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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM S-1/A
First Amendment
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
Starboard Resources, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware
 
1311
 
45-5634053
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
 
(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number)
 
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

300 E. Sonterra Blvd.
Suite 1220
San Antonio, Texas 78258
(210) 999-5400
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Michael J. Pawelek
Starboard Resources, Inc.
300 E. Sonterra Blvd., Suite 1220
San Antonio, Texas 78258
(210) 999-5400
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

With a Copy to:

John R. Fahy
Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz, PLLC
301 Commerce St.
Suite 3500
Fort Worth, Texas 76102
 
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:  As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective.
 
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box. o
 
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities  Act  registration   statement   number  of  the  earlier  effective registration statement for the same offering. o
 
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If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434, check the following box. o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large  accelerated  filer, an accelerated  filer, or a smaller  reporting  company.  See definitions of “large accelerated filer,”  “accelerated filer,” and “smaller reporting company,” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one.)
 
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The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
 


 
 

 
 
Calculation of Registration Fee
 
Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered
 
Amount to be
Registered(1)(2)
   
Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Unit
   
Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price
   
Amount of
Registration Fee
 
                         
Common Stock, $.001 par value
    12,362,336     $ 5.00 *   $ 61,811,680 *   $ 8,431  
                                 
(1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(2)  The shares of common stock being registered hereunder are being registered for resale by certain selling stockholders named in the prospectus.

*    Estimated amount

The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
 
 
 

 
 
The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. The selling stockholders may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities. The selling stockholders are not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.
 
SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED ________, 2013
 
PROSPECTUS
 
12,362,336 SHARES
 
 
STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC.
 
COMMON STOCK
 
The selling stockholders identified in this prospectus, may offer and sell from time to time up to 12,362,336 shares of common stock. We will not receive any of the proceeds from this offering.
 
Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our common stock. The initial public offering price of the common stock offered by the selling stockholders is $3.50 per share.  We have not applied for a securities exchange listing.
 
Certain of the selling stockholders may be deemed affiliates of the Company. The selling stockholder may sell all or a portion of these shares from time to time at a fixed price of $3.50. The offering price has been arbitrarily determined by us and does not necessarily bear any relationship to assets, earnings, book value or any other objective criteria of value.  There is no assurance of when, if ever, our stock will be listed on an exchange or quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board, OTCQX or OTCQB.  The selling stockholders will receive all proceeds from the common stock share sales.
 
We are an “emerging growth company” under applicable Securities and Exchange Commission rules and will be subject to reduced public company reporting requirements. Investing in our common stock involves risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 21.
 
 You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not authorized any dealer, salesperson or other person to provide you with information concerning us, except for the information contained in this prospectus. Neither we nor any of the selling stockholders may sell the securities until the registration statement, of which this prospectus forms a part, is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective.  This prospectus is not an offer to sell, nor is it a solicitation of an offer to buy, the common stock in any jurisdiction in which the offer or sale is not permitted.
 
NEITHER THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (“SEC”) NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THESE SECURITIES OR DETERMINED IF THIS PROSPECTUS IS TRUTHFUL OR COMPLETE. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
 
The Date of This Prospectus is: __________, 2013
 
 
 

 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
 
 
PAGE
 
       
PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
    1  
RISK FACTORS
    21  
USE OF PROCEEDS
    42  
DIVIDEND POLICY
    42  
CAPITALIZATION
    43  
BUSINESS
    45  
SELECTED HISTORICAL CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA
    65  
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTIES
    69  
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
    76  
MANAGEMENT AND DIRECTORS
    90  
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
    94  
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS, RELATED TRANSACTIONS AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
    101  
PRINCIPAL AND SELLING STOCKHOLDERS
    105  
DESCRIPTION OF THE CAPITAL STOCK
    109  
SECURITIES TRANSFER AGENT
    110  
LEGAL MATTERS
    110  
EXPERTS
    110  
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
    110  
FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
    F-1  
Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.
  II-1  
Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
  II-1  
Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities.
  II-4  
Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.
  II-7  
Item 17. Undertakings.
  II-7  
SIGNATURES
  II-10  
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
 
II-11
 
         
EX – 3.1.1
       
EX – 3.1.2
       
EX – 3.2.1
       
EX – 3.2.2
       
EX – 4.1
       
EX –4.2
       
EX – 4.3
       
EX – 5.1
       
EX – 10.1
       
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EX – 10.3
       
EX – 10.4
       
EX – 10.5.01
       
EX – 10.5.02
       
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EX – 10.5.05
       
EX – 10.5.06
       
EX – 10.5.07
       
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EX – 10.5.09
       
EX – 10.5.10
       
EX – 10.5.11
       
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EX – 10.5.13
       
EX – 10.5.14
       
EX – 10.6.1
       
EX – 10.6.2
       
 
 
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS (CONTINUED)
       
         
EX – 10.7.1
       
EX – 10.7.2
       
EX – 10.8
       
EX – 23.1
       
EX – 23.2
       
EX – 23.3
       
EX – 99.1.1
       
EX – 99.1.2
       
EX – 99.1.3
       
EX – 99.1.4
       
EX – 99.2
       
EX – 99.3
       
EX – 99.4
       
EX – 99.5
       
EX – 99.6
       
 
Please read this prospectus carefully. It describes our business, our financial condition and results of operations. We have prepared this prospectus so that you will have the information necessary to make an informed investment decision.
 
You should rely only on information contained in this prospectus.  We have not authorized any other person to provide you with different information.  This prospectus is not an offer to sell, nor is it seeking an offer to buy, these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.  The information in this prospectus is complete and accurate as of the date on the front cover, but the information may have changed since that date.
 
 
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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
 
This summary highlights important features of this offering and the information included in this prospectus.  This summary does not contain all of the information that may be important to you or that you should consider before investing in our common stock.  You should read this entire prospectus, including the “Risk Factors” section beginning on page 21, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and the financial statements before making an investment decision in our common stock.
 
Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this prospectus to “we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Company,” shall mean Starboard Resources, Inc. (“Starboard”), ImPetro Operating LLC (“ImPetro Operating”), a wholly-owned subsidiary, and ImPetro Resources LLC (“ImPetro Resources”), a wholly-owned subsidiary. ImPetro Operating and ImPetro Resources were formed as limited liability companies in Delaware in January 2010.    
 
We are an “Emerging Growth Company” under the federal securities laws and will be subject to reduced public company reporting requirements. Investing in our common stock involves risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 21.
 
STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC.
 
Overview
 
We are an independent exploration and production company focused on the operation, acquisition, development and production of both conventional and unconventional onshore oil and natural gas resources. We operate and target oil production and reserves that offer low-risk development opportunities within multiple formations utilizing horizontal drilling and multi-fracture completion technology.  Starboard was formed in Delaware in June, 2011 as a limited liability company through the contribution and restructuring of ImPetro Resources LLC, and oil and gas assets owned by Hunton Oil Partners LP, Giddings Oil and Gas LP, and ASYM Energy Fund III LP.  We converted to a Delaware corporation on June 28, 2012.

We produce from operated oil and natural gas wells in the liquids rich, oil bearing window of the Eagle Ford trend of South Texas and the nearby oil-prone Giddings field where in combination we control approximately 16,000 gross acres (14,000 net acres).  We also have material non-operated working interests in producing properties and conventional prospects located throughout Logan and McClain counties in Oklahoma which account for 23,360 gross acres (4,700 net acres).  The combined reserve base and net production are each over 70% oil-weighted.

The Company has 97 (88.578 net) company operated wells and participates in 8 (1.3835 net) non-operated wells.  103 of these wells are oil wells and 2 are gas wells.

At January 1, 2013, based on the reserves estimate by our independent reservoir engineers, we had 5,072 MBOE of estimated proved reserves with a PV-10 of $123.0 million. At January 1, 2013, 16% of our estimated proved reserves were proved developed reserves and 69% of our estimated proved reserves were oil and condensate. We grew our average daily production 63% from 315 BOE per day at year-end 2011 to 515 BOE per day at year-end 2012.

PV-10 estimated proved reserves is a non-GAAP financial measure as defined in Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K and is defined on page 19 of this prospectus summary. Reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure (standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows) is found in the table on page 67 of this Prospectus.  We believe that PV-10 value provides useful information to investors because it is widely used by professional analysts and sophisticated investors in evaluating oil and natural gas companies.
 
 
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Our Company
 
Starboard Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation, is an independent exploration and production company focused on the operation, acquisition, development and production of both conventional and unconventional onshore oil and natural gas resources. The company operates and targets oil production and reserves that offer low-risk development opportunities within multiple formations utilizing horizontal drilling and multi-fracture completion technology.  Starboard was formed in Delaware in June, 2011 as a limited liability company through the contribution and restructuring of ImPetro Resources, LLC, and oil and gas assets owned by Hunton Oil Partners LP, Giddings Oil and Gas Partners LP, and ASYM Energy Fund III LP.  It converted to a Delaware corporation on June 28, 2012.

Starboard produces from operated oil and natural gas wells in the liquids rich, oil bearing window of the Eagle Ford trend of South Texas and the nearby oil-prone Giddings field where in combination we control approximately 16,000 gross acres (14,000 net acres).  The company also has material non-operated working interests in producing properties and conventional prospects located throughout Logan and McClain counties in Oklahoma which account for 23,360 gross acres (4,700 net acres).  The combined reserve base and net production are each over 70% oil-weighted.
 
At January 1, 2013, based on the reserves estimate by our independent reservoir engineers, we had 5,072 MBOE of estimated proved reserves with a PV-10 of $123.0 million. At January 1, 2013, 16% of our estimated proved reserves were proved developed reserves and 69% of our estimated proved reserves were oil and condensate. We grew our average daily production 63% from 315 BOE per day at year-end 2011 to 515 BOE per day at year-end 2012.
 
Starboard was capitalized on June 13, 2011 (the “Roll-up Date”) through the execution of a Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement  between Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. (“Longview”), Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. (“Summerview”), LMIF Investments, LLC (“LMIF”), SMF Investments, LLC (“SMF”), Summerline Capital Partners, LLC (“Summerline”), Giddings Oil and Gas LP (“Giddings”) and Giddings Investments LLC (“Giddings Investments”), which combined Giddings, Hunton Oil Partners LP (“Hunton”), ASYM Energy Fund III LP (“ASYM III”) and ImPetro Resources, LLC (“ImPetro”), including its wholly owned subsidiary, ImPetro Operating, LLC (“Operating”) (collectively the “Company”), in a roll-up transaction.
 
The Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement required Giddings, Hunton and ASYM III to exchange substantially all of their assets and liabilities for 7,550,000 common shares of Starboard and required Starboard to perform a private placement of common shares at a price of at least $10.00 per share and receive net proceeds of at least $5,350,000 before placement costs. Through the private placement, Starboard issued 535,000 common shares at $10 per share, or $4,900,000 net of capital placement costs of $450,000, in June 2011.  Additionally, as of the Roll-up Date, Giddings, Hunton and ASYM III (collectively the “Common Controlled Entities”) were deemed to be under common control through ASYM Energy Investments, LLC, which served as the management company for the Common Controlled Entities.
 
The Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement also required ImPetro and Operating to exchange all of its member units for 3,570,000 common shares of Starboard and $1,150,000 of cash, which was distributed directly to the members of ImPetro.  Additionally, Longview, Summerview and Giddings agreed to the cancellation of working interest participation rights and $11,000,000 in principal notes, of which $4,500,000 was held by Giddings as of the Roll-up Date.
 
We converted to a Delaware corporation on June 28, 2012.
 
Under the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement dated June 10, 2011, if the Company failed to go public by reverse merger with a public company or through obtaining an effective Form 10 registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, shareholders affiliated with Summerline Asset Management, LLC may elect to sell the company all of its shareholder interest in exchange for cash of approximately $12.52 per share.  Our 2011 Financial Statements recorded this put option liability as of December 31, 2011 at $18,400,000.  The put option holders agreed to waive the put option provision effective July 20, 2012 in exchange for an additional 707,336 Company common stock shares. The waiver agreement is attached as Exhibit 4.3 to this prospectus.
 
Offices
 
Our headquarters are located at 300 E. Sonterra Blvd., Suite 1220, San Antonio, TX 78258. Our telephone number is (210) 999-5400.
 
 
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Our Business Strategy
 
Our goal is to increase stockholder value by building reserves, production and cash flows at an attractive return on invested capital while continuing to drill out exiting reserve base. We seek to achieve our goals through the following strategies:
 
Develop non-producing properties (“PDNPs”) and proven undeveloped reserves (“PUDs”) in core areas located in Texas and Oklahoma.  We have established core acreage positions in Texas and Oklahoma where we have built up a drilling inventory of PUD locations throughout oil-rich plays. The majority of our 2013 capital expenditure budget will be used to finance the development and production of these locations. Since the majority of our acreage is held by production, we have the flexibility to develop our acreage in a disciplined manner in order to maximize the resource recovery from the assets. We believe the economics for development and production of our acreage is attractive at current commodity prices.

Continue to build scale.  We believe our management team’s familiarity with our key operating areas, experience with unique and distressed transactions, and a broad contact base across both operators and financial players enable us to identify high-return acquisition opportunities at attractive prices. We will tend to focus on distressed or capital starved properties with near term, high potential development drilling opportunities where we are able to utilize the operating and financial background of our management team to uncover and exploit more off-the-run acquisitions.  The targeted distressed deals are likely to include undercapitalized lease owners, energy lending institutions, and distressed equity sponsors.

Maintain our financial discipline in terms of exploration and production activities. As an operator, we leverage advanced technologies and integrate the knowledge, judgment and experience of our management and technical teams. We believe our team demonstrates financial discipline that is achieved by our approach to evaluating and analyzing prospects, along with prior drilling and completion results, before allocating capital. This discipline is reflected in the improvements our team has attained on reducing overall unit costs. When we are not the operator, we proactively engage with the operators in an effort to ensure similar financial discipline. Additionally, we conduct our own internal geological and engineering studies on these prospects and provide input on the drilling, completion and operation of many of these non-operated wells pursuant to our agreements and relationships with the operators. Through these methods and practices, we believe we are well-positioned to control the expenses and timing of development and exploitation of our properties.

Our Competitive Strengths
 
We have a number of competitive strengths that we believe will help us to successfully execute our business strategies:
 
Multi-year development drilling program. Within our oil-rich south Texas locations, we have identified 76 PUD reserves locations. Using reserve engineer estimates, we expect these locations to be sufficient to sustain operating cash flow growth for five years, allowing us to pursue other acquisition opportunities. For the year ending 2012, we drilled or participated in 5 wells requiring an investment of $5.6 million.  The result of this investment was an increase in proven developed producing reserves from 333,000 BOE to 540,000 BOE and from PV-10 $15.4 million to $16.4 million. We believe our multi-year, identified drilling and development portfolio provides visible near-term growth in our production and reserves, and highlights the long-term resource potential cross our asset base.

Financial focus and flexibility. Our management focuses on maintaining a conservative balance sheet while trying to best optimize the overall capital structure to provide the best balance of risk and return potential. We also have a hedge program in place to mitigate risks.
 
Experienced, proven, and incentivized management team. Our management team has extensive operating knowledge and deep upstream, midstream, and service sector experience from companies such as South Texas Oil, Clayton Williams, TXO Production, CPX Petroleum, and Universal Seismic.  The technical background of our management team includes experience drilling and implementing successful exploitation techniques in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and New Zealand. Additionally, we have a diversified group of board members with experience launching and managing a number of successful enterprises who provide insight and perspective regarding our business.

Multi-disciplined approach to new opportunities. Our process for evaluating and developing new oil and natural gas prospects is a result of what we believe to be an organizational philosophy that is dedicated to a systematic, multi-disciplinary approach to new opportunities with an emphasis on incorporating petroleum systems, geosciences, technology and finance into the decision-making process. We recognize the importance of consulting multiple individuals in our organization across all disciplines and all levels of responsibility prior to making exploration, acquisition or development decisions and the formulation of key criteria for successful exploration and development projects in any given play to enhance our decision-making. We believe this multi-disciplined approach underpins our record of value creation and represents the best way to deliver consistent, year-over-year results to our shareholders.
 
Approximately 84.0% of our estimated proved reserves and 77.9% of our PV-10 valuation are estimated proved undeveloped reserves and will require capital to put into production. The breakdown of our proved reserves may be found on page 70 of this prospectus.
 
 
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Emerging Growth Company and Smaller Reporting Company
 
We are an “Emerging Growth Company” under the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) which was signed into law by President Obama in April 2012. This means that we have lesser SEC-reporting company requirements than we would otherwise have.  Specifically, Emerging Growth Companies are subject to the following lower reporting requirements:
 
No requirement for an independent auditor attestation as to the effectiveness of our internal controls;
No requirement to present more than two years of audited financial statements;
No requirement to discuss our financial performance or to present supplemental financial information for periods more than two years previous;
Any future possible periodic auditor rotation requirements will not apply to us;
Our executive compensation disclosure will comply with the provisions applicable to smaller reporting companies, that is companies with less than $75 million in market capital, rather than other companies of comparable size to us;
No requirement that we seek an advisory vote from shareholders as to the approval of our executive compensation (say-on-pay);
No requirement that we seek a shareholder vote determining the frequency of shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation (say-on-pay vote frequency);
No requirement for shareholder approval of golden parachutes for our officers and directors in mergers or change-of-control transactions;
Research reports about us by a broker or dealer will not be part of our registration statement, even if the broker or dealer is participating in underwriting or selling our securities;
Our management or agents may communicate orally and in writing with qualified institutional buyers or institutional accredited investors who are prospective investors in our initial public offering (IPO) before or after our registration statement becomes effective (provided such communications are supplemented with the delivery of our prospectus); and
Brokers and dealers involved with offering and selling our securities may publish research reports relating to our company at any time after our IPO and within any restrictive period on the sale of securities by our holders after the IPO.
 
