20-F 1 strata_20f.htm ANNUAL REPORT

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 20-F

 

[   ] REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
OR
[X]   ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
   
  For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012

  

OR
[   ] TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
  For the transition period from ____________ to __________

 

OR
[   ] SHELL COMPANY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
  Date of event requiring this shell company report: ______

 

Commission file number: 000-500934

STRATA OIL & GAS INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Alberta, Canada

(Jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

 

918 16th Avenue NW, Suite 408, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2M 0K3

 (Address of principal executive offices)

 

                    877-237-5443                    

 

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

 

None

 

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

 

Common Stock

(Title of Class)

 

Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act: None

 

Indicate the number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer's classes of capital or common stock as of the close of the period covered by the annual report: The registrant has one class of Common Stock with 74,643,710 shares outstanding at December 31, 2012 and 75,706,210 shares outstanding at March 11, 2013. No preferred shares are issued and outstanding.

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes [   ] No [X]

 

If this report is an annual or transition report, indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Yes [   ] No [   ]

  

Note – Checking the box above will not relieve any registrant required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 from their obligations under those Sections.

 

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 ninety days. Yes [X] No [   ]

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes [X] No [   ]

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an 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 which basis of accounting the registrant has used to prepare the financial statements included in this filing:

 

U.S. GAAP [X] International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board [   ] Other [   ]

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes [   ] No [X]

 

 
 

 

STRATA OIL & GAS INC.

 

FORM 20-F ANNUAL REPORT 2012

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

Oil and Gas Glossary
Introduction
 
Part I
     
Item 1. Identity of Directors, Senior Management and Advisers 5
Item 2. Offer Statistics and Expected Timetable 5
Item 3. Key Information 5
Item 4. Information on the Company 12
Item 4A. Unresolved Staff Comments 24
Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects 25
Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees 30
Item 7. Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions 33
Item 8. Financial Information 33
Item 9. The Offer and Listing 34
Item 10. Additional Information 35
Item 11. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk 40
Item 12. Description of Securities Other Than Equity Securities 40
 
Part II
     
Item 13. Defaults, Dividend Arrearages and Delinquencies 40
Item 14. Material Modifications to the Rights of Security Holders and Use of Proceeds 40
Item 15. Controls and Procedures 40
Item 16. Reserved  
Item 16A. Audit Committee Financial Expert 41
Item 16B. Code of Ethics 42
Item 16C. Principal Accountant Fees and Services 42
Item 16D. Exemptions from the Listing Standards for Audit Committees 42
Item 16E. Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers 42
Item 16F. Change in Registrants Certifying Accountant 42
Item 16G. Corporate Governance 43
 
Part III
   
Item 17. Financial Statements 43
Item 18. Financial Statements 43
Item 19. Exhibits 67
     
Signature Page 68
     
Certifications  

 

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OIL AND GAS GLOSSARY

 

Term Definition  
   
Basin A depressed area where sediments have accumulated during geologic time and considered to be prospective for oil and gas deposits.  
Bitumen Heavy, viscous crude oil  
Bluesky Formation The Bluesky is fine to medium grained, usually glauconitic, partly calcareous or sideritic, salt and pepper sandstone with fair porosity. Chert granules and pebbles occur near the top, with thin shale interbedded throughout. The thickness is 0-46 meters in the Peace River plains subsurface. It thins to the south and southeast  
CHOPS Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand  
Carboniferous The period of geological time between 360 and 286 million years ago.  A series of stratified rocks and associated volcanic rocks which occur above the Devonian or Old Sandstone and below the Permian or Triassic systems belonging to the Carboniferous period.  
Cretaceous Period A period 144 to 65 million years ago  
Debolt Formation Lies above the Elkton Formation and ranges from mid- to upper Visean in age (345.3 to 326.4 million years ago)  
Development The phase in which a proven oil or gas field is brought into production by drilling production (development) wells.  
Drilling The using of a rig and crew for the drilling, suspension, production testing, capping, plugging and abandoning, deepening, plugging back, sidetracking, re-drilling or reconditioning of a well.  
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.  
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.  
Jurassic Period Between 206 and 144 million years ago  
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  
Porosity The ratio of the volume of void spaces in a rock or sediment to the total volume of the rock or sediment.  
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.  

 

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This Annual Report on Form 20-F contains forward-looking information. Forward-looking information includes statements relating to future actions, prospective products, future performance or results of current or anticipated products, sales and marketing efforts, costs and expenses, interest rates, outcome of contingencies, financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, business strategies, cost savings, objectives of management of Strata Oil & Gas Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the “Company,” “Strata” or “we”) and other matters. Forward-looking information may be included in this Annual Report on Form 20-F or may be incorporated by reference from other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by the Company. One can find many of these statements by looking for words including, for example, “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates” or similar expressions in this Annual Report on Form 20-F or in documents incorporated by reference in this Annual Report on Form 20-F. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events.

 

The Company has based the forward-looking statements relating to the Company’s operations on management’s current expectations, estimates and projections about the Company and the industry in which it operates. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that we cannot predict. In particular, we have based many of these forward-looking statements on assumptions about future events that may prove to be inaccurate. Accordingly, the Company’s actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements. Any differences could result from a variety of factors, including, but not limited to general economic and business conditions, competition, and other factors, including those described in Item 3.D., “Risk Factors.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PART I

 

Item 1. Identity of Directors, Senior Management and Advisers

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 2. Offer Statistics and Expected Timetable

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 3. Key Information

 

A. Selected Financial Data

 

The following sets forth selected financial information of Strata prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008.

 

The selected financial information and operating information may not be indicative of Strata’s future performance and should be read in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” In Item 5. The selected financial data as at and for these periods have been extracted from, and are qualified by reference to the audited consolidated financial statements included herein at Item 18.

 

SELECTED OPERATIONS DATA

(in U.S. dollars)

 

   Strata Oil & Gas Inc. 
   Years Ended December 31, 
   2012   2011   2010   2009   2008 
Revenue  $   $   $   $   $ 
Expenses   241,995    177,252    972,357    331,369    654,240 
Other income (expense), net   (1,614,795)   1,806,507    4,474,395    (6,209,807)   12,497 
Net income (loss)  $(1,856,790)  $1,629,255   $3,502,038   $(6,541,176)  $(641,743)
                          
Basic and diluted income (loss) per share:                
From continuing operations  $(0.03)  $0.02   $0.05   $(0.10)  $(0.01)
Basic weighted average number of common shares outstanding (in millions)   71.3    68.8    66.4    62.9    61.7 
Diluted weighted average number of common shares outstanding (in millions)   N/A    69.2    73.2    N/A    N/A 

 

 

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BALANCE SHEET DATA

(in U.S. Dollars)

 

   Strata Oil & Gas Inc. 
   December 31, 
   2012   2011   2010   2009   2008 
                     
Cash and cash equivalents  $134,125   $217,504   $151,283   $79,447   $121,776 
Other current assets   5,222    23,827    51,157    43,822    47,504 
Deposits   123,634    116,172    114,139    94,533    94,533 
Property and equipment, net       1,361    2,244    4,467    6,692 
Oil and gas property interests   8,195,885    7,901,703    7,967,915    8,398,439    7,039,208 
Total assets   8,458,866    8,260,567    8,286,738    8,620,708    7,309,713 
Current liabilities   2,377,418    541,947    2,097,438    7,284,197    120,350 
Asset retirement obligations   138,129    127,688    119,041    104,653    88,606 
Additional paid-in capital   21,069,422    21,028,596    21,025,596    20,371,947    19,559,938 
(Accumulated deficit) retained earnings   (15,865,586)   (14,008,796)   (15,638,051)   (19,140,089)   (12,459,181)
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity   8,458,866    8,260,567    8,286,738    8,620,708    7,309,713 

 

Dividends

 

We have never paid or declared dividends on our shares of common stock.

 

Exchange Rates

 

In this Annual Report, unless otherwise specified, all dollar amounts are expressed in United States Dollars (USD$).  The Government of Canada permits a floating exchange rate to determine the value of the Canadian Dollar against the U.S. Dollar (US$), therefore, this annual report may contain conversions of certain amounts in United States dollars into the Company’s functional currency, Canadian dollars, based upon the exchange rate in effect at the end of the month or of the fiscal year to which the amount relates, or the exchange rate on the date specified. For such purposes, the exchange rate means the historical exchange rates as reported by www.OANDA.com, which compiles rates based on tens of thousands of different price points, collected every few seconds, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from live data suppliers (for instance Bank of Canada) and uses them to compute interbank market rates. These translations should not be construed as representations that the Canadian dollar amounts actually represent such United States dollar amounts or that Canadian dollars could be converted into United States dollars at the rate indicated or at any other rate.

 

The following table sets forth the exchange rates for the Canadian Dollar at the end of each of the three fiscal years ended December 31, 2012, 2011, and 2010, and the average rates for the period and the range of high and low rates for the period.  The data for March, 2013 and for each month during the most recent six months is also provided.

 

Exchange Rates for Canadian Versus U.S. Dollars

 

The exchange rate as of December 31, 2012 was CDN $1.00 per U.S. $1.00.

 

The exchange rate as of April 2, 2013 was CDN $1.01 per U.S. $1.00.

 

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Exchange Rates for Canadian Versus U.S. Dollars        
(High/low rates for latest six months)    High      Low 
March, 2013   0.98    0.97 
February, 2013   1.00    0.97 
January, 2013   1.02    0.99 
December, 2012   1.02    1.00 
November, 2012   1.01    1.00 
October 2012   1.02    0.99 
September 2012   1.03    1.01 

 

Exchange Rates for Canadian Versus U.S. Dollars  Average ($) 
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2012   1.00 
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2011   1.02 
 For the twelve months ended December 31, 2010   1.00 
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2009   1.14 
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2008   1.07 

 

B. Capitalization and Indebtedness

 

Not applicable.

 

C. Reasons for the offer and use of proceeds

 

Not applicable.

 

D. Risk Factors

 

An investment in the Company has a high degree of risk.  Before you invest you should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below and the other information in this annual report.  If any of the following risks actually occur, our business, operating results and financial condition could be harmed and the value of our stock could go down.  This means you could lose all or a part of your investment.

 

RISKS RELATING TO OUR COMPANY

 

1.           We are an exploration stage company, with limited operating history, which raises substantial doubt as to our ability to successfully develop profitable business operations and makes an investment in our common shares very risky.

 

We have only recently commenced oil and gas exploration operations.  Our prospects must be considered in light of the risks, expenses and difficulties frequently encountered in establishing a business in the oil and natural gas industries.  We have yet to generate any revenues from operations.  There is nothing at this time on which to base an assumption that our business operations will prove to be successful or that we will ever be able to operate profitably.  Our future operating results will depend on many factors, including:

 

·our ability to raise adequate working capital;
·success of our exploration and development;
·demand for natural gas and oil;
·the level of our competition;
·our ability to attract and maintain key management and employees; and
·our ability to efficiently explore, develop and produce sufficient quantities of marketable natural gas or oil in a highly competitive and speculative environment while maintaining quality and controlling costs.

 

To achieve profitable operations, we must, alone or with others, successfully execute on the factors stated above.  If we are not successful in executing any of the above stated factors, our business will not be profitable and may never even generate any revenue, which make our common shares a less attractive investment and may harm the trading of our common shares trading on the OTCBB and OTC Markets.

 

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2.           At this stage of our business, even with our good faith efforts, potential investors have a high probability of losing their investment.

 

Because the nature of our business is expected to change as a result of shifts in the market price of oil and natural gas, competition, and the development of new and improved technology, management forecasts are not necessarily indicative of future operations and should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance.

 

Our Management may incorrectly estimate projected occurrences and events within the timetable of its business plan, which would have an adverse effect on our results of operations and, consequently, make our common shares a less attractive investment and harm the trading of our common shares trading on the OTCBB and OTC Markets.  Investors may find it difficult to sell their shares on the OTCBB and OTC Markets.

 

3.           If capital is not available to fund future operations, we will not be able to pursue our business plan and operations would come to a halt and our common shares would be nearly worthless.

 

Cash on hand is not sufficient to fund our anticipated operating needs for the next twelve months.  We will require substantial additional capital to participate in the development of our properties which have not had any production of oil or natural gas as well as for acquisition and/or development of other producing properties.  Because we currently do not have any cash flow from operations we need to raise additional capital, which may be in the form of loans from current shareholders and/or from private equity offerings.  Our ability to access capital will depend on our success in participating in properties that are successful in exploring for and producing oil and gas at profitable prices.  It will also be dependent upon the status of the capital markets at the time such capital is sought.  Should sufficient capital not be available, the development of our business plan could be delayed and, accordingly, the implementation of our business strategy would be adversely affected. In such event it would not be likely that investors would obtain a profitable return on their investments or a return of their investments at all.

 

4.           We are heavily dependent on Ron Daems, our CEO, President and Chairman.  The loss of Mr. Daems, whose knowledge, leadership and technical expertise upon which we rely, would harm our ability to execute our business plan.

 

Our success depends heavily upon the continued contributions of Ron Daems, whose knowledge, leadership and technical expertise would be difficult to replace.  Our success is also dependent on our ability to retain and attract experienced engineers, geoscientists and other technical and professional staff.  We do not maintain any key person insurance on Mr. Daems.  If we were to lose his services, our ability to execute our business plan would be harmed and we may be forced to cease operations until such time, if ever, as we could hire a suitable replacement for Mr. Daems.

 

5.           Volatility of oil and gas prices and markets could make it more difficult for us to achieve profitability and less likely for investors in our common shares to receive a return on their investment.

 

Our ability to achieve profitability is substantially dependent on prevailing prices for natural gas and oil.  The amounts of and price obtainable for any oil and gas production that we achieve will be affected by market factors beyond our control.  If these factors are not favorable over time to our financial interests, it is likely that owners of our common shares will lose their investments. Such factors include:

 

·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.

 

6.           Drilling wells is speculative, often involving significant costs that may be more than our estimates.  Any material inaccuracies in drilling costs, estimates or underlying assumptions will reduce the profitability of our business and will negatively affect our results of operations.

 

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 such as:

 

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·fires;
·explosions;
·blow-outs and surface cratering;
·uncontrollable flows of oil, natural gas, and formation water;
·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.

 

7.           The unavailability or 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, consequently we may not be able to obtain drilling rigs when we need them.  Therefore, our drilling and other costs may increase further and necessary equipment and services may not be available to us at economical prices.

 

8.           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 Canada 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.

 

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

 

If we experience any leakage of crude oil and/or gas from the subsurface portions of a well, our gathering system could cause degradation of fresh groundwater resources, as well as surface damage, potentially resulting in suspension of operation of a well, 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.

 

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10.           Exploratory drilling involves many risks, and we may become liable for pollution or other liabilities that may have an adverse effect on our financial position.

 

Drilling operations generally involve a high degree of risk.  Hazards such as unusual or unexpected geological formations, power outages, labor disruptions, blow-outs, sour gas leakage, fire, inability to obtain suitable or adequate machinery, equipment or labor, and other risks are involved.  We may become subject to liability for pollution or hazards against which we cannot adequately insure or which we may elect not to insure.  Incurring any such liability may have a material adverse effect on our financial position and operations.

 

11.           The potential profitability of oil and gas ventures depends upon factors beyond the control of our company.

 

The potential profitability of oil and gas properties is dependent upon many factors beyond our control.  For instance, world prices and markets for oil and gas are unpredictable, highly volatile, potentially subject to governmental fixing, pegging, controls, or any combination of these and other factors, and respond to changes in domestic, international, political, social, and economic environments.  Additionally, due to worldwide economic uncertainty, the availability and cost of funds for production and other expenses have become increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to project.  These changes and events may materially affect our financial performance.

 

12.           Our auditors’ opinion on our December 31, 2012 financial statements includes an explanatory paragraph in respect of there being substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

 

We have incurred net losses of $13,116,797 from July 1, 2005 (the date we commenced our oil and gas operations) to December 31, 2012.  Our financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded assets, or the amounts of and classification of liabilities that might be necessary in the event the Company cannot continue in existence.  We anticipate generating losses for at least the next 12 months.  Therefore, there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue operations in the future as a going concern.  We will need to obtain additional funds in the future.  Our plans to deal with this cash requirement include loans from existing shareholders, raising additional capital from the private sale of our equity securities or entering into a strategic arrangement with a third party.  If we cannot continue as a viable entity, our shareholders may lose some or all of their investment in our company.

 

13.           If we do not maintain the property lease payments on our properties, we will lose our interest in the properties as well as losing all monies incurred in connection with the properties.

 

We have two land packages in Alberta, Canada that were acquired through auction directly from the government of Alberta.  The land packages are made up of a number of underlying individual leases.  All of our leases require annual lease payments to the Alberta provincial government.  See Item 4.D for a more detailed description of the property obligations.  If we do not continue to make the annual lease payments, we will lose our ability to explore and develop the properties and we will not retain any kind of interest in the properties.

 

14.           We may not be able to compete with current and potential exploration companies, some of whom have greater resources and experience than we do in locating and commercializing oil and natural gas reserves.

 

The natural gas and oil market is intensely competitive, highly fragmented and subject to rapid change.  We may be unable to compete successfully with our existing competitors or with any new competitors.  We compete with many exploration companies that have significantly greater personnel, financial, managerial, and technical resources than we do.  This competition from other companies with greater resources and reputations may result in our failure to maintain or expand our business.

 

15.           We expect losses to continue in the future because we have no oil or gas reserves and, consequently, no revenue to offset losses.

 

Based upon the fact that we currently do not have any oil or gas reserves, we expect to incur operating losses in next 12 months.  The operating losses will occur because there are expenses associated with the acquisition, exploration, and development of natural gas and oil properties that do not have any income-producing reserves.  Failure to generate revenues may cause us to go out of business.  We will require additional funds to achieve our current business strategy and our inability to obtain additional financing will interfere with our ability to expand our current business operations.

 

16.           Because we are in the exploration stage of operations of our business our securities are considered highly speculative.

 

We are in the exploration stage of our business.  As a result, our securities must be considered highly speculative.  We are engaged in the business of exploring and, if warranted and feasible, developing natural gas and oil properties.  Our current properties are without known reserves of natural gas or oil.  Accordingly, we have not generated any revenues nor have we realized a profit from our operations to date and there is little likelihood that we will generate any revenues or realize any profits in the short term.  Any profitability in the future from our business will be dependent upon locating and developing economic reserves of natural gas and oil, which itself is subject to numerous risk factors as set forth herein.  Since we have not generated any revenues, we will have to raise additional funds through loans from existing shareholders, the sale of our equity securities or strategic arrangement with a third party in order to continue our business operations.

 

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17.           Since our Directors work for other natural resource exploration companies, their other activities for those other companies could slow down our operations or negatively affect our profitability.

 

Our Officer and Directors are not required to work exclusively for us and they do not devote all of their time to our operations.  In fact, our Directors work for other natural resource exploration companies.  Therefore, it is possible that a conflict of interest with regard to their time may arise based on their consulting or employment by such other companies.  Their other activities could slow our operations and may reduce our financial results because of the slowdown in operations.  It is expected that each of our Directors will devote approximately 1 hour per week to our operations on an ongoing basis, and when required will devote whole days and even multiple days at a stretch when property visits are required or when extensive analysis of information is needed.

 

RISKS RELATING TO OUR COMMON SHARES

 

18.           We may, in the future, issue additional common shares, which would reduce investors’ percentage of ownership and may dilute our share value.

 

Our Articles of Incorporation authorize the issuance of an unlimited number of common shares without par value and an unlimited number of preferred shares without par value.  The future issuance of our unlimited authorized common shares may result in substantial dilution in the percentage of our common shares held by our then existing shareholders.  We may value any common shares issued in the future on an arbitrary basis.  The issuance of common shares for future services or acquisitions or other corporate actions may have the effect of diluting the value of the shares held by our investors, and might have an adverse effect on any trading market for our common shares.

 

19.           Our common shares are subject to the "Penny Stock" Rules of the SEC and we have no established market for our securities, which makes transactions in our stock cumbersome and may reduce the value of an investment in our stock.

 

Section 15(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Rule 15g-2 promulgated thereunder by the Commission require broker-dealers dealing in penny stocks to provide potential investors with a document disclosing the risks of penny stocks and to obtain a manually signed and dated written receipt of the document before effecting any transaction in a penny stock for the investor's account.  These rules may have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity in the secondary market, if and when one develops.  Potential investors in the Company’s common stock are urged to obtain and read such disclosures carefully before purchasing any shares that are deemed to be "penny stock."  Moreover, the Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted Rule 15g-9 which establishes the definition of a "penny stock," for the purposes relevant to us, as any equity security that has a market price of less than USD $5.00 per share or with an exercise price of less than USD $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions.  For any transaction involving a penny stock, unless exempt, the rules require:

 

·That a broker or dealer approve a person's account for transactions in penny stocks; and
·that the broker or dealer  receive from the investor a written  agreement to the transaction, setting forth the identity and quantity of the penny stock to be purchased.

 

In order to approve a person's account for transactions in penny stocks, the broker or dealer must:

 

·Obtain financial information and investment experience objectives of the person; and
·make a reasonable determination that the transactions in penny stocks are suitable for that person and the person has sufficient knowledge and experience in financial matters to be capable of evaluating  the  risks of  transactions in penny stocks.

 

The broker or dealer must also deliver, prior to any transaction in a penny stock, a disclosure schedule prescribed by the Commission relating to the penny stock market, which, in highlight form sets forth:

 

·The basis on which the broker or dealer made the suitability determination;  and
·that the broker or dealer received a signed, written agreement from the  investor  prior to the transaction.

 

Generally, brokers may be less willing to execute transactions in securities subject to the "penny stock" rules.  This may make it more difficult for investors to dispose of our common shares and may cause a decline in the market value of our stock.

 

Pursuant to the Penny Stock Reform Act of 1990, broker-dealers are further obligated to provide customers with monthly account statements. Compliance with the foregoing requirements may make it more difficult for investors in the Company's stock to resell their shares to third parties or to otherwise dispose of them in the market or otherwise.

