

 

(c)

Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of a quarterly report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

 

5.

The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

 

(a)

All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

 

(b)

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date: April 17, 2007

 

/s/ Paul Branagan                                  

Paul Branagan,

Chief Executive Officer and

Principal Financial Officer

 

 

EX-32 4 ex32.htm CERTIFICATION OF PAUL BRANAGAN PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT. Filed by Securities Law Institute EDGAR Services (888) 546-6454 - Petrol Oil & Gas - Exhibit 32

EXHIBIT 32

 

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 

In connection with the Annual Report of Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc. (the “Company”) on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2006, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Paul Branagan, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

 

 

(1)

The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

 

 

(2)

The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

 

 

 

/s/ Paul Branagan                                   

Paul Branagan

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

April 17, 2007

 

 

 

 

EX-99 5 ex99-2.htm GOVERNANCE AND NOMINATING COMMITTEE CHARTER Filed by Securities Law Institute EDGAR Services (888) 546-6454 - Petrol Oil & Gas - Exhibit 99-2

PETROL OIL AND GAS, INC.

GOVERNANCE AND NOMINATING COMMITTEE CHARTER

Dated December 8, 2006

 

ROLE

 

The role of the Governance and Nominating Committee (the “Committee”) of Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc. is to assist the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Petrol by:

 

 

1.

Recommending to the Board corporate governance guidelines applicable to Petrol;

 

 

2.

Identifying, reviewing, and evaluating individuals qualified to become members of the Board;

 

 

3.

Reviewing and recommending the nomination of Board members; and

 

 

4.

Assisting the Board with other related tasks, as assigned from time to time.

 

MEMBERSHIP

 

 

1.

The Committee shall consist of at least two directors.

 

 

2.

Committee members shall be generally acquainted with corporate governance issues and have experience in one or more of the areas of the Committee’s responsibilities.

 

 

3.

The members of the Committee, including the chairperson of the Committee, shall be appointed annually by the Board. Members may be replaced by the Board at any time, but shall otherwise serve until their successor has been named.

 

OPERATIONS

 

 

1.

The Committee shall meet at least once a year in January or February at the call of the Chair. Additional meetings may occur as any member of the Committee requests or its Chair deems advisable.

 

 

2.

The Committee shall be governed by the same rules regarding meetings (including meetings by conference telephone or similar communications equipment), action without meetings, notice, waiver of notice, and quorum and voting requirements as are applicable to the Board.

 

 

3.

The Committee is authorized and empowered to adopt its own rules of procedure not inconsistent with (a) any provision of this Charter, (b) any provision of the Bylaws of the Corporation, or (c) the laws of the State of Nevada.

 

AUTHORITY

 

 

1.

The Committee will have the resources and authority necessary to discharge its duties and responsibilities.

 

 

2.

Any communications between the Committee and legal counsel in the course of obtaining legal advice will be considered privileged communications of Petrol and the Committee will take all necessary steps to preserve the privileged nature of those communications.

 

 

3.

The Committee shall have the authority to form and delegate responsibilities to subcommittees as appropriate.

 

 

4.

The Committee shall report to the Board at its meeting following the annual meeting of stockholders.

 


DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 

The Governance and Nominating Committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities, in addition to any others that may be assigned by the Board from time to time:

 

 

1.

Annually evaluate and report to the Board on the performance and effectiveness of the Board to assist the directors in fulfilling their responsibilities in a manner that serves the interests of Petrol’s shareholders;

 

 

2.

Assist in identifying, interviewing and recruiting candidates for the Board;

 

 

3.

Before recommending an incumbent, replacement, or additional director, review his or her qualifications, including capability, availability to serve, independence, conflicts of interest, and other relevant factors;

 

 

4.

Annually present to the Executive Committee, if established, a list of individuals recommended for nomination for election to the Board at the annual meeting of stockholders;

 

 

5.

Review and make recommendations about changes to the charter of the Governance and Nominating Committee as required in the Committee’s opinion;

 

 

6.

Develop and recommend to the Board a set of corporate governance guidelines applicable to Petrol; and

 

 

7.

Review corporate governance guidelines at least annually and provide any appropriate recommendations to the Board.

 

 

 

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