We will lose the above-described exemptions from our reporting and shareholder approval obligations when we cease to be an Emerging Growth Company. We will cease to be an Emerging Growth Company on the last day of the fiscal year following the date of the fifth anniversary of our first sale of common equity securities under an effective registration statement or a fiscal year in which we have $1 billion in gross revenues.  We will also immediately cease to be an Emerging Growth Company if the market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million or upon our issuing $1 billion or more in non-convertible debt in a three year period.  Finally, we may choose to opt-out of the Emerging Growth Company status at any time.  If we opt out of Emerging Growth Company status we may not opt back in.
 
To the extent that we continue to qualify as a “smaller reporting company,” as such term is defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, after we cease to qualify as an emerging growth company, certain of the exemptions available to us as an emerging growth company may continue to be available to us as a smaller reporting company, including: (1) not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes Oxley Act; (2) scaled executive compensation disclosures; and (3) the requirement to provide only two years of audited financial statements, instead of three years.
 
Summary Risk Factors
 
We are subject to a number of risks, including risks that may prevent us from achieving our business objectives or may adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and prospects. You should carefully consider these risks, including all of the risks discussed in the section entitled “Risk Factors,” beginning on page 21 of this prospectus, before investing in our common stock. Risks relating to our business include, among others:
 
We are a new company formed in June 2011;
Approximately 82.39% of our common stock shares are subject to litigation filed in Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk at Stamford and we are likely to have resulting corporate governance issues relating to shareholder votes during the pendency of the lawsuit;   
While the lawsuit is pending, our common stock shares will lack market liquidity due to the unavailability to the marketplace of 82.39% of our common stock shares;
The resolution of the lawsuit could result in a significant change of our common stock ownership structure and could lead to new shareholders seeking to assert control over the Company;
 
 
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Approximately 82.39% of our common stock shares may be subject to a “monetization” agreement upon the effectiveness of this prospectus which could lead to a material change of our common stock ownership structure and new shareholders who may assert control over the Company;
We have had operating losses and limited revenues to date;
We have substantial capital requirements that, if not met, may hinder operations;
Oil and natural gas prices are highly volatile, and lower prices will negatively affect our financial results;
Drilling for oil and natural gas is a speculative activity and involves numerous risks and substantial and uncertain costs that could adversely affect us;
We depend on successful exploration, development and acquisitions to maintain reserves and revenue in the future;
Our estimated reserves are based on many assumptions that may prove inaccurate. Any material inaccuracies in these reserve estimates or underlying assumptions will materially affect the quantities and present value of our reserves;
A substantial percentage of our estimated proved reserves consist of undeveloped reserves;
Seismic studies do not guarantee that hydrocarbons are present or, if present, will produce in economic quantities;
We may experience difficulty in achieving and managing future growth;
Our business may suffer if we lose key personnel;
We face strong competition from other oil and natural gas companies;
We may experience difficulty in achieving and managing future growth;
We may not be able to keep pace with technological developments in our industry; and
Governmental regulation and liability for environmental matters may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
 
Recent Developments
 
Recent Oil and Gas Activities

Since June 30, 2013, the Company has drilled and completed two wells (2 net wells), commenced drilling on another (.5 net wells), and is producing the joint well (.3 net wells) in Brazos County. The Company’s recent operations in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma include the completion and production of one well (0.2 net wells).

New Bank Credit Facility

On June 27, 2013 we entered into a senior secured credit facility from Independent Bank, providing for a $100.0 million revolving credit facility, subject to scheduled or elective collateral borrowing base redeterminations based on our oil and natural gas reserves. The credit facility matures on June 1, 2016.  The current borrowing base is $13.0 million. The outstanding borrowings bear interest at a rate that is currently based on the prime plus 0.0% with a 4.00% floor.  We also must pay an unused commitment fee of 0.5% per year on the undrawn amount of the borrowing base.  We have currently borrowed approximately $11 million on the credit facility.

 The credit facility is secured by our assets, including the oil and gas assets, and is guaranteed by our subsidiaries.  We are also required to limit our commodity hedges to collars with no more than 75% of our projected monthly oil and gas production from our estimated proved developed producing reserves. Finally, we may not pay dividends to stockholders without the consent of Independent Bank.

The credit facility requires us to maintain certain financial ratios.  First, each quarter we must maintain an interest coverage ratio of 3:1 so that our consolidated net income, adjusted for interest expense, depreciation, depletion and amortization expenses less tax expenses and dividends/stock buybacks(“EBITDAX”) is greater than 3 times our interest expense under the credit facility.  Second, we must maintain a debt to EBITDAX ratio of less than 3.5:1 at the end of each fiscal quarter. Third, we must maintain a current ratio of at greater than 1:1 at the end of each fiscal quarter, meaning that our consolidated current assets (including the unused amount of the credit facility and excluding non-cash assets under ASC 410 and 815) must be greater than our consolidated current liabilities (excluding non-cash obligations under ASC 410 and 815 and current portion of the note under the credit facility.)
 
 
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Further, the credit facility prohibits our incurring most debt outside the ordinary course of business except for the subordinated credit facility.

We may not merge or have a subsidiary merger with another company without the consent of Independent Bank.  We also must obtain Independent Bank’s consent to sell oil and gas assets.

The credit facility has no required amortizations unless there is a borrowing base deficiency.  There are no mandatory prepayments unless there is a borrowing base deficiency.

The bank credit facility provides us with financial flexibility and liquidity.  It also exposes us to interest rate risk, requires that we make business decisions with a focus on the credit facility’s financial ratios and other terms and presents a risk of loss of assets if we have an event of default.  Further, our liquidity may also be affected by material changes to our borrowing base that result from changes in hydrocarbon prices or other market conditions.

We also have additional affirmative and restrictive covenants. The credit agreement and related documents are attached as Exhibits 10.5.1 through 10.5.14.

New Subordinated Credit Facility
 
On July 25, 2013 we entered an amended credit agreement with SOSventures, LLC providing for a term loan through February 1, 2016 in an amount up to $10,000,000 at a 17.00% interest rate through May 29, 2014 and 22.00% interest rate thereafter.  The loan under this Agreement will be secured by a second lien on the Company’s assets.  The credit agreement and related intercreditor agreement are attached as Exhibits 10.6.1 and 10.6.2.  We have not yet borrowed funds under this credit facility.
   
General Corporate Information

Our principal executive offices are located at 300 E. Sonterra Blvd, Suite 1220, San Antonio, TX  78258, and our telephone number at that address is (210) 999-5400.  Additional information can be found on our website:  www.starboardresources.com.  Information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference herein and does not constitute a part of this prospectus.

We reserved the NASDAQ ticker symbol “SBRI,” but have not yet filed a listing application with any securities exchange.
 
Lawsuit Relating to Our Common Stock Shares
 
Approximately 82.39% of our common stock shares are the subject of litigation filed in Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk at Stamford, Cause Nos. FST-CV-12-5013927-S and FST-CV-12-6014987-S, styled Charles Henry III, Ahmed Ammar, John P. Vaile as Trustee of John P. Vaile Living Trust, John Paul Otieno, SOSventures, LLC, Bradford Higgins, William Mahoney, Robert J. Conrads, Edward M. Conrads, William F. Pettinati, Jr. individually and derivatively on behalf of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund LP v. Gregory Imbruce, Giddings Investments LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, Asym Capital III LLC, Starboard Resources, Inc., Glenrose Holdings LLC and Asym Energy Investments LLC. This lawsuit was originally filed on July 18, 2012. The Plaintiffs allege fiduciary duty breaches, conversion, civil theft, violations of Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, unjust enrichment, common law fraud, negligence, fraudulent conveyance and civil conspiracy and seek damages, injunctive relief, a constructive trust and an accounting. These allegations focus on the issuance of 550,000 Starboard Resources LLC Units to “Giddings Investments, LLC.” The allegations claim that this issuance was derived from the conversion of participation rights in Company wells that belong to Giddings Oil & Gas LP. The lawsuit makes several other claims of breaches of duties by Defendants in connection with Defendants or their affiliates serving as general partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP, and Hunton Oil Partners LP. Defendants deny the allegations.
 
 
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The Plaintiffs are not Company stockholders. They are limited partners of Partnerships that are Company stockholders. Two Plaintiffs, Charles Henry III and William Mahoney have been non-executive directors of the Company. Mr. Henry remains a Company director. Mr. Mahoney resigned as a Company director in April 2013 and passed away shortly thereafter. Another Plaintiff, SOSventures, LLC, employs our chairman, Bill Liao. Defendant Gregory Imbruce was a Company director until April 2012 and designated a Company “Promoter” pursuant to Securities Act Rule 405 as stated on pages 92-94 of this prospectus. Defendant Giddings Investments LLC is subject to a related interpleader action relating to 550,000 of the Company’s common stock shares and was involved in a related party transaction with the Company as further described on pages 103-104 of this registration statement. Defendants Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC and Asym Capital III LLC were the general partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partner LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP. Defendant Glenrose Holdings is alleged to be the manager of manager of Defendants Giddings Genpar LLC and Hunton Genpar LLC. Defendant Asym Energy Investments LLC is alleged to be the manager of Defendant Asym Capital III LLC. The lawsuit alleges that defendants Giddings Investments LLC, Glenrose Holdings LLC and Asym Energy Investments LLC are ultimately controlled by Defendant Imbruce.
 
The Plaintiffs allege in Paragraph 47 of their Third Amended Complaint (attached as Exhibit 99.1.2) that “Starboard is merely a nominal defendant for purposes of injunctive relief.”  The Plaintiffs seek the following relief against the Company:
 
a)  
A preliminary and permanent injunction enjoining the Defendant, Starboard Resources Inc., from the issuance and delivery of any shares or share certificates to Defendant, Giddings Investments LLC;
b)  
A preliminary and permanent injunction enjoining the Defendant, Starboard Resources Inc., from the delivery of any shares or share certificates to Imbruce and/or any of his affiliates, including Giddings Genpar LLC,, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, and Asym Capital III LLC;A preliminary and permanent injunction enjoining the Defendant, Starboard, from the payment of any Going Public Delay Fees to the Imbruce Defendants, as contemplated in the “Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement” dated June 10, 2011, by and among Starboard, Giddings Oil & Gas, LP and Giddings Investments, LLC;
c)  
A mandatory injunction, mandating that the Defendant, Starboard Resources Inc., deliver shares to Plaintiffs, Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, ASYM Energy Fund III LP, on an agreed percentage reflected in the Limited Partnership Agreements on a pro rata basis without any reduction for performance fees or expenses claimed by the Imbruce Defendants;
d)  
A mandatory injunction, mandating that the Defendant, Starboard Resources LLC, deliver shares to Giddings Oil & Gas LP reflecting the equity wrongfully converted by Defendants, Imbruce and Giddings Investments LLC, without any reduction for performance fees or expenses claimed by the Imbruce Defendants; and
e)  
A mandatory injunction, mandating that the Defendant, Starboard Resources LLC, deliver Going Public Delay Fees to Giddings Oil & Gas LP reflecting the amounts currently owed to Plaintiffs, without any reduction for performance fees or expenses claimed by the Imbruce Defendants.

The Company agreed to preliminary injunctive relief as to the physical delivery of our common stock shares to Giddings Investments, LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, Asym Capital III LLC and Gregory Imbruce and said order has been entered.  The Company has also recognized the “Going Public Delay Fee” as a liability on its financial statements as of June 30, 2013 in the amount of $702,576 as part of the “accounts payable and accrued liabilities” stated on its balance sheet.  Consequently, the “Going Public Delay Fee” claim is fully recognized.

Additionally, the Company has interplead 550,000 of its common stock shares to the Court due to conflicting claims as to record and beneficial ownership of these shares by Giddings Investments LLC and derivative plaintiffs on behalf of Giddings Oil & Gas LP.  These shares amount to approximately 4.45% of the Company’s outstanding common stock.

Giddings Oil & Gas LP is the record owner of 5,266,967 common stock shares or 42.60% of our outstanding common stock. Asym Energy Fund III LP is the record owner of 3,497,941 common stock shares or 28.30% of our outstanding common stock. Hunton Oil Partners LP is the record owner of 870,092 common stock shares or 7.04% of our outstanding common stock.  Collectively, these entities are record owners of 9,635,000 or 77.94% of our common stock shares.  Further, we interplead an additional 550,000 common stock shares to the Court.  Consequently, the litigation relates to 10,185,000 of our common stock shares or 82.39% of our common stock.
 
While this lawsuit is pending we are likely to have corporate governance issues in shareholder meetings due to possible conflicts as to who can vote a majority of our common stock shares.
 
The lawsuit could result in multiple resolutions through litigation or settlement.  For example, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, and Asym Capital III LLC could remain general partners and the partnerships remain intact.  Alternatively, another general partner could be appointed and the partnerships remain intact.  Finally, a settlement could result in the dissolution of the partnerships.   If the litigation results in a dissolution where in the partnerships are dissolved and the beneficial owners of the partnerships become the beneficial owners of the partnerships common stock shares in the Company, the Company would have a new shareholder base and a change in control of the majority of the Company’s common stock shares and could lead to new shareholders seeking to assert control over the Company.
 
 
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Accordingly, the following tables indicate the partnership ownership structure before dilution for any carried allocations to former or current general partners (Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC and Asym Capital III LLC, all controlled by Gregory Imbruce).  Consequently, the final sharing percentages may be lower than stated below.  Additionally, the following tables present only limited partners who own at least an undiluted five percent or more of the sharing percentages for the partnerships.
 
Giddings Oil & Gas LP
5,226,967 Common Stock Shares Plus Claim to 550,000 Common Stock Shares in Interpleader Action
 
   
Name
 
LP Units
   
Undiluted
Sharing Percentage
 
SOSventures LLC
    1,000       63.492063 %
Estate of William Mahoney
    200       12.698413 %
Bradford Robert Higgins IRA
    80       5.079365 %
10 other limited partners
    295       18.730159 %
                 
Total:
    1,575       100.000000 %
 
Hunton Oil Partners LP
870,092 Common Stock Shares
 
   
Name
 
LP Units
   
Undiluted
Sharing Percentage
 
Sean O’Sullivan Revocable Living Trust
    200       74.906367 %
Rubicon Resources, LLC
    30       11.235955 %
7 other limited partners
    37       13.857678 %
                 
Total:
    267       100.000000 %
 
Asym Energy Fund III LP
3,497,941 Common Stock Shares
 
   
Name
 
LP Units
   
Undiluted Sharing Percentage
 
SOSventures, LLC
    500       39.745628 %
Estate of William Mahoney
    200       15.898251 %
Nicholas Garafolo
    100       7.949126 %
Robert Conrads
    90       7.154213 %
14 other limited partners
    368       29.252782 %
                 
Total:
    1,258       100.000000 %
 
Bradford Robert Higgins and Sean O’Sullivan Revocable Living Trust are affiliated with SOSventures, LLC. Mr. Higgins is SOSventures, LLC’s US representative.  Mr. O’Sullivan is the founder and principal of SOSventures, LLC.
 
 
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Consequently, the following limited partners, alone or acting as a group, may possibly own 5% or more of the Company’s Common Stock before dilution of their interest in the partnerships to the general partner’s partnership interest upon dissolution of the partnerships:
 
Name of Limited Partner in Partnership
 
Equivalent Undiluted Common Stock Shares
   
Equivalent Undiluted Common Stock Ownership Percentage
 
SOSventures, LLC
    4,734,385       38.296845 %
Estate of William Mahoney
    1,224,933       9.908586 %
Sean O'Sullivan Revocable Living Trust
    651,754       5.272097 %
Bradford Robert Higgins IRA
    267,528       2.164061 %
                 
Possible shareholder group composed of SOSventures, LLC, Sean O’Sullivan Revocable Living Trust Group and Bradford Robert Higgins IRA
    5,653,667       45.733002 %
 
The dilution to the general partners’ interests for these listed shareholders may be based on a formula related to the valuation of the partnerships’ assets.  Almost all the partnerships’ assets are our common stock shares.

The partnership agreements appear to provide that after the return of capital contributed by the limited partners, partnership distributions flow 80% to the limited partners and 20% to the general partner for Giddings Oil and Gas LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP.  For Hunton Oil Partners LP the partnership agreement appears to provide that after the return of partnership capital contributed by the limited partners, distributions flow at least 70% to the limited partners and up to 30% to the general partner.

However, the plaintiffs in the Henry v. Imbruce litigation claim, among other things, that the general partners acted as unregistered investment advisers thus voiding their claims to compensation under Connecticut law.

Accordingly, the actual dilution of the limited partners to the general partners’ interest will depend on the course of the Henry v. Imbruce litigation and the agreed or court-determined valuation of the Company.  
 
Thus, the resolution of this lawsuit may lead to a significant change of our common stock ownership structure and could lead to new shareholders seeking to assert control over the Company.
 
Finally, tying up 82.39% of our common stock shares in litigation will likely have a material effect on our trading liquidity should we obtain an exchange listing or an over-the-counter quotation.

We have material contracts, including participation agreements and contracts relating to the formation of the Company that are included with this prospectus. But, two contract provisions are particularly important for understanding the Company.
 
Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement and Going Public Delay Fee
 
We entered a “Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement” dated June 10, 2011 with Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC, Summerline Capital Partners, LLC, Giddings Oil & Gas LP and Giddings Investments LLC attached as Exhibit 4.1.  Section 8(c) of the Agreement says that the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to reverse-merge with a public shell company or obtain an effective registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 within 90 days of the date of that agreement (September 8, 2011).

Until the Company either engages in the reverse merger or obtains an effective Form 10 registration statement, the Company is subject to a going public delay fee.  Under Section 8(d) of the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement the Company shall pay or accrue a “going public delay fee” of $60,715 per month if it did not effect a public company reverse merger or effective registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by December 10, 2011.

This Going Public Delay Fee will cease accruing upon the effectiveness of a Form 10 Registration Statement thus saving the Company $728,580 on an annual basis.  The Company has recognized the “Going Public Delay Fee” as a liability on its financial statements as of June 30, 2013 in the amount of $702,576 as part of the “accounts payable and accrued liabilities” stated on its balance sheet.

The Company filed a Form 10 Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 7, 2013 and filed an Amended Form 10 Registration Statement on July 26, 2013.  Under Section 12(g)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Form 10 Registration Statements go effective 60 days after filing or within such shorter period as the Commission may direct.
 
 
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“Monetization” Agreement between Asym Capital II LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, and SOSventures, LLC regarding Starboard Resources, LLC.
 
Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP collectively are record owners of 9,635,000 of common stock shares or 77.94% of our common stock.  This portion of our equity is subject to an agreement dated January 20, 2012, attached as Exhibit 4.2, between Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC and SOSventures, LLC.  If the 550,000 common stock shares interplead by the Company are included, that agreement could cover 10,185,000 of our common stock shares or 82.39% of our common stock.  The Agreement provides that upon “monetization” of the Starboard Resources equity, that Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP shall be “dissolved” and their “affairs wound up.”  According to the agreement:

“Monetization” means the receipt of a liquidating distribution in cash from Starboard or its successors, including a corporate successor formed for the purposes of effecting a public offering, or the receipt of unrestricted and freely transferable securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended in connection with a going public transaction at Starboard Resources, LLC, however affected.
 
While the Company views the ownership by the partnerships of Starboard common stock shares eligible for sale by the partnerships under the Securities Act of 1933 through this Form S-1 Registration Statement as making the “monetization” agreement effective, the Company cannot provide assurances that the limited partners of the Partnerships would take the same view and would not contest the dissolution of the partnerships.  One issue that may arise is that this Agreement was entered into by Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC acting as general partners of the partnerships.  As stated below, counsel for limited partners maintains these business entities were subsequently removed as general partners and thus are not be in position to fulfill the terms of the Monetization Agreement on their own. Moreover, the Company is not a signatory to the “monetization” agreement.

If the partnerships are dissolved through the “monetization” agreement, then our common stock shares would be distributed to the partnerships’ partners. We refer you to the partnerships’ limited partner ownership tables on pages 8 and 9 of this Prospectus for a presentation of the limited partners’ sharing percentages before dilution to the general partners’ interests and possible common stock ownership upon the dissolution of the partnerships.  Such a distribution would lead to a change of voting control of the Company.

Finally, it is important for the selling shareholders and prospective purchasers to understand that this prospectus only covers the sale of our common stock shares by the partnerships and other designated Selling Stockholders as stated in the table on page 106 of this prospectus. If our common stock shares are distributed by the partnerships to their limited partners through the monetization agreement or otherwise, those limited partners may only sell their shares through the effectiveness of another registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 covering the referenced common stock shares or through the limited sales allowed by the safe harbor from being found to be an underwriter as stated in SEC Rule 144.

Common Control of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP
 
Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III, LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP have common control.  As stated below, there is a dispute over who controls these partnerships.  Regardless of the resolution of that dispute, the partnerships may be deemed to be under common control.

Control over Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP
 
On May 8, 2013, counsel for the limited partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP in the Henry et al., v. Imbruce et al., informed the Company that “87.5% of the limited partners of the three limited partnerships have removed Gregory Imbruce and/or his affiliates as general partner of said partnerships. In addition, the limited partners have appointed Chuck (Charles) Henry as the replacement general partner.”   We have also become aware of a letter from counsel for Gregory Imbruce and his affiliates to counsel for the limited partners dated April 6, 2013 denying the effectiveness of the removal notice.

Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III, LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP own 77.94% of our common stock shares.  Charles S. Henry, III is a Company director.  The dispute over control of these partnerships will have a material impact on our shareholder voting and our corporate governance and presents the Company with substantial risk that we may have a disputed shareholder vote.
 
 
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We do not anticipate entering an underwriting agreement.
 
The Offering
 
Common stock offered by us
None
   
Common stock offered by the selling stockholders
12,362,336 shares of common stock
   
Common stock to be outstanding immediately after completion of this offering
12,362,336 shares of common stock
   
Option to purchase additional shares
None
   
Use of proceeds
All proceeds of this Offering will be received by the selling stockholders. The Company will not receive proceeds of the offering.
   
Dividend policy
We currently anticipate that we will retain all future earnings, if any, to finance the growth and development of our business. We do not intend to pay cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Further, our credit facilities require lender approval for us to issue dividends.
   
Symbol
We have reserved the NASDAQ symbol “SBRI” but have not yet applied for a listing.
   
Plan of Distribution
This offering is not underwritten. The selling stockholders will sell their common stock shares through market venues.
   
Risk Factors
You should carefully read and consider the information beginning on page 21 of this prospectus set forth under the heading “Risk Factors” and all other information set forth in this prospectus before deciding to invest in our common stock.
 
 
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Starboard Resources, Inc. Organizational Chart
 
 
* The specific common stock share ownership numbers and percentages for Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP, Longview Marquis Master Fund LP, LMIF Investments LLC and SMF Investments LLC are found in the table on page 106 of this prospectus.
 
 
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Summary Historical Consolidated and Unaudited Financial Data
 
You should read the following summary financial data in conjunction with “Selected Financial Data,” “Supplemental Financial Data” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our historical consolidated financial statements and unaudited financial information and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. The financial information included in this prospectus may not indicate our future results of operations, financial position and cash flows.
 
Our financial statements include consolidations.  On June 13, 2011, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement that required Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP to exchange substantially all of their assets and liabilities for 7,550,000 common shares of the Company.  Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP combined owned 82.10% of our common shares as of June 13, 2011 and were deemed to be under common control through ASYM Energy Investments, LLC, which serves as the management company for Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP.  Consequently, under GAAP, prior to June 13, 2011, the financial results of Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP were combined to reflect the historical results of the Company.  After June 13, 2011, the financial results of Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP were not consolidated with the Company’s financial results.
 
Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP  have no interests in other operational business entities.  Thus, the impact of the consolidated reports through June 13, 2011 is that the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2011 shows the payment of a management fee of $139,000 and a performance fee of $110,000, which were obligations of the Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP and not the Company.  The combined $249,000 in 2011 expenses amounts to 5.05% of the Company’s 2011 expenses and 5.08% of the Company’s 2011 revenue as well as the equivalent of 2.29% of the Company’s 2012 expenses and 1.92% of the Company’s 2012 revenue.  Consequently, the Company has determined not to present a pro forma presentation as to this consolidation because such a pro forma would not result in significantly different financial statement results for the Company’s financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2011 and would not have any impact on the Company’s financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2012.
 
The following tables set forth our summary historical consolidated financial information for the Company and its subsidiaries as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 are derived from our historical consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.  The summary consolidated financial data as of June 30, 2013 and for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and June 30, 2012 are derived from our historical unaudited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The summary consolidated balance sheet data as of June 30, 2012 are derived from our unaudited consolidated balance sheet of such date, which is not included in the prospectus.  Our consolidated financial statements for the years ending December 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011, were audited by Rothstein Kass.
 
 
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Starboard Resources, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Operations
 
   
Six Months Ended June 30,
   
Year Ended December 31,
 
   
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
$ in thousands, except per share amounts
 
(Unaudited)
   
(Unaudited)
             
                         
Oil, natural gas, and related product sales
  $ 6,192     $ 7,145     $ 12,954     $ 4,898  
                                 
Expenses
                               
Depreciation and depletion
    2,613       2,528       4,584       1,645  
Lease operating
    1,798       1,371       2,897       1,603  
General and administrative
    1,587       882       2,470       608  
Professional fees
    327       227       576       545  
Production taxes
    153       160       279       206  
Management fees
                            139  
Performance fees
                            110  
Exploration
    40       23       50       73  
                                 
Total expenses
    6,518       5,191       10,857       4,929  
                                 
Operating income (loss)
    (326 )     1,954       2,098       (31 )
                                 
Other income (expense)
                               
Interest income
                            614  
Income from equity investment in ImPetro
                               
Resources, LLC
                            (307 )
Gain from ImPetro Resouces LLC business
                               
combination acquired in stages
                            6,980  
Put option expense
                            (3,700 )
Interest expense
    (372 )     (101 )     (370 )     (16 )
Going public delay expense
    (364 )     (364 )     (729 )     (101 )
Income (loss) from derivative contracts
    103               (159 )     (57 )
                                 
Total other income (expense)
    (633 )     (465 )     (1,258 )     3,413  
                                 
Income (loss) before income taxes
    (959 )     1,489       840       3,382  
                                 
Income tax expense:
                               
Current income taxes
                    66          
Deferred income taxes
    (189 )     15,429       15,273          
                                 
Total income tax expense
    (189 )     15,429       15,339          
                                 
Net income (loss)
  $ (770 )   $ (13,940 )   $ (14,499 )   $ 3,382  
                                 
Net income (loss) per basic and diluted
                               
common share
  $ (0.06 )   $ (1.20 )   $ (1.21 )   $ 0.36  
                                 
Weighted average basic and diluted
                               
common shares outstanding
    12,362,336       11,655,000       11,971,948       9,436,614  
 
 
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Starboard Resources, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Cashflows
 
   
Six Months Ended June 30,
   
Year Ended December 31,
 
   
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
$ in thousands
 
(Unaudited)
   
(Unaudited)
             
                         
Cash flows from operating activities
                       
Net income (loss)
  $ (770 )   $ (13,940 )   $ (14,499 )   $ 3,382  
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash
                               
  provided by operating activities:
                               
Depreciation and depletion
    2,613       2,528       4,584       1,645  
Deferred income taxes
    (189 )     15,429       15,273          
Stock-based compensation
    599       300       899          
Bad debt expense
                            4  
Accretion of discount on note receivable, related party
                            (348 )
Income from equity investment in ImPetro
                            307  
Gain from ImPetro Resouces LLC business
                               
  combination acquired in stages
                            (6,980 )
Put option expense
                            3,700  
Accretion of asset retirement obligation
    79       82       273       14  
Going public delay expense
    364       364       729       101  
Income (loss) from derivative contracts
    (103 )             159       57  
Loss on sale of other property and equipment
            2                  
Accretion of debt issuance costs
    161       7       28          
Increase (decrease) in cash attributable to
                               
  changes in operating assets and liabilities:
                               
Trade receivable
    (74 )     353       164       (856 )
Joint interest receivable
    51       48       (5 )     116  
Note and interest receivable
                            390  
Prepaid management fee
                            186  
Prepaid expenses and other assets
    (96 )     (97 )     (15 )     (107 )
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
    (501 )     (1,598 )     (1,503 )     1,393  
Joint interest revenues payable
    101       (29 )     (79 )     (128 )
Related party payable
                            (286 )
                                 
Net cash provided by operating activities
    2,235       3,449       6,008       2,590  
                                 
Cash flows from investing activities
                               
Development of oil and natural gas properties
    (6,824 )     (3,274 )     (9,477 )     (5,675 )
Acquisition of oil and natural gas properties
            (700 )     (700 )        
Prepaid drilling costs
                               
Acquisition of ImPetro Resouces LLC, net of cash acquired
                            (294 )
Acquisition of other property and equipment
            (4 )     (23 )     (21 )
Proceeds from sale of other property and equipment
            1                  
Oil and natural gas abandonment costs
    (17 )     (18 )     (101 )     (201 )
Bonds and deposits
            25       2          
                                 
Net cash used in investing activities
    (6,841 )     (3,970 )     (10,299 )     (6,191 )
 
 
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Starboard Resources, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Cashflows (Continued)
 
   
Six Months Ended June 30,
   
Year Ended December 31,
 
   
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
$ in thousands
 
(Unaudited)
   
(Unaudited)
             
Cash flows from financing activities
                       
Starboard common stock issued, net of placement costs
                      4,900  
ASYM Energy Fund III member units issued
                      1,290  
Proceeds from notes payable, net of debt issuance costs
    5,978       789       4,566          
Distribution of cash from roll-up transaction
                            (1,789 )
Deferred offering costs
    (81 )     (155 )     (179 )        
Repayments of notes payable
    (9 )     (7 )     (838 )     (8 )
                                 
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
    5,888       627       3,549       4,394  
                                 
Net increase (decrease) in cash
    1,282       106       (742 )     793  
                                 
Cash, beginning of period
    1,037       1,779       1,779       986  
                                 
Cash, end of period
  $ 2,319     $ 1, 885     $ 1,037     $ 1,779  
 
 
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Starboard Resources, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Balance Sheets
 
   
June 30,
   
December 31,
 
$ in thousands
 
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
   
(Unaudited)
   
(Unaudited)
             
ASSETS
                       
                         
Current assets
                       
Cash
  $ 2,319       1,885     $ 1,037     $ 1,779  
Trade receivable
    1,274       1,012       1,200       1,365  
Joint interest receivable
    5       3       56       51  
Deferred tax assets
    182       155       182          
Prepaid expenses
    142       133       51       36  
                                 
Total current assets
    3,922       3,188       2,526       3,231  
                                 
Oil and natural gas properties and other equipment
                               
Oil and natural gas properties, successful efforts method, net of
                               
accumulated depletion
    69,773       62,087       64,554       58,555  
Other property and equipment, net of depreciation
    160       116       184       133  
                                 
Total oil and natural gas properties and other equipment, net
    69,933       62,203       64,738       58,688  
                                 
Other assets
                               
Prepaid drilling costs
                               
Goodwill
    960       960       960       960  
Other
    820       507       792       373  
                                 
Total other assets
    1.780       1,467       1,752       1,333  
                                 
Total assets
  $ 75,635       66,858     $ 69,016     $ 63,252  
 
 
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Starboard Resources, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Balance Sheets (Continued)
 
   
June 30,
   
December 31,
 
   
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
$ in thousands
 
(Unaudited)
   
(Unaudited)
             
                         
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
                       
                         
Current liabilities
                       
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
  $ 3,969       2,643     $ 3,114     $ 3,216  
Joint interest revenues payable
    659       608       558       637  
Current derivative liabilities
    55               105          
Current maturities of notes payable
    19       815       18       15  
Current asset retirement obligations
    401       447       435       447  
Put option
            18,400               18,400  
                                 
Total current liabilities
    5,103       22,913       4,230       22,716  
                                 
Long-term liabilities
                               
Derivative liabilities
    2               54          
Notes payable
    10,078       12       4,008       19  
Deferred tax liabilities
    15,266       15,584       15,454          
Asset retirement obligations
    1,924       1,959       1,837       1,885  
                                 
Total long-term liabilities
    27,270       17,555       21,353       1,903  
                                 
Commitments and contingencies
                               
                                 
Stockholders’ equity
                               
Preferred stock, $.001 par value, authorized 10,000,000 shares;
                               
none issued and outstanding
                               
Common stock, $.001 par value, authorized 150,000,000 shares;
                               
12,362,336, 11,665,000, 12,362,336, and 11,655,000 shares issued at
                               
June 30, 2013, 2012, December 31, 2012, and 2011, respectively
    12       12       12       12  
Paid-in capital in excess of par
    53,846       34,249       53,247       33,949  
Retained earnings (deficit)
    (10,596 )     (7,871 )     (9,827 )     4,672  
                                 
Total stockholders’ equity
    43,262       26,390       43,433       38,633  
                                 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
  $ 75,635       66,858     $ 69,016     $ 63,252  
 
 
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Reserves Data
 
The following table presents summary data with respect to our estimated net proved oil and natural gas reserves at the dates indicated. The reserves estimates at January 1, 2013 presented in the table below are based on evaluations prepared by our engineering staff and an estimated reserve report prepared by Forrest A. Garb & Associates, Inc., independent reservoir engineers. These reserves estimates were prepared in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules regarding oil and natural gas reserves reporting that were in effect at the time of the preparation of the reserves report. Our total estimated proved reserves are estimated using a conversion ratio of one Bbl per six Mcf.
 
   
January 1,
2013
 
       
Estimated proved reserves:
     
Natural gas (MMcf)
    9,447  
Oil (MBbl)
    3,498  
PV-10 ($ thousands)
    123,045  

Present value, or PV-10, when used in connection with oil and gas reserves, means the estimated future gross revenue to be generated from the production of proved reserves, net of estimated production and future development costs, using prices calculated as the average natural gas and oil price during the preceding 12-month period prior to the end of the current reporting period, (determined as the unweighted arithmetical average of prices on the first day of each month within the 12-month period) and costs in effect at the determination date, without giving effect to non-property related expenses such as general and administrative expenses, debt service and future income tax expense or to depreciation, depletion and amortization, discounted using an annual discount rate of 10%.

Estimates of reserves as of January 1, 2013 were prepared using an average price equal to the unweighted arithmetic average of hydrocarbon prices received on a field-by-field basis on the first day of each month within the 12-month period ended January 1, 2013, in accordance with revised SEC guidelines applicable to reserves estimates as of the end of 2012. The reserve estimates represent our net revenue interest in our properties. Although we believe these estimates are reasonable, actual future production, cash flows, taxes, development expenditures, operating expenses and quantities of recoverable oil and natural gas reserves may vary substantially from these estimates.