 

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20.           We are a “foreign private issuer”, and you may not have access to the information you could obtain about us if we were not a “foreign private issuer”.

 

We are considered a "foreign private issuer" under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.  As a foreign private issuer we will not have to file quarterly reports with the SEC nor will our Directors, Officer and 10% stockholders be subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act.  As a foreign private issuer we will not be subject to the proxy rules of Section 14 of the Exchange Act.  Furthermore, Regulation FD does not apply to non-U.S. companies and will not apply to us.  Accordingly, you may not be able to obtain some of the information about us that you could obtain if we were not a “foreign private issuer”.

 

21.           Because we do not intend to pay any cash dividends on our Common shares, our stockholders will not be able to receive a return on their shares unless they sell them.

 

We intend to retain any future earnings to finance the development and expansion of our business.  We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common shares in the foreseeable future.  Unless we pay dividends, our stockholders will not be able to receive a return on their shares unless they sell them.

 

22.           We may become a passive foreign investment company, or PFIC, which could result in adverse U.S. tax consequences to U.S. investors.

 

If we are a “passive foreign investment company” or “PFIC” as defined in Section 1297 of the Code, U.S. Holders will be subject to U.S. federal income taxation under one of two alternative tax regimes at the election of each such U.S. Holder. Section 1297 of the Code defines a PFIC as a corporation that is not formed in the United States and either (i) 75% or more of its gross income for the taxable year is “passive income”, which generally includes interest, dividends and certain rents and royalties or (ii) the average percentage, by fair market value (or, if we elect, adjusted tax basis), of its assets that produce or are held for the production of “passive income” is 50% or more.  Whether we are a PFIC in any year and the tax consequences relating to PFIC status will depend on the composition of our income and assets, including cash.  U.S. Holders should be aware, however, that if we become a PFIC, we may not be able or willing to satisfy record-keeping requirements that would enable U.S. Holders to make an election to treat us as a “qualified electing fund” for purposes of one of the two alternative tax regimes applicable to a PFIC, which would result in adverse tax consequences to our shareholders who are U.S. citizens.

 

23.           Because we are organized under the Canada Business Corporations Act and all of our assets and certain of our Officers and Directors are located outside the United States, it may be difficult for an investor to enforce within the United States any judgments obtained against us or our Officers and Directors.

 

All of our assets are located outside of the United States and we do not currently maintain a permanent place of business within the United States. In addition, certain of our Directors and Officers are nationals and/or residents of countries other than the United States, and all or a substantial portion of such persons' assets are located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for an investor to effect service of process or enforce within the United States any judgments obtained against us or our Officers or Directors, including judgments predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state thereof. In addition, there is uncertainty as to whether the courts of Canada would recognize or enforce judgments of United States courts obtained against us or our Directors and Officers predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state thereof. There is even uncertainty as to whether the Canadian courts would have jurisdiction to hear original actions brought in Canada against us or our Directors and Officers predicated upon the securities laws of the United States or any state thereof.

 

Item 4. Information on Strata Oil & Gas Inc.

 

A. History and Development of Strata Oil & Gas Inc.

 

Strata Oil & Gas Inc. is a company principally engaged in the acquisition and exploration of oil and gas properties. We were incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada on November 18, 1998 and commenced operations in January 1999. We completed our initial public offering in February 2000.   The Company operates in the oil and gas industry with a focus on Canada’s carbonate-hosted bitumen deposits.  The Company has interests in a total of 18 oil sands leases located in Northern Alberta, Canada.

 

Continuance to Canada

 

We are presently incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act. On April 22, 2003, the Company filed a registration statement to effect a continuation of our corporate jurisdiction from the State of Nevada to Canada on Form S-4 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Form S-4 was declared effective on or about July 7, 2004. On September 13, 2004, Strata filed a Form 8-A with the SEC registering its class of common shares under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act.

 

Discontinued Operations

 

Until the end of June 2005, the Company had developed software that was designed to allow users to interface with and manage databases and customer relationships. On June 29, 2005 a majority of the Company’s shareholders approved a change in the business of the Company from software development to oil and gas exploration.

 

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B. Business Overview

 

REFER TO SECTION 4.A “HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPANY” FOR INFORMATION REGARDING THE COMPANY’S HISTORY AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES.

 

BUSINESS DESCRIPTION

 

The Company currently has interests in oil sands properties located in the Peace River and Wabiskaw areas of Northern Alberta, Canada.

 

The Company is an exploration stage company and there is no assurance that a commercially viable oil or gas deposit exists on any of its properties.  Further evaluation will be required on each property before a final evaluation as to the economics and legal feasibility of the property is determined.

 

The Company originally had an interest in 43 oil sands leases in northern Alberta, Canada.  In December 2010, the Company sold 25 of its oil sands leases to an Alberta company.  As of December 31, 2012 the Company currently has interests in oil sands properties located in the Peace River and Wabiskaw areas of Northern Alberta, Canada including 17 leases in the Peace River oil sands area and one lease in the Athabasca oil sands area.

 

MATERIAL EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION

 

Development, production and sale of natural gas and oil in Canada are subject to extensive laws and regulations, including environmental laws and regulations.  The oil and gas leases currently leased by the Company are owned by the Province of Alberta and are managed by the Department of Energy.  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.

 

SEASONALITY, DEPENDENCY UPON PATENTS, LICENSES, CONTRACTS, PROCESSES, SOURCES AND AVAILABILTY OF RAW MATERIALS

 

Certain of the Company’s properties are in remote locations and subject to significant temperature variations and changes in working conditions.  It may not be possible to actively explore the Company’s properties in Alberta throughout the year due to seasonal changes in the weather.  If exploration is pursued at the wrong time of year, the Company may incur additional costs to address issues relating to the weather.

 

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, consequently we may not be able to obtain drilling rigs when we need them.  Therefore, our drilling and other costs may increase further and necessary equipment and services may not be available to us at economical prices.

 

COMPETITION

 

The natural gas and oil exploration industry is intensely competitive, highly fragmented and subject to rapid change.  We may be unable to compete successfully with our existing competitors or with any new competitors.  We compete with many exploration companies that have significantly greater personnel, financial, managerial, and technical resources.  This competition from other companies with greater resources and reputations may result in our failure to maintain or expand our business.

 

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C. Organizational Structure

 

The Company is not part of a group and has no subsidiaries.

 

D. Property, Plant and Equipment

 

CORPORATE OFFICES

 

We do not own any real property.  Our corporate offices are located at 408 - 918 16th Ave NW, Calgary, AB T2M 0K3.  We believe that the facilities will be adequate for the foreseeable future.  All costs described in this section are stated in U.S. dollars as converted from Canadian dollars.  Accordingly, the costs may vary to some degree with the currency exchange rate.

 

OIL SANDS LEASES

 

The Company currently has an interest in 18 oil sands leases in northern Alberta, Canada.  17 of the leases are located in the Peace River oil sands area, and 1 lease is located in the Athabasca oil sands area.

 

Oil Sands Background

 

“Oil Sands” refers to unconsolidated, bitumen-saturated sands containing varying amounts of clay and rock material.  The bitumen content refers to a heavy, viscous crude oil that generally does not flow under natural reservoir conditions.  As a result, it cannot be recovered from a conventional well the way lighter oil is most often produced.  The oil sands are contained in three major areas beneath an approximate 140,800 square kilometers (54,363 square miles) of north-eastern Alberta - an area larger than the state of Florida.  As of December 2002, according to the Alberta Department of Energy, these three areas, Athabasca/Wabiskaw, Peace River, and Cold Lake, contained 1.6 trillion barrels of bitumen in-place, of which 174 billion barrels are proven reserves that can be recovered using current technology.

 

These deposits contain a significant amount of oil but until recently the cost of extraction has created a barrier to economic development.  Extraction of oil from oil sands requires technologically intensive activity and the input of significant amounts of energy to exploit the oil sands deposits.  There are two main types of oil sands production methods: mining and in-situ.  Oil sands mining is accomplished using an open pit operation whereby the oil sands are dug up and trucked to a processing facility.  For oil sands reservoirs too deep to support economic surface mining, some form of in-situ recovery is required to produce bitumen.  In-situ production is similar to that of conventional oil production where oil is recovered through a well.  The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board estimates that 80 percent of the total bitumen ultimately recovered will be with in-situ techniques.  Numerous in-situ technologies have been developed that apply thermal energy to heat the bitumen and allow it to flow to the well bore.

 

There are some oil sands reservoirs where primary or “cold” production is possible.  The lighter bitumen in these areas can flow towards a well and bitumen production can be enhanced by the co-production of sand, thereby creating a down hole cavity around the well bore which facilitates the flow of oil towards the well.  This type of production technology is commonly referred to as “Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand” (“CHOPS”).  While this type of bitumen is marginally lighter and less viscous than the conventional bitumen found in mineable and other in-situ reserves, it is also slightly heavier than the conventional “Heavy Oil” reservoirs produced in the “heavy oil belt” region, located around the central Alberta - Saskatchewan border.  Another production technology, which may be suitable for some of the lighter oil sands reservoirs, is the use of horizontal well bores.  Horizontal production wells, which have been drilled up to more than 2 kilometers away from their surface locations, have been successfully applied to cold in-situ bitumen production, where it is suitable.  In general, open pit oil sands mines are found in central Athabasca deposits, while in-situ bitumen production technology is used in the Cold Lake, south Athabasca, and Peace River deposits, where the overburden thickness exceeds 50 meters.

 

Oil in oil sands is found mainly in high porosity quartz arenites to arkosic sands that cover large areas and lie up-dip from the purported source rocks to the southwest.  There are also vast amounts of heavy oil as well in fractured carbonate rocks of 10-14% porosity underlying a large triangular region of north central Alberta.  In addition, there is a large amount of heavy oil in a series of thinner blanket sands and channel sands extending all the way from Suffield, Alberta to zones overlying the Cold Lake Oil Sands near Bonnyville, and extending well into Saskatchewan.  The latter deposits called the ‘heavy oil belt” are the sites of the most development attention because the oil is less viscous and it can be produced using either CHOPS or horizontal well technology.

 

The source rocks for the oil sands are from the Cretaceous and Jurassic shales in the Alberta Syncline.  Rapid sedimentation of organic rich argillaceous material caused large flow volumes to be generated as the result of compaction.  Deep burial of the kerogeneous source rocks allowed organic diagenesis to occur resulting in the generation of oil and gas from the kerogen.  The oil sands are 98% un-cemented (unconsolidated sandstones).  The ingress of bitumen has essentially stopped diagenetic processes and the sands do show strong evidence of the early effects of pressure solution and re-crystallization but true cementation is quite rare as are significant calcite cemented zones.

 

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Carboniferous Oil Sands

 

Strata has focused its efforts on carbonate-hosted bitumen sands.  The carbonates are the next challenge in the Alberta oil sands industry. Like oil sands two decades ago, carbonates represent an enormous and relatively untapped petroleum resource. The means for producing bitumen from carbonates is still being studied.  The nature of the carbonate triangle in Alberta tends to vary and there is unlikely to be a single one-si -fits-all strategy for production.  Cold production may be possible in some areas although in most cases production requires an in-situ treatment. Various technologies have been tested and others considered, including similar technologies to those employed in oil sands (cyclic steam, SAGD, etc.). Bitumen carbonates are still being studied, and as yet there are several techniques which may prove to be effective.  We are in the process of determining the most efficient means of producing the bitumen from our Peace River project.

 

Carbonate oil sands are an unconventional resource that remains almost untapped.  While much of the world now knows about Alberta’s vast oil sands resource, many people are unaware that a bitumen resource of similar magnitude is locked in carbonate rock.  According to a report by Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC), 26% of Alberta’s bitumen resources are contained in carbonate rather than sand formations.  One northern Alberta carbonate formation alone — the Devonian-age Grosmont complex — has bitumen volumes in place comparable to the huge Athabasca oil sands deposit. This comparison is made in the 176-page official history of the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA), the long-since disbanded provincial agency set up in 1974 to promote bitumen recovery technologies.  The history devotes four well-illustrated pages to bitumen carbonates.  The resource received serious attention during the AOSTRA years with a series of pilot tests running in the Grosmont formation between 1975 and 1987.  However, oil prices fell and funding was cut.  The remotely located and little known bitumen carbonates were largely forgotten until Royal Dutch Shell plc paid nearly $500 million for leases in 2006.

 

Contained in a roughly triangular 70,000 square-kilometer area of northern Alberta called the Carbonate Triangle, the deposits may be the most technically challenging of the province’s bitumen resources. The basic difference between oil sands and bitumen carbonates is the former is bitumen mixed with unconsolidated sand, which can be either mined or produced from wells. The latter, as the name implies, is bitumen in carbonate rock — both dense limestone and heavily karsted rock. Grosmont bitumen is even heavier than the Athabasca bitumen and the reservoir is extremely variable, meaning that a single recovery method is unlikely to work throughout the formation. The lack of understanding of the heterogeneous nature of the reservoir is the main hurdle for developing successful bitumen recovery schemes. The bitumen is contained in a dual porosity system — both in the vugs (cavities or fractures) and in the rock matrix itself.  The vugs could potentially be good news in that they could conceivably improve permeability once the viscosity of the bitumen is raised by heat or other means, but bad news if they serve as channels for steam to escape from the area of interest.  In the karsted areas, these irregular cavities and tunnels are often the diameter of a man’s arm, and sometimes much larger.  According to the PTAC review of the pilot results, challenges of drilling through this karsted rock include the potential for loss of drilling fluids into the formation, and problems with the placement of cement to maintain a strong well-to-formation bond.

 

DROWNED AREA OIL SANDS LEASE

 

Acquisition of Interest

 

On September 7, 2005 the Company acquired a 100% interest in Alberta Oil Sands Lease #7400100011 (the “Drowned Property’).  The rights to the Drowned Property were acquired for a payment of CDN $25,000 (USD $20,635) as well as other closing costs of CDN$9,874 (USD $8,150).  The Drowned Property covers 512 hectares of land in the Drowned Area of the Wabiskaw oil sands in the West Athabasca area of Northern Alberta.  The lease gives the Company the right to explore the Drowned Property covered by the lease.

 

Strata's acquisition of the Drowned Property lease includes an overriding 4% royalty agreement with the vendor. The royalty is to be paid on a well-to-well basis and is payable on all petroleum substances produced by any well on the Property. In addition, the Company must pay the province of Alberta CDN $1,792 (USD $1,798) per year to maintain its right to the lease. The lease is subject to a royalty payable to the government of Alberta.

 

Alberta's project-based generic oil sands royalty regime operates on the principle of revenue minus cost. Royalty is paid at one of two rates, depending on the project’s financial status.  The deciding factor is the project’s payout date. A project has “reached payout” once its cumulative revenues have exceeded its cumulative costs.  Before the payout date, the applicable royalty is 1% of the project’s gross revenue. This low rate recognizes the high costs, long lead times and high risks associated with oil sands investment. It prevents undue strain on the developer’s financial resources during the most critical, start-up stages of the project.  After the payout date, the applicable royalty is the greater of 1% of the project’s gross revenue or 25% of the net revenue for the period.

 

Location

 

The Drowned Property lies near the southern edge of the Wabiskaw Heavy Oil/Oil sands field in west Athabasca approximately 45km south of the town of Wabiskaw or 60km Northeast of Slave Lake.

 

Lease Number Hectares Townships Range Section
         
7400100011 512 75, 76 23 1 and 36

 

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Drowned Project Lease Information

 

The Drowned Property is comprised of a single lease with the government of the province of Alberta, Canada.  The lease is a fifteen-year lease and expires on October 4, 2015.

 

Lease Number Hectares Rent / Hectare Annual Minimum Lease Payments
       
7400100011 512 CDN $3.50 (USD $3.51) per year CDN $1,792 (USD $1,798) per year

 

Regional Geology

 

Regionally, the Wabiskaw Reservoir consists of three overlapping en-echelon sand bodies interpreted as shoreface sand which coarsen upwards from shale to fine sand.  The three bodies are informally referred to as Wabiskaw “A” Sand, Wabiskaw “B” Sand, and Wabiskaw “C” Sand.  The three bodies are separated from each other by shales and each has proven to be correlatable and mappable over a wide area.  All three bodies contain bitumen, but only the bitumen sand of the Wabiskaw “A” is being cold produced at the present time.  The “B” and “C” are generally thinner and contain smaller bitumen accumulations.

 

Gas and water are also significant components of the reservoir fluids in the Wabiskaw sands.  Several associated gas fields are currently in production.  There may be a distinct basal water leg below the bitumen.  This is especially true in the southwestern part of the Wabiskaw reservoirs.

 

The deposit lies above the western part of the Athabasca oil sands and extends westward somewhat beyond the McMurray Formation edge.  In many regions, the Wabiskaw is oil rich and it overlies the McMurray forming two stacked reservoirs.  Detrital matter arrived mainly from the west but mixed with a small component of sediments from the shield.  The bitumen is highly viscous and is at a depth of 100 to 700 meters.  The Wabiskaw is classified as the lowest Member of the Clearwater Formation and therefore overlies the McMurray Formation.  The reservoir and the thickness of oil-saturated material vary from 0 to 10 meters.

 

Property Geology

 

Several pre-existing bore holes indicate that neither the Wabiskaw “A” sand nor the Wabiskaw “B” sand is present on the Company’s Drowned Property, although it appears that 0 to 4 meters of a thin bitumen-bearing Wabiskaw “C” sand may be present.  In addition, the McMurray Formation is present beneath the Wabiskaw and fills a local north-south oriented valley system incised into the older limestone basement.  These McMurray valley filled sediments appear to be complex, consisting mainly of water-bearing silts and clays, and hold only minor, discontinuous, bitumen-bearing sands of an unknown quality.  The Wabiskaw and McMurray sands lie at a depth of 550 to 600 meters and the Grand Rapids reservoir lies at a depth of 425 to 500 meters.

 

Previous Work

 

Historically, the Drowned Project has had four wells drilled on it by companies owning the gas exploration rights. The geophysical well logs demonstrate the presence of bitumen in all four wells, one of which shows the presence of oil sands.  The Company did not undertake any exploration work on the Drowned Property in 2012.

 

Planned Work by the Company for 2013

 

The Company has focused its exploration efforts on its Peace River Property and as a result, does not have any current plans to undertake an exploration program on the Drowned Property in 2013.

 

PEACE RIVER OIL SANDS LEASES

 

The following are two maps showing the location of the Company’s 17 oil sands leases in the Peace River region of northern Alberta, Canada.

 

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Acquisition of Interest

 

The Company has entered into a series of leases in multiple transactions with the province of Alberta in the Peace River area of Alberta, Canada (the “Peace River Property”).  All of the leases were acquired through a public auction process that requires the Company to submit sealed bids for land packages being auctioned by the provincial government.  Upon being notified that it has submitted the highest bid for a specific land parcel the Company immediately pays the government the bid price and enters into a formal lease with the government.  The bid price includes the first year’s minimum annual lease payments.  The specific transactions entered into by the Company are as noted below.

 

 

Date

Number of Leases

Land Area

(Hectares)

 

Annual Minimum Lease Payments

       
June 15, 2006 3 4,864 CDN $17,024 / USD $17,077
October 19, 2006 4 3,584 CDN $12,544 / USD $12,583
November 2, 2006 4 5,632 CDN $19,712 / USD $19,773
January 11, 2007 4 4,608 CDN $16,128 / USD $16,178
January 24, 2007 2 2,304 CDN $8,064 / USD $8,089
  17 20,992 CDN $73,472 / USD $73,700

 

On December 20, 2010, the Company entered into an assignment and assumption agreement with an Alberta company, a related party by common Director and Officer, assigning an undivided 100% right and interest in 25 Alberta Crown Oil Sands Lease Agreements, pursuant to respective individual lease agreements with the Province of Alberta for the sale price of CDN $300,000 (USD $303,833).  The fair market value of CDN $300,000 was established through third party evidence and recent sales comparables.  There was a loss recognized of $731,866 on the disposition of properties due to the combination of all acquisition costs and prior year’s annual lease payments being capitalized.

 

The Peace River Property consists of a total of 20,992 hectares of land in a region of northern Alberta known as Peace River.  The leases are subject to royalties payable to the government of Alberta.  Alberta's project-based generic oil sands royalty regime operates on the principle of revenue minus cost.  Royalty is paid at one of two rates, depending on the project’s financial status.  The deciding factor is the project’s payout date.   A project has “reached payout” once its cumulative revenues have exceeded its cumulative costs.  Before the payout date, the applicable royalty is 1% of the project’s gross revenue.  This low rate recognizes the high costs, long lead times and high risks associated with oil sands investment.  It prevents undue strain on the developer’s financial resources during the most critical, start-up stages of the project.  After the payout date, the applicable royalty is the greater of 1% of the project’s gross revenue or 25% of the net revenue for the period.

 

Location

 

The Peace River Property lies in the Peace River oil sands field in Alberta approximate 40 to 50 kilometers northeast of the town of Peace River.  These holdings are situated near Cadotte Lake.

 

Peace River Project Lease Information

 

The Peace River Property is comprised of 17 leases with the government of the Province of Alberta, Canada.  All of the leases are for a 15-year term, require minimum annual lease payments, and grant the Company the right to explore for potential oil sands opportunities on the respective lease.

 

Regional Geology

 

The Peace River Cretaceous clastic reservoir consists of a complex stratigraphy similar in nature to the Athabasca Deposit to the east.  These are thought to comprise fossil estuarine systems where the best reservoirs are contained in tidal inlet and barrier sands.  Secondary reservoir targets may be tidal delta, bayhead delta, tidal channel, and tidal flat sands.  The Peace River Carboniferous reservoir consists of platform sediments with relatively few reef building organisms.  Structurally, the Peace River strata dip to the southwest and the elevation of the bitumen-bearing interval lies between 50 and 100 meters below sea level or at a depth of between 680 to 790 meters below the surface.