We believe that PV-10, a non-GAAP measure of estimated proved reserves is widely used by analysts and investors in evaluating oil and gas companies.  Our reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure (standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows) is found in the table on page 67 of this Prospectus.

Unaudited Operating Data
 
The following table sets forth summary unaudited production results for the Company and its subsidiaries for the year ended December 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011 and the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012.
 
   
Year Ended December 31
   
Six Months Ended June 30
 
   
2012
   
2011
   
2013
   
2012
 
Production:
                       
Natural gas (Mcf)
    442,004       129,527       239,402       196,275  
Oil (Bbl)
    115,398       43,596       52,701       63,503  
BOE
    189,065       65,184       92,601       96,216  
 
 
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Employees
 
As December 31, 2012, we had 11 full-time employees. With the successful implementation of our business plan, management believes we may require additional employees in the future.
 
Reports to Stockholders
 
Upon the effectiveness of this Form S-1, we will be subject to the information reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act”), and we will file reports with the SEC, including annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. The public may read and copy any materials the Company files with the SEC in the SEC’s Public Reference Section, Room 1580, 100 F Street N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Section by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. Additionally, the SEC maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC, which can be found at http://www.sec.gov.

Forward-Looking Statements
 
This prospectus includes forward-looking statements in numerous places, including Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the resolution of a lawsuit in Stamford, Connecticut regarding the ownership and control of a majority of our common stock shares, any statements regarding future revenues, costs and expenses, earnings, earnings per share, margins, cash flows, dividends and capital expenditures. Important factors which may affect the actual results include, but are not limited to, the resolution of the litigation involving Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP, the effect of the monetization agreement relating to those entities, political developments, market and economic conditions, changes in raw material, transportation and energy costs, industry competition, cost of services, service and equipment providers and the ability to execute and realize the expected benefits from strategic initiatives, including revenue and reserve growth plans, mergers and acquisitions and their integration, changes in financial markets and changing legislation and regulations, including changes in tax law or tax regulations. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. We assume no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements for any reason, except as required by law.
 
 
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RISK FACTORS
 
An investment in our common stock is subject to numerous risks, including those listed below and described elsewhere in this prospectus. You should carefully consider these risks, along with the information provided elsewhere in this prospectus before investing in the common stock. You could lose all or part of your investment in the common stock.

We have had operating losses in the past.

Our financial statements report that our 2011 operating loss was $30,734. If we incur substantial operating expenses in connection with our oil and natural gas exploration and development activities, we may not continue to be profitable. Our financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2012 show operating income of $2,097,803 and net income of $(14,498,804).

We have substantial capital requirements that, if not met, may hinder operations.

We have and expect to continue to have substantial capital needs as a result of our active exploration, development, and acquisition programs. We expect that additional external financing will be required in the future to fund our growth. We may not be able to obtain additional financing, and financing under our credit facilities may not be available in the future. Without additional capital resources, we may be forced to limit or defer our planned oil and natural gas exploration and development program and this will adversely affect the recoverability and ultimate value of our oil and natural gas properties, in turn negatively affecting our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Our shareholder base is currently not stable because the Connecticut lawsuit, the dispute over who is the general partner of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP or the “Monetization” Agreement may lead to up to 82.39% of our common stock being reallocated to new shareholders.
 
Approximately 82.39% of our common stock shares are the subject of litigation filed in Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk at Stamford, Cause Nos. FST-CV-12-5013927-S and FST-CV-12-6014987-S, styled Charles Henry III, Ahmed Ammar, John P. Vaile as Trustee of John P. Vaile Living Trust, John Paul Otieno, SOSventures, LLC, Bradford Higgins, William Mahoney, Robert J. Conrads, Edward M. Conrads, William F. Pettinati, Jr. individually and derivatively on behalf of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund LP v. Gregory Imbruce, Giddings Investments LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, Asym Capital III LLC, Starboard Resources, Inc., Glenrose Holdings LLC and Asym Energy Investments LLC.  This lawsuit was originally filed on July 18, 2012.  The Plaintiffs allege fiduciary duty breaches, conversion, civil theft, violations of Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, unjust enrichment, common law fraud, negligence, fraudulent conveyance and civil conspiracy and seek damages, injunctive relief, a constructive trust and an accounting.  These allegations focus on the issuance of 550,000 Starboard Resources LLC Units to “Giddings Investments, LLC.”  The allegations claim that this issuance was derived from the conversion of participation rights in Company wells that belong to Giddings Oil & Gas LP.  The lawsuit makes several other claims of breaches of duties by Defendants in connection with Defendants or their affiliates serving as general partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP, and Hunton Oil Partners LP.  Defendants deny the allegations.
 
Further, on May 8, 2013, counsel for the limited partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP  in the Henry et al., v. Imbruce et al., informed the Company that “87.5% of the limited partners of the three limited partnerships have removed Gregory Imbruce and/or his affiliates as general partner of said partnerships. In addition, the limited partners have appointed Chuck (Charles) Henry as the replacement general partner.”   We have also become aware of a letter from counsel for Gregory Imbruce and his affiliates to counsel for the limited partners dated April 6, 2013 denying the effectiveness of the removal notice.
 
 
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Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP own 77.94% (and up to 82.39% if the interpleaded shares are included) of our common stock shares.  Charles S. Henry, III is a Company director.  The dispute over control of these partnerships will have a material impact on our shareholder voting and our corporate governance and presents the Company with substantial risk that we may have a disputed shareholder vote.
 
Further, Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP are subject to an agreement dated January 20, 2012, attached as Exhibit 4.2, between Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC and SOSventures, LLC that could cover up to 10,185,000 of our common stock shares or 82.39% of our common stock.  The Agreement provides that upon “the receipt of unrestricted and freely transferable securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended in connection with a going public transaction at Starboard Resources, LLC, however affected” that Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC will dissolve the partnerships.
 
The above-described Connecticut lawsuit included as Exhibits 99.1.1 through 99.1.4 or the “Monetization” Agreement included as Exhibit 4.2 to this prospectus may lead to a material reallocation or change of control of up to 82.39% of our common stock shares through the dissolution of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and/or Hunton Oil Partners LP.  Such new shareholders may vote for a new slate of directors. While this lawsuit is pending we are likely to have corporate governance issues in shareholder meetings due to possible conflicts as to who can vote a majority of our common stock shares.  Further, the resolution of this lawsuit may lead to a significant change of our common stock ownership structure and could lead to new shareholders seeking to assert control over the Company.  Moreover, we currently have only seven stockholders (plus 550,000 common stock shares interplead into the Court in Henry et al v. Imbruce et al.).  Stock purchase and sale decisions by these stockholders will have a material impact on our common stock shares’ liquidity. Finally, tying up 82.39% of our common stock shares in litigation will likely have a materially negative effect on our trading liquidity should we obtain an exchange listing or an over-the-counter quotation.
 
Finally, it is important for the selling shareholders and prospective purchasers to understand that this prospectus only covers the sale of our common stock shares by the partnerships and other designated Selling Stockholders as stated in the table on page 106 of this prospectus. If our common stock shares are distributed by the partnerships to their limited partners through the monetization agreement or otherwise, those limited partners may only sell their shares through the effectiveness of another registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 covering the referenced common stock shares or through the limited sales allowed by the safe harbor from being found to be an underwriter as stated in SEC Rule 144.

We have a substantial risk of having a disputed shareholder vote which could cause significant dispute over corporate governance, call into question the authority or directors and officers to act for the Company and cause us to face material issues in being able to issue duly authorized securities in new securities issues to raise capital.
 
On May 8, 2013, counsel for the limited partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP in the Henry et al., v. Imbruce et al., informed the Company that “87.5% of the limited partners of the three limited partnerships have removed Gregory Imbruce and/or his affiliates as general partner of said partnerships. In addition, the limited partners have appointed Chuck (Charles) Henry as the replacement general partner.”   We have also become aware of a letter from counsel for Gregory Imbruce and his affiliates to counsel for the limited partners dated April 6, 2013 denying the effectiveness of the removal notice.
 
This dispute as to authority over the partnerships and to, among other things, be able to vote the partnerships’ common stock shares in the Company, could affect the vote of up to 82.39% of or common stock shares. A disputed shareholder vote would have cascading and significant deleterious effect on the Company. A disputed shareholder vote could call into question the authority for directors to serve as directors and any decisions or authorizations made by the directors. Further, if the directors have no authority to act serve as directors or make decisions or authorizations by the Company, then the Company officers appointed by such directors may also lack the authority to act on behalf of and bind the Company. Moreover, with a disputed vote the Company would have difficulty issuing new securities to fulfill capital needs as it is unlikely that investors would accept securities authorized during such a corporate governance dispute and the Company would be unlikely to be able to obtain a duly-authorized, fully-paid and non-assessable legal opinion that is generally expected in such transactions.
 
Our success is dependent on the prices of oil and natural gas.  Low oil or natural gas prices and the substantial volatility in these prices may adversely affect our financial condition and our ability to meet our capital expenditure requirements and financial obligations.

The prices we receive for our oil and natural gas heavily influence our revenue, profitability, cash flow available for capital expenditures, access to capital and future rate of growth. Oil and natural gas are commodities and, therefore, their prices are subject to wide fluctuations in response to relatively minor changes in supply and demand. Historically, the markets for oil and natural gas have been volatile. These markets will likely continue to be volatile in the future. The prices we receive for our production, and the levels of our production, depend on numerous factors. These factors include the following: 

worldwide and regional economic conditions impacting the global supply and demand for oil and natural gas;
the prices and availability of competitors’ supplies of oil and natural gas;
 
 
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the actions of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, and state-controlled oil companies relating to oil price and production controls;
the price and quantity of foreign imports;
the impact of U.S. dollar exchange rates on oil and natural gas prices;
domestic and foreign governmental regulations and taxes;
speculative trading of oil and natural gas futures contracts;
the availability, proximity and capacity of gathering and transportation systems for natural gas;
the availability of refining capacity;
the prices and availability of alternative fuel sources;
weather conditions and natural disasters;
political conditions in or affecting oil and natural gas producing regions, including the Middle East and South America;
the continued threat of terrorism and the impact of military action and civil unrest;
public pressure on, and legislative and regulatory interest within, federal, state and local governments to stop, significantly limit or regulate hydraulic fracturing activities;
the level of global oil and natural gas inventories and exploration and production activity;
the impact of energy conservation efforts;
technological advances affecting energy consumption; and
overall worldwide economic conditions.

Lower oil and natural gas prices will reduce our cash flows, borrowing ability and the present value of our estimated reserves.  Our exploration, development and exploitation projects require substantial capital expenditures. We may be unable to obtain needed capital or financing on satisfactory terms, which could lead to expiration of our leases or a decline in our oil and natural gas reserves. Lower oil and natural gas prices may also reduce the amount of oil and natural gas that we can produce economically and may affect our estimated proved reserves.  The present value of future net revenues from our estimated proved reserves will not necessarily be the same as the current market value of our estimated oil and natural gas reserves.

Drilling for oil and natural gas is a speculative activity and involves numerous risks and substantial and uncertain costs that could adversely affect us.

Our success will depend on the success of our drilling program. Most of our prospects have completed evaluations. Other prospects are in various stages of evaluation, ranging from prospects that are ready to drill to prospects that will require substantial additional seismic data processing and interpretation and other types of technical geological evaluation. There is no way to predict in advance of drilling and testing whether any particular prospect will yield oil or natural gas in sufficient quantities to recover drilling or completion costs or to be economically viable. The use of seismic data and other technologies and the study of producing fields in the same area will not enable us to know conclusively prior to drilling whether oil or natural gas will be present or, if present, whether oil or natural gas will be present in commercial quantities. We cannot assure you that the analogies we draw from available data from other wells, more fully explored prospects or producing fields will be applicable to our drilling prospects.

The budgeted costs of planning, drilling, completing and operating wells are often exceeded and such costs can increase significantly due to various complications that may arise during the drilling and operating processes. Before a well is spud, we may incur significant geological and geophysical (seismic) costs, which are incurred whether a well eventually produces commercial quantities of hydrocarbons, or is drilled at all.  Exploration wells endure a much greater risk of loss than development wells. The analogies we draw from available data from other wells, more fully explored locations or producing fields may not be applicable to our drilling locations.  If our actual drilling and development costs are significantly more than our estimated costs, we may not be able to continue our operations as proposed and could be forced to modify our drilling plans accordingly. Drilling for oil and natural gas involves numerous risks, including the risk that no commercially productive natural gas or oil reservoirs will be discovered. The cost of drilling, completing, and operating wells is substantial and uncertain, and drilling operations may be curtailed, delayed, or canceled as a result of a variety of factors beyond our control, including:

unexpected or adverse drilling conditions;
elevated pressure or irregularities in geologic formations;
equipment failures or accidents;
adverse weather conditions;
compliance with governmental requirements; and
shortages or delays in the availability of drilling rigs, crews, and equipment.
 
 
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If we decide to drill a certain location, there is a risk that no commercially productive oil or natural gas reservoirs will be found or produced. We may drill or participate in new wells that are not productive.  We may drill wells that are productive, but that do not produce sufficient net revenues to return a profit after drilling, operating and other costs. A productive well may become uneconomic if water or other deleterious substances are encountered, which impair or prevent the production of oil and/or natural gas from the well. Our overall drilling success rate or our drilling success rate for activity within a particular project area may decline. Unsuccessful drilling activities could result in a significant decline in our production and revenues and materially harm our operations and financial condition by reducing our available cash and resources. There is no way to predict in advance of drilling and testing whether any particular location will yield oil or natural gas in sufficient quantities to recover exploration, drilling or completion costs or to be economically viable. Even if sufficient amounts of oil or natural gas exist, we may damage the potentially productive hydrocarbon-bearing formation or experience mechanical difficulties while drilling or completing the well, resulting in a reduction in production and reserves from the well or abandonment of the well.

Because of the risks and uncertainties of our business, our future performance in exploration and drilling may not be comparable to our historical performance.

We are subject to contingencies arising from interpretations of federal and state laws and regulations affecting the oil and gas industry.

The Company is subject to various possible contingencies that arise primarily from interpretation of federal and state laws and regulations affecting the oil and natural gas industry. Such contingencies include differing interpretations as to the prices at which oil and natural gas sales may be made, the prices at which royalty owners may be paid for production from their leases, environmental issues and other matters. Although management believes that it has complied with the various laws and regulations, administrative rulings and interpretations thereof, adjustments could be required as new interpretations and regulations are issued. In addition, environmental matters are subject to regulation by various federal and state agencies. 

We depend on successful exploration, development and acquisitions to maintain reserves and revenue in the future.

In general, the volume of production from oil and natural gas properties declines as reserves are depleted, with the rate of decline depending on reservoir characteristics. Except to the extent that we conduct successful exploration and development activities or acquire properties containing proved reserves, or both, our proved reserves will decline as reserves are produced. Our future oil and natural gas production is, therefore, highly dependent on our level of success in finding or acquiring additional reserves. Additionally, the business of exploring for, developing, or acquiring reserves is capital intensive. Recovery in our reserves, particularly undeveloped reserves, will require significant additional capital expenditures and successful drilling operations. To the extent cash flow from operations is reduced and external sources of capital become limited or unavailable, our ability to make the necessary capital investment to maintain or expand our asset base of oil and natural gas reserves would be impaired. In addition, we are dependent on finding partners for our exploratory activity. To the extent that others in the industry do not have the financial resources or choose not to participate in our exploration activities, we will be adversely affected.

Our development and exploration operations require substantial capital and we may be unable to obtain needed capital or financing on satisfactory terms or at all, which could lead to a loss of properties and a decline in our oil and natural gas reserves.

The oil and natural gas industry is capital intensive. We make and expect to continue to make substantial capital expenditures in our business and operations for the exploration for and development, production and acquisition of oil and natural gas reserves. To date, we have financed capital expenditures with the sale of our equity in 2011, a 2012 credit facility from Mutual of Omaha Bank (now replaced), a 2012 loan and 2013 credit agreement from SOSventures LLC and a 2013 credit agreement from Independent Bank.  Our credit facility with Independent Bank has a current borrowing base of $13 million.  Currently we have borrowed approximately $11 million under the Independent Bank credit facility.
 
 
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In the near term, we intend to finance our capital expenditures with cash flow from operations and borrowings under our credit agreements or subordinated loans. Our cash flow from operations and access to capital are subject to a number of variables, including:

our estimated proved oil and natural gas reserves;
the amount of oil and natural gas we produce from existing wells;
the prices at which we sell our production;
the costs of developing and producing our oil and natural gas reserves;
our ability to acquire, locate and produce new reserves;
the ability and willingness of banks to lend to us; and
our ability to access the equity and debt capital markets.

We cannot assure you that our operations and other capital resources will provide cash in sufficient amounts to maintain planned or future levels of capital expenditures. Further, our actual capital expenditures in 2012 could exceed our capital expenditure budget. In the event our capital expenditure requirements at any time are greater than the amount of capital we have available, we could be required to seek additional sources of capital, which may include traditional reserve base borrowings, debt financing, joint venture partnerships, production payment financings, sales of assets, offerings of debt or equity securities or other means. We cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain debt or equity financing on terms favorable to us, or at all.