 

Property Geology (Cadotte Leases)

 

Strata has focused its efforts on the bitumen resources contained in the Debolt/Elkton carbonate Carboniferous Formation and the Bluesky/Gething clastic Cretaceous Formation in the Cadotte area.  In particular, our exploration programs to date have focused on 29 sections in the Cadotte area located in Townships 86 and 87, Ranges 18 and 19W (the “Target Area”).

 

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The nature of the geology of the carbonate sequence in the Target Area has a significant influence on the distribution of the bitumen resource.  The principal reference source for this section is the Alberta Research Council’s publication, “Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin”.  The sequence that hosts the bitumen deposits is the Rundle Group of Lower Carboniferous age.  The Rundle Group in this area includes three stratigraphic units which, in ascending order, are the Pekisko, Shunda and Debolt Formations.  From place-to-place the Debolt Formation may also include another distinct unit, the Elkton Member.  In the Cadotte Lease area, the Elkton Member is usually present, as long as the overlying unconformity with the Cretaceous sequence has not eroded the entire Debolt Formation sequence.  Although there are many intervals that are bitumen enriched in the Rundle sequence in the Cadotte Lease area, the principal enrichment zones occur in the Elkton Member, the upper half of the Debolt but usually not right at the top of the formation and, to a lesser extent, in the Shunda Formation.  The high grade zones of enrichment are those that occur in the Elkton Member and the Debolt Formation.

 

A Cretaceous clastic sequence that includes the Gething and Bluesky Formations at the base, unconformably overlies the Carboniferous rocks in this area.  All the beds dip gently to the west with those lying below the unconformity having a somewhat greater dip than those above it.  This causes the sequence below the unconformity to be eroded to a greater degree to the east and to be less complete, compared with the west.  These westerly dips are the result of post-depositional tectonic events and do not reflect the original orientation of the accumulation of sediment.  The Carboniferous sequence of the Rundle assemblage accumulated as a result of a series of prograding events that developed in a southerly to southwesterly direction.

 

The Carboniferous sequence mainly includes platform sediments that show generally shallower-water characteristics up-section.  In a basinward direction the depositional facies proceed from beach and lagoonal environments through shoals of the shelf margin to marine basin muds.  The lithologies that result include high energy siliciclastics of the beach environment, through various types of carbonates on the platform and its slope to shale in the deep marine environment. There even appear to be beds present that have the character of unconsolidated coarse sediments.  Several transgressive events therefore resulted in the accumulation of clastic sediments interbedded with carbonate units.

 

The carbonate units included relatively few reef building organisms and thus there was little tendency for irregular geological bodies such as reefs to form in this sequence in this area.  From one well to the next the regular nature of the deposition that took place at this time is apparent and it is relatively easy to show the correlation that exists between the same units in adjacent wells in the target area.  This feature of regular bed continuity is in strong contrast to the variability of the clastic units of the overlying Cretaceous sequence as seen in the Athabasca region.

 

It is also most noteworthy that the bitumen enrichment is strongly influenced by the bedded nature and continuity of the sediments.  It is readily possible in many cases to show the same details of the enriched sequence in adjacent wells even when they are spaced a kilometer or more apart.  This has a very strong impact on the selection of data separation distances for the classification of resources; in this sequence an equivalent assurance of existence is achieved with much wider spacing of wells than that used in the classification of bitumen resources for the Cretaceous surface mineable oil sand deposits presently being explored and developed near Fort McMurray.

 

Previous Work

 

During the winter drill season of 2006 – 2007, Strata drilled four wells on the Cadotte leases.  Three of these wells were within the Cadotte Target Area and one was in the Cadotte East leases.  All of the wells were drilled and cored.  Three wells were drilled with cores in the Cadotte Target Area, two of which were cased allowing for production testing with the ability to re-enter these wells for future testing.  The other well was abandoned due to drilling fluid losses during drilling which did not allow the well to be cased for testing in the future.  The fourth well drilled in the Cadotte East location was cored and cased.  Due to natural gas flowing from the well, to which the Company did not have the rights to, additional borehole tests were not conducted.  The cores of all of these wells were tested and examined in a laboratory in Calgary.  The results of these tests were that cold production was not viable.  However, the results indicated that the bitumen would flow at approximately 85°C.  These results will allow the Company to explore different means of extraction in addition to steam.

 

Former leaseholders have drilled wells on and around the Company’s Target Area.  Geophysical well logs are of variable quality but generally consist of a full suite of tools to evaluate the potential reservoirs.  With respect to available drilling data, the leases of the Target Area are drilled at an average spacing of one well per section.  However, not all of these existing wells were drilled to investigate the sequence located on the Company’s Cadotte leases. The effective average spacing with wells that have penetrated the Carboniferous sequence is approximately 0.8 wells per section.  This spacing is from twenty-three wells on or immediately adjacent to the leases.  There are an additional two hundred nineteen wells in the surrounding area, the data from which has also been referenced and inspected by the Company to assist with its evaluation of the Cadotte leases.

 

However, the quality of the data from the wells of different vintage is quite variable.  Several of the wells were drilled in the 1950’s.  The drilling records and logs for these wells are sometimes poor or absent or they may be less complete than those of more recently drilled wells.  A database search was done to identify higher quality data which was restricted to wells drilled since 1970 and this, plus the new Strata wells was used as the primary reference data.  A total of eighteen wells of this vintage are located on or immediately adjacent to the lease blocks.  The well log data from these wells is the primary source of information on the leases available for the present evaluation but this was supplemented by high quality data from a further thirty-nine more distant wells in the area.

 

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Planned Work by the Company for 2013

 

Strata intends to continue to discuss a variety of funding arrangements with potential partners in 2013, but until funding can be secured the Company's development plans will temporarily be put on hold.  Once financing has been secured, the Company plans to undertake an engineering and production testing/drilling program in the Cadotte main target area.  The Company does not have any plans to undertake land acquisitions in 2013. The company plans on conducting a 51-101 compliant engineering resource study of the 22 sections (approximately 14,080 acres) of its Cadotte West holdings.

 

Cadotte Main – Contingent Bitumen Resource

 

In the United States, registrants, including foreign private issuers like us, are required to disclose proved reserves using the standards contained in Rule 4-10(a) of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Regulation S-X.

 

The Company completed the drilling of its first four wells in the winter drilling season of 2006 – 2007.  Strata had engaged Norwest Corporation (”Norwest”) of Calgary, Alberta, Canada to assist Strata with the planning and undertaking of its exploration of the Cadotte leases.  On August 16, 2007 Norwest completed a technical report titled Evaluation of In-Place Bitumen Resources - Cadotte Leases and on February 29, 2008 Norwest Questa Engineering Corporation  (“Norwest Questa”) of Golden, Colorado completed a report titled Preliminary Feasibility Study of the Cadotte Leases,  Alberta, Canada.  On April 28, 2010 Norwest completed a follow up report titled Cadotte Project – Resource Reclassification.  All of these reports are available to the public on the www.sec.gov web site.  All discussion in this section is qualified by reference to the three reports above and readers are advised to read the three technical reports in their entirety.

 

Evaluation of In-Place Bitumen Resources - Cadotte Leases – August 16, 2007

 

The study was designed to comply with the requirements of National Instrument 51-101 and the resource classification scheme and criteria elaborated in Volume 1, of the Canadian Oil and Gas Evaluation Handbook.  Recoverable bitumen volumes were not addressed in this report because no estimate of the recovery factor was available at the time.  Mr. Geoff Jordan, P. Geol., former Senior Vice President of Norwest Corporation and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 51-101 was responsible for the preparation of the technical information in the report.

 

The amount of exploration drilling and testing on the Cadotte Target Area was sufficient for that part of the Peace River Oil Sand deposit to be classified as a Discovered Resource (the classification system was subsequently changed such that the Discovered Resource would now be called Discovered Petroleum Initially In-Place (PIIP)).  The classification of the Discovered Resource into Low, Best ("Most Likely") and High categories was based on the following criteria:

 

·The Low Estimate includes all of the material that has a minimum grade of 8 wt% and a minimum thickness of 10 m;
·The Best (Most Likely) Estimate includes all of the material that has a minimum grade of 8 wt% but no minimum thickness; and
·The High Estimate includes all of the material without any grade or thickness constraint.  Hence the latter is an estimate of the original bitumen in place for the zones under investigation in the Cadotte Target Area.

 

The results of the different estimates for the Original Bitumen In Place (“OBIP”) are presented on the following table:

 

Effective OBIP for the Cadotte Area by Target Zone

in millions of Stock Tank Barrels (MMSTB), Using 8% wt Cut-off

 

Formation

Low

Estimate

Best

(Most Likely)

Estimate

High

Estimate

Bluesky/Gething N/A N/A 103
Debolt 1,443 1,500 1,503
Elkton N/A 490 644
Total 1,443 1,990 2,251

 

In the Bluesky/Gething Formations the results indicate that there are some areas where grades above the threshold of 8 wt% occur but these are somewhat scattered and there are no areas where especially high grade results were found.  At the same time, the ore thickness is generally relatively low.

 

It is important to note that the resource estimates presented in this report are made for quantities on an in-place basis.  This is not an estimate of quantities that may be recovered.  Such an estimate could not be made at the time because there was no reliable value available for the bitumen recovery factor that should be applied.  Such a factor is determined as a result of the completion of various engineering tests and analyses.

 

The accuracy of resource estimates is, in part, a function of the quality and quantity of available data and of engineering and geological interpretation and judgment.  Given the data available at the time this report was prepared, the estimates presented herein are considered reasonable.  However, they should be accepted with the understanding that additional data and analysis available subsequent to the date of the estimates may necessitate revision.  These revisions may be material.  There is no guarantee that all or any part of the estimated resources of bitumen will be recoverable.

 

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Neither Strata nor Norwest make any express or implied warranties or guarantees of any kind concerning this report; including without limitation any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.  Specifically, neither Strata nor Norwest make any warranties or guarantees that any property identified in this report will produce oil and/or gas in any quantity, or that any property identified in this report will produce or receive any economic, commercial, or other benefit.

 

Readers of this 20-F are advised to read the August 16, 2007 report titled Evaluation of In-Place Bitumen Resources - Cadotte Leases, that is publicly available on the www.sec.gov web site and was filed by the Company on September 27, 2007 under cover of 6-K.

  

Preliminary Feasibility Study of the Cadotte Leases, Alberta, Canada – February 29, 2008

 

The preliminary feasibility report was prepared in compliance with Canadian National Instrument 51-101 guidelines for disclosure concerning oil and gas resources in Canada.  NI 51-101 requires that the procedures and criteria of the Canadian Oil and Gas Evaluation Handbook (“COGE Handbook) be used for resource classification and these standards and criteria have been used in this report.  In this case it has been found that the estimate of potentially recoverable bitumen in the Cadotte Target Area at the time of the report could not be classified as a Contingent Resource.  The major factor was that there is no pilot project at the time that applied in-situ recovery methods to bitumen in a hardrock carbonate host that could be used as a demonstration of recoverability.  This meant that existing pilot projects in clastic hosts, which have different physical characteristics from carbonates, had to be used for performance prediction.  This additional risk prevented the “Contingent Resource” classification being made.  The additional factors that also prevented classification as a Contingent Resource include:

 

1.A lack of a cost estimate for the full-field development and operation of a bitumen recovery and upgrading project;
2.Lack of permeability data for the target zones; and
3.Limited geologic and reservoir data samples for the target zones

 

The Norwest August 16, 2007 report resource estimate is classified as “Discovered Resources”, in accordance with the criteria and former classification scheme of the COGE Handbook.  The current version of the COGE Handbook has re-titled “Discovered Resources” as “Discovered Petroleum Initially In Place” (“Discovered PIIP”).  The Pre-Feasibility estimate prepared by Norwest Questa is compliant with the requirements of National Instrument 51-101 with respect to classifying the resource as Discovered PIIP.  Dr. John D. Wright, Ph.D., P.E., who was President and Chief Engineer, of Norwest Questa Engineering Corporation at the time of the preparation of the Preliminary Feasibility, is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 51-101.  Dr. Wright supervised the preparation of the technical information in this report.

 

The analogy method was utilized to develop recovery factors that were applied to the OBIP estimates to obtain a low, most likely, and high estimate for potentially recoverable bitumen.  Several projects using technology similar to that expected to be implemented on the Cadotte leases were used as analogies for a bitumen recovery method and a resultant range of recovery factors.  Shell’s Carmon Project (“Carmon Creek”) was one of the primary analogies utilized by Norwest for the recovery factor estimates.  Norwest reviewed the Carmon Creek Project and concluded that some bitumen bearing stratigraphy on Strata’s land correlates with the same stratigraphy at Carmon Creek.  Over the last 25 years, Shell has tested numerous recovery methods at Peace River and has recently concluded that Horizontal Cyclic Steam (“HCS”) is the optimal recovery method for Carmon Creek.  The Preliminary Feasibility Study for Cadotte is based on the application of that method of extraction, as well as the Shell Carmon Project well layout and designs which were obtained from various public disclosure reports.

 

A production schedule was developed for the Cadotte leases over the key Target Area of twenty nine sections.  Each section, which has an area of one square mile, is about the same size as the Carmon Project pad and development block design.  Each pad and development block includes 20 wells of 1,400 m length, each of which is about 600 m in the vertical direction and 800 m horizontally.  In the design the pads are “brought on stream” over a four year build-up period.  The development block sequence is implemented such that the highest grade and thickest ore blocks are addressed first as long as the local infrastructure is able to service those areas.  During the main period of development, the daily production rate for the leases is about 56,000 barrels.  The production life for this schedule exceeds 20 years.  Cost estimates for this preliminary feasibility study were obtained from a review of public literature.

 

Based on the analogy method with an adjustment for difference between gross and effective OBIP calculations, Norwest Questa estimated the following recovery factors for application to the effective OBIP deterministic cases:

 

·17 percent for the Low estimate
·26 percent for the Most Likely estimate, and
·38 percent for the High estimate.

 

Norwest Questa then applied the estimated recovery factors shown above to the effective OBIP estimates from the August 16, 2007 report, which is the in-place Best estimate at an 8 wt% grade cut-off, to obtain the Low, Most Likely, and High Resource estimates for the Cadotte Area.

 

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On April 28, 2010 Norwest issued a report upgrading the resource classification to “Contingent Resource” from “Discovered Resource”, in accordance with the criteria and former classification scheme of the COGE Handbook.  The Resource Reclassification report prepared by Norwest is compliant with the requirements of National Instrument 51-101 with respect to classifying the resource as “Contingent”.  Geoff Jordan, P. Geol., Senior Geologist at Norwest Corporation prepared the Resource Reclassification report, is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 51-101.

 

With the Cadotte Recoverable bitumen quantity classified as a Contingent Resource, it is a requirement for reporting to identify and list the contingencies.  These are as follows:

 

·The company will have to develop a suitable Debolt Formation carbonate Pilot to demonstrate the technical and commercial viability of operating any specific planned in situ recovery method for this project.  The cost estimate for development of the project includes a provision for completing this work;
·The company will have to obtain all of the legal permits necessary for the initiation of the project and for construction and operation of it;
·The company will have to secure a suitable market for the bitumen;
·The company will have to ensure that all of the environmental requirements, including those that relate to water usage and disposal are satisfied.

 

The 2010 Norwest Corporation report modified the classification of the resources, and not the quantities, to reflect the following recoverable portion of the effective OBIP estimates:

 

Contingent Resource  for the Cadotte Area by Target Zone in millions of Stock Tank Barrels (MMSTB)

 

Formation

Low

Estimate

Most Likely

Estimate

High

Estimate

Bluesky/Gething N/A N/A 39
Debolt 245 390 571
Elkton N/A 127 245
Total 245 517 855

 

In 2008 Norwest Questa conducted an initial economic evaluation of the Cadotte area, at a level of study consistent with that of a Preliminary Feasibility Study, based on the Most Likely potentially recoverable Discovered PIIP estimate of 517 MMSTB.  Based on a forecast price of $65 per barrel and constant costs, this Preliminary Feasibility economic analysis indicated that the development of the Cadotte area was economically viable with a net present value (discounted at 10%) of cash flows before income taxes of about $1.2 billion.

 

In 2010 Norwest Corporation completed a revised sensitivity analysis based on three different oil prices.  The assumptions utilized in the 2010 economic evaluation were based on a review of published public data for similar projects.  The analogy method was originally utilized to develop recovery factors that were applied to the original bitumen-in-place estimates to obtain a low, most likely, and high estimate for potentially recoverable bitumen.  Several projects using technology similar to that expected to be implemented on Strata's Cadotte Project were used as analogies for a bitumen recovery method and a resultant range of recovery factors.  See the table below for the 2010 revised sensitivity analysis:

 

Revised 2010

Summary of Economic Evaluations

at Different Oil Price Assumptions ($US Billions)

 

Oil Price Gross Oil
Revenue
Net
Investment
Total
Operating
Expenses
Crown
Royalties
Cumulative
Cash Flow
Cumulative
Disc. (10%)
Cash Flow
IRR
Constant $85 WTI 27.1 1.9 12.1 4.1 9.1 1.3 28%
Constant $75 WTI 22.2 1.9 12.1 2.4 5.8 0.6 20%
Constant $95 WTI 32.1 1.9 12.1 5.9 12.1 1.9 36%

 

Based on forecast prices and costs, this revised economic analysis indicates that the development of the Cadotte area is economically viable with a return on capital investment of 28% and Net Present Value (“NPV”) discounted at 10% of $1.3 billion.  At a WTI crude oil pride of $85 per barrel, the impact of the planned royalty change is only about a 1% reduction of return on capital investment.  At a constant $75 per barrel WTI price, the return on capital investment is just over 20%.  Based on the favorable results of the pre-feasibility and revised economic analysis, the Cadotte area warrants further evaluation including a pilot well test program and feasibility level project design and cost estimates.

 

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This report is limited in scope to document only the potentially recoverable portion of the Contingent Resource, formerly referred to as Discovered Petroleum Initially In Place (Discovered PIIP), within the Target Area of the Cadotte properties.  This report does not attempt to place a Fair Market Value on that resource portion.

 

Norwest Corporation reserves the right to revise its opinions of all estimates of resources if new information is deemed sufficiently credible to do so.

 

The accuracy of any estimate is a function of available time, data, geological engineering, commercial interpretation, and judgment.  While the resource estimates presented herein are believed to be reasonable, they should be viewed with an understanding that additional analysis of new data may justify their revision and Norwest Corporation reserves the right to make such revisions.

 

Readers of this 20-F Annual Report are advised to read the February 29, 2008 report titled Preliminary Feasibility Study of the Cadotte Leases,  Alberta, Canada, and the April 28, 2010 report titled Cadotte Project - Resource Reclassification that were filed under cover of Form 6-K on March 6, 2008 and December 23, 2010, respectively, and are publicly available on the www.sec.gov web site.

 

Cadotte West – Bitumen Resource

 

Strata's Cadotte West project is located on 22 sections northwest of Shell's Carmon Creek Project and is contiguous to the company's Cadotte Main property holdings in Peace River. Data from prior years drill logs in the area indicate the Bluesky/Gething, Debolt, and Elkton ore zones are present on the lease. This same data reports bitumen in these ore zones.

 

Historical information obtained from logs in the area indicates the Net Thickness of the Bluesky/Gething ore zone in this region appears to range from about 10 m to 25 m. There are actually two ore zones in the Bluesky/Gething in this area and these appear to individually thicken and come together to the south. Additionally, the logs include confirmation of hydrocarbons in the cuttings samples and are noted to have fluorescence response for hydrocarbons. This does not show the grade but it shows that bitumen is present in the ore zone. The resistivity responses for hydrocarbons in the elastic interval are strong and this indicates that there is a good chance that the zone contains bitumen at ore grade concentrations.

 

The same logs indicate that the ore zone of the Debolt can be expected to be present throughout the Cadotte West Area. This zone appears to be 25 m to 30 m thick. The logs consistently record that the interval of the Debolt ore zone has "vuggy porosity". This is the same as the Debolt reported under Cadotte Main Target area. The records consistently record strong hydrocarbon fluorescence in this interval, and note "oil saturation" or "strong oil saturation" in the cuttings from well to well over this interval. This suggests that the bitumen ore potential of the zone in this area is much the same as that found in the Cadotte Main Target Area.

 

Item 4A. Unresolved Staff Comments

 

Not applicable.

 

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Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects

 

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

 

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations should be read in conjunction with the accompanying audited financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010.  These reports are presented in United States dollars and have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, referred to in this annual report as US GAAP.

 

Certain statements contained in the foregoing MD&A and elsewhere in this 20-F constitute forward-looking statements.  Such forward-looking statements involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of the financial statements were made, and readers are advised to consider such forward-looking statements in light of the risks set forth above.

 

A. Operating Results

 

The following table sets forth the audited statement of operations data for Strata for the fiscal years indicated:

 

   2012   2011   2010 
Expenses  $(241,995)  $(177,252)  $(972,357)
Other income (expenses)   (1,614,795)   1,806,379    4,474,395)
Net income (loss)   (1,856,790)   1,629,255    3,502,038 
Earnings per share from continuing operations, basic and diluted  $(0.03)  $0.02   $0.05 
Basic weighted average common shares outstanding (in millions)   71.3    68.8    66.4 
Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding (in millions)   N/A    69.2    73.2 

 

Year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011

 

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

During the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company had a net loss from operations of $1,856,790 compared to net income from operations of $1,629,255 for the year ended December 31, 2011, a decrease of $3,486,045.  Not including the non-cash changes in fair value derivative liability loss of $1,620,319 (2011 – gain of $1,806,379), expenses for the period increased $64,743 from $177,252 in 2011 to $241,995 for the year ended December 31, 2012. The increase in operating expenses is primarily due to increases in professional fees of $29,554 and consulting fees of $62,942, which includes stock compensation expense, associated with increased evaluation activities on the Company’s oil and gas properties. The increase in operating expenses was offset by a decrease in rent expense of $29,872.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company recorded a loss for a change in fair value of derivative liability of $1,620,319 (2011 – gain $1,806,379). This item is a non-cash item and was recorded in accordance with ASC 850-40-15. This guidance requires entities to evaluate whether an equity-linked financial instrument (or embedded feature) is indexed to its own stock by assessing the instrument’s contingent exercise provisions and settlement provisions. Instruments not indexed to their own stock fail to meet the scope exception of Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, ASC 815-10-15-74(a), and should be classified as a liability and marked-to-market.

 

REVENUES

 

The Company did not earn any revenue for the year ended December 31, 2012, 2011 or 2010.  We do not anticipate earning revenues until such time as we have entered into commercial production of our oil and gas properties.  We are presently in the exploration stage of our business and we can provide no assurance that we will discover commercially exploitable levels of oil or gas resources on our properties, or if such resources are discovered, that we will enter into commercial production of our oil and gas properties.

 

CONTINUING OPERATIONS

 

The Company recognized a loss from continuing operations of $1,856,790 for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to income from continuing operations in 2011 of $1,629,255, a decrease of $3,486,045.  Excluding the non-cash change in derivative liability, expenses for 2012 increased primarily due increased professional fees, consulting fees and stock compensation expense associated with increased evaluation activities on the Company’s oil and gas properties. The Company experienced significant decrease in rent expense for the year, which was offset by decreases in professional fees and office expenses. Stock-based compensation included with consulting fees increased to $40,286 in 2012 compared to $3,000 in 2011.

 

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DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS

 

There was no discontinued operations activity in 2012 or 2011.

 

INTEREST AND OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE)

 

Included in other income (expense) is a loss of $1,620,319 relating to the change in fair value of derivative liability resulting from an increased fair value of the derivative liability as at December 31, 2012 compared to December 31, 2011. The increase in derivative liability was primarily as a result of warrants issued with private placements during the year along with an increased option unit value due to an increase in share price in 2012. See Note 4 of the Financial Statements.  The Company recorded a derivative liability in the amount of $484,777 at December 31, 2011.  The Company determined the fair value of the derivative liability to be $2,342,989 as of December 31, 2012 based on an acceptable valuation model.  As a result of the changes in fair value, the Company recorded a loss on the change in the fair value of derivative liability of $1,620,319 to the statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2012.

 

Year ended December 31, 2011 compared to the year ended December 31, 2010

 

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company had net income of $1,629,255 compared to net income of $3,502,038 for the year ended December 31, 2010, a decrease of $1,872,784. Not including the non-cash changes in fair value derivative liability gain of $1,806,379 (2010 – gain of $4,474,283), expenses for the period decreased $795,104 from $972,357 in 2010 to $177,253 for the year ended December 31, 2011. The decrease is primarily due to the $731,866 loss on disposition of properties recorded in 2010 along with a decrease in consulting fees of $66,264.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company recorded a gain for a change in fair value of derivative liability of $1,806,379 (2010 – gain $4,474,283). This item is a non-cash item and was recorded in accordance with ASC 850-40-15. This guidance requires entities to evaluate whether an equity-linked financial instrument (or embedded feature) is indexed to its own stock by assessing the instrument’s contingent exercise provisions and settlement provisions. Instruments not indexed to their own stock fail to meet the scope exception of Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, ASC 815-10-15-74(a), and should be classified as a liability and marked-to-market.

 

REVENUES

 

The Company did not earn any revenue for the year ended December 31, 2011, 2010 or 2009. We do not anticipate earning revenues until such time as we have entered into commercial production of our oil and gas properties. We are presently in the exploration stage of our business and we can provide no assurance that we will discover commercially exploitable levels of oil or gas resources on our properties, or if such resources are discovered, that we will enter into commercial production of our oil and gas properties.

 

CONTINUING OPERATIONS

 

The Company recognized income from continuing operations of $1,629,255 for the year ended December 31, 2011 compared to income from continuing operations in 2010 of $3,502,038, a decrease of $1,872,784. Excluding the non-cash change in derivative liability expenses for 2011 decreased significantly primarily due to the loss on property disposition recognized in 2010 along with the decrease in consulting fees. The Company experienced increase in rent expense for the year, which was offset by decreases in professional fees and office expenses. Stock-based compensation included with consulting fees decreased to $3,000 in 2011 compared to $4,775 in 2010.

 

DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS

 

There was no discontinued operations activity in 2011 or 2010.

 

INTEREST AND OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE)

 

Included in other income (expense) is a gain of $1,806,379 relating to the change in fair value of derivative liability resulting from a lower fair value of the derivative liability as at December 31, 2011 compared to December 31, 2010. The decrease in derivative liability was the result of a lower option unit value due to deceased share price in 2011. See Note 4 of the Financial Statements. The Company recorded a derivative liability in the amount of $2,004,159 at December 31, 2010. The Company determined the fair value of the derivative liability to be $484,777 as of December 31, 2011 based on an acceptable valuation model. As a result of the changes in fair value, the Company recorded a gain on the change in the fair value of derivative liability of $1,806,379 to the statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2011.

 

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B. Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

(in U.S. dollars)  As at December 31, 
   2012   2011   2010 
Cash and cash equivalents  $134,125   $217,504   $151,283 
Working capital (deficit)   (2,238,071)   (300,616)   (1,894,719)
                
Net cash provided by (used in)               
Operating activities   (190,894)   (171,862)   (224,383)
Investing activities   (121,003)   (69,756)   96,649)
Financing activities   226,400    325,716    200,000 


As of December 31, 2012, we had $134,125 in cash, a decrease of $83,379 from December 31, 2011.  The decreased cash balance is due to an increase operating expenses and expenditures on oil and gas properties offset by the receipt of $226,400 in proceeds from private placements closed during 2012.  Management estimates that the Company will require approximately $350,000 to fund the Company’s planned operations for the next twelve months.  Therefore, current cash on hand is not sufficient to fund planned operations for 2012.  Our policy is to pay all operational expenses when due, provided that the vendor, in the normal course of business, has satisfied all necessary conditions for payment.

 

Net cash used in operating activities during the twelve months ended December 31, 2012 was $190,894 compared to $171,286 in 2011.  The increase in cash used in operating activities was due to an increase in professional and consulting fees associated with increased evaluation activity at the Company’s oil and gas properties

 

Cash used in investing activities for 2012 was $121,003 compared to cash used in investing of $69,756 in 2011. The Company spent $69,651 related to payments due to the Province of Alberta to maintain the Company’s property leases, compared to $66,212 in 2011. The Company spent an additional $43,890 on evaluation activities related to oil and gas property leases in 2012.

 

The Company generated cash inflows from financing activities of $226,400 compared to $325,716 in 2011. The Company raised $226,400 in funds from a series of private placements executed during 2012. In 2011 the Company raised $325,716 in proceeds from five private placements completed during the year. See Note 8 to the financial statements.

 

We expect our oil and gas operations to similarly be financed by equity.

 

We had cash of $134,125 as of December 31, 2012.  We anticipate that we will incur through the end of our next fiscal year:

 

·$190,000 in connection with property lease payments and follow up analysis on the Company’s oil sands properties;

 

·$160,000 for operating expenses, including working capital, consulting fees, general and administrative, professional, legal and accounting expenses.

 

We have no long-term debt.  In 2012 our most significant expense is expected to be for the exploration of our oil and gas properties.  During 2012 we received $226,400 in proceeds from private placements closed during the year. We believe that our available cash will not be sufficient to fund our working capital requirements for the next twelve months.  If we are to continue to explore and develop our oil sands properties, we will require additional funding.  We cannot be certain that any required additional financing will be available on terms favorable to us.  If additional funds are raised by the issuance of our equity securities, such as through the issuance and exercise of warrants, then existing stockholders will experience dilution of their ownership interest.  We believe that debt financing will not be an alternative for funding.  The risky nature of this enterprise and lack of tangible assets places debt financing beyond the credit-worthiness required by most banks or typical investors of corporate debt until such time as the economic viability of our oil sands properties can be demonstrated.  If adequate funds are not available or not available on acceptable terms, we may be unable to fund expansion, develop or enhance services or respond to competitive pressures.

 

Critical Accounting Estimates:

 

The preparation of the Company's financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions regarding future events.  These estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of certain assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent liabilities.

 

The Company follows the full cost method of accounting for natural gas and oil operations.  Under the full cost method all costs incurred in the acquisition, exploration and development of natural gas and oil reserves are initially capitalized into cost centers on a country-by-country basis.  The Company’s current cost centers are located in Canada.  Such costs include land acquisition costs, geological and geophysical expenditures, carrying charges on non-producing properties, costs of drilling and overhead charges directly related to acquisition, exploration and development activities.

 

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Costs capitalized, together with the costs of production equipment, are depleted and amortized on the unit-of-production method based on the estimated net proved reserves, as determined by independent petroleum engineers.  The percentage of total reserve volumes produced during the year is multiplied by the net capitalized investment plus future estimated development costs in those reserves.  Costs of acquiring and evaluating unproved properties are initially excluded from depletion calculations.  These unevaluated properties are assessed periodically to ascertain whether an impairment has occurred.  When proved reserves are assigned or the property is considered to be impaired, the cost of the property or the amount of the impairment is added to costs subject to depletion calculations.

 

Under full cost accounting rules, capitalized costs, less accumulated amortization and related deferred income taxes, shall not exceed an amount (the ceiling) equal to the sum of: (i) the after tax present value of estimated future net revenues computed by applying current prices of oil and gas reserves to estimated future production of proved oil and gas reserves as of the date of the latest balance sheet presented, less estimated future expenditures (based on currents costs) to be incurred in developing and producing the proved reserves computed using a discount factor of ten percent and assuming continuation of existing economic conditions; (ii) the cost of properties not being amortized; and (iii) the lower of cost or estimated fair value of unproven properties included in the costs being amortized.  If unamortized costs capitalized within a cost center, less related deferred income taxes, exceed the ceiling, the excess shall be charged to expense and separately disclosed during the period in which the excess occurs.  Amounts thus required to be written off shall not be reinstated for any subsequent increase in the cost center ceiling.

 

Estimates of undiscounted future cash flows that we use for conducting impairment tests are subject to significant judgment decisions based on assumptions of highly uncertain future factors, such as crude oil and natural gas prices, production quantities, estimates of recoverable reserves, and production and transportation costs.  Given the significant assumptions required and the strong possibility that actual future factors will differ, we consider the impairment test to be a critical accounting procedure.

 

The Company has not recognized any revenue from its oil and gas exploration activities, During the year ended December 31, 2010 a property impairment was recorded in relation to disposal of non-core oil and gas leases of $731,866. No property impairment adjustments were recorded in 2012 or 2011.

 

In accordance with ASC 410, Asset Retirement and Environmental Obligations, the fair value of an asset retirement cost, and corresponding liability, should be recorded as part of the cost of the related long-lived asset and subsequently allocated to expense using a systematic and rational method.  The Company has recorded an asset retirement obligation at December 31, 2012 and 2011 (Note 6) to reflect its legal obligations related to future abandonment of its oil and gas interests using estimated expected cash flow associated with the obligation and discounting the amount using a credit-adjusted, risk-free interest rate.  At least annually, the Company will reassess the obligation to determine whether a change in any estimated obligation is necessary.  The Company will evaluate whether there are indicators that suggest the estimated cash flows underlying the obligation have materially changed.  Should those indicators suggest the estimated obligation has materially changed the Company will accordingly update its assessment.  The asset retirement obligation is measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis using level 3 inputs based on discounted cash flows involving estimates, assumptions, and judgments regarding the cost, timing of settlement, credit-adjusted risk-free rate and inflation rates.

 

Management has made significant assumptions and estimates determining the fair market value of stock-based compensation granted to employees and non-employees.  These estimates have an effect on the stock-based compensation expense recognized and the contributed surplus and share capital balances on the Company’s Balance Sheet.  The value of each option award is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model.  To date, all of our stock option grants have been to non-employees.  Increases in our share price will likely result in increased stock option compensation expense.  The Black-Scholes option-pricing model requires the input of subjective assumptions, including the expected term of the option award and stock price volatility.  The expected term of options granted for the purposes of the Black-Scholes calculation is the term of the award since all grants are to non-employees.  These estimates involve inherent uncertainties and the application of management judgment.  An expected forfeiture rate of nil was used in the recognition of compensation expense for those options not yet vested at December 31, 2012.

 

These accounting policies are applied consistently for all years presented.  Our operating results would be affected if other alternatives were used.  Information about the impact on our operating results is included in the notes to our financial statements.

 

Valuation of Derivative Instruments

 

US GAAP requires that embedded derivative instruments be bifurcated and assessed, along with free-standing derivative instruments such as warrants and stock-options to determine whether they should be considered a derivative liability and subject to re-measurement at their fair value.  Warrants with such provisions will no longer be recorded to equity. In estimating the appropriate fair value, the Company uses a Black-Scholes option pricing model.

 

Inflation

 

We operate in Canada only, where inflation for our operational costs is at low levels (i.e. in the 2%-5% range).

 

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Impact of Foreign Currency Fluctuations

 

We hold our cash reserves in Canadian dollars.  We incur the majority of our expenses and capital expenditures in Canadian dollars.  We do have US transactions, therefore, an increase or decrease in the value of the Canadian dollar versus the U.S. dollar would have an effect on us.

 

Government Policies

 

We are subject to regulations of the Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta.  Such regulations may relate directly and indirectly to our operations including production, marketing and sale of hydrocarbons, royalties, taxation, environmental matters and other factors.  There is no assurance that the laws relating to our operations will not change in a manner that may materially and adversely affect us; however, there has been no material impact on us from changes to such laws in the past three fiscal periods.

 

C. Research and development, patents, and licenses, etc.

 

See Item 4.B. “Business Overview”.

 

D. Trends Information

 

There are no known trends other than those previously disclosed in this report.

 

E. Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We do not have any off balance sheet arrangements as of December 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011 or as of the date of this report.

 

F.  Tabular Disclosure of Contractual Obligations

 

The following table outlines contractual obligations at December 31, 2012.

 

Contractual Obligations  Payments due by period 
   Total   Less than 1 year   1-3 years   4-5 years   More than five years 
Annual Oil Sands Lease Payments:                         
Drowned property lease  $3,594    1,797   $1,797   $   $ 
Peace River property leases   613,866    73,700    147,400    147,400    245,366 
Capital (Finance) Lease Obligations                    
Operating Lease Obligations                    
Purchase Obligations                    
Other Long-Term Liabilities Reflected on the Company’s Balance Sheet Under the GAAP of the primary financial statements                    
Total  $617,460   $75,497   $149,197   $147,400   $245,366 

 

The Drowned Property is comprised of a single lease with the government of the Province of Alberta, Canada requiring annual lease payments of $1,797.  The lease is a fifteen-year lease and expires on October 4, 2015.

 

The Peace River Project is currently comprised of 17 leases with the government of the Province of Alberta, Canada requiring annual lease payments of $73,700.  The leases are fifteen-year leases that begin expiring on June 15, 2020.

 

At December 31, 2012, the Company had trade payables and accrued liabilities of $34,429.  All of these obligations are due in less than one year.

 

At December 31, 2012, the Company had a derivative liability of $2,342,989 that relates to equity instruments with an exercise price in a different currency than the Company’s functional currency (see Note 4 in the financial statements).

 

G. Safe Harbor

 

This Annual Report on Form 20-F contains forward-looking information. Forward-looking information includes statements relating to future actions, prospective products, future performance or results of current or anticipated products, sales and marketing efforts, costs and expenses, interest rates, outcome of contingencies, financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, business strategies, cost savings, objectives of management of the Company and other matters. Forward-looking information may be included in this Annual Report on Form 20-F or may be incorporated by reference from other documents filed with the SEC by the Company. One can find many of these statements by looking for words including, for example, “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates” or similar expressions in this Annual Report on Form 20-F or in documents incorporated by reference in this Annual Report on Form 20-F. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events.

 

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The Company has based the forward-looking statements relating to the Company’s operations on management’s current expectations, estimates and projections about the Company and the industry in which it operates. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that we cannot predict. In particular, we have based many of these forward-looking statements on assumptions about future events that may prove to be inaccurate. Accordingly, the Company’s actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements. Any differences could result from a variety of factors, including, but not limited to general economic and business conditions, competition, and other factors, including those described in Item 3.D., “Risk Factors.”

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements:

 

ASC No. 2010-03

 

In January 2010, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2010-03, Extractive Activities Oil and Gas (Topic 932) — Oil and Gas Reserve Estimation and Disclosures, and in April 2010 issued ASU 2010-14, Accounting for extractive activities — Oil and Gas —Amendments to paragraph 932-10-599-1, to align the oil and gas reserve estimation and disclosure requirements of FASB ASC Topic 932, Extractive Activities — Oil and Gas, with the requirements in the SEC’s new oil and gas reporting requirements. The ASU is effective for the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010.

 

ASU No. 2010-04

 

In May 2011, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-04 (ASU No. 2011-04) “Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure.

 

Requirements in U.S. GAAP

 

ASU No. 2011-04 amends Topic 820 in two ways. Specifically, some of the amendments clarify how to apply the existing fair value measurement and disclosure requirements, while some of the amendments change a particular principle or requirement for measuring fair value or disclosing information about fair value measurements. ASU No. 2011-04 does not extend the use of fair value accounting, but rather provide guidance on how it should be applied where its use is already required or permitted by other standards within U.S. GAAP. ASU No. 2011-04 supersedes much of the guidance in ASC Topic 820, but also clarifies existing guidance and changes certain wording in order to align ASC Topic 820 with IFRS 13. The Company’s adoption of this policy will not have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements.

 

The Company has implemented all new accounting pronouncements that are in effect. These pronouncements did not have any material impact on the financial statements unless otherwise disclosed, and the Company does not believe that there are any other new accounting pronouncements that have been issued that might have a material impact on its financial position or results of operations.

 

Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees

 

A. Directors and Senior Management

 

The directors, officers and other employees upon whose work the Company is dependent are as follows:

 

Name   Position   Position Held Since
Ron Daems   President, Chief Executive Officer, Secretary,  Director   July 19,  2010
Michael Ranger   Director   July 11,  2012
Karl Boltz      Vice President, Corporate Development   December 15,  2012

 

Our Directors hold office until the next annual meeting of our shareholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified.  None of our Directors have any family relationships with any of our other Directors or Executive Officers.  Set forth below is a summary description of the principal occupation and business experience of each of our Directors and Executive Officer for at least the last five years.

 

RON DAEMS brings extensive financial and resource industry experience to Strata Oil & Gas Inc.  In the span of his career, he has focused primarily on business development, strategic planning and financial analysis, while serving as project manager for numerous capital ventures.  From 2000 through 2003, Mr. Daems was a portfolio manager of a multinational investment firm. In 2004, Mr. Daems founded and became the CEO of Emerging Business Solutions Inc., a privately held business development company focused primarily on assisting startup companies in the resource sector to develop their land acquisition strategies and their operational and administrative systems.  Since January 2007, Mr. Daems has also served as President and CEO of Capex Energy Services Inc., a privately held company, and is currently a Director of Power Resource Exploration Inc.

 

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MICHAEL RANGER is an experienced petroleum consultant with a prolific career providing services to an array of the world's largest oil companies. He has extensive oil sands & heavy oil evaluation and research experience in reservoir characterization, sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of Athabasca, Wabasca, Cold Lake, Peace River and international oil sands regions. He has conducted and supervised numerous resource evaluation projects integrating core, outcrop and wireline logs. Recent major contracts include: Ross Smith Energy Group, Golder Associates, Laracina Energy, Nexen, Statoil, Murphy Oil, Norwest Consulting, Sinopec, Oilsands Quest, Talisman, ConocoPhillips, Japan Canada Oil Sands, Marathon, Paramount Energy, Athabasca Oil Corp., Kennecott Canada, Total Canada, OPTI Canada, Koch Canada, Syncrude Canada, Quadrise, Hatch Engineering.

Dr. Ranger is currently an independent petroleum consultant and is a director of Canadex Resources Ltd. Prior to this, he served on the Scientific Advisory Board of Gushor Inc. from 2007 to 2009, and as a senior geologist at Gulf Canada Resources between 1977 and 1985. Dr. Ranger has a PhD. in Petroleum Geology from the University of Alberta, a MSc. Degree in Sedimentary Geology from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a BSc. Geology from Concordia University. His professional affiliations include the American Association of Petroleum Geologists; Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists; and the Canadian Well Logging Society.

 

KARL BOLTZ has been involved as a professional in the resource exploration sector since 1994, both as an investment broker and also an industry executive. He is currently the President of a privately owned exploration company. From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Boltz served as Vice President (Corporate Development) for Dia Bras Exploration, a TSX-V listed company. From 2004 through 2009, Mr. Boltz served as co-founder and President of EXMIN Resources Inc., a TSX-V listed company, which was later acquired by Dia Bras. Mr. Boltz served as professional financial advisor for more than six years, specializing in the mineral and commodities sectors. Mr. Boltz holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University.

 

B. Compensation

 

The following table shows compensation paid to the Company’s executives for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012

  

 

Name

Title Year Salary Bonus

Stock

Options

Granted

Other

Annual

Compensation

Restricted

Stock

Awarded

LTIP

Payouts

($)

All Other

Compensation

Ron Daems (1) Director, CEO, President, Secretary 2012 - - - - - - $26,582
                   
Michael Ranger (2) Director 2012 - - 400,000 - - - -
                   
Pratt Barndollar (3) Director 2012 - - - - - - -

 

 

  (1)  

Ron Daems was appointed President, Chief Executive Officer, Secretary and Director on July 19, 2010.  Mr. Daems does not bill the Company for these services, however he does have a service agreement with the Company to assist with the identification, acquisition and service of certain exploration style properties that fit the parameters of the Company’s business plan.

     
  (2)  

On July 11, 2012 the Company granted Dr. Michael Ranger, Director, stock options to purchase up to 400,000 shares of our common stock of which 200,000 options vest on July 11, 2013 with an exercise price of $0.07 per share and 200,000 options vest on July 11, 2014 with an exercise price of $0.14.