If we are unable to fund our capital requirements, we may be required to curtail our operations relating to the exploration and development of our prospects, which in turn could lead to a possible loss of properties and a decline in our oil and natural gas reserves, or may be otherwise unable to implement our development plan, complete acquisitions or otherwise take advantage of business opportunities or respond to competitive pressures, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our production, revenues and results of operations. In addition, a delay in or the failure to complete proposed or future infrastructure projects could delay or eliminate potential efficiencies and related cost savings.

Our level of indebtedness may increase and reduce our financial flexibility.
 
In the future, we may incur significant indebtedness in order to make future acquisitions or to develop our properties. Our level of indebtedness could affect our operations in several ways, including the following:

a significant portion of our cash flows could be used to service our indebtedness;
a high level of debt would increase our vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions;
the covenants contained in the agreements governing our outstanding indebtedness will limit our ability to borrow additional funds, dispose of assets, pay dividends and make certain investments;
a high level of debt may place us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our competitors that are less leveraged and therefore, may be able to take advantage of opportunities that our indebtedness would prevent us from pursuing;
our debt covenants may also affect our flexibility in planning for, and reacting to, changes in the economy and in our industry;
a high level of debt may make it more likely that a reduction in our borrowing base following a periodic redetermination could require us to repay a portion of our then-outstanding bank borrowings; and
a high level of debt may impair our ability to obtain additional financing in the future for working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions, general corporate or other purposes.
 
A high level of indebtedness increases the risk that we may default on our debt obligations. Our ability to meet our debt obligations and to reduce our level of indebtedness depends on our future performance. General economic conditions, oil and natural gas prices and financial, business and other factors affect our operations and our future performance. Many of these factors are beyond our control. We may not be able to generate sufficient cash flows to pay the interest on our debt, and future working capital, borrowings or equity financing may not be available to pay or refinance such debt. Factors that will affect our ability to raise cash through an offering of our capital stock or a refinancing of our debt include financial market conditions, the value of our assets and our performance at the time we need capital.
 
 
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Our credit facilities contain restrictive covenants that may limit our ability to respond to changes in market conditions or pursue business opportunities.
 
Our credit facilities contain restrictive covenants that limit our ability to, among other things:

  
incur additional indebtedness;
  
create additional liens;
  
sell assets;
  
merge or consolidate with another entity;
  
pay dividends or make other distributions;
  
engage in transactions with affiliates; and
  
enter into certain swap agreements.

In addition, our credit facilities require us to maintain certain financial ratios and tests. The requirement that we comply with these provisions may materially adversely affect our ability to react to changes in market conditions, take advantage of business opportunities we believe to be desirable, obtain future financing, fund needed capital expenditures or withstand a continuing or future downturn in our business.

If we are unable to comply with the restrictions and covenants in our credit facilities, there could be an event of default under the terms of our credit facilities, which could result in an acceleration of repayment.
 
Our credit facilities with Independent Bank and SOSventures, LLC includes covenants and restrictions that, among other things, require us to maintain title to and not encumber the collateral assets, maintain certain financial ratios and not borrow further funds or pay dividends without lenders’ consents. If we are unable to comply with the restrictions and covenants in our revolving credit facilities with Independent Bank and SOSventures, LLC, there could be an event of default under the terms of our credit facilities. Our ability to comply with these restrictions and covenants, including meeting the financial ratios and tests under our revolving credit facilities, may be affected by events beyond our control. As a result, we cannot assure that we will be able to comply with these restrictions and covenants or meet such financial ratios and tests. In the event of a default under our revolving credit facilities, the lenders could terminate their commitments to lend or accelerate the loans and declare all amounts borrowed due and payable. If any of these events occur, our assets might not be sufficient to repay in full all of our outstanding indebtedness and we may be unable to find alternative financing. Even if we could obtain alternative financing, it might not be on terms that are favorable or acceptable to us. Additionally, we may not be able to amend our revolving credit facilities or obtain needed waivers on satisfactory terms.

Our borrowings under our Independent Bank revolving credit facility expose us to interest rate risk.

Our earnings are exposed to interest rate risk associated with borrowings under our Independent Bank revolving credit facility, which bear interest at a rate elected by us that is based on the prime rate plus 0.0% with a minimum floor of 4.00% depending on the base rate used and the amount of the loan outstanding in relation to the borrowing base. As of July 19, 2013, the weighted average interest rate on outstanding borrowings under our revolving credit facility was 4.00%. If interest rates increase, so will our interest costs, which may have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

 Any significant reduction in our borrowing base under our credit facility as a result of the periodic borrowing base redeterminations or otherwise may negatively impact our ability to fund our operations.

Under our Independent Bank credit facility, which currently provides for a $13.0 million borrowing base, we are subject to semi-annual and other elective collateral borrowing base redeterminations based on our estimated oil and natural gas reserves. Any significant reduction in our borrowing base as a result of such borrowing base redeterminations or otherwise may negatively impact our liquidity and our ability to fund our operations and, as a result, may have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operation and cash flow.
 
 
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Proposed tax and other legislation may materially impact our financial performance.

On April 16, 2013, the Obama Administration released its 2014 Budget Proposal.  The Budget Proposal seeks to eliminate “tax expenditures” for the expensing of oil and gas exploration and development costs and for allowing the use of percentage over cost depletion.  The Budget Proposal claims that eliminating tax expenditures for oil, gas and coal will save $44 billion over ten years.  Targeted tax changes include: (i) the repeal of the percentage depletion allowance for oil and natural gas properties, (ii) the elimination of current deductions for intangible drilling and development costs, (iii) the elimination of the deduction for certain United States production activities and (iv) the increase in the amortization period for geological and geophysical costs paid or incurred in connection with the exploration for, or development of, oil or natural gas within the United States. Similar provisions may be considered by Congress.  Any of these tax changes could have a material impact on the Company’s financial performance.

The Obama Administration also has urged Congress to consider an energy bill with a cap-and-trade program to restrict carbon pollution and a requirement that utilities buy more electricity from renewable sources.  Such proposed legislation may also include environmental and tax proposals that may affect oil and gas investments.

We may have accidents, equipment failures or mechanical problems while drilling or completing wells or in production activities, which could adversely affect our business.

While we are drilling and completing wells or involved in production activities, we may have accidents or experience equipment failures or mechanical problems in a well that cause us to be unable to drill and complete the well or to continue to produce the well according to our plans. We may also damage a potentially hydrocarbon-bearing formation during drilling and completion operations. Such incidents may result in a reduction of our production and reserves from the well or in abandonment of the well.

Our estimated reserves are based on many assumptions that may prove inaccurate. Any significant inaccuracies in these reserve estimates or underlying assumptions will materially affect the quantities and present value of our reserves.
 
No one can measure underground accumulations of oil and natural gas in an exact way. Oil and natural gas reserve engineering requires subjective estimates of underground accumulations of oil and natural gas and assumptions concerning future oil and natural gas prices, production levels, and operating and development costs. As a result, estimated quantities of proved reserves and projections of future production rates and the timing of development expenditures may prove to be inaccurate. Any material inaccuracies in these reserve estimates or underlying assumptions will materially affect the quantities and present value of our reserves which could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and our ability to make cash distributions to our shareholders.

In order to prepare our estimates, we must project production rates and the timing of development expenditures. We must also analyze available geological, geophysical, production and engineering data. The extent, quality and reliability of this data can vary. The process also requires economic assumptions about matters such as oil and natural gas prices, drilling and operating expenses, capital expenditures, taxes and availability of funds. Although the reserve information contained herein is reviewed by independent reserve engineers, estimates of oil and natural gas reserves are inherently imprecise.

Further, the present value of future net cash flows from our proved reserves may not be the current market value of our estimated oil and natural gas reserves. In accordance with SEC requirements, we base the estimated discounted future net cash flows from our proved reserves on the 12-month average oil and gas index prices, calculated as the un-weighted arithmetic average for the first-day-of-the-month price for each month and costs in effect on the date of the estimate, holding the prices and costs constant throughout the life of the properties.

Actual future prices and costs may differ materially from those used in the net present value estimate, and future net present value estimates using then current prices and costs may be significantly less than the current estimate. In addition, the 10% discount factor we use when calculating discounted future net cash flows for reporting requirements in compliance with the FASB in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC “) 932 may not be the most appropriate discount factor based on interest rates in effect from time to time and risks associated with us or the oil and natural gas industry in general.

A substantial percentage of our proved reserves consist of undeveloped reserves.

As of January 1, 2013, approximately 84% of our proved reserves were classified as estimated proved undeveloped reserves. These reserves may not ultimately be developed or produced. As a result, we may not find commercially viable quantities of oil and natural gas, which in turn may have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.
 
 
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Our operational risk is concentrated due to our reliance on a small number of wells, operators and oil and gas purchasers.
 
We have concentrated operational risks both in terms of our producing oil and gas properties, the operators we use and in the purchasers of our oil and gas production.  On operational failure by an operator, the decline of production from a property and the termination of a contractual agreement with an operator or purchaser would have a material negative impact on the Company.  For the six months ended June 30, 2013 (unaudited), revenues from the Company’s 92 producing wells ranged from approximately 0.01% to 10.57% of total revenues and for the year ended December 31, 2012, revenues from the Company’s 88 producing wells ranged from approximately .02% to 19.20% of total revenues.  These wells are all located in the southern region of Texas and central Oklahoma, with the Texas wells operated by the Company and the Oklahoma wells operated by one outside operator.
 
For the year ended December 31, 2012, the oil and natural gas produced by the Company is sold and marketed to six purchasers. Oil sales to two purchasers accounted for 100% of the oil sales, one purchaser accounted for approximately 96.2% and the other purchaser accounted for approximately 3.8%. Natural gas sales to two purchasers accounted for 98.3% of the natural gas sales, one purchaser accounted for approximately 63.8% and the other purchaser accounted for approximately 34.5%. Natural gas liquid sales to one purchaser accounted for 100% of the natural gas liquids sales. Accordingly, the Company’s entire trade receivable balance at December 31, 2012 was comprised of amounts due from its six purchasers.
 
Low oil and natural gas prices may diminish the quantity and value of our estimated proven undeveloped reserves.

Under SEC requirements estimated proved reserves need to be economically producible. If the price of oil or natural gas falls to a point where certain properties cost more to develop and operate than the revenue they generate, such properties might no longer be deemed to be economically producible.  SEC rules would require that such properties be removed from the estimated proved reserves in the Company’s financial statements. Such reclassifications would negatively impact on the Company’s balance sheet. Any write-down would constitute a non-cash charge to earnings and could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations for the periods in which such charges are taken.  Once incurred, a write-down of our oil and natural gas properties is not reversible at a later date.  Further, this removal of estimated proved reserves may have cascading effects on the Company’s current ratio calculations in its credit facilities. The Company may be required to obtain and pledge different collateral or bring in more assets to cure prospective defaults under its credit facilities.

Seismic studies do not guarantee that hydrocarbons are present or, if present, will produce in economic quantities.

We may use seismic studies to assist us with assessing prospective drilling opportunities on our properties, as well as on properties that we may acquire. Such seismic studies are merely an interpretive tool and do not necessarily guarantee that hydrocarbons are present or if present will produce in economic quantities.

 Our business is difficult to evaluate because we have a limited operating history.

Starboard Resources LLC was formed in June 2011, and was converted into a C corporation in June 2012.  Its predecessor company, ImPetro Resouces LLC was formed in January, 2010.  Consequently, we do not have a lengthy operating history.  Our business systems have not been tested by adversity.  While our management has experience with other oil and gas companies as stated below, we have little experience with our current business infrastructure.  As a result, we may have a higher operational risk than an oil and gas company that has operated for many years.

In considering whether to invest in our common stock, you should consider that there is only limited historical financial and operating information available on which to base your evaluation of our performance.  We were formed in June 2011 and, as a result, we have limited financial and operating information available.  We face challenges and uncertainties in financial planning as a result of the unavailability of historical data and uncertainties regarding the nature, scope and results of our future activities. We may not be successful in implementing our business strategies or in completing the development of the infrastructure necessary to conduct our business as planned.  In the event that our development plan is not completed or is delayed, our operating results will be adversely affected and our operations will differ materially from the activities described in this prospectus.  As a result of industry factors or factors relating specifically to us, we may have to change our methods of conducting business, which may cause a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
 
 
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We may experience difficulty in achieving and managing future growth.
 
Future growth may place strains on our resources and cause us to rely more on project partners and independent contractors, possibly negatively affecting our financial condition and results of operations. Our ability to grow will depend on a number of factors, including, but not limited to:

our ability to evaluate properties;
our ability to obtain leases or options on properties which we have evaluated;
our ability to acquire additional data on other prospects;
our ability to identify and acquire new exploratory prospects;
our ability to develop existing prospects;
our ability to continue to retain and attract skilled personnel;
our ability to maintain or enter into new relationships with project partners and independent contractors;
the results of our drilling program;
hydrocarbon prices; and
our access to capital.

We may not be successful in upgrading our technical, operations, and administrative resources or in increasing our ability to internally provide certain of the services currently provided by outside sources, and we may not be able to maintain or enter into new relationships with project partners and independent contractors. Our inability to achieve or manage growth may adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

We will not be the operator on all of our drilling locations, and, therefore, we will not be able to control the timing of exploration or development efforts, associated costs, or the rate of production of any non-operated assets.
 
We expect that we will not be the operator on 22% of our net acreage. As we carry out our exploration and development programs, we may enter into arrangements with respect to existing or future drilling locations that result in a greater proportion of our locations being operated by others.  As a result, we may have limited ability to exercise influence over the operations of the drilling locations operated by our partners.  Dependence on the operator could prevent us from realizing our target returns for those locations.  The success and timing of exploration and development activities operated by our partners will depend on a number of factors that will be largely outside of our control, including:

the timing and amount of capital expenditures;
the operator’s expertise and financial resources;
approval of other participants in drilling wells;
selection of technology; and
the rate of production of reserves, if any.

This limited ability to exercise control over the operations of some of our drilling locations may cause a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

A component of our growth may come through acquisitions, and our failure to identify or complete future acquisitions successfully could reduce our earnings and hamper our growth.

We may be unable to identify properties for acquisition or to make acquisitions on terms that we consider economically acceptable.  There is intense competition for acquisition opportunities in our industry.  Competition for acquisitions may increase the cost of, or cause us to refrain from, completing acquisitions.  The completion and pursuit of acquisitions may be dependent upon, among other things, our ability to obtain debt and equity financing and, in some cases, regulatory approvals.  Our ability to grow through acquisitions will require us to continue to invest in operations, financial and management information systems and to attract, retain, motivate and effectively manage our employees.  The inability to manage the integration of acquisitions effectively could reduce our focus on subsequent acquisitions and current operations, and could negatively impact our results of operations and growth potential.  Our financial position, results of operations and cash flows may fluctuate significantly from period to period, as a result of the completion of significant acquisitions during particular periods.  If we are not successful in identifying or acquiring any material property interests, our earnings could be reduced and our growth could be restricted.
 
 
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We may engage in bidding and negotiating to complete successful acquisitions.  We may be required to alter or increase substantially our capitalization to finance these acquisitions through the use of cash on hand, the issuance of debt or equity securities, the sale of production payments, the sale of nonstrategic assets, the borrowing of funds or otherwise.  If we were to proceed with one or more acquisitions involving the issuance of our common stock, our shareholders would suffer dilution of their interests.  Furthermore, our decision to acquire properties that are substantially different in operating or geologic characteristics or geographic locations from areas with which our staff is familiar may impact our productivity in such areas.

We may purchase oil and natural gas properties with liabilities or risks that we did not know about or that we did not assess correctly, and, as a result, we could be subject to liabilities that could adversely affect our results of operations.

Before acquiring oil and natural gas properties, we estimate the reserves, future oil and natural gas prices, operating costs, potential environmental liabilities and other factors relating to the properties.  However, our review involves many assumptions and estimates, and their accuracy is inherently uncertain.  As a result, we may not discover all existing or potential problems associated with the properties we buy.  We may not become sufficiently familiar with the properties to assess fully their deficiencies and capabilities.  We do not generally perform inspections on every well or property, and we may not be able to observe mechanical and environmental problems even when we conduct an inspection.  The seller may not be willing or financially able to give us contractual protection against any identified problems, and we may decide to assume environmental and other liabilities in connection with properties we acquire.  If we acquire properties with risks or liabilities we did not know about or that we did not assess correctly, our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be adversely affected as we settle claims and incur cleanup costs related to these liabilities.

The marketability of our production is dependent upon oil and natural gas gathering and transportation facilities owned and operated by third parties, and the unavailability of satisfactory oil and natural gas transportation arrangements would have a material adverse effect on our revenue.

The unavailability of satisfactory oil and natural gas transportation arrangements may hinder our access to oil and natural gas markets or delay production from our wells.  The availability of a ready market for our oil and natural gas production depends on a number of factors, including the demand for, and supply of, oil and natural gas and the proximity of estimated reserves to pipelines and terminal facilities.  Our ability to market our production depends in substantial part on the availability and capacity of gathering systems, pipelines and processing facilities owned and operated by third parties.  Our failure to obtain these services on acceptable terms could materially harm our business.  We may be required to shut-in wells for lack of a market or because of inadequacy or unavailability of pipeline or gathering system capacity.  If that were to occur, we would be unable to realize revenue from those wells until production arrangements were made to deliver our production to market. Furthermore, if we were required to shut-in wells we might also be obligated to pay shut-in royalties to certain mineral interest owners in order to maintain our leases.  The disruption of third party facilities due to maintenance and/or weather could negatively impact our ability to market and deliver our products.  These third parties control when or if such facilities are restored and what prices will be charged.  Federal and state regulation of oil and natural gas production and transportation, tax and energy policies, changes in supply and demand, pipeline pressures, damage to or destruction of pipelines and general economic conditions could adversely affect our ability to produce, gather and transport oil and natural gas.

Hedging transactions or the lack thereof, may limit our potential gains and could result in financial losses.

To manage our exposure to price risk, from time to time, we may enter into hedging arrangements, using primarily “costless collars,” with respect to a portion of our future production. A costless collar provides us with downside price protection through the purchase of a put option which is financed through the sale of a call option. Because the call option proceeds are used to offset the cost of the put option, this arrangement is initially “costless” to us. The goal of these and other hedges is to lock in a range of prices so as to mitigate price volatility and increase the predictability of cash flows. These transactions limit our potential gains if oil or natural gas prices rise above the maximum price established by the call option and may offer protection if prices fall below the minimum price established by the put option only to the extent of the volumes then hedged.

In addition, hedging transactions may expose us to the risk of financial loss in certain other circumstances, including instances in which our production is less than expected or the counterparties to our put and call option contracts fail to perform under the contracts.

Disruptions in the financial markets could lead to sudden changes in a counterparty’s liquidity, which could impair its ability to perform under the terms of the contracts. We are unable to predict sudden changes in a counterparty’s creditworthiness or ability to perform under contracts with us. Even if we do accurately predict sudden changes, our ability to mitigate that risk may be limited depending upon market conditions.
 
 
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Furthermore, there may be times when we have not hedged our production when, in retrospect, it would have been advisable to do so. Decisions as to whether and what production volumes to hedge are difficult and depend on market conditions and our forecast of future production and oil and gas prices, and we may not always employ the optimal hedging strategy. We may employ hedging strategies in the future that differ from those that we have used in the past, and neither the continued application of our current strategies nor our use of different hedging strategies may be successful.

On April 27, 2012, the SEC and the CFTC issued final rules defining “Swap Dealer,” “Security-Based Swap Dealer,” “Major Swap Participant,” “Major Security-Based Swap Participant” and “Eligible Contract Participant.”  These definitions have end-user exceptions.  To the extent that the Company uses swaps to hedge its risks, it will attempt to comply with the end-user and size exceptions from these definitions.  If the Company is unsuccessful in qualifying for such exceptions in any swap transaction, it may be required to maintain substantial financial reserves relating to its swap transactions and may be required to register with the SEC or CFTC as a swap dealer or participant.
 
Unless we replace our oil and natural gas estimated reserves, our estimated reserves and production will decline, which would adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Unless we conduct successful development, exploitation and exploration activities or acquire properties containing estimated proved reserves, our estimated proved reserves will decline as those reserves are produced. Producing oil and natural gas reservoirs generally are characterized by declining production rates that vary depending upon reservoir characteristics and other factors. Our estimated future oil and natural gas reserves and production, and therefore our cash flows and income, are highly dependent on our success in efficiently developing and exploiting our current estimated reserves and economically finding or acquiring additional estimated recoverable reserves. We may not be able to develop, exploit, find or acquire additional reserves to replace our current and future production at acceptable costs. If we are unable to replace our current and future production, the value of our estimated reserves will decrease, and our business, financial condition and results of operations would be adversely affected.

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

 Shortages or the high cost of drilling rigs, equipment, supplies, personnel or oilfield services could delay or adversely affect our development and exploration operations or cause us to incur significant expenditures that are not provided for in our capital budget, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Market conditions or operational impediments may hinder our access to oil and natural gas markets or delay our production.

Market conditions or the unavailability of satisfactory oil and natural gas transportation arrangements may hinder our access to oil and natural gas markets or delay our production. The availability of a ready market for our oil and natural gas production depends on a number of factors, including the demand for and supply of oil and natural gas and the proximity of estimated reserves to pipelines and terminal facilities. Our ability to market our production depends, in substantial part, on the availability and capacity of gathering systems, pipelines and processing facilities owned and operated by third-parties. Our failure to obtain such services on acceptable terms could materially harm our business. We may be required to shut in wells due to lack of a market or inadequacy or unavailability of crude oil or natural gas pipelines or gathering system capacity. If our production becomes shut-in for any of these or other reasons, we would be unable to realize revenue from those wells until other arrangements were made to deliver the products to market.

We may incur substantial losses and be subject to substantial liability claims as a result of our oil and natural gas operations. Additionally, we may not be insured for, or our insurance may be inadequate to protect us against, these risks.

We are not insured against all risks. Losses and liabilities arising from uninsured and underinsured events could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations. Our oil and natural gas exploration and production activities are subject to all of the operating risks associated with drilling for and producing oil and natural gas, including the possibility of:

environmental hazards, such as uncontrollable flows of oil, natural gas, brine, well fluids, toxic gas or other pollution into the environment, including groundwater and shoreline contamination;
abnormally pressured formations;
mechanical difficulties, such as stuck oilfield drilling and service tools and casing collapse;
personal injuries and death; and
natural disasters.
 
 
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Any of these risks could adversely affect our ability to conduct operations or result in substantial losses to us as a result of:

injury or loss of life;
damage to and destruction of property, natural resources and equipment;
pollution and other environmental damage;
regulatory investigations and penalties;
suspension of our operations; and
repair and remediation costs.

We may elect not to obtain insurance if we believe that the cost of available insurance is excessive relative to the risks presented. In addition, pollution and environmental risks generally are not fully insurable. The occurrence of an event that is not fully covered by insurance could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Drilling locations that we decide to drill may not yield oil or natural gas in commercially viable quantities.

We describe some of our drilling locations and our plans to explore those drilling locations in this prospectus. Our drilling locations are in various stages of evaluation, ranging from a location which is ready to drill to a location that will require substantial additional interpretation. There is no way to predict in advance of drilling and testing whether any particular location will yield oil or natural gas in sufficient quantities to recover drilling or completion costs or to be economically viable. The use of technologies and the study of producing fields in the same area will not enable us to know conclusively prior to drilling whether oil or natural gas will be present or, if present, whether oil or natural gas will be present in sufficient quantities to be economically viable. Even if sufficient amounts of oil or natural gas exist, we may damage the potentially productive hydrocarbon bearing formation or experience mechanical difficulties while drilling or completing the well, resulting in a reduction in production from the well or abandonment of the well. If we drill additional wells that we identify as dry holes in our current and future drilling locations, our drilling success rate may decline and materially harm our business. We cannot assure you that the analogies we draw from available data from other wells, more fully explored locations or producing fields will be applicable to our drilling locations. In sum, the cost of drilling, completing and operating any well is often uncertain, and new wells may not be productive.

We are subject to government regulation and liability, including complex environmental laws, which could require significant expenditures.

The exploration, development, production and sale of oil and natural gas in the United States are subject to many federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations, including complex environmental laws and regulations. Matters subject to regulation include discharge permits, drilling bonds, reports concerning operations, the spacing of wells, unitization and pooling of properties, taxation or environmental matters and health and safety criteria addressing worker protection. Under these laws and regulations, we may be required to make large expenditures that could materially adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. These expenditures could include payments for:

personal injuries;
property damage;
containment and cleanup of oil and other spills;
the management and disposal of hazardous materials;
remediation and cleanup costs; and
other environmental damages.

We do not believe that full insurance coverage for all potential damages is available at a reasonable cost. 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, injunctive relief and/or the imposition of investigatory or other remedial obligations. Laws, rules and regulations protecting the environment have changed frequently and the changes often include increasingly stringent requirements. These laws, rules and regulations may impose liability on us for environmental damage and disposal of hazardous materials even if we were not negligent or at fault. We may also be found to be liable for the conduct of others or for acts that complied with applicable laws, rules or regulations at the time we performed those acts. These laws, rules and regulations are interpreted and enforced by numerous federal and state agencies. In addition, private parties, including the owners of properties upon which our wells are drilled or the owners of properties adjacent to or in close proximity to those properties may also pursue legal actions against us based on alleged non-compliance with certain of these laws, rules and regulations.
 
 
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Governmental regulation and liability for environmental matters may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

All our operations and participations are onshore in the United States.  Oil and natural gas operations are subject to various federal, state, and local government regulations that may change from time to time. Matters subject to regulation include:

well locations;
drilling and completion operations and methods;
production amounts limited to below capacity;
price controls;
surface use and restoration;
fluid and waste discharge from drilling operations;
plugging and abandonment of wells (including the posting of bonds);
well spacing;
unitization and pooling of properties;
taxation,
marketing, transporting and reporting production;
valuation and payment of royalties’
air emissions;
groundwater use and protection;
the construction and operation of underground injection wells to dispose of produced saltwater and other non-hazardous oilfield wastes; and
the construction and operation of surface pits to contain drilling muds and other non-hazardous fluids associated with drilling operations.

Federal, state and local laws may require us to remove or remediate previously disposed wastes, including wastes disposed of or released by us or prior owners or operators in accordance with current laws or otherwise, to suspend or cease operations at contaminated areas, or to perform remedial well plugging operations or response actions to reduce the risk of future contamination. Federal laws, including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, or CERCLA, and analogous state laws impose joint and several liability, without regard to fault or legality of the original conduct, on classes of persons who are considered responsible for releases of a hazardous substance into the environment. These persons include the owner or operator of the site where the release occurred, and persons that disposed of or arranged for the disposal of hazardous substances at the site. CERCLA and analogous state laws also authorize the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), state environmental agencies and, in some cases, third parties to take action to prevent or respond to threats to human health or the environment and to seek to recover from responsible classes of persons the costs of such actions.  Other environmental laws provide for joint and several strict liabilities for remediation of releases of hazardous substances, rendering a person liable for environmental damage without regard to negligence or fault on the part of such person. In addition, we may be subject to claims alleging personal injury or property damage as a result of alleged exposure to hazardous substances such as oil and natural gas related products. As a result, we may incur substantial liabilities to third parties or governmental entities and may be required to incur substantial remediation costs.

Federal, state, and local laws and regulations relating primarily to the protection of human health and the environment apply to the development, production, handling, storage, transportation, and disposal of oil and natural gas, by-products thereof, and other substances and materials produced or used in connection with oil and natural gas operations. In addition, we may be liable for environmental damages caused by previous owners of property we purchase or lease. We also are subject to changing and extensive tax laws, the effects of which cannot be predicted. Compliance with existing, new, or modified laws and regulations could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 Various state governments and regional organizations comprising state governments are considering enacting new legislation and promulgating new regulations governing or restricting the emission of greenhouse gases from stationary sources such as our equipment and operations. Legislative and regulatory proposals for restricting greenhouse gas emissions or otherwise addressing climate change could require us to incur additional operating costs and could adversely affect demand for the natural gas and oil that we sell. The potential increase in our operating costs could include new or increased costs to obtain permits, operate and maintain our equipment and facilities, install new emission controls on our equipment and facilities, acquire allowances to authorize our greenhouse gas emissions, pay taxes related to our greenhouse gas emissions and administer and manage a greenhouse gas emissions program. Moreover, incentives to conserve energy or use alternative energy sources could reduce demand for natural gas and oil.
 
 
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We may incur losses or costs as a result of title deficiencies in the properties in which we invest.

If an examination of the title history of a property that we have purchased reveals an oil and natural gas lease has been purchased in error from a person who is not the owner of the mineral interest desired, our interest would be worthless. In such an instance, the amount paid for such oil and natural gas lease as well as any royalties paid pursuant to the terms of the lease prior to the discovery of the title defect would be lost.

Prior to the drilling of an oil and natural gas well, however, it is the normal practice in the oil and natural gas industry the operator of the well to obtain a preliminary title review of the spacing unit within which the proposed oil and natural gas well is to be drilled to ensure there are no obvious deficiencies in title to the well. Frequently, as a result of such examinations, certain curative work must be done to correct deficiencies in the marketability of the title, and such curative work entails expense. Our failure to cure any title defects may adversely impact our ability in the future to increase production and reserves. In the future, we may suffer a monetary loss from title defects or title failure. Additionally, unproved and unevaluated acreage has greater risk of title defects than developed acreage. If there are any title defects or defects in assignment of leasehold rights in properties in which we hold an interest, we will suffer a financial loss which could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Federal and State Legislation and regulatory initiatives relating to hydraulic fracturing could result in increased costs and additional operating restrictions or delays.
 
Hydraulic fracturing involves the injection of water, sand or other propping agents and chemicals under pressure into rock formations to stimulate natural gas production. We routinely use hydraulic fracturing to produce commercial quantities of oil, liquids and natural gas. Sponsors of bills before the Senate and House of Representatives have asserted that chemicals used in the fracturing process could adversely affect drinking water supplies. Such legislation, if adopted, could increase the possibility of litigation and establish an additional level of regulation at the federal level that could lead to operational delays or increased operating costs and could, and in all likelihood would, result in additional regulatory burdens, making it more difficult to perform hydraulic fracturing operations and increasing our costs of compliance. Moreover, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, is conducting a comprehensive research study on the potential adverse impacts that hydraulic fracturing may have on drinking water and groundwater. Consequently, even if federal legislation is not adopted soon or at all, the performance of the hydraulic fracturing study by the EPA could spur further action at a later date towards federal legislation and regulation of hydraulic fracturing or similar production operations.

In addition, a number of states are considering or have implemented more stringent regulatory requirements applicable to fracturing, which could include a moratorium on drilling and effectively prohibit further production of natural gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing or similar operations.

The adoption of new laws or regulations imposing reporting obligations on, or otherwise limiting, the hydraulic fracturing process could make it more difficult to complete oil and natural gas wells. In addition, if hydraulic fracturing becomes regulated at the federal level as a result of federal legislation or regulatory initiatives by the EPA, fracturing activities could become subject to additional permitting requirements, and also to attendant permitting delays and potential increases in cost, which could adversely affect our business and results of operations.

Current water regulation relating to hydraulic fracturing, particularly water source and groundwater regulation, could result in increased operational costs, operating restrictions and delays.

Hydraulic fracturing uses large amounts of water. It can require between three to five million gallons of water per horizontal well. We may face regulatory concerns in both the sourcing and the discharge of water used in hydraulic fracturing. In addition, hydraulic fracturing produces water discharges that must be treated and disposed of in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements.

First, as to sourcing water for hydraulic fracturing, we will need to secure water from the local water supply or make alternative arrangements. In order to source water from the local water supply for hydraulic fracturing we may need to pay premium rates and be subject to a lower priority if the local area becomes subject to water restrictions. We may also seek water from alternative providers supporting the hydraulic fracturing industry. If we have an insufficient water supply we will be unable to engage in hydraulic fracturing until such supply is located.
 
 
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Second, hydraulic fracturing results in water discharges that must be treated and disposed of in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements.  Environmental regulations governing the withdrawal, storage and use of surface water or groundwater necessary for hydraulic fracturing may increase operating costs and cause delays, interruptions or termination of operations, the extent of which cannot be predicted, all of which could have an adverse effect on our operations and financial performance.  Our ability to remove and dispose of water will affect production, and the cost of water treatment and disposal may affect profitability.  The imposition of new environmental initiatives and regulations could also include restrictions on our ability to conduct hydraulic fracturing or disposal of produced water, drilling fluids and other substances associated with the exploration, development and production of gas and oil.

Our business may suffer if we lose key personnel.

We depend to a large extent on the services of certain key management personnel, including Michael Pawelek, our President and Chief Executive Officer, Edward Shaw, our Executive Vice President for Operations and our other executive officers and key employees. These individuals have extensive experience and expertise in evaluating and analyzing producing oil and natural gas properties and drilling prospects, maximizing production from oil and natural gas properties, marketing oil and natural gas production and developing and executing financing and hedging strategies. The loss of any of these individuals could have a material adverse effect on our operations. We do not maintain key-man life insurance with respect to any of our employees. Our success will be dependent on our ability to continue to employ and retain skilled technical personnel.

We have an active Board of Directors that meets several times throughout the year and is intimately involved in our business and the determination of our operational strategies. Members of our Board work closely with management to identify potential prospects, acquisitions and areas for further development. Some of our directors have been involved with us since our inception and have a deep understanding of our operations and culture. If any of our directors resign or become unable to continue in their present role, it may be difficult to find replacements with the same knowledge and experience and as a result, our operations may be adversely affected.

Competition in the oil and natural gas industry is intense making it more difficult for us to acquire properties, market natural gas and secure trained personnel.

Our ability to acquire additional prospects and to find and develop reserves in the future will depend on our ability to evaluate and select suitable properties and to consummate transactions in a highly competitive environment for acquiring properties, marketing oil and natural gas and securing trained personnel. Also, there is substantial competition for capital available for investment in the oil and natural gas industry. Many of our competitors possess and employ financial, technical and personnel resources substantially greater than ours. Those companies may be able to pay more for productive oil and natural gas properties and exploratory prospects and to evaluate, bid for and purchase a greater number of properties and prospects than our financial or personnel resources permit. In addition, other companies may be able to offer better compensation packages to attract and retain qualified personnel than we are able to offer. The cost to attract and retain qualified personnel has increased in recent years due to competition and may increase substantially in the future. We may not be able to compete successfully in the future in acquiring prospective reserves, developing reserves, marketing hydrocarbons, attracting and retaining quality personnel and raising additional capital, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
 
We may not be able to keep pace with technological developments in our industry.

The oil and natural gas industry is characterized by rapid and significant technological advancements and introductions of new products and services using new technologies. As others use or develop new technologies, we may be placed at a competitive disadvantage or competitive pressures may force us to implement those new technologies at substantial costs. In addition, other oil and natural gas companies may have greater financial, technical, and personnel resources that allow them to enjoy technological advantages and may in the future allow them to implement new technologies before we can. We may not be able to respond to these competitive pressures and implement new technologies on a timely basis or at an acceptable cost. If one or more of the technologies we use now or in the future were to become obsolete or if we are unable to use the most advanced commercially available technology, our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
 
 
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We may have difficulty managing growth in our business, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows and our ability to execute our business plan in a timely fashion.
 