     
  (3)   Effective March 22, 2012, Mr. Barndollar resigned as one of our directors. His resignation was not the result of any disputes or disagreements with the Company.

 

Change of Control Remuneration.

 

The Company had no plans or arrangements in respect of remuneration received or that may be received by executive officers of the Company in Fiscal 2012 to compensate such officers in the event of termination of employment (as a result of resignation, retirement, change of control) or a change of responsibilities following a change of control.

 

6.C. Board Practices

 

6.C.1.  Terms of Office.

 

Refer to Item 6.A.1.

 

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6.C.2.  Directors’ Service Contracts.

 

Mr. Daems, President, CEO, Secretary and Director, supervises the company's operations.  Mr. Daems does not bill the Company for these services, however he does have a service agreement with the Company to assist the Company with the identification, acquisition and service of certain exploration style properties that fit the parameters of the Company’s business plan. The Company recognized $26,582 as consulting fees for the year ended December 31, 2012 under the agreement. The agreement did not provide for any termination benefits of any kind.

 

Mr. Barndollar had a service contract providing for payment of CDN $500 per month for his services as a Director of our Company; however, the fees were temporarily suspended due to lessened activity of the Board and to conserve cash flow.  Mr. Barndollar resigned as Director on March 22, 2012 and his service agreement simultaneously terminated. The agreement did not provide for any termination benefits of any kind. However, the Board of Directors of the Company has agreed that Mr. Barndollar will retain the right to exercise his 100,000 stock options until their expiration date.  No director fees were recorded during the year due to the reduced activity of the Company and the limited involvement of the Directors throughout the year.

 

Dr. Ranger, Director, has a service agreement with the Company for his Director services. The agreement does not provide for any termination benefits of any kind.

 

6.C.3.  Board of Director Committees.

 

The Audit Committee oversees the accounting and financial reporting processes of the Company and all audits and external reviews of the financial statements of the Company on behalf of the Board, and has general responsibility for oversight of internal controls, accounting and auditing activities of the Company.  The Committee reviews, on a continuous basis, any reports prepared by the Company's external auditors relating to the Company's accounting policies and procedures, as well as internal control procedures and systems. The Committee is also responsible for examining all financial information, including annual financial statements, prepared for securities commissions and similar regulatory bodies prior to filing or delivery of the same.  The Audit Committee also oversees the annual audit process, the Company's internal accounting controls, any complaints and concerns regarding accounting, internal controls or auditing matters and the resolution of issues identified by the Company's external auditors.  The Audit Committee recommends to the Board the firm of independent auditors to be nominated for appointment by the shareholders and the compensation of the auditors.  The Audit Committee meets on an as needed basis.  Currently the Board of Directors functions as the audit committee.

 

6.D.  Employees

 

The Company utilizes third party consultants and had no full-time employees on December 31, 2012 or during the 2012 fiscal year.  It is anticipated that we will need to add managerial, technical and administrative staff in the future in order to realize our business objectives.  We currently outsource to outside engineers, geologists and consultants on an as-needed basis.

 

6.E. Share Ownership

 

The table below indicates as of March 11, 2013, the ownership of outstanding shares of the Company held by each of our officers and directors.  Information relating to ownership of common shares by officers and directors is based upon information furnished by each person.

 

Beneficial Owner Shares Percent of total issued (1) % Options
       
All Executive Officers and Directors as a Group 3,441,000 4.55% 800,000
Ron Daems 3,441,000 4.55%       –
Michael Ranger        *    * 800,000
Pratt Barndollar (2)        *    *       –

 

 

  (1) Based on 75,706,210 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of March 11, 2013.
     
  (2) Dr. Michael Ranger was awarded stock options to purchase common shares of the Company in the following manner: (i) 200,000 stock options at an exercise price of $2.285 on July 21, 2006 and are fully vested; (i) 200,000 stock options at an exercise price of $.61 on March 19, 2008 and are fully vested; (iii) 200,000 stock options at an exercise price of $.07 on July 11, 2012 and vest on July 11, 2013; and (iv) 200,000 stock options at an exercise price of $.14 on July 11, 2012 and vest on July 11, 2014;
     
  (3)   Effective March 22, 2012, Mr. Barndollar resigned as one of our directors. His resignation was not the result of any disputes or disagreements with the Company.

 

* Represents less than 1.0%.

 

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The persons named in this table, based upon the information they have provided to us, have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock owned by them.

 

Item 7. Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions

 

A. Major Shareholders

 

7.A.1.a.  Holdings By Major Shareholders.

 

The table below indicates the share ownership as of March 11, 2013 of any person or entity that management believes is the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding common shares.

 

Major Shareholders Number of Shares   Beneficial Ownership (%)
Trevor Newton 5,690,628   7.52%

 

7.A.1.b.  Significant Changes in Major Shareholders’ Holdings.

 

No significant change in the percentage ownership held by any major shareholders has occurred during the last three years.

 

7.A.1.c.  Different Voting Rights.

 

The Company’s major shareholders do not have different voting rights.

 

7.A.2  Share Ownership.

 

On March 11, 2013, the Company had one hundred forty-one (141) registered shareholders holding 75,706.201 shares. Of these, one hundred seven (107) registered shareholders holding 4,004,529 shares have addresses in the United States.

 

7.A.3  Ownership or Control of the Company.

 

The Company is not directly or indirectly owned or controlled by another corporation, by any foreign government or by any other natural or legal persons, severally or jointly.

 

7.A.4.  Change of Control of Company Arrangements.

 

There are no arrangements, known to the Company, the operation of which may at a subsequent date result in a change in control of the Company.

 

7.B. Related Party Transactions

 

Please refer to Note 7 - Related Party Transactions

 

C. Interests of Experts and Counsel

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 8. Financial Information

 

A. Financial Statements and Other Financial Information

 

The Company's financial statements are stated in United States Dollars and are prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

 

The financial statements as required under Item 18 are included in that item.  The audit report of Peterson Sullivan LLP is included herein immediately preceding the financial statements.

 

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Audited Financial Statements:

 

Fiscal years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, and period from July 1, 2005 (the date entering into the exploration stage) to December 31, 2012.

 

8.A.7.  Legal/Arbitration Proceedings

 

None.

 

8.A.8.  Policy on Dividend Distributions

 

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common shares nor do we anticipate paying any in the foreseeable future.  Furthermore, we expect to retain any future earnings to finance our operations and expansion.  The payment of cash dividends in the future will be at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend upon our earnings levels, capital requirements, any restrictive loan covenants and other factors the Board considers relevant.

 

B. Significant Changes

 

Not Applicable

 

Item 9. The Offer and Listing

 

A. Offer and Listing Details

 

The following tables set forth the price history of the Company’s stock.  

 

         1. Annual high and low market prices for the last five full financial years:

 

Year Market Price
  High Price Low Price
2012 $0.15 $0.05
2011 $0.375 $0.08
2010 $0.52 $0.01
2009 $0.76 $0.12
2008 $1.54 $0.10

 

2. High and low market prices for each full financial quarter during the two most recent full financial years:

 

Financial Quarter Market Price
Year Quarter High Price Low Price
2012 Fourth Quarter of 2012 $0.14 $0.09
  Third Quarter of 2012 $0.13 $0.05
  Second Quarter of 2012 $0.12 $0.05
  First Quarter of 2012 $0.15 $0.08
2011 Fourth Quarter of 2011 $0.135 $0.08
  Third Quarter of 2011 $0.22 $0.101
  Second Quarter of 2011 $0.24 $0.1345
  First Quarter of 2011 $0.375 $0.181

  

3. High and low market prices for each of the six most recent months:

 

Month Market Price
  High Price. Low Price
October 2012 $ 0.14 $ 0.09
November 2012 $ 0.15 $ 0.12
December 2012 $ 0.14 $ 0.11
January 2013 $ 0.18 $ 0.13
February 2013 $ 0.15 $ 0.11
March 2013 $ 0.15 $ 0.11

 

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B. Plan of Distribution.

 

Not applicable.

 

C. Markets.

  

The Company’s common stock trades over the counter in the United States on the OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB) under the symbol SOIGF.OB and also trades on the OTCQB tier of the electronic over-the-counter marketplace operated by OTC Markets Group, Inc. under the symbol SOIGF.

 

D. Selling Shareholders.

 

Not applicable.

 

E. Dilution.

 

Not applicable.

 

F. Expenses of the Issue.

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 10. Additional Information

 

A. Share Capital.

 

Not applicable.

 

B. Memorandum and Articles of Association

 

Corporate Registration

 

Strata Oil & Gas Inc. was originally incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada on November 18, 1998 and commenced operations in January 1999. The Company filed Articles of Continuance under the Canada Business Corporations Act on August 20, 2004 and is registered with Industry Canada under Corporation No. 425346-9.  

 

Objects and Purposes

 

Strata’s Articles of Continuance do not specify any specific objects or purposes for the corporation.  Under the Canada Business Corporations Act, a corporation has all the legal powers of a natural person. Corporations may not undertake certain limited business activities such as operating as a trust company or railroad without alterations to its form of articles and specific government consent.

 

Powers of Directors

 

Under the Company's Articles and Bylaws, the Board of Directors has the authority, without further action by the holders of the outstanding Common Shares, to issue preferred shares from time to time in one or more series, to fix the number of shares constituting any series, and to fix the terms of any such series, including dividend rights, dividend rates, conversion or exchange rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), the redemption price and the liquidation preference or such series.

 

The Company’s Articles and Bylaws provide that the Board of Directors may, from time to time, with or without the authority or the authorization of the shareholders, in such amounts and on such terms as it deems expedient, cause the Company to:

 

(a) borrow money upon the credit of the Company, including by way of overdraft;

 

(b) issue, re-issue, sell or pledge bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the Company, whether secured or unsecured;

 

(c) give a guarantee to secure performance of any obligation to any person; or

 

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(d) charge, mortgage, hypothecate, pledge or otherwise create a security interest in the undertaking of the Company or in all or any of the currently owned or subsequently acquired property and assets of the Company, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, real and personal property, movable and immovable property, tangible and intangible assets, book debts, rights, powers and franchise, to secure any present or future obligation of the Company.

 

The Board may from time to time delegate to a committee, to a Director, or to an Officer of the Company all or any of the powers conferred on the Board by law or the Bylaws to such extent and in such manner as the Board from time to time determines.

 

There are no age limit requirements pertaining to the retirement or non-retirement of directors and a director need not be a shareholder of the Company.

 

The Company does not have any compensation agreements with the Board of Directors, however the Company may reimburse each director for the reasonable expenses that he or she may incur in or about the business of the Company. If any director performs any professional or other services for the Company that in the opinion of the directors is outside the ordinary duties of a director, or if any director is otherwise specially occupied in or about the Company’s business, he or she may be paid either in addition to or substitution for any other remuneration they may be entitled to receive.

 

The Company's Bylaws require the Company to indemnify all directors and officers of the Company, a former director or officer of the Company or any other individual who acts or acted at the Company's request as a director or officer, or an individual acting in a similar

capacity.

 

Description of Securities

 

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares of common stock (the “Common Shares”) as well as an unlimited number of shares of preferred stock (the “Preferred Shares”).

 

Subject to the rights of holders of Preferred Shares in the future, if any, holders of the Common Shares are entitled to share equally on a per share basis in such dividends as may be declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available therefore. There are presently no plans to pay dividends with respect to the Common Shares.  Upon the Company’s liquidation, dissolution or winding up, after payment of creditors and the holders of any of the Preferred Shares, if any, the Company’s assets will be divided pro rata on a per share basis among the holders of the Common Shares. The Common Shares are not subject to any liability for further assessments. There are no conversions or redemption privileges nor any sinking fund provisions with respect to the Common Shares and the Common Shares are not subject to call. The holders of Common Shares do not have any pre-emptive or other subscription rights.  Holders of the Common Shares are entitled to cast one vote for each share held at all shareholders’ meetings for all purposes, including the election of directors.  The Common Shares do not have cumulative voting rights.

 

None of the Preferred Shares are currently outstanding.  

 

Action Necessary to Change Rights of Shareholders

 

Under the Company's Articles, the Board of Directors has the authority, without further action by the holders of the outstanding Common Shares, to issue preferred shares from time to time in one or more series, to fix the number of shares constituting any series, and to fix the terms of any such series, including dividend rights, dividend rates, conversion or exchange rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), the redemption price and the liquidation preference or such series.

 

There are no limitations upon the rights to own securities.

 

There are no provisions that would have the effect of delaying, deferring, or preventing a change in control of the Company.

 

There is no special ownership threshold above which an ownership position must be disclosed.

 

A copy of the Company’s Articles has been filed as an exhibit to the Company’s 20-F Registration Statement.

 

Manner of Convening Annual and Special Meetings of Shareholders

 

Annual and special meetings of the shareholders may be called by the Board of Directors.  Notice of a shareholder meeting shall be given not less than 21 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date of such meeting to each Director, the auditor of the Company, and each shareholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.  A quorum for any shareholder meeting shall be persons present not being less than two in number and holding or representing by proxy not less than 5% of the total number of issued shares entitled to vote at the meeting.

 

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Limitations on Rights to Own, Hold or Vote Securities

 

There are currently no limitations of general application imposed by Canadian federal or provincial laws on the rights of non-residents of Canada to hold or vote Strata’s common shares.  There are also no such limitations imposed by the articles of incorporation with respect to Strata’s common shares. There are, however, certain requirements on the acquisition of control of Strata’s securities by non-residents of Canada.  The Investment Canada Act requires notification to and, in certain cases, advance review and approval by, the Government of Canada, of the acquisition by a “non-Canadian” of “control” of a “Canadian business”, all as defined in the Investment Canada Act.  Generally speaking, in order for an acquisition to be subject to advance review and approval, the asset value of the Canadian business being acquired must meet or exceed certain monetary thresholds.

 

C. Material Contracts

 

We have not entered into any material contracts, other than contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business, for the two years immediately preceding publication of this document.  Significant property contracts are as described in Item 4.D.

 

D. Exchange Controls

 

There are no government laws, decrees or regulations in Canada that restrict the export or import of capital or, subject to the following sentence, which affect the remittance of dividends or other payments to nonresident holders of Strata’s common shares.  However, any such remittance to a resident of the United States is generally subject to non-resident tax pursuant to the 1980 Canada-United States Income Tax Convention.  See “Item 10.E Taxation” for additional discussion on tax matters.

 

E. Taxation

 

NOTHING HEREIN SHOULD BE RELIED UPON OR INTERPRETED AS LEGAL OR TAX ADVICE AND EACH SHAREHOLDER SHOULD CONSULT WITH HIS OR HER OWN ATTORNEY, ACCOUNTANT AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS ABOUT THE TAX CONSEQUENCES OF AN INVESTMENT IN THE COMPANY’S SECURITIES.  THE DISCUSSION IS PRESENTED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS INTENDED TO BE A DISCUSSION PRIMARILY OF THE CANADIAN AND UNITED STATES INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES.  EACH SHAREHOLDER IS URGED TO CONSULT WITH HIS OR HER PROFESSIONAL TAX ADVISER WITH RESPECT TO ALL FEDERAL, PROVINCIAL, STATE AND LOCAL INCOME TAXES, GIFT, ESTATE AND OTHER TAX CONSEQUENCES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.  THE TAX AND OTHER MATTERS DESCRIBED HEREIN DO NOT CONSTITUTE, AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED AS LEGAL OR TAX ADVICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

 

CANADIAN FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES

 

This summary is based upon the current provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada), the regulations thereunder, the current publicly announced administrative and assessing policies of the Canada Revenue Agency, and all specific proposals (the “Tax Proposals”) to amend the Income Tax Act and regulations announced by the Minister of Finance (Canada) prior to the date hereof. This discussion is not exhaustive of all possible Canadian federal income tax consequences and, except for the Tax Proposals, does not take into account or anticipate any changes in law, whether by legislative, governmental or judicial action, nor does it take into account provincial or foreign tax considerations which may differ significantly from those discussed herein.

 

The summary applies to beneficial owners of common shares who, for the purposes of the Income Tax Act, are residents of the United States and are not resident in Canada, and who hold common shares of Strata as capital property.

 

Dividends

 

The Income Tax Act provides that dividends and other distributions deemed to be dividends paid or deemed to be paid by a Canadian resident corporation (such as Strata) to a non-resident of Canada shall be subject to a non-resident withholding tax equal to 25% of the gross amount of the dividend or deemed dividend.

  

Provisions in the Income Tax Act relating to dividend and deemed dividend payments to and capital gains realized by non-residents of Canada who are residents of the United States are subject to the 1980 Canada-United States Income Tax Convention.

 

Article X of the 1980 Canada-United States Income Tax Convention provides that the rate of Canadian non-resident withholding tax on dividends or deemed dividends paid to a United States corporation that beneficially owns at least 10% of the voting shares of the corporation paying the dividend shall not exceed 5% of the dividend or deemed dividend, and in any other case, the rate of non-resident withholding tax shall not exceed 15% of the dividend or deemed dividend.

 

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Disposition of Shares

 

The Income Tax Act provides that a non-resident person is subject to tax in Canada on the disposition of “taxable Canadian property.”  Common shares of Strata are considered to be “taxable Canadian property” as defined in the Income Tax Act.  Therefore, under the Income Tax Act, a non-resident would be subject to tax in Canada on the disposition of common shares of Strata.  Article XIII of the 1980 Canada-United States Income Tax Convention provides that gains realized by a United States resident on the disposition of shares of a Canadian corporation may not generally be taxed in Canada unless the value of the Canadian corporation is derived principally from real property situated in Canada.

 

Generally, certain filing and reporting obligations exist where a non-resident of Canada disposes of taxable Canadian property.  In particular, the non-resident must make an application to the Canada Revenue Agency in advance of the disposition for the purpose of obtaining a certificate issued by the Canada Revenue Agency pursuant to section 116 of the Income Tax Act.  If the non-resident fails to secure such certificate from the Canada Revenue Agency in advance of the disposition, the purchaser is required to withhold and remit to the Canada Revenue Agency 25% of the amount otherwise payable to the non-resident.

 

UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES

 

The following discussion is based on the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), existing and proposed Treasury Regulations, published Internal Revenue Service rulings, published administrative positions of the Internal Revenue Service and court decisions that are currently applicable, any or all of which could be materially and adversely changed, possibly on a retroactive basis, at any time.  In addition, this discussion does not consider the potential effects, both adverse and beneficial, of any recently proposed legislation that, if enacted, could be applied, possibly on a retroactive basis, at any time.  In addition, this discussion does not cover any state, local or foreign tax consequences.  The following is a discussion of United States federal income tax consequences, under current law, generally applicable to a U.S. Holder (as defined below) of common shares of Strata who holds such shares as capital assets.  This discussion does not address all potentially relevant federal income tax matters and it does not address consequences peculiar to persons subject to special provisions of federal income tax law, such as those described below that are excluded from the definition of a U.S. Holder.

 

U.S. Holder

 

As used herein, a “U.S. Holder” includes a holder of common shares of Strata who is a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or of any political subdivision thereof, any United States entity which is taxable as a corporation for United States tax purposes and any other person or entity whose ownership of common shares of Strata is effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States.  A U.S. Holder does not include persons subject to special provisions of federal income tax law, such as tax-exempt organizations, qualified retirement plans, financial institutions, insurance companies, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, broker-dealers, nonresident alien individuals or foreign corporations whose ownership of common shares is not effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States and shareholders who acquired their shares through the exercise of employee stock options or otherwise as compensation.

 

Dividends

 

Except as otherwise discussed below under “Passive Foreign Investment Company Considerations,” U.S. Holders receiving dividend distributions (including constructive dividends) with respect to common shares of Strata are required to include in gross income for United States federal income tax purposes the gross amount of such distributions to the extent that Strata has current or accumulated earnings and profits, without reduction for any Canadian income tax withheld from such distributions.  Such Canadian tax withheld may be credited, subject to certain limitations, against the U.S. Holder’s United States federal tax liability or, alternatively, may be deducted in computing the U.S. Holder’s federal taxable income (but in the case of individuals, only if they itemize deductions). See “Foreign Tax Credit.”  To the extent that distributions exceed current or accumulated earnings and profits of Strata, they will be treated first as a return of capital up to the U.S. Holder’s adjusted basis in the common shares (which adjusted basis must therefore be reduced) and thereafter as a gain from the sale or exchange of the common shares. Preferential tax rates for long-term capital gains are applicable to a U.S. Holder that is an individual, estate or trust.  Moreover, “qualified dividends” received by U.S. Holders who are individuals, during tax years beginning before January 1, 2009, from any “qualified foreign corporation” are subject to a preferential tax rate, provided such individual U.S. Holder meets a certain holding period requirement.  A “qualified foreign corporation” is generally any corporation formed in a foreign jurisdiction which has a comprehensive income tax treaty with the United States or, if not, the dividend is paid with respect to stock that is readily tradable on an established United States market.  However, a “qualified foreign corporation” excludes a foreign corporation that is a foreign personal holding company, a foreign investment company, or a passive foreign investment company for the year the dividend is paid or the previous year.  Strata believes that it qualifies as a “qualified foreign corporation”.  There are currently no preferential tax rates for a U.S. Holder that is a corporation.

 

In general, dividends paid on common shares of Strata will not be eligible for the same dividends received deduction provided to corporations receiving dividends from certain United States corporations.  A U.S. Holder which is a corporation may, under certain circumstances, be entitled to a 70% deduction of the United States source portion of dividends received from Strata (unless Strata is a “foreign personal holding company” as defined in Section 552 of the Code, or a “passive foreign investment company” as defined below) if such U.S. Holder owns shares representing at least 10% of the voting power and value of Strata.  The availability of this deduction is subject to several complex limitations that are beyond the scope of this discussion.