Because of our small size, growth in accordance with our business plans, if achieved, will place a significant strain on our financial, technical, operational and management resources. As we expand our activities, including our planned increase in oil exploration, development and production, and increase the number of projects we are evaluating or in which we participate, there will be additional demands on our financial, technical and management resources. The failure to continue to upgrade our technical, administrative, operating and financial control systems or the occurrence of unexpected expansion difficulties, including the inability to recruit and retain experienced managers, geoscientists, petroleum engineers and landmen could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows and our ability to execute our business plan in a timely fashion.

Financial difficulties encountered by our oil and natural gas purchasers, third party operators or other third parties could decrease our cash flow from operations and adversely affect our exploration and development activities.

We derive essentially all of our revenues from the sale of our oil and natural gas to unaffiliated third party purchasers, independent marketing companies and mid-stream companies. Any delays in payments from our purchasers caused by financial problems encountered by them will have an immediate negative effect on our results of operations and cash flows.

Liquidity and cash flow problems encountered by our working interest co-owners or the third party operators of our non-operated properties may prevent or delay the drilling of a well or the development of a project. Our working interest co-owners may be unwilling or unable to pay their share of the costs of projects as they become due.  In the case of a working interest owner, we could be required to pay the working interest owner’s share of the project costs. We cannot assure you that we would be able to obtain the capital necessary to fund these contingencies.
 
We may not have enough insurance to cover all of the risks we face and operators of prospects in which we participate may not maintain or may fail to obtain adequate insurance.

In accordance with customary industry practices, we maintain insurance coverage against some, but not all, potential losses in order to protect against the risks we face. We do not carry business interruption insurance. We may elect not to carry insurance if our management believes that the cost of available insurance is excessive relative to the risks presented. In addition, we cannot insure fully against pollution and environmental risks. The occurrence of an event not fully covered by insurance could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. The impact of hurricanes in the areas where we operate has resulted in escalating insurance costs and less favorable coverage terms.

Oil and natural gas operations are subject to particular hazards incident to the drilling and production of oil and natural gas, such as blowouts, cratering, explosions, uncontrollable flows of oil, natural gas or well fluids, fires and pollution and other environmental risks. These hazards can cause personal injury and loss of life, severe damage to and destruction of property and equipment, pollution or environmental damage and suspension of operation. We do not operate all of the properties in which we have an interest. In the projects in which we own a non-operating interest directly, the operator for the prospect maintains insurance of various types to cover our operations with policy limits and retention liability customary in the industry. We believe the coverage and types of insurance are adequate. The occurrence of a significant adverse event that is not fully covered by insurance could result in the loss of our total investment in a particular prospect which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
 
Our producing properties are located in regions which make us vulnerable to risks associated with operating in one major contiguous geographic area, including the risk of damage or business interruptions from hurricanes.

Our properties are located onshore in Texas and Oklahoma. As a result of this geographic concentration, we are disproportionately affected by any delays or interruptions in production or transportation in these areas caused by governmental regulation, transportation capacity constraints, natural disasters, regional price fluctuations or other factors. Such disturbances have in the past and will in the future have any or all of the following adverse effects on our business:

 interruptions to our operations as we suspend production in advance of an approaching storm;
damage to our facilities and equipment, including damage that disrupts or delays our production;
disruption to the transportation systems we rely upon to deliver our products to our customers; and
damage to or disruption of our customers’ facilities that prevents us from taking delivery of our products.
 
 
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Our identified drilling locations are scheduled out over several years, making them susceptible to uncertainties that could materially alter the occurrence or timing of their drilling.

Our management has specifically identified and scheduled drilling locations as an estimation of our future multi-year drilling activities on our existing acreage. These scheduled drilling locations represent a significant component of our growth strategy. Our ability to drill and develop these locations depends on a number of uncertainties, including oil and natural gas prices, the availability of capital, costs, drilling results, regulatory approvals and other factors. Because of these uncertainties, we do not know if the potential drilling locations we have identified will ever be drilled or if we will be able to produce oil or natural gas from these or any other potential drilling locations. As such, our actual drilling activities may materially differ from those presently identified, which could adversely affect our business.
 
Market conditions or operational impediments may hinder our access to oil and natural gas markets or delay our production.

Market conditions or the unavailability of satisfactory oil and natural gas transportation arrangements may hinder our access to oil and natural gas markets or delay our production. The availability of a ready market for our oil and natural gas production depends on a number of factors, including the demand for and supply of oil and natural gas and the proximity of our reserves to pipelines and terminal facilities. Our ability to market our production depends in substantial part on the availability and capacity of transport vessels, gathering systems, pipelines and processing facilities owned and operated by third parties under interruptible or short-term transportation agreements. Under the interruptible transportation agreements, the transportation of our natural gas may be interrupted due to capacity constraints on the applicable system, for maintenance or repair of the system, or for other reasons as dictated by the particular agreements. Our failure to obtain such services on acceptable terms could materially harm our business. We may be required to shut in wells due to lack of a market or the inadequacy or unavailability of natural gas pipeline or gathering system capacity. If that were to occur, we would be unable to realize revenue from those wells unless and until we made arrangements for delivery of their production to market.
 
Terrorist attacks aimed at our energy operations could adversely affect our business.

The continued threat of terrorism and the impact of military and other government action have led and may lead to further increased volatility in prices for oil and natural gas and could affect these commodity markets or the financial markets used by us. In addition, the U.S. government has issued warnings that energy assets may be a future target of terrorist organizations. These developments have subjected our oil and natural gas operations to increased risks. Any future terrorist attack on our facilities, those of our customers, the infrastructure we depend on for transportation of our products, and, in some cases, those of other energy companies, could have a material adverse effect on our business.
 
We do not anticipate an immediate market for our shares.

We do not anticipate that the effectiveness of this S-1 registration statement will lead to any immediate liquidity for the holders of our common stock shares. We have not yet obtained an exchange listing or an over-the-counter quotation which are pre-requisites to liquidity for our common stock shares.  Further, more than 82% of our common stock shares are subject to a lawsuit described above in the Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk at Stamford.  Consequently, even if we obtain an exchange listing or over-the-counter quotation, our common stock shares’ liquidity will be materially limited by the unavailability of these shares.  Moreover, we currently have only seven stockholders (plus 550,000 common stock shares interplead into the Court in Henry et al.279,03 v. Imbruce et al.).  Stock purchase and sale decisions by these stockholders will have a material impact on our common stock shares’ liquidity.
 
The market price of our common stock may be volatile.

Should the Board of Directors approve the Company seeking an exchange listing or a price quotation for our stock, the trading price of our stock and the price at which we may sell stock in the future are subject to large fluctuations in response to any of the following:
 
limited trading volume in our common stock;
quarterly variations in operating results;
our involvement in litigation;
 
 
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general financial market conditions;
the prices of oil and natural gas;
announcements by us and our competitors;
our liquidity;
our ability to raise additional funds;
changes in government regulations; and
other events.
 
We do not intend to pay dividends on our stock.

We have not historically paid dividends on our stock, cash or otherwise, and do not intend to in the foreseeable future.  Further, our credit facilities limit our ability to pay dividends on our stock without lender approval.
 
Provisions of Delaware law may delay or prevent transactions that would benefit stockholders.

Delaware General Corporation Law contain provisions that may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change of control of the company.
 
Because of these provisions, persons considering unsolicited tender offers or other unilateral takeover proposals may be more likely to negotiate with our board of directors rather than pursue non-negotiated takeover attempts. As a result, these provisions may make it more difficult for our stockholders to benefit from transactions that are opposed by an incumbent board of directors.
 
Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP are under common control and own a majority of our common stock, and their interests may conflict with those of our other stockholders.
 
Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP beneficially own approximately 42.60%, 7.04% and 28.30%, respectively, and Giddings Oil & Gas LP might obtain another 4.7% of our common stock shares through the interpleader action filed by the Company. See “Principal and Selling Stockholders” on page 105 of this prospectus. Further, these partnerships are under common control.  In addition, Charles S. Henry, III, who certain limited partners of the partnerships claim is the partnerships’ general partner, serves on our Board of Directors. As a result, Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP, together, are able to control, and will continue to be able to exercise significant influence over, matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors, changes to our organizational documents and significant corporate transactions. This concentration of ownership makes it unlikely that any other holder or group of holders of our common stock will be able to affect the way we are managed or the direction of our business. The interests of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP with respect to matters potentially or actually involving or affecting us, such as future acquisitions, financings and other corporate opportunities and attempts to acquire us, may conflict with the interests of our other stockholders. This continued concentrated ownership will make it impossible for another company to acquire us and for you to receive any related takeover premium for your shares unless Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP approve the acquisition.
 
We cannot provide assurances that the limited partners of the partnerships affected by the “Monetization Agreement” will not contest the enforcement of the Monetization Agreement and the dissolution of the partnerships.
 
Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III, LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP collectively are record owners of 9,635,000 of common stock shares or 77.94% of our common stock.  This portion of our equity is subject to an agreement dated January 20, 2012, attached as Exhibit 4.2, between Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC and SOSventures, LLC.  If the 550,000 common stock shares interplead by the Company are included, that agreement could cover 10,185,000 of our common stock shares or 82.39% of our common stock.  The Agreement provides that upon “monetization” of the Starboard Resources equity, that Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III shall be “dissolved” and their “affairs wound up.”  According to the agreement:

“Monetization” means the receipt of a liquidating distribution in cash from Starboard or its successors, including a corporate successor formed for the purposes of effecting a public offering, or the receipt of unrestricted and freely transferable securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended in connection with a going public transaction at Starboard Resources, LLC, however affected.
 
 
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While the Company views the ownership by the partnerships of Starboard common stock shares  eligible for sale by the partnerships  under the Securities Act of 1933 through this Form S-1 Registration Statement as making the “monetization” agreement effective, the Company cannot provide assurances that the limited partners of the Partnerships would take the same view and would not contest the dissolution of the partnerships.  One issue that may arise is that this Agreement was entered into by Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, and Hunton Oil Genpar LLC acting as general partners of the partnerships.  As stated below, counsel for limited partners maintains these business entities were subsequently removed as general partners and thus are not in a position to fulfill the terms of the Monetization Agreement on their own. Moreover, the Company is not a signatory to the “monetization” agreement.

Finally, it is important for the selling shareholders and prospective purchasers to understand that this prospectus only covers the sale of our common stock shares by the partnerships and other designated Selling Stockholders as stated in the table on page 106 of this prospectus . If our common stock shares are distributed by the partnerships to their limited partners through the monetization agreement or otherwise, those limited partners may only sell their shares through the effectiveness of another registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 covering the referenced common stock shares or through the limited sales allowed by the safe harbor from being found to be an underwriter as stated in SEC Rule 144.
 
We may issue shares of preferred stock that could adversely affect holders of shares of our common stock.

Our board of directors may receive the power, without shareholder approval and subject to the terms of our certificate of incorporation, to set the terms of any such classes or series of shares of stock that may be issued, including voting rights, dividend rights, conversion features, preferences over shares of our common stock with respect to dividends or if we liquidate, dissolve or wind up our business and other terms. If we issue shares of preferred stock in the future that have a preference over shares of our common stock with respect to the payment of dividends or upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, or if we issue shares of preferred stock with voting rights that dilute the voting power of shares of our common stock, the rights of holders of shares of our common stock or the trading price of shares of our common stock could be adversely affected.
 
 We are an “Emerging Growth Company,” and we cannot be certain if the reduced reporting requirements applicable to Emerging Growth Companies will make our common stock less attractive to investors.

We are an “Emerging Growth Company,” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or the JOBS Act. For as long as we continue to be an Emerging Growth Company, we may take advantage of exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies, including not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. We could be an Emerging Growth Company for up to five years, although circumstances could cause us to lose that status earlier, including if the market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million, if we issue $1 billion or more in non-convertible debt during the previous three-year period, or if our annual gross revenues exceed $1 billion. We would cease to be an Emerging Growth Company on the last day of the fiscal year following the date of the fifth anniversary of our first sale of common equity securities under an effective registration statement or a fiscal year in which we have $1 billion in gross revenues.  We also would immediately cease to be an Emerging Growth Company if the market value of the common stock held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million or upon our issuing $1 billion or more in non-convertible debt in a three year period.  Finally, at any time we may choose to opt-out of the Emerging Growth Company reporting requirements.  If we chose to opt out, we will be unable to opt back in to being an Emerging Growth Company.  We cannot predict if investors will find our common stock less attractive because we may rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our common stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and our stock price may be more volatile.
 
 
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If we are unable to implement and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting in the future, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports and the market price of our common stock may decline.
 
As a public company, we will be required to maintain internal control over financial reporting and to report any material weaknesses in such internal control.  Further, we will be required to report any changes in our internal controls on a quarterly basis.  In addition, beginning with our 2013 annual report on Form 10-K to be filed in 2014, we will be required to furnish a report by management on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We are in the process of designing, implementing, and testing the internal control over financial reporting required to comply with this obligation, which process is time consuming, costly, and complicated. In addition, our independent registered public accounting firm will be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting beginning with our annual report on Form 10-K following the date on which we are no longer an “Emerging Growth Company,” which may be up to five full years following the effective date of this registration statement or a registration statement filed by the Company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. If we identify material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, if we are unable to comply with the requirements of Section 404 in a timely manner or assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion as to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting when required, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports and the market price of our common stock could be negatively affected, and we could become subject to investigations by the stock exchange on which our securities are listed, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, or other regulatory authorities, which could require additional financial and management resources.
 
As an Emerging Growth Company, our auditor is not required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal controls.  

Our independent accountant is not required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting while we are an Emerging Growth Company.  This means that the effectiveness of our financial operations may differ from our peer companies in that they may be required to obtain independent accountant attestations as to the effectiveness of their internal controls over financial reporting and we are not.  While our management will be required to attest to internal control over financial reporting and we will be required to detail changes to our internal controls on a quarterly basis, we cannot provide assurance that the independent accountant’s review process in assessing the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting will not find some new material deficiency.  Further, once we cease to be an Emerging Growth Company we will be subject to independent accountant attestation regarding the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting.  Even if management finds such controls to be effective, our independent accountant may decline to attest to the effectiveness of such internal controls and issue a qualified report.  
 
As an Emerging Growth Company we are presenting our audited financial statements and selected financial data for only a two-year period, which may not be comparable to those companies that provide audited financial statements and selected financial data for longer periods of time.  

The JOBS Act provides that emerging growth companies need not present more than two years of audited financial statements in connection with this prospectus and that they need not present selected financial data as required by SEC Regulation S-K Item 301 for periods that pre-date its audited financial statements. This selected financial data includes a table showing net sales, operating revenue, income or loss from continuing operations per common share, total assets, long-term obligations (including long-term debt, capital leases and redeemable preferred stock) and cash dividends per common share. We are providing only two years of audited financial statements and selected data.  
 
The Company is considered a smaller reporting company and is exempt from certain disclosure requirements, which could make our stock less attractive to potential investors.

Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act defines a “smaller reporting company” as an issuer that is not an investment company, an asset-backed issuer), or a majority-owned subsidiary of a parent that is not a smaller reporting company and that:
 
Had a public float of less than $75 million as of the last business day of its most recently completed second fiscal quarter, computed by multiplying the aggregate worldwide number of shares of its voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates by the price at which the common equity was last sold, or the average of the bid and asked prices of common equity, in the principal market for the common equity; or
 
In the case of an initial registration statement under the Securities Act or Exchange Act for shares of its common equity, had a public float of less than $75 million as of a date within 30 days of the date of the filing of the registration statement, computed by multiplying the aggregate worldwide number of such shares held by non-affiliates before the registration plus, in the case of a Securities Act registration statement, the number of such shares included in the registration statement by the estimated public offering price of the shares; or
 
In the case of an issuer whose public float as calculated under paragraph (1) or (2) of this definition was zero, had annual revenues of less than $50 million during the most recently completed fiscal year for which audited financial statements are available.
 
 
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As a “smaller reporting company” (in addition to and without regard to our status as an “emerging growth company”) we are not required and may not include a Compensation Discussion and Analysis (“CD&A”) section in our proxy statements; we provide only 2 years of financial statements; provide fewer years of selected financial data; and have other “scaled” disclosure requirements that are less comprehensive than issuers that are not “smaller reporting companies” which could make our stock less attractive to potential investors, which could make it more difficult for you to sell your shares.
 
Because we do not intend to pay any cash dividends on our common stock, 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 stock 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. There is no assurance that stockholders will be able to sell shares when desired.
 
The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources and divert management’s attention.

As a public company, we will be subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and other applicable securities rules and regulations. Compliance with these rules and regulations will nonetheless increase our legal and financial compliance costs, make some activities more difficult, time-consuming or costly and increase demand on our systems and resources, particularly after we are no longer an “Emerging Growth Company.” The Exchange Act requires, among other things, that we file annual, quarterly, and current reports with respect to our business and operating results.
 
As a result of disclosure of information in this prospectus and in filings required of a public company, our business and financial condition will become more visible, which we believe may result in threatened or actual litigation, including by competitors and other third parties. If such claims are successful, our business and operating results could be harmed, and even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could divert the resources of our management and adversely affect our business, brand and reputation and results of operations.
 