 

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Foreign Tax Credit

 

A U.S. Holder who pays (or has withheld from distributions) Canadian or other foreign income tax with respect to the ownership of common shares of Strata may be entitled, at the election of the U.S. Holder, to either a tax credit or a deduction for such foreign tax paid or withheld.  This election is made on a year-by-year basis and generally applies to all foreign income taxes paid by (or withheld from) the U.S. Holder during that year.  There are significant and complex limitations that apply to the credit, among which is the general limitation that the credit cannot exceed the proportionate share of the U.S. Holder’s United States income tax liability that the U.S. Holder’s foreign source income bears to his or its worldwide taxable income.  In the determination of the application of this limitation, the various items of income and deduction must be classified into foreign and domestic sources.  Complex rules govern income such as “passive income”, “high withholding tax interest”, “financial services income”, “shipping income” and certain other classifications of income.  In addition, U.S. Holders that are corporations and that own 10% or more of the voting stock of Strata may be entitled to an “indirect” foreign tax credit under Section 902 of the Code with respect to the payment of dividends by Strata under certain circumstances and subject to complex rules and limitations.  The availability of the foreign tax credit and the application of the limitations on the foreign tax credit are fact specific and holders and prospective holders of common shares should consult their own tax advisors regarding their individual circumstances.

 

Disposition of Shares

 

Except as otherwise discussed below under “Passive Foreign Investment Company Considerations,” a gain or loss realized on a sale of common shares will generally be a capital gain or loss, and will be long-term if the shareholder has a holding period of more than one year.  The amount of gain or loss recognized by a selling U.S. Holder will be measured by the difference between (i) the amount realized on the sale and (ii) his or its tax basis in the common shares.  Gains and losses are netted and combined according to special rules in arriving at the overall capital gain or loss for a particular tax year.  Deductions for net capital losses are subject to significant limitations.  Individual U.S. Holders may carryover unused capital losses to offset capital gains realized in subsequent years.  For U.S. Holders that are corporations (other than corporations subject to Subchapter S of the Code), any unused capital losses may only be carried back three and forward five years from the loss year to offset capital gains until such net capital losses are exhausted.

 

Foreign Personal Holding Company Considerations

 

Special rules apply to a U.S. Holder of a “foreign personal holding company” or “FPHC” as defined in Section 552 of the Code. Strata will not be classified as a FPHC for U.S. federal income tax purposes unless (i) five or fewer individuals who are U.S. citizens or residents own or are deemed to own more than 50% of the total voting power of all classes of stock entitled to vote or the total value of Strata stock; and (ii) at least 60% (or 50% in certain cases) of Strata’s gross income consists of “foreign personal holding company income,” which generally includes passive income such as dividends, interest, gains from the sale or exchange of stock or securities, certain rents, and royalties. Strata believes that it is not a FPHC; however, no assurance can be provided that Strata will not be classified as a FPHC in the future.

 

Passive Foreign Investment Company Considerations

 

If Strata is a “passive foreign investment company” or “PFIC” as defined in Section 1297 of the Code, U.S. Holders will be subject to U.S. federal income taxation under one of two alternative tax regimes at the election of each such U.S. Holder. Section 1297 of the Code defines a PFIC as a corporation that is not formed in the United States and either (i) 75% or more of its gross income for the taxable year is “passive income”, which generally includes interest, dividends and certain rents and royalties or (ii) the average percentage, by fair market value (or, if Strata elects, adjusted tax basis), of its assets that produce or are held for the production of “passive income” is 50% or more.  The rules applicable to a FPHC take priority over the rules applicable to a PFIC, so that amounts includable in gross income under the FPHC rules will not be taxable again under the PFIC rules. Strata does not believe that it will be a PFIC for the current fiscal year or for future years.  Whether Strata is a PFIC in any year and the tax consequences relating to PFIC status will depend on the composition of Strata’s income and assets, including cash.  U.S. Holders should be aware, however, that if Strata becomes a PFIC, it may not be able or willing to satisfy record-keeping requirements that would enable U.S. Holders to make an election to treat Strata as a “qualified electing fund” for purposes of one of the two alternative tax regimes applicable to a PFIC.  U.S. Holders or potential shareholders should consult their own tax advisor concerning the impact of these rules on their investment in Strata.

 

F. Dividends and Paying Agents

 

Not applicable.

 

G. Statement by Experts

 

Not applicable.

 

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H. Documents on Display

 

We are subject to the periodic reporting and other informational requirements of the Exchange Act. Under the Exchange Act, we are required to file reports and other information with the SEC. Specifically, we are required to file annually a Form 20-F annual report no later than four months after the close of each fiscal year, which is December 31. Copies of reports and other information, when so filed, may be inspected without charge and may be obtained at prescribed rates at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549. The public may obtain information regarding the Washington, D.C. Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC also maintains a web site at www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding registrants that make electronic filings with the SEC using its EDGAR system. As a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from the rules under the Exchange Act prescribing the furnishing and content of quarterly reports and proxy statements, and officers, directors and principal shareholders are exempt from the reporting and short-swing profit recovery provisions contained in Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

 

The Company is not required to file reports and other information with any securities commissions in Canada.

 

I. Subsidiary Information

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 11. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

 

Market risk represents the potential risk of loss in the future earnings of Strata due to adverse changes in financial markets.  Strata is exposed to market risk from changes in its common share price, foreign exchange rates and interest rates. Inflation has not had a significant impact on Strata’s results of operations.

 

Foreign Currency Sensitivity

 

While our financial statements are reported in US dollars and are intended to comply with U.S. GAAP requirements, a significant portion of our business operations may be conducted in Canadian dollars.  Since June 1, 1970, the government of Canada has permitted a floating exchange rate to determine the value of the Canadian dollar as compared to the United States dollar.  On April 3, 2013, the exchange rate in effect for Canadian dollars exchanged for United States dollars, expressed in terms of Canadian dollars was $1.01.  This exchange rate is based on the noon buying rates of the Bank of Canada.

 

Interest Rate Sensitivity

 

The Company currently has no significant long-term or short-term debt requiring interest payments.  Thus, the Company has not entered into any agreement or purchased any instrument to hedge against possible interest rate risks at this time.

 

The Company's interest earning investments are primarily short-term, or can be held to maturity, and thus, any reductions in carrying values due to future interest rate declines are believed to be immaterial.  However, as the Company has a significant cash or near-cash position, which is invested in such instruments, reductions in interest rates will reduce the interest income from these investments.

 

Item 12. Description of Securities Other than Equity Securities

 

Not applicable.

 

PART II

 

Item 13. Defaults, Dividend Arrearages and Delinquencies

 

None.

 

Item 14. Material Modifications to the Rights of Security Holders and Use of Proceeds

 

None.

 

Item 15. Controls and Procedures

 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

Our management, under supervision and with the participation of the principal executive officer and the principal financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined under Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e). Based upon this evaluation, the principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2012, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

 

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Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Securities Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

 

Management’s Report on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

 

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as defined under Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f). Our internal control over financial reporting is designed 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.

 

All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations and may not prevent or detect misstatements. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can only provide reasonable assurance with respect to financial reporting reliability and financial statement preparation and presentation. In addition, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to risk that controls become inadequate because of changes in conditions and that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

 

Management assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2012. In making the assessment, management used the criteria issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control-Integrated Framework. Based on its assessment, management concluded that, as of December 31, 2012, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective.

 

As defined by Auditing Standard No. 5, “An Audit of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting that is Integrated with an Audit of Financial Statements and Related Independence Rule and Conforming Amendments,” established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”), a material weakness is a deficiency or combination of deficiencies that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected. In connection with the assessment described above, management concluded the Company does not have control deficiencies that represent material weaknesses as of December 31, 2012.

 

Attestation Report of Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

This annual report does not include an attestation report of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm pursuant to permanent rules of the SEC that permit the Company to provide only management’s report in this annual report.

 

Changes in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

 

As of December 31, 2012, management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, and based on that evaluation, they concluded that through December 31, 2012 and to date, the internal controls and procedures were effective. During the course of their evaluation, we did not discover any fraud involving management or any other personnel who play a significant role in our disclosure controls and procedures or internal controls over financial reporting.

 

We believe that our financial statements contained in our Form 20-F for the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, fairly present our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the years covered thereby in all material respects.  We are committed to improving our financial organization. We will continue to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our internal controls and procedures and our internal controls over financial reporting on an ongoing basis and are committed to taking further action and implementing additional enhancements or improvements as necessary.

 

Item 16A. Audit Committee

 

The Board of Directors is empowered to appoint an Audit Committee for the Corporation. Currently the Board of Directors functions as the Audit Committee. We believe that the Board of Directors are collectively capable of analyzing and evaluating our financial statements and understanding internal controls and procedures for financial reporting. In addition, we believe that retaining an independent director who would qualify as an “audit committee financial expert” would be overly costly and burdensome and is not warranted in our circumstances given the early stages of our development and the fact that we have not generated revenues to date.

 

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Item 16B. Code of Ethics

 

The Company has adopted a Code of Ethics that applies to its principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions.  For purposes of this Item, the term Code of Ethics means written standards that are reasonably designed to deter wrongdoing and to promote:

 

·honest and ethical conduct, including the ethical handling of actual or apparent conflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships;
·full, fair, accurate, timely, and understandable disclosure in reports and documents that the issuer files with, or submits to, the Commission and in other public communications made by the issuer;
·compliance with applicable governmental laws, rules and regulations;
·the prompt internal reporting of violations of the code to the board of directors or another appropriate person or persons identified in the code; and
·accountability for adherence to the code.

 

There have been no amendments to the Code of Ethics and no waivers of any of its provisions during the year ended December 31, 2012.

 

The Company hereby undertakes to provide to any person without charge, upon request, a copy of such Code of Ethics.  Such request may be made in writing to the Board of Directors at the address of the issuer.

 

Item 16C. Principal Accountant Fees and Services

 

The fees billed for each of the last two fiscal years for professional services rendered by the Company’s audit firm for various services (including an estimate of year end audit fees) are set forth below:

 

   Fiscal year ending
December 31, 2012 (1)(2)
   Fiscal year ending
December 31, 2011 (1)
 
Audit Fees  $15,000   $21,000 
Audit Related Fees         
Tax Fees         
All Other Fees         
   $15,000   $21,000 

 

 

  (1)   As of December 31, 2012, the Company’s Audit Committee did not have a formal documented pre-approval policy for the fees of the principal accountant.
  (2)   Estimated to date for the year ended December 31, 2012

 

From time to time, management of the Company recommends to and requests approval from the Board of Directors for non-audit services to be provided by the Company’s auditors.  The Board routinely considers such requests during Board meetings, and if acceptable to a majority of the Board members, pre-approves such non-audit services by a resolution authorizing management to engage the Company’s auditors for such non-audit services, with set maximum dollar amounts for each itemized service.  During such deliberations, the Board assesses, among other factors, whether the services requested would be considered “prohibited services” as contemplated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and whether the services requested and the fees related to such services could impair the independence of the auditors.  All of the non-audit related services provided by the Company’s audit firm were pre-approved by the Board.

 

Item 16D. Exemptions from the Listing Standards for Audit Committees

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 16E. Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers

 

Neither the Company nor any “affiliated purchasers” as defined in Rule 10b-18(a)(3) under the Exchange Act purchased any shares of the Company.

 

Item 16F. Change in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant

 

Effective February 29, 2012, the Company dismissed BDO Canada LLP (“BDO”) from serving as the Company’s principal independent accountants and retained Peterson Sullivan LLP, Certified Public Accountants (“Peterson Sullivan”) as its principal independent accountants. The decision to change accountants was approved by the Company’s Board of Directors.

 

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BDO’s report on the financial statements for the Company’s fiscal years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009 did not contain any adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and was not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles.

 

During the 2010 and 2009 fiscal years and the subsequent interim period that preceded BDO’s dismissal, there was no disagreement with BDO on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreement, if not resolved to BDO’s satisfaction, would have caused them to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in connection with their report, and there was no reportable event described in Item 16F(a)(1)(v).

 

However, without qualifying their opinion, BDO included an explanatory paragraph in their report on our financial statements for the 2010 and 2009 fiscal years which noted that there was substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern.

 

The Company has provided BDO with a copy of this disclosure and has requested that BDO furnish the Company with a letter addressed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether they agree with the above statements, and if not, stating the respects in which they do not agree. A copy of that letter from BDO dated May 14, 2012 is filed as an exhibit to this Form 20-F annual report.

 

 Prior to February 29, 2012, when Peterson Sullivan was retained as the Company’s principal independent accountants, the Company did not consult Peterson Sullivan regarding:

 

(1) Either: The application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed; or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s financial statements, and either a written report was provided to the Company or oral advice was provided that the new auditors concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to the accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue; or

 

(2) Any matter that was either the subject of a disagreement (as defined in Item 16F(a)(1)(iv) and the related instructions to that item) or a reportable event (as described in Item 16F(a)(1)(v)).

 

Item 16G. Corporate Governance

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 16H. Mine Health and Safety, Conflict Minerals and Government Payments

 

Not applicable.

 

PART III

 

Item 17. Financial Statements

 

The Company has provided financial statements pursuant to Item 18.

 

Item 18. Financial Statements

 

The Company's financial statements are stated in United States Dollars and are prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

 

The financial statements provided under this item are listed in the table of contents below, and the audit report of Peterson Sullivan LLP immediately precedes the audited financial statements.

 

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Strata Oil & Gas Inc.

(An Exploration Stage Company)

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

December 31, 2012 and 2011

 

(Stated in US Dollars)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Strata Oil & Gas Inc.

(An Exploration Stage Company)

Financial Statements

December 31, 2012 and 2011

 

 

Contents

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm  46
   
Financial Statements  
   
Balance Sheets   47
Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss)   48
Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity   49
Statements of Cash Flows   51
Notes to the Financial Statements   52

 

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

 

 

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders

Strata Oil and Gas Inc.

 

 

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Strata Oil and Gas Inc. (an exploration stage company) ("the Company") as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the related statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss), changes in stockholders' equity, and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011, and 2010, and for the period from July 1, 2005 (the date of entering into exploration stage) to December 31, 2012. 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 misstatement. The Company has determined that it is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. 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 financial position of Strata Oil and Gas Inc. (an exploration stage company) as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, and for the period from July 1, 2005 (the date of entering into exploration stage) to December 31, 2012, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

 

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Company has not been able to generate any operating revenues to date and has incurred cumulative losses during the exploration stage of $13,116,796 through December 31, 2012. In addition, the Company had negative cash flows from operations of $190,894 during the year ended December 31, 2012. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Management's plans regarding those matters are also described in Note 2. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

 

 

 

 

Seattle, Washington

April 3, 2013

  

 

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STRATA OIL & GAS INC.

(An Exploration Stage Company)

BALANCE SHEETS

(Expressed in US Dollars)

 

   DECEMBER 31, 
   2012   2011 
Assets          
Current          
Cash  $134,125   $217,504 
GST Receivables   220    15,091 
Prepaid expenses   5,002    8,736 
Total current assets   139,347    241,331 
Deposits   123,634    116,172 
Office equipment, net (Note 3)       1,361 
Oil and gas property interests (Note 5)   8,195,885    7,901,703 
Total Assets  $8,458,866   $8,260,567 
           
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity          
Liabilities          
Current          
Accounts payable (Note 7)  $19,459   $30,987 
Accrued liabilities   14,970    26,183 
Derivative liability (Note 4)   2,342,989    484,777 
Total current liabilities   2,377,418    541,947 
Asset retirement obligations (Note 6)   138,129    127,688 
Total Liabilities   2,515,547    669,635 
           
Commitments and contingencies (Note 12)          
Stockholders’ equity          
Preferred stock, no par value, unlimited shares authorized and unissued         
Common stock, no par value, unlimited shares authorized; 74,643,710 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2012 (2011 – 69,412,043)         
Additional paid-in capital   21,069,422    21,028,596 
Accumulated deficit   (2,748,790)   (2,748,790)
Deficit accumulated during the exploration stage   (13,116,796)   (11,260,006)
Accumulated other comprehensive income          
Foreign currency translation adjustments   739,483    571,132 
Total stockholders’ equity   5,943,319    7,590,932 
Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity  $8,458,866   $8,260,567 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

 

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STRATA OIL & GAS INC.

(An Exploration Stage Company)

STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

(Expressed in US Dollars)

 

   For The Year Ended December 31,   From July 1, 2005 (the date of entering into exploration stage) to 
   2012   2011   2010   December 31, 2012 
Expenses                    
Salaries and benefits  $   $   $   $67,335 
Professional fees   76,153    46,599    53,101    404,656 
Office and sundry   32,845    29,525    36,921    529,789 
Rent   1,667    31,539    18,670    258,645 
Consulting fees (including $40,826, $3,000 and $4,775 of non-employee stock compensation expense for 2012, 2011 and 2010, Note 3 & 7)   120,798    57,856    121,120    9,822,744 
Transfer agent fees   1,642    692    112    15,049 
Loss on disposal of properties (Note 5)           731,866    731,866 
Accretion expense (Note 6)   7,500    8,647    8,344    37,258 
Depreciation   1,388    2,394    2,223    17,248 
    (241,995)   (177,252)   (972,357)   (11,884,590)
Other income (expenses)                    
Interest and miscellaneous income   5,524    128    112    143,751 
Interest expense                (26,444)
Loss on disposal of shares                (37,736)
Gain on settlement of loan                115,343 
Change in fair value of derivative liability (Note 4)   (1,620,319)   1,806,379    4,474,283    (1,549,875)
                     
    (1,614,795)   1,806,507    4,474,395    (1,354,961)
Income (loss) from continuing operations   (1,856,790)   1,629,255    3,502,038    (13,239,551)
Income (loss) from discontinued operations               122,755 
Net income (loss) for the period   (1,856,790)   1,629,255    3,502,038    (13,116,796)
Other comprehensive income (loss)                    
Foreign currency translation adjustments   168,351    (111,582)   391,469    739,483 
Comprehensive income (loss)  $(1,688,439)  $1,517,673   $3,893,507   $(12,377,313)
Basis and diluted earnings (loss) per share (Note 8)                    
Basic income (loss) per common share  $(0.03)  $0.02   $0.05      
Diluted income (loss) per common share  $(0.03)  $0.02   $0.05      
Basic weighted average number of shares outstanding   71,340,773    68,847,251    66,437,025      
Diluted weighted average number of shares outstanding (Note 8)   71,340,773    69,185,451    73,223,918      

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

 

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STRATA OIL & GAS INC.

 (An Exploration Stage Company)

STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 (Expressed in US Dollars)

 

                               
          Additional           Other     Total  
    Common Stock     Paid-in     Accumulated     Comprehensive     Stockholders’  
    Shares     Capital     Deficit     Loss     Equity  
                               
Balance, July 1, 2005     43,667,888     $ 2,896,421     $ (2,748,790 )   $ (29,816 )   $ 117,815  
Private placement common stock and warrants issuances for cash, November 2005 (Note 8)     560,000       210,000       -       -       210,000  
Issuance of common shares as collateral for a loan     240,000,000       -       -       -       -  
Cancellation of common shares upon repayment of the loan     (240,000,000 )     -       -       -       -  
Stock-based compensation     -       1,691,671       -       -       1,691,671  
Net loss and comprehensive loss     -       -       (1,866,518 )     (390 )     (1,866,908 )
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2005     44,227,888       4,798,092       (4,615,308 )     (30,206 )     152,578  
                                         
Private placement common stock and warrants issuances for cash, June 2006 (Note 8)     500,000       1,000,000       -       -       1,000,000  
Stock option exercises Feb to Aug 2006     7,324,000       5,151,990       -       -       5,151,990  
Warrant exercises May to July 2006     4,523,200       508,860       -       -       508,860  
Stock-based compensation     -       6,746,118       -       -       6,746,118  
Net loss and comprehensive loss     -       -       (6,747,405 )     (328,092 )     (7,075,497 )
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2006     56,575,088       18,205,060       (11,362,713 )     (358,298 )     6,484,049  
                                         
Warrant exercises June to December 2007     2,120,000       337,500       -       -       337,500  
Stock option exercises Sept to Nov 2007     1,166,000       164,260       -       -       164,260  
Stock-based compensation     -       (120,151 )     -       -       (120,151 )
Net loss and comprehensive income     -       -       (454,725 )     950,379       495,654  
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2007     59,861,088       18,586,669       (11,817,438 )     592,081       7,361,312  
                                         
Warrant exercise January 2008 (Note 8)     320,000       60,000       -       -       60,000  
Private placement common stock issuances for cash, January 2008 (Note 8)     1,700,000       1,700,000       -       -       1,700,000  
Stock-based compensation (Note 3)     -       94,730       -       -       94,730  
Net loss and comprehensive loss     -       -       (641,743 )     (1,473,542 )     (2,115,285 )
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2008     61,881,088       20,441,399       (12,459,181 )     (881,461 )     7,100,757  
                                         
Cumulative adjustment     -       (2,279,016 )     (139,732 )     -       (2,418,748 )
Warrant exercises Jun- Nov 2009 (Note 8)     3,250,000       413,750       -       -       413,750  
Derivative liability adjustments (Note 4)     -       1,410,405       -       -       1,410,405  
Common stock and warrants     -       94,164       -       -       94,164  
Net loss and comprehensive income (loss)     -       -       (6,541,176 )     1,172,706       (5,368,470 )
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2009     65,131,088       20,080,702       (19,140,089 )     291,245       1,231,858  
                                         
Warrant exercises March 2010 (Note 8)     1,733,335       200,000       -       -       200,000  
Derivative liability adjustments (Note 4)     -       740,119       -       -       740,119  
Stock compensation, non-employees     -       4,775       -       -       4,775  
Net income and comprehensive income     -       -       3,502,038       391,469       3,893,507  
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2010     69,412,043       21,025,596       (15,638,051 )     682,714       6,070,259  
                                         

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STRATA OIL & GAS INC.

(An Exploration Stage Company)

STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY - continued

(Expressed in US Dollars)

 

          Additional           Other     Total  
    Common Stock     Paid-in     Accumulated     Comprehensive     Stockholders’  
    Shares     Capital     Deficit     Loss     Equity  
                               
Balance, December 31, 2010   69,412,043    21,025,596    (15,638,051)   682,714    6,070,259 
Stock compensation, non-employees       3,000            3,000 
Private placement, common stock and warrants issuance for cash (Note 8)   2,547,620    325,716            325,716 
Derivative liability adjustment (Note 4)       (325,716)           (325,716)
Net income and comprehensive income       1,629,255    (111,582)   1,517,673      
Balance, December 31, 2011   69,412,043    21,028,596    (14,008,796)   571,132    7,590,932 
Stock compensation, non-employees       40,826            40,826 
Private placement, common stock and warrants issuance for cash (Note 8)   5,231,667    226,400            226,400 
Derivative liability adjustment (Note 4)       (226,400)           (226,400)
Net loss and comprehensive income (loss)       (1,856,790)   168,351    (1,688,439)     
Balance, December 31, 2012   74,643,710   $21,069,442   $(15,865,586)  $739,483   $5,943,319 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

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STRATA OIL & GAS INC.

 (An Exploration Stage Company)

STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(Expressed in US Dollars)

 

       From 
   For The Years Ended December 31,   July 1, 2005 (the date of entering into exploration stage) to 
   2012   2011   2010   December 31, 2012 
Cash flows from operating activities                    
Net income (loss)  $(1,856,790)  $1,629,255   $3,502,038   $(13,116,796)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash used in operating activities:                    
Depreciation and amortization   1,388    2,394    2,223    17,248 
Stock option expense for consulting fees   40,826    3,000    4,775    8,694,865 
Accretion expense   7,500    8,647    8,344    37,258 
Loss on disposal of shares               37,736 
Gain on settlement of loan               (115,343)
Gain on sale of software               (130,000)
Reversal of liability               (47,483)
Change in fair value of derivative liability (Note 4)   1,620,319    (1,806,379)   (4,474,283)   1,549,875 
Loss on disposal of oil and gas properties           731,866    731,866 
Change in assets and liabilities:                    
GST Receivables   14,871    27,377    638    3,441 
Prepaid expenses   3,734    (47)   (7,973)   (2,656)
Accounts payable   (11,528)   (12,686)   (8,175)   3,631 
Accrued liabilities   (11,213)   (23,423)   16,164    10,671 
Net cash used in operating activities   (190,894)   (171,862)   (224,383)   (2,325,688 
                     
Cash flows from investing activities                    
Deposits   (7,462)   (2,033)   (19,606)   (123,634)
Acquisition of oil and gas interests   (113,541)   (66,212)   (187,578)   (8,074,586)
Proceeds from the sale of oil and gas properties (Note 5)           303,833    303,833 
Acquisition of office equipment       (1,511)       (11,614)
Proceeds on the sale of investments               77,607 
Proceeds on the sale of software               130,000 
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities   (121,003)   (69,756)   96,649    (7,698,394)
                     
Cash flows from financing activities                    
Proceeds from the issuance of common stock and warrants   226,400    325,716        3,462,116 
Proceeds from the exercise of stock options               5,316,250 
Proceeds from the exercise of warrants           200,000    1,520,110 
Proceeds from loan financing               1,020,000 
Repayment of loan financing               (1,020,000)
Net cash provided by financing activities   226,400    325,716    200,000    10,298,476 
Foreign exchange effect on cash   2,118    (17,877)   (430)   (270,266)
Net increase (decrease) in cash   (83,379)   66,221    71,836    4,128 
Cash, beginning of period   217,504    151,283    79,447    129,997 
Cash, end of period  $134,125   $217,504   $151,283   $134,125 
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information                    
Cash paid during the period for:                    
Interest  $   $   $   $26,444 
Income taxes                
                     
Non-cash investing and financing activities                    
Receipt of marketable securities for settlement of loan, net  $   $   $   $155,343 
Accounts payable related to oil and gas properties interests  $   $   $19,655   $24,160 
Asset retirement obligation  $   $   $   $82,868 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements

 

1.      NATURE OF BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS

 

Strata Oil & Gas Inc. (the ‘Company’) is engaged in the exploration for oil and natural gas in oil sands in the Canadian province of Alberta.  The Company was formerly engaged in the development of Knowledge Worker Automation (KWA) software.

 

Upon disposal of the Company’s software assets and change in focus to oil and gas exploration, the Company has entered the exploration stage of its new business activity and follows Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 915, Development Stage Enterprises.

 

2.      ABILITY TO CONTINUE AS A GOING CONCERN

 

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in US dollars and in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business.  The Company commenced its oil and gas exploration activities in the last quarter of 2005. The Company has not realized any revenue from its present operations. During the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company incurred a loss from continuing operations of $1,856,790 primarily as a result of a $1,620,319 loss from the change in fair value of a derivative liability. In addition, the Company had negative cash flows from operations of $190,894 and is expected to continue to incur further negative operating cash flows in the foreseeable future.  Since the Company had re-entered the exploration stage, it has an accumulated deficit of $13,116,796 at December 31, 2012. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.

 

The Company's ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on its ability to develop its oil and gas properties and ultimately achieve profitable operations and to generate sufficient cash flow from financing and operations to meet its obligations as they become payable. The Company expects that it will need approximately $350,000 to fund its operations during the next twelve months which will include minimum annual property lease payments, exploration expenditures as well as operating expenses.  Management has plans to seek additional capital through a private placement and public offering of its common stock. Although there are no assurances that management’s plans will be realized, management believes that the Company will be able to continue operations in the future.  Accordingly, no adjustment relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts and the classification of liabilities has been made to the accompanying financial statements in anticipation of the Company not being able to continue as a going concern.

 

3.      SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Management’s Estimates and Assumptions

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as of the balance sheet date, and revenues and expenses for the period then ended.  Actual results could differ significantly from those estimates

 

Oil and Gas Property Payments and Exploration Costs

 

The Company follows the full cost method of accounting for natural gas and oil operations.  Under the full cost method all costs incurred in the acquisition, exploration and development of natural gas and oil reserves are initially capitalized into cost centers on a country-by-country basis. The Company’s current cost center is located in Canada. Such costs include land acquisition costs, geological and geophysical expenditures, carrying charges on non-producing properties, costs of drilling and overhead charges directly related to acquisition, exploration and development activities.

 

 

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3.      SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

 

Costs capitalized, together with the costs of production equipment, are depleted and amortized on the unit-of-production method based on the estimated net proved reserves, as determined by independent petroleum engineers. In December 2009, the Company adopted revised oil and gas reserve estimation and disclosure requirements. The primary impact of the new disclosures is to conform the definition of proved reserves with the SEC Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting rules, which were issued by the SEC at the end of 2008. The accounting standards update revised the definition of proved oil and gas reserves to require that the average, first-day-of-the-month price during the 12-month period before the end of the year rather than the year-end price, must be used when estimating whether reserve quantities are economical to produce. This same 12-month average price is also used in calculating the aggregate amount of (and changes in) future cash inflows related to the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows. Costs of acquiring and evaluating unproved properties are initially excluded from depletion calculations. These unevaluated properties are assessed periodically to ascertain whether impairment has occurred. When proved reserves are assigned or the property is considered to be impaired, the cost of the property or the amount of the impairment is added to costs subject to depletion calculations.

 

Under full cost accounting rules, capitalized costs, less accumulated amortization and related deferred income taxes, shall not exceed an amount (the ceiling) equal to the sum of: (i) the after tax present value of estimated future net revenues computed by applying current prices of oil and gas reserves to estimated future production of proved oil and gas reserves as of the date of the latest balance sheet presented, less estimated future expenditures (based on currents costs) to be incurred in developing and producing the proved reserves computed using a discount factor of ten percent and assuming continuation of existing economic conditions; (ii) the cost of properties not being amortized; and (iii) the lower of cost or estimated fair value of unproven properties included in the costs being amortized.  If unamortized costs capitalized within a cost center, less related deferred income taxes, exceed the ceiling, the excess shall be charged to expense and separately disclosed during the period in which the excess occurs. Amounts thus required to be written off shall not be reinstated for any subsequent increase in the cost center ceiling.

 

The Company has not recognized any revenue from its oil and gas exploration activities which commenced in the last quarter of 2005.

 

Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with a maturity of 90 days or less to be cash equivalents. There was no cash equivalent balances for the year ended December 31, 2012 (2011 – $Nil).

 

GST Receivables

 

GST Receivables are presented net of an allowance for doubtful accounts. Receivables consist of goods and services input tax credits. The allowance was $Nil at both December 31, 2012 and 2011.

 

Office Equipment

 

Office equipment is recorded at cost less accumulated depreciation using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets which is estimated to be five years.

 

   December 31, 2012   December 31, 2011 
Office equipment  $11,614   $11,614 
Accumulated depreciation   (11,614)   (10,253)
Net book value  $   $1,361 

 

 

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3.      SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

 

Impairment of Long-lived Assets

 

In accordance with ASC 360, Property, Plant and Equipment, long lived assets such as equipment are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If the carrying amount of an asset exceeds its estimated future cash flows, an impairment charge is recognized by the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the asset. Assets to be disposed of would be separately presented in the balance sheet and reported at the lower of the carrying amount of fair value less costs to sell, and are no longer depreciated. The assets and liabilities of a disposed group classified as held for sale would be presented separately in the appropriate asset and liability sections of the balance sheet.

 

Asset Retirement Obligations

 

In accordance with ASC 410, Asset Retirement and Environmental Obligations the fair value of an asset retirement cost, and corresponding liability, should be recorded as part of the cost of the related long-lived asset and subsequently allocated to expense using a systematic and rational method. The Company has recorded an asset retirement obligation at December 31, 2012 and 2011 (Note 6) to reflect its legal obligations related to future abandonment of its oil and gas interests using estimated expected cash flow associated with the obligation and discounting the amount using a credit-adjusted, risk-free interest rate. At least annually, the Company will reassess the obligation to determine whether a change in any estimated obligation is necessary. The Company will evaluate whether there are indicators that suggest the estimated cash flows underlying the obligation have materially changed. Should those indicators suggest the estimated obligation has materially changed the Company will accordingly update its assessment. The asset retirement obligation is measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis using level 3 inputs based on discounted cash flows involving estimates, assumptions, and judgments regarding the cost, timing of settlement, credit-adjusted risk-free rate and inflation rates.

 

Income Taxes

 

The Company follows the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes whereby deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences of differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. If it is determined that the realization of the future tax benefit is not more likely than not, the enterprise establishes a valuation allowance.

 

Foreign Exchange Translation

 

The Company's functional currency is the Canadian dollar, but reports its financial statements in US dollars. The Company translates its Canadian dollar balances to US dollars in the following manner: Assets and liabilities have been translated using the rate of exchange at the balance sheet date. The Company’s results of operations have been translated using average rates. Translation gains or losses resulting from the changes in the exchange rates are accumulated as other comprehensive income or loss in a separate component of stockholders' equity.

 

All amounts included in the accompanying financial statements and footnotes are stated in U.S. dollars.

 

Derivative Financial Instruments

 

The Company reviews the terms of its equity instruments and other financing arrangements to determine whether there are embedded derivative instruments that are required to be accounted for separately as a derivative financial instrument. Also, in connection with the issuance of financing instruments, the Company may issue freestanding options or warrants that may, depending on their terms, be accounted for as derivative instrument liabilities because they are exercisable in a currency other than the functional currency of the Company and thus do not meet the “fixed-for-fixed” criteria of ASC 815-40-15. The Company may also issue options or warrants to employees and non-employees in connection with consulting or other services.

 

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Derivative financial instruments are initially measured at their fair value. For derivative financial instruments that are accounted for as liabilities, the derivative instrument is initially recorded at its fair value and is then re-valued at each reporting date, with changes in the fair value reported as charges or credits to income. For option and warrant-based derivative financial instruments, the Company uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to value the derivative instruments.

 

The change in the fair value of unvested options issued to non-employees for goods and services which meet the classification of a derivative financial instrument are charged as a compensation expense in consulting fees over the vesting period. Upon vesting, the change in the fair value of vested options to non-employees is charged to consulting fees.

 

Any exercise or cancellation of an equity instrument which meets the classification of a derivative financial instrument is trued-up to fair value at that date and the fair value of the exercised or cancelled instrument is then re-classed from liability to additional paid in capital.

 

The classification of derivative instruments, including whether such instruments should be recorded as liabilities or as equity, is reassessed at the end of each reporting period. If reclassification is required, the fair value of the derivative instrument, as of the determination date, is reclassified. Any previous charges or credits to income for changes in the fair value of the derivative instrument are not reversed. Derivative instrument liabilities are classified in the balance sheet as current or non-current based on whether or not net-cash settlement of the derivative instrument could be required within 12 months of the balance sheet date.

 

Stock Option Plans

 

The Company has elected to use the Black-Scholes option pricing model to determine the fair value of stock options granted. In accordance with the accounting standard for employees, the compensation expense is amortized on a graded vesting basis over the requisite service period which approximates the vesting period. Compensation expense for stock options granted to non-employees is amortized over the contract services period or, if none exists, from the date of grant until the options vest. Compensation associated with unvested options granted to non-employees is re-measured on each balance sheet date using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. For those options to non-employees which meet the classification of a derivative instrument, the instrument will follow the derivative financial instrument policy.

 

The expected volatility of options granted has been determined using the methods described under the relevant accounting standard. The Company uses historical data to estimate option exercise, forfeiture and employee termination within the valuation model. For non-employees, the expected term of the options approximates the full term of the options. The risk-free interest rate is based on a treasury instrument whose term is consistent with the expected term of the stock options. The Company has not paid and does not anticipate paying dividends on its common stock; therefore, the expected dividend yield is assumed to be zero. In addition, accounting standard requires companies to utilize an estimated forfeiture rate when calculating the expense for the reporting period. Based on its best estimate, management applied the estimated forfeiture rate of nil in determining the expense recorded in the accompanying Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss).

 

Compensation expense is recognized immediately for past services and pro-rata for future services over the option vesting period.  During 2012, the Company recognized $40,826 (2011 - $3,000 expense; 2010 - $4,775) in stock-based compensation expense in the Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) in respect of options granted to non-employees.  All stock options granted in 2012, 2011 and 2010 were to non-employees of the Company.

 

 

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The fair value of each option granted is estimated using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model on the date of grant. During the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 the following weighted average assumptions were used:

 

   2012   2011   2010 
Dividend yield   0%    0%    0% 
Expected volatility   152.6%    106.5%    108.82% 
Risk-free rate   1.67%    0.92%    3.11% 
Expected life in years   10    9    10 

 

The weighted average grant date fair value per option in 2012 was $0.07 (2011 - $Nil; 2010 – $0.27)

 

Expected volatilities are calculated using the historical volatility of the Company’s stock. When applicable, the Company will use historical data to estimate option exercise, forfeiture and employees termination within the valuation model. For non-employees, the expected term of the options approximates the full term of the options.

 

Earnings (Loss) Per Share of Common Stock

 

Basic earnings (loss) per share of common stock is computed by dividing net income (loss) available to common shareholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted earnings per share of common stock reflect the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised or converted into common stock or resulted in the issuance of common stock that then shared in the earnings of the Company. Dilutive potential common shares are calculated in accordance with the treasury stock method, which assumes that proceeds from the exercise of all warrants and options are used to repurchase common stock at market value. The amount of shares remaining after the proceeds are exhausted represents the potentially dilutive effect of the securities. Warrants and options with an exercise price lower than the weighted average share price during the period were determined to be anti-dilutive and excluded from the computation of earnings per share.

 

At December 31, 2012, the effect of all outstanding options and common stock warrants would have been anti-dilutive, due to the net loss incurred, accordingly only basic earnings per share is presented 2012.

 

At December 31, 2011 and 2010, potential common shares of 8,657,486 and 7,813,372 respectively, were not included in diluted earnings per share related to stock options and warrants and were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share since their effect was anti-dilutive. See Note 8 for calculation of diluted income per common share.

 

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

 

The book values of cash, GST receivables and accounts payable approximate their respective fair values due to the short-term nature of these instruments. The fair value hierarchy under GAAP distinguishes between assumptions based on market data (observable inputs) and an entity’s own assumptions (unobservable inputs). The hierarchy consists of three levels:

 

  Level one — Quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;
  Level two — Inputs other than level one inputs that are either directly or indirectly observable; and
  Level three — Unobservable inputs developed using estimates and assumptions, which are developed by the reporting entity and reflect those assumptions that a market participant would use.

 

Determining which category an asset or liability falls within the hierarchy requires significant judgment. We evaluate our hierarchy disclosures each quarter. Liabilities measured at fair value are summarized as follows as of:

 

December 31, 2012 

 

   Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total 
Derivative liability  $   $   $2,342,989   $2,342,989 
Asset retirement obligation  $   $   $138,129   $138,129 

 

December 31, 2011:

 

   Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total 
Derivative liability  $   $   $484,777   $484,777 
Asset retirement obligation  $   $   $127,688   $127,688 

 

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We currently measure and report the fair value liability for stock options and warrants with a strike price currency different than the functional currency of the Company on a recurring basis. The fair value liabilities for non-employee stock options and warrants have been recorded as determined utilizing the Black-Scholes option pricing model. See Note 4 for further discussion of the inputs used in determining the fair value.

 

The asset retirement obligation is measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis using level 3 inputs based on discounted cash flows involving estimates, assumptions, and judgments regarding the cost, timing of settlement, credit-adjusted risk-free rate and inflation rates. See Note 6 for further discussion of the inputs used in determining the fair value.

 

Comprehensive Income (Loss)

 

Comprehensive income (loss) is defined to include all changes in equity except those resulting from investments by owners and distributions to owners. The Company's items of other comprehensive income (loss) are foreign currency translation adjustments and unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities.

 

New Accounting Pronouncements

 

The Company has implemented all new accounting pronouncements that are in effect. These pronouncements did not have any material impact on the financial statements unless otherwise disclosed, and the Company does not believe that there are any other new accounting pronouncements that have been issued that might have a material impact on its financial position or results of operations.

 

4.           DERIVATIVE LIABILITIES

 

Derivative liabilities, consisting of the equity instruments such as options to non-employees and common share warrants with an exercise price in a different currency than the Company’s functional currency, are accounted for as separate liabilities measured at their respective fair values as follows:

 

Balance, December 31, 2009  $7,218,561 
      
Re-classification to common stock on exercise of warrants   (622,134)
Re-classification to additional paid-in capital on cancellation of options   (117,985)
Change in fair value of derivative liabilities   (4,474,283)
      
Balance, December 31, 2010   2,004,159 
      
Fair value of warrants issued in private placements   325,176 
Foreign exchange effect on derivative liability   (38,719)
Change in fair value of derivative liabilities   (1,806,379)
      
 Balance, December 31, 2011   484,777 
      
Fair value of warrants issued in private placements   226,400 
Change in fair value of derivative liabilities   1,620,319 
Foreign exchange effect on derivative liability   11,493 
      
Balance, December 31, 2012  $2,342,989 

 

The fair value of the derivative liabilities has been determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model using the following range of assumptions:

 

   December 31,  December 31,
   2012  2011
       
Risk-free interest rate  1.21 to 1.80%  0.86 to 0.92%
Expected life of derivative liability  2 to 10 yrs  1 to 9 yrs
Annualized volatility  201.4%  106.5%
Dividend rate  0.00%  0.00%

 

Re-classifications from liability to equity are supplemental non-cash transactions in the cash flow statement.

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5.       OIL AND GAS PROPERTY INTERESTS

 

   2012 (Cumulative) 
   Peace River   Drowned   Total 
Property acquisition and lease payments  $2,742,821   $41,663    2,784,484 
Geological and geophysical   332,277    14,714    346,991 
Project management   939,085        939,085 
Drilling   3,727,034        3,727,034 
Assaying and analysis   100,034        100,034 
Asset retirement obligations   121,145        121,145 
Camp and field supplies   44,205        44,205 
Travel and accommodation   132,906        3,727,034 
Total expenditures  $8,139,508    56,378    8,195,885 

 

   2011 (Cumulative) 
   Peace River   Drowned   Total 
Property acquisition and lease payments  $2,626,608   $40,732   $2,667,340 
Geological and geophysical   312,177    14,385    326,526 
Project management   918,096        918,096 
Drilling   3,643,735        3,643,735 
Assaying and analysis   67,564        67,564 
Asset retirement obligations   105,253        105,253 
Camp and field supplies   43,217        43,217 
Travel and accommodation   129,936        129,936 
Total expenditures  $7,846,586   $55,117   $7,901,703 

 

Peace River Property

 

The Company has entered into a series of leases in multiple transactions with the Province of Alberta in the Peace River area of Alberta, Canada (the “Peace River Property”).  All of the leases were acquired through a public auction process that requires the Company to submit sealed bids for land packages being auctioned by the provincial government. Upon being notified that it has submitted the highest bid for a specific land parcel the Company immediately pays the government the bid price and enters into a formal lease with the government. All of the leases are for a 15 year term, require minimum annual lease payments, and grant the Company the right to explore for potential oil sands opportunities on the respective lease. The specific transactions entered into by the Company are as noted below.

 

Date Number of
Leases

Land Area

(Hectares)

Annual Lease Payments
June 15, 2006 3 4,864 CDN $17,024 / USD $17,077
October 19, 2006 4 3,584 CDN $12,544 / USD $12,583
November 2, 2006 4 5,632 CDN $19,712 / USD $19,773
January 11, 2007 4 4,608 CDN $16,128 / USD $16,178
January 24, 2007 2 2,304 CDN $8,064 / USD $8,089
  17 20,992 CDN $73,472 / USD $73,700

 

On December 20, 2010, the Company entered into an assignment and assumption agreement with Alberta Company, a related party by common director and officer, assigning an undivided 100% right and interest in 25 Alberta Crown Oil Sands Lease Agreements, pursuant to respective individual lease agreements with the Province of Alberta for the sale price of $303,833 (CDN $300,000) being the approximate fair value of the leases. The fair market value of CDN $300,000 was established through the combination of third party evidence and recent sales comparables. There was a loss recognized of $731,866 on the disposition of properties due to the combination of all acquisition costs and prior year’s annual lease payments being capitalized.

 

 

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Drowned Property

 

On September 7, 2005 the Company acquired a 100% interest in an Alberta oil sands lease (the “Drowned Property”).  The rights to the Drowned Property were acquired for $20,635 plus fees and closing costs of $8,150 which were paid. The Property covers 512 hectares of land in the Drowned Area of the Wabasca oil sands in the West Athabasca area of Northern Alberta. The lease, which expires in October 2015, gives the Company the right to explore the Property covered by the lease.  The Company’s acquisition of the lease includes an overriding 4% royalty agreement with the vendor. The royalty is to be paid on a well-to-well basis and is payable on all petroleum substances produced by any well on the Property. The Property is subject to an annual lease payment payable to the government of Alberta in the amount of CDN $1,792 (USD $1,798) until expiry on October 4, 2015.

 

All of the Company’s leases for the Peace River and Drowned Properties are also subject to royalties payable to the government of Alberta. The royalties payable to the government of Alberta is in addition to the royalties payable to the vendor above. The royalty is calculated using a revenue-less-cost formula.  In years prior to the recovery of the project’s capital investment, the royalty is 1% of gross revenue.  Once the project costs have been recovered, the royalty is the greater of 1% of gross revenue or 25% of net revenue.

 

The following table sets forth the Company’s future minimum lease payments on its oil and gas properties.

 

  Total Less than 1 year 1-3 years 4-5 years More than five years
Peace River and Drowned properties $617,640 $75,497 $149,197 $147,400 $245,366

 

6.       ASSET RETIREMENT OBLIGATIONS

 

During 2007, the Company drilled four wells on its Peace River Property.  Total future asset retirement obligations were estimated by management based on the Company’s working interest in its wells and facilities, estimated costs to remediate, reclaim and abandon the wells and facilities and the estimated timing of the costs to be incurred in future periods. The Company has estimated the net present value of its total asset retirement obligations to be approximately $138,129 at December 31, 2012 (2011 - $127,688), based on an undiscounted total future liability of $293,879 (CDN$293,000). These payments are expected to be incurred between 2015 and 2030. The Company used a credit adjusted discount rate of 10% per annum and an inflation rate of 2% to calculate the present value of the asset retirement obligation.  Accretion expense of $7,500 (2011 – $8,647, 2010 - $8,344) has been recorded in the Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss at December 31, 2012.

 

7.      RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

Related party transactions not disclosed elsewhere in these financial statements include:

Consulting Fees

 

Mr. Daems does not bill the Company for his services as President, however a related party by common director has a service agreement with the Company to assist with identification, acquisition and service of certain exploration style properties that fit the parameters of the Company’s acquisition plan. The Company recognized and expense of 26,582 in 2012 in (2011 - $5,487, 2010 - $26,130) as consulting fees under the agreement.

 

Directors’ fees

Directors’ fees of $Nil (2011 and 2010 - $Nil) have been recorded as consulting fees at December 31, 2012.

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8.      SHARE CAPITAL

 

On November 15, 2005 the Company closed a private placement of 560,000 units at $0.375 per unit for a total offering price of $210,000. Each unit consisted of one share of the common stock of the Company, one Class A Warrant exercisable for one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.44 for a period of four years commencing on November 15, 2006, and one Class B Warrant exercisable for one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.50 for a period of three years commencing on November 15, 2007. The Company has the right to accelerate the exercise date or reduce the exercise price of the Class A and Class B Warrants.

 

On May 9, 2006, at a Special Meeting of the Company’s stockholders, a majority of the Company’s stockholders approved a 2:1 forward stock split. The record and payment dates of the forward split were May 10 and May 11, 2006 respectively. All of the common shares issued and outstanding on May 10, 2006 were split.   All references to share and per share amounts have been restated in these financial statements to reflect the split.

 

On June 13, 2006 the Company closed a private placement of 500,000 units at $2.00 per unit for a total offering price of $1,000,000.  Each unit consisted of one share of the common stock of the Company, one Class A Warrant exercisable for one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $2.125 for a period of four years commencing on June 13, 2007 and one Class B Warrant exercisable for one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $2.25 for a period of three and one half years commencing on December 13, 2007.  The Company has the right to accelerate the exercise date or reduce the exercise price of the Class A and Class B Warrants.

 

On July 13, 2007, at a Special Meeting of the Company’s stockholders, a majority of the Company’s stockholders approved a 2:1 forward stock split. The record and payment dates of the forward split were October 8 and October 9, 2007 respectively. All of the common shares issued and outstanding on October 8, 2007 were split.   All references to share and per share amounts have been restated in these financial statements to reflect the split.

 

On January 9, 2008, 320,000 common share warrants were exercised at an exercise price of $0.1875 for total proceeds of $60,000.

 

On January 28, 2008, the Company closed a private placement of 1,700,000 common shares at $1.00 per share for total proceeds of $1,700,000.

 

On June 19, 2009, 100,000 common share warrants were exercised at an exercise price of $0.20 for total proceeds of $20,000. Upon exercise, the fair value of this liability instrument at this date of $39,890 was re-classified from liability to additional paid in capital.

 

On July 07, 2009, 1,550,000 common share warrants were exercised at an exercise price of $0.1250 for total proceeds of $193,750. Upon exercise, the fair value of this liability instrument at this date of $598,525 was re-classified from liability to additional paid in capital.

 

On November 17, 2009, 1,600,000 common share warrants were exercised at an exercise price of $0.1250 for total proceeds of $200,000. Upon exercise, the fair value of this liability instrument at this date of $658,010 was re-classified from liability to additional paid in capital.

 

On March 3, 2010, 888,890 common share warrants were exercised at an exercise price of $0.11 for total proceeds of $100,000.  Upon exercise, the fair value of this liability instrument at this date of $321,689 was re-classified from liability to additional paid in capital. See Note 4.

 

On March 18, 2010, 844,445 common share warrants were exercised at exercise prices ranging from $0.1125 to $0.19 for total proceeds of $100,000. Upon exercise, the fair value of this liability instrument at this date of $300,445 was re-classified from liability to additional paid in capital. See Note 4.

 

On January 06, 2011, the Company closed a private placement for a total of 1,000,000 units at $0.10 per unit for total offering price of $100,000.  Each unit consisted of one share of the common stock of the Company and one Class A Warrant exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.15 for a period of four years commencing on January 25, 2012 and expiring on January 25, 2016.

 

On March 30, 2011, the Company closed two private placements for a total of 625,000 units at $0.16 per unit for a total offering price of $100,000. Each unit consisted of one share of the common stock of the Company and one Class A Warrant exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.24 for a period of four years commencing on March 30, 2012 and expiring on March 30, 2016.

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On May 17, 2011, the Company closed a private placement for a total of 714,286 units at $0.14 per unit for a total offering price of $100,000.  Each unit consisted of one share of the common stock of the Company and one Class A Warrant exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.21 for a period of four years commencing on May 17, 2012 and expiring on May 17, 2016.

 

On August 12, 2011, the Company closed a private placement for a total of 208,334 units at $0.12 per unit for a total offering price of $25,000.  Each unit consisted of one share of the common stock of the Company and one Class A Warrant exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.18 for a period of four years commencing on August 12, 2012 and expiring on August 12, 2016.

 

The Company classified the entire proceeds of $325,716 from private placements closed in 2011 as a derivative liability related to the warrants.

 

On August 6, 2012, the Company closed two private placements for a total of 1,250,000 units at $0.04 per unit for an aggregate total offering price of $50,000. Each unit consisted of one share of common stock of the Company and one Class A Warrant exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.06 for a period of four years commencing on August 6, 2013 and expiring on August 6, 2017.

 

On August 6, 2012, the Company closed a private placement for a total of 2,500,000 units at $0.04 per unit for a total offering price of $100,000. Each unit consisted of one share of common stock of the Company also with one Class A, once Class B and one Class C Warrant, each exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.10, $0.20 and $0.30 commencing on August 6, 2013, 2014 and 2015 and expiring on August 6, 2022.

 

On August 20, 2012, the Company closed a private placement for a total of 625,000 units at $0.04 per unit for a total offering price of $25,000. Each unit consisted of one share of common stock of the Company and one Class A Warrant exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.06 for a period of four ten years commencing on August 20, 2013 and expiring on August 20, 2017.

 

On September 19, 2012, the Company closed a private placement for a total of 416,667 units at $0.06 per unit for a total offering price of $25,000. Each unit consisted of one share of common stock of the Company and one Class A Warrant exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.09 for a period of four years commencing on September 19, 2013 and expiring on September 19, 2017.

 

On October 26, 2012, the Company closed a private placement for a total of 440,000 units at $0.06 per unit for a total offering price of $26,400. Each unit consisted of one share of common stock of the Company and one Class A Warrant exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.09 for a period of four years commencing on October 26, 2013 and expiring on October 26, 2017.

 

The Company classified the entire proceeds of $226,400 from private placements closed in 2012 as a derivative liability related to the warrants.

 

Earnings per share

 

Basic income per common share is computed by dividing income available to the Company’s common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted income per common share reflects the potential dilution that could occur from common share issuable through stock options and warrants. Diluted income per common share is computed similarly to basic income per common stock except that weighted average common stock is increased to include the potential issuance of dilutive common stock.

 

   2012   2011   2010 
Net income (loss) for the year  $(1,856,790)  $1,629,255   $3,502,038 
                
Weighted average common stock basic   71,340,773    68,847,251    66,473,025 
Effect of options       8,128    72,984 
Effect of warrants       330,072    6,713,909 
Diluted   71,340,773    69,185,451    73,223,918 

 

At December 31, 2012 the effect of the Company’s outstanding options and warrants would have been anti-dilutive. Accordingly, only basic income per common share is presented for 2012.

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9.      STOCK OPTION PLANS

 

During 2001, the Company adopted its 2002 Stock Option Plan (“the 2002 Plan”), which provided for the granting of up to an additional 7,000,000 stock options to key employees, directors and consultants, to purchase common shares of the Company.  As of December 31, 2012 and 2011 there were no options outstanding under the 2002 plan. The 2002 Plan expired during 2012.

 

Activity under the 2002 Plan is summarized as follows:

 

   Available for Grant   Options
Outstanding
   Weighted Average
Exercise Price
 
Balance, December 31, 2009   536,000    814,000   $0.11 
  Cancelled   680,000    (680,000)   0.11 
 Balance, December 31, 2010   1,216,000    134,000    0.11 
  Cancelled   134,000    (134,000)   0.11 
Balance, December 31, 2011   1,350,000        0.11 
  Cancelled            
Balance, December 31, 2012   1,350,000       $ 

 

At the Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders held in June 2006 the stockholders approved and the Company adopted its 2006 Stock Option Plan (“the 2006 Plan”).  The 2006 Plan provides for the granting of up to an additional 8,000,000 stock options to key employees, directors and consultants, of common shares of the Company.  Under the 2006 Plan, the granting of incentive and non-qualified stock options, exercise prices and terms are determined by the Company's Option Committee, a committee designated to administer the 2006 Plan by the Board of Directors. For incentive options, the exercise price shall not be less than the fair market value of the Company's common stock on the grant date. (In the case of options granted to an employee who owns stock possessing more than 10% of the voting power of all classes of the Company's stock on the date of grant, the option price must not be less than 110% of the fair market value of common stock on the grant date.)  Options granted are not to exceed terms beyond ten years (five years in the case of an incentive stock option granted to a holder of 10 percent of the Company's common stock).

 

Activity under the 2006 Plan is summarized as follows:

 

   Available for Grant   Options
Outstanding
   Weighted Average
Exercise Price
 
Balance, December 31, 2009   6,000,000    700,000   $1.11 
  Cancelled   200,000    (200,000)  $2.29 
  Granted   (100,000)   100,000   $0.33 
Balance, December 31, 2010   6,100,000    600,000   $1.14 
  Granted            
  Cancelled            
Balance, December 31, 2011   6,100,000    600,000   $1.14 
  Granted   (1,400,000)   1,400,000   $0.16 
  Cancelled            
Balance, December 31, 2012   4,700,000    2,000,000   $0.46 
                
Balance exercisable, December 31, 2012        575,000   $1.17 

 

The following table summarizes information concerning outstanding and exercisable common stock options under the 2006 Plan at December 31, 2012:

 

Range of
Exercise
Prices
  Number of
Options
Outstanding
  Remaining
Contractual
Life
(in Years)
  Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
  Number of
Options
Currently
Exercisable
$0.07  500,000  9.60  $0.07  -
$0.13  25,000  8.82  $0.13  25,000
$0.14  200,000  9.53  $0.14  -
$0.15  300,000  9.64  $0.15  -
$0.20  25,000  8.82  $0.20  25,000
$0.30  400,000  9.64  $0.30  -
$0.40  25,000  8.82  $0.40  25,000
$0.60  25,000  8.82  $0.60  -
$0.61  200,000  5.25  $0.61  200,000
$0.74  100,000  6.58  $0.74  100,000
$2.29  200,000  3.56  $2.29  200,000
   2,000,000        575,000

 

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9.      STOCK OPTION PLANS- continued

 

The aggregate intrinsic value of stock options outstanding at December 31, 2012 was $17,000 (2011 - $Nil, 2010 - $19,330) while the aggregate intrinsic value of stock options exercisable at December 31, 2012 was $Nil (2011 - $Nil, 2010 - $18,580). No stock options were exercised in 2012, 2011, or 2010.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2010, 200,000 options were cancelled unexercised. Upon cancellation, the fair value of these liability instruments of $117,985 was re-classified from liability to additional paid-in capital. See Note 4.

 

The following table summarizes information concerning unvested common stock options under both the 2006 and 2002 Plans at December 31, 2012:

 

 

   Number of
Unvested Options
   Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
   Weighted Average
Grant Date Fair
Value
 
                
Unvested at December 31, 2009   270,000   $0.73   $0.60 
   Granted   100,000    0.330    0.21 
   Vested   (55,000)   0.46    0.47 
   Cancelled   (200,000)   0.61    0.57 
                
Unvested at December 31, 2010   115,000    0.52    0.37 
   Vested   (65,000)   0.51    0.37 
   Cancelled            
                
Unvested at December 31, 2011   50,000    0.13    0.37 
   Granted   1,400,000    0.16    0.07 
   Vested   (25,000)   0.40    0.12 
                
Unvested at December 31, 2012   1,425,000   $0.17   $0.07 

 

As of December 31, 2012, there was $115,900 (2011 – $5,605, 2010 - $16,385) of total unrecognized compensation cost related to all unvested options granted and outstanding. This unrecognized compensation cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 2 years (2011 – 2 years, 2010 – 3 years)

 

During the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company recorded consulting fees of $40,826 (2011 – $3,000; 2010 – $4,775) in the statement of operations related to stock options granted to non-employees during the year.

 

The Company issues new shares when options are exercised.

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10.      WARRANTS

 

Issued  Warrants   Weighted Average Exercise Price 
Balance, December 31, 2009   15,599,600   $0.32 
  Warrants exercised   1,733,335    0.13 
Balance, December 31, 2010   13,866,265    0.35 
  Warrants issued   2,547,620    0.19 
Balance, December 31, 2011   16,413,885    0.19 
  Warrants issued   10,231,667    0.10 
  Warrants forfeited   (3,395,555)   0.23 
Balance, December 31, 2012   23,249,997   $0.27 

 

The following table lists the common share warrants outstanding at December 31, 2012.  Each warrant is exchangeable for one common share.

 

Number Outstanding  Number Vested  Exercise Price  Expiry
1,034,310  1,034,310  $0.11  December 23, 2014*
3,526,400  3,526,400  $0.19  December 23, 2014*
450,000  450,000  $0.125  February 14, 2015*
3,900,000  3,900,000  $0.20  February 14, 2015*
280,000  280,000  $0.44  November 15, 2014*
280,000  280,000  $0.50  November 15, 2014*
500,000  500,000  $2.125  June 13, 2015*
500,000  500,000  $2.25  June 15, 2015*
1,000,000  1,000,000  $0.15  January 6, 2016
625,000  625,000  $0.24  March 16, 2016
714,286  714,286  $0.21  May 17, 2016
208,334  208,334  $0.18  August 12, 2016
2,500,000  2,500,000  $0.10  August 6, 2022
1,250,000     $0.10  August 6, 2017
2,500,000     $0.20  August 6, 2022
2,500,000     $0.30  August 6, 2022
625,000     $0.06  August 20, 2017
416,667     $0.09  September 19, 2017
440,000     $0.09  October 26, 2017
23,249,997  15,518,330  $0.31   

 

* On October 23, 2012 the Board of Directors resolved to offer an extended the exercise period for certain warrants for a period of up to 2 years from their original expiration date. The warrant holders who completed the warrant extension agreement had the expiration date extended as specified in the agreement. Warrant holders that did not elect to have their warrants extended were forfeited. There was no additional cost associated with the extension as the change in the value of the warrants is recognized through the change in the fair value of the derivative liability on the face of the statements of operations.

 

11.      INCOME TAXES

 

The tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to the Company’s deferred tax assets are as follows:

   2012   2011 
Deferred tax assets (liabilities)          
Net operating loss carry-forwards  $1,009,000   $962,000 
Capital losses   5,000    5,000 
Office equipment   12,500    12,500 
Oil and gas properties   281,000    281,000 
Asset retirement obligation   41,500    34,000 
    1,349,000    1,294,500 
Valuation allowance   (1,349,000)   (1,294,500)
Net deferred tax asset  $   $ 

 

 

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11.           INCOME TAXES – continued

 

Upon continuation to Canada in 2004, all losses carried forward at that time expired. As of December 31, 2012, the Company had available to offset future taxable income, net Canadian operating loss carry-forwards of approximately $4.1 million. The carry-forwards will begin expiring in 2014 unless utilized in earlier years. The Company also has approximately $8.9 million in Canadian oil and gas dedication pools that can be used to offset income of future periods.

 

The Company evaluates its valuation allowance requirements based on projected future operations. When circumstances change and this causes a change in management's judgment about the recoverability of deferred tax assets, the impact of the change on the valuation allowance is reflected in current income. During the years ended December 31, 2012, 2010 and 2009, changes in valuation allowance was $54,500, $56,500 and $357,000, respectively.

 

The (benefit) provision for income taxes differs from the amount of income tax determined by applying the applicable Canadian statutory federal income tax rate to pre-tax loss as a result of the following differences:

 

   2012   2011   2010 
Statutory federal income tax rate   (25%)   (27%)   (29%)
Change in valuation allowance   (5%)   (5%)   (10%)
Non-deductible stock-based compensation   1%    2%    1% 
Non-deductible change in fair value of derivative Liability   30%    30%    36% 
Effect of foreign exchange   1%    2%    3% 
Effect of reduction in income tax rate   (2%)   (2%)   (1%)
    -%    -%    -% 

 

The Company has evaluated its tax positions for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 and determined that it has no uncertain tax positions requiring financial statement recognition.

 

Under ASC 740-10-25, the impact of an uncertain income tax position on income tax expense must be recognized at the largest amount that is more-likely-than-not to be sustained. An uncertain income tax position will not be recognized if it has 50% or less likelihood of being sustained.

 

We accrue interest and penalties on our uncertain tax positions as a component of our provision for income taxes. There was no amount of interest and penalties recognized as an expense during 2012 or 2011.

 

Our income tax returns are generally considered closed to examination when we file a notice of determination with the taxing authority. No such notice has been filed to date.

 

12.      COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

Environmental Matters

 

The Company is engaged in oil and gas exploration and may become subject to certain liabilities as they relate to environmental cleanup of sites or other environmental restoration procedures as they relate to the exploration of oil and gas. Should it be determined that a liability exists with respect to any environmental clean up or restoration, the liability to cure such a violation could fall upon the Company. No claim has been made, nor is the Company aware of any liability, which it may have, as it relates to any environmental clean-up, restoration or the violation of any rules or regulations relating thereto. Liabilities for expenditures are recorded when environmental assessment and/or remediation is probable and the costs can be reasonably estimated.

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13.      SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

Subsequent to year end the Company closed a series of private placements for a total of 1,375,000 units for an aggregate total offering price of $125,000. Each unit consisted of one share of common stock of the Company and one Class A Warrant exercisable, beginning on the one year anniversary date of the placement, for one share of common stock for a period of four years and expiring in 2018.

 

 

 

 

 

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Item 19. Exhibits

 

Exhibit No. Description
1.1 Articles of Continuance(1)
1.2 Bylaws(1)
2.1 Description of Capital Stock (contained in the Articles of Continuance filed as Exhibit 1.1)
2.2 Form of Class A warrant issued in February 2005 (2)
2.3 Form of Class B warrant issued in February 2005 (2)
2.4 Form of Class A warrant issued in November 2005 (2)
2.5 Form of Class B warrant issued in November 2005 (2)
2.6 Form of Class A warrant issued in June 2006 (5)
2.7 Form of Class B warrant issued in June 2006 (5)
12.1* Section 302 Certification of Principal Executive and Financial Officer
13.1* Section 906 Certification of Principal Executive and Financial Officer
14.1 Peterson Sullivan Consent
15.1 2002 Stock Option Plan (3)
15.2 2006 Stock Option Plan (4)
15.3 Letter from Predecessor Auditor*

 

 

* Filed herewith.

 

(1) Previously filed with the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 on April 22, 2003

(2) Previously filed with the Company’s 2005 Form 20-F filed on June 1, 2006

(3) Filed with the Company’s Form S-8 Registration Statement on February 12, 2002

(4) Filed with the Company’s Form S-8 Registration Statement on June 1, 2006

(5) Previously filed with the Company’s Form 6-K filed on June 23, 2006

 

 

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SIGNATURES

 

The Registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 20-F and that it has duly caused and authorized the undersigned to sign this Annual Report on its behalf.

 

  STRATA OIL & GAS INC.
  (Registrant)
   
Dated: April 3, 2013 By:    /s/ Ron Daems
  Ron Daems
  President, Chief Executive Officer,
  Secretary and Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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