We also expect that being a public company and these new rules and regulations will make it more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain coverage. These factors could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified members of our board of directors, particularly to serve on our audit committee and compensation committee, and qualified executive officers.
 
Our stock is likely to be a penny stock. Trading of our stock may be restricted by the Securities and Exchange Commission's penny stock regulations which may limit a stockholder's ability to buy and sell our stock.
 
Our offering price is less than $5.00 per common stock share and our stock may trade for less than $5.00 per share if we obtain an exchange listing or over-the-counter quotation. The SEC has adopted Rule 15g-9 which generally defines “penny stock” to be any equity security that has a market price (as defined) less than $5.00 per share or an exercise price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions. Our securities are covered by the penny stock rules, which impose additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers who sell to persons other than established customers and “accredited investors.” The term “accredited investor” refers generally to institutions with assets in excess of $5,000,000 or individuals with a net worth in excess of $1,000,000 or annual income exceeding $200,000 or $300,000 jointly with their spouse. The penny stock rules require a broker-dealer, prior to a transaction in a penny stock not otherwise exempt from the rules, to deliver a standardized risk disclosure document in a form prepared by the SEC which provides information about penny stocks and the nature and level of risks in the penny stock market. The broker-dealer also must provide the customer with current bid and offer quotations for the penny stock, the compensation of the broker-dealer and its salesperson in the transaction and monthly account statements showing the market value of each penny stock held in the customer's account. The bid and offer quotations, and the broker-dealer and salesperson compensation information, must be given to the customer orally or in writing prior to effecting the transaction and must be given to the customer in writing before or with the customer's confirmation. In addition, the penny stock rules require that prior to a transaction in a penny stock not otherwise exempt from these rules, the broker-dealer must make a special written determination that the penny stock is a suitable investment for the purchaser and receive the purchaser's written agreement to the transaction. These disclosure requirements may have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity in the secondary market for the stock that is subject to these penny stock rules. Consequently, these penny stock rules may affect the ability of broker-dealers to trade our securities. We believe that the penny stock rules discourage investor interest in and limit the marketability of our common stock.
 
 
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, has adopted sales practice requirements which may also limit a stockholder's ability to buy and sell our stock.
 
In addition to the “penny stock” rules described above, FINRA has adopted rules that require that in recommending an investment to a customer, a broker-dealer must have reasonable grounds for believing that the investment is suitable for that customer. Prior to recommending speculative low priced securities to their non-institutional customers, broker-dealers must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about the customer's financial status, tax status, investment objectives and other information. Under interpretations of these rules, FINRA believes that there is a high probability that speculative low priced securities will not be suitable for at least some customers. FINRA requirements make it more difficult for broker-dealers to recommend that their customers buy our common stock, which may limit your ability to buy and sell our stock and have an adverse effect on the market for our shares.
 

USE OF PROCEEDS
 
We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of common stock shares by the selling stockholders.  We are not issuing any new shares of common stock in connection with this Offering.
 
DIVIDEND POLICY
 
We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our capital stock. We currently intend to retain all available funds and any future earnings for use in the operation and expansion of our business and do not anticipate declaring or paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.  Any future determination as to the declaration and payment of dividends will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on then-existing conditions, including our financial condition, results of operations, contractual restrictions, capital requirements, business prospects and other factors that our board of directors considers relevant.  In addition, the terms of our credit facilities restrict the payment of dividends to the holders of our common stock and any other equity holders without the consent of Independent Bank and SOSventures, LLC.
 
 
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CAPITALIZATION
 
The following table sets forth our cash and cash equivalents and capitalization as of June 30, 2013 on an actual basis.
 
You should read the following table in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” beginning on page 76 and our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.
 
   
As of
June 30,
2013
 
   
Actual(1)
 
       
Cash and Cash Equivalents
  $ 2,319  
Long term liabilities (including current maturities)
  $ 27,289  
Stockholders’ Equity
  $    
Common stock, par value $0.001; 150,000,000 shares authorized and 12,362,336 shares issued and outstanding actual
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Additional paid-in capital
  $ 53,846  
Accumulated deficit
  $ (10,596 )
Total Stockholders’ Equity
  $ 43,262  
Total Capitalization
  $ 75,635  
 
(1)  
Starboard Resources, Inc. filed its certificate of conversion and certificate of incorporation on June 28, 2012, in Delaware.  Previously it was Starboard Resources LLC, formed on June 2, 2011, in Delaware.  Its subsidiaries are ImPetro Resouces LLC and ImPetro Operating LLC.
 
Dilution.
 
Our common stock shares will not be diluted by the sales of common stock shares by the selling stockholders.  The Company is not selling any common stock shares through this offering.
 
As of June 7, 2013 we had 12,362,336 shares outstanding.  11,812,336 shares were held by seven shareholders and 550,000 shares were interplead into the State District Court in Connecticut relating to the Henry v. Imbruce litigation.
 
Currently the Company has not adopted an equity compensation plan.  As further described in “Executive Compensation,” the Company’s employment agreements with Michael Pawelek, our CEO, Edward Shaw, our Chief Operating Officer and N. Kim Vo, our Controller, include equity compensation terms that may lead to the issuance of additional shares of our common stock.
 
Description of Securities to be Registered.

The following summary is a description of the material terms of our capital stock. This summary is not intended to be a complete description of our capital stock, and it is subject in all respects to the applicable provisions of Delaware law and of our constituent documents and of the constituent documents of our subsidiaries. For more information, please review our Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, and our By-laws, as amended.

General
 
Our authorized capital stock consists of 150,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share and 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share. No preferred shares are designated and outstanding as of the date of this prospectus.
 
 
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Common Stock

As of December 31, 2012, there were 12,362,336 shares of our common stock issued and outstanding, which were held by 7 record owners plus we have interplead 550,000 shares to Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk at Stamford as described above. Said 12,362,336 common stock shares are subject to sale under this prospectus.  Holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote for each share held on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders and do not have cumulative voting rights. Accordingly, holders of a majority of the shares of our common stock entitled to vote in any election of directors may elect all of the directors standing for election. Subject to the right of holders of any preferred stock then outstanding, holders of our common stock are entitled to receive proportionately any dividends if and when such dividends are declared by our board of directors. Upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the company, the holders of our common stock are entitled to receive ratably our net assets available after the payment of all debts and other liabilities. Holders of our common stock have no preemptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights.

Three of our shareholders, Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP combined own 9,635,000 or approximately 77.94% of our shares.  These shares are subject to an agreement that may result in the distribution of these shares to the limited partners and the general partner of the Partnership.  A copy of that Agreement is attached as Exhibit 4.2 to this Prospectus.  That agreement states that Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP will be “dissolved” and their “affairs wound up” upon “monetization” which is defined as:

the receipt of a liquidating distribution in cash from Starboard or its successors, including a corporate successor formed for the purposes of effecting a public offering, or the receipt of unrestricted and freely transferable securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended in connection with a going public transaction at Starboard Resources however effected.

While the Company views the ownership by the partnerships of Starboard common stock shares  eligible for sale by the partnerships under the Securities Act of 1933 through this Form S-1 Registration Statement as making the “monetization” agreement effective, the Company cannot provide assurances that the limited partners of the Partnerships would take the same view and would not contest the dissolution of the partnerships.  One issue that may arise is that this Agreement was entered into by Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC acting as general partners of the partnerships.  As stated below, counsel for limited partners maintains these business entities were subsequently removed as general partners and thus are not be in position to fulfill the terms of the Monetization Agreement on their own. Moreover, the Company is not a signatory to the “monetization” agreement.

If the partnerships are dissolved through the “monetization” agreement, then our common stock shares would be distributed to the partnerships’ partners. We refer you to the partnerships’ limited partner ownership tables on pages 54 and 55 of this Prospectus for a presentation of the limited partners’ sharing percentages before dilution to the general partners’ interests and possible common stock ownership upon the dissolution of the partnerships.  Such a distribution would lead to a change of voting control of the Company.

Finally, it is important for the selling shareholders and prospective purchasers to understand that this prospectus only covers the sale of our common stock shares by the partnerships and other designated Selling Stockholders as stated in the table on page 106 of this prospectus. If our common stock shares are distributed by the partnerships to their limited partners through the monetization agreement or otherwise, those limited partners may only sell their shares through the effectiveness of another registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 covering the referenced common stock shares or through the limited sales allowed by the safe harbor from being found to be an underwriter as stated in SEC Rule 144.
 
Preferred Stock
 
Under our Bylaws, our board of directors may not authorize the issuance of preferred stock that amounts to more than 9.99% of the common stock then outstanding or that is convertible into common stock at a greater than one to one ratio without shareholder approval under our Bylaws.  Subject to this Bylaw provision, Delaware law and our Certificate of Incorporation, our board of directors may, without stockholder approval, issue preferred shares stock from time to time as shares of one or more classes or series, fix the number of shares, change the number of shares constituting any series, and provide for or change the voting powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, including dividend rights (including whether dividends are cumulative), dividend rates, terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), redemption prices, conversion rights, and liquidation preferences of the shares constituting any class or series of the preferred stock, in each case without any further action or vote by the stockholders under the limitations in amount and conversion ratios stated in our Bylaws.
 
 
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One of the effects of undesignated preferred stock may be to enable the Board to render more difficult or to discourage an attempt to obtain control of our Company by means of a tender offer, proxy contest, merger or otherwise, and thereby to protect the continuity of our management. The issuance of shares of the preferred stock pursuant to the Board’s authority described above may adversely affect the rights of the holders of common stock. For example, preferred stock issued by us may rank prior to common stock as to dividend rights, liquidation preference or both, may have full or limited voting rights and may be convertible into shares of common stock. Accordingly, the issuance of shares of preferred stock may discourage bids for common stock or may otherwise adversely affect the market price of common stock.

Delaware Anti-Takeover Law
 
The Company is subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law regulating corporate takeovers. In general, Section 203 prohibits a publicly-held Delaware corporation from engaging, under certain circumstances, in a business combination with an interested stockholder for a period of three years following the time the person became an interested stockholder unless:

prior to the time the person became an interested stockholder, the board of directors of the corporation approved either the business combination or the transaction which resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder;

upon completion of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding for purposes of determining the voting stock outstanding (but not the outstanding stock owned by the interested stockholder) those (1) shares owned by persons who are directors and also officers and (2) shares owned by employee stock plans in which employee participants do not have the right to determine confidentiality whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer; or

at or subsequent to the time the person became an interested stockholder, the business combination is approved by the board of directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of stockholders, and not by written consent, by the affirmative vote of at least 66 2/3% of the outstanding voting stock which is not owned by the interested stockholder.

The application of Section 203 may limit the ability of our stockholders to approve a transaction that they may deem to be in their interests. Under Section 203, a “business combination” generally includes a merger, asset or stock sale, or other similar transaction with an interested stockholder, and an “interested stockholder” is generally a person who, together with its affiliates and associates, owns or, in the case of affiliates or associates of the corporation, owned 15% or more of a corporation’s outstanding voting securities within three years prior to the determination of interested stockholder status.
 
BUSINESS

Forward-Looking Statements

This registration statement on Form S-1includes forward-looking statements in numerous places, including Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, any statements regarding future revenues, costs and expenses, earnings, earnings per share, margins, cash flows, dividends and capital expenditures. Important factors which may affect the actual results include, but are not limited to, the resolution of the litigation involving Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP, the monetization agreement involving those entities, the termination of the “Going Public Delay Fee,” political developments, market and economic conditions, changes in raw material, transportation and energy costs, industry competition, cost of services, service and equipment providers and the ability to execute and realize the expected benefits from strategic initiatives, including revenue and reserve growth plans, mergers and acquisitions and their integration, changes in financial markets and changing legislation and regulations, including changes in tax law or tax regulations. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. We assume no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements for any reason, except as required by law.
 

 
 
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Our Company
 
We are an independent exploration and production company focused on the operation, acquisition, development and production of both conventional and unconventional onshore oil and natural gas resources. We operate and target oil production and reserves that offer low-risk development opportunities within multiple formations utilizing horizontal drilling and multi-fracture completion technology.  Starboard was formed in Delaware in June, 2011 as a limited liability company through the contribution and restructuring of ImPetro Resources LLC, and oil and gas assets owned by Hunton Oil Partners LP, Giddings Oil and Gas LP and ASYM Energy Fund III LP.  It converted to a Delaware corporation on June 28, 2012.

We produce from operated oil and natural gas wells in the liquids rich, oil bearing window of the Eagle Ford trend of South Texas and the nearby oil-prone Giddings field where in combination we control approximately 14,000 net acres (approximately 16,000 gross acres).  We also have material non-operated working interests in producing properties and conventional prospects located throughout Logan and McClain counties in Oklahoma which account for 4,700 net acres (23,360 gross acres).  The combined estimated reserve base and net production are each over 70% oil-weighted.

The Company has 97 (88.578 net) company operated wells and participates in 8 (1.3835 net) non-operated wells.  103 of these wells are oil wells and 2 are gas wells.

At January 1, 2013, based on the reserves estimate by our independent reservoir engineers, we had 5,072 MBOE of estimated proved reserves with a PV-10 of $123.0 million. At January 1, 2013, 16% of our estimated proved reserves were proved developed reserves and 69% of our estimated proved reserves were oil and condensate. We grew our average daily production 63% from 315 BOE per day at year-end 2011 to 515 BOE per day at year-end 2012.

PV-10 estimated proved reserves is a non-GAAP financial measure as defined in Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K and is defined on page 19 of this prospectus summary. Reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure (standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows) is found in the table on page 67 of this Prospectus.  We believe that PV-10 value provides useful information to investors because it is widely used by professional analysts and sophisticated investors in evaluating oil and natural gas companies.

Starboard Resources LLC was formed in Delaware on June 2, 2011 as a limited liability company to acquire, own, operate, produce, and develop oil and natural gas properties primarily in Texas and Oklahoma. On June 28, 2012, Starboard converted from a Delaware limited liability company to a Delaware C-Corporation and is now known as Starboard Resources, Inc. (“Starboard”). The membership units of Starboard Resources LLC were exchanged on a 1:1 basis for common shares of Starboard.
 
Starboard was capitalized on June 13, 2011 (the “Roll-up Date”) through the execution of a Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) between Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. (“Longview”), Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. (“Summerview”), LMIF Investments, LLC (“LMIF”), SMF Investments, LLC (“SMF”), Summerline Capital Partners, LLC (“Summerline”), Giddings Oil and Gas LP (“Giddings”) and Giddings Investments LLC (“Giddings Investments”), which combined Giddings, Hunton Oil Partners LP (“Hunton”), ASYM Energy Fund III LP (“ASYM III”) and ImPetro Resources, LLC (“ImPetro”), including its wholly owned subsidiary, ImPetro Operating, LLC (“Operating”) (collectively the “Company”), in a roll-up transaction.

The Exchange Agreement required Giddings, Hunton and ASYM III to exchange substantially all of their assets and liabilities for 7,550,000 common shares of Starboard and required Starboard to perform a private placement of common shares at a price of at least $10.00 per share and receive net proceeds of at least $5,350,000 before placement costs. Through the private placement, Starboard issued 535,000 common shares at $10 per share, or $4,900,000 net of capital placement costs of $450,000, in June 2011.  Additionally, as of the Roll-up Date, Giddings, Hunton and ASYM III (collectively the “Common Controlled Entities”) were deemed to be under common control through ASYM Energy Investments, LLC, which served as the management company for the Common Controlled Entities.

The Exchange Agreement also required ImPetro and Operating to exchange all of its member units for 3,570,000 common shares of Starboard and $1,150,000 of cash, which was distributed directly to the members of ImPetro.  Additionally, Longview, Summerview and Giddings agreed to the cancellation of working interest participation rights and $11,000,000 in principal notes, of which $4,500,000 was held by Giddings as of the Roll-up Date.  We converted to a Delaware corporation on June 28, 2012.
 
 
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Under the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement dated June 10, 2011, if the Company failed to go public by reverse merger with a public company or through obtaining an effective Form 10 registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, shareholders affiliated with Summerline Asset Management, LLC may elect to sell the company all of its shareholder interest in exchange for cash of approximately $12.52 per share.  Our 2011 Financial Statements recorded this put option liability as of December 31, 2011 at $18,400,000.  The put option holders agreed to waive the put option provision effective July 20, 2012 in exchange for an additional 707,336 Company common stock shares. The waiver agreement is attached as Exhibit 4.3 to this prospectus.

General Corporate Information
 
Our principal executive offices are located at 300 E. Sonterra Blvd, Suite 1220, San Antonio, TX  78258, and our telephone number at that address is (210) 999-5400.  Additional information can be found on our website:  www.starboardresources.com.  Information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference herein and does not constitute a part of this prospectus.

Employees
 
As of June 30, 2013, we had 11 full time employees. We are not a party to any collective bargaining agreements and have not experienced any strikes or work stoppages. We believe our relationships with our employees are good. From time to time, we utilize the services of independent contractors to perform various field and other services.

Our Business Strategy

Our goal is to increase stockholder value by building reserves, production and cash flows at an attractive return on invested capital while continuing to drill out exiting reserve base. We seek to achieve our goals through the following strategies:

Develop non-producing properties (“PDNPs”) and proven undeveloped reserves (“PUDs”) in core areas located in Texas and Oklahoma.  We have established core acreage positions in Texas and Oklahoma where we have built up a drilling inventory of PUD locations throughout oil-rich plays. The majority of our 2013 capital expenditure budget will be used to finance the development and production of these locations. Since the majority of our acreage is held by production, we have the flexibility to develop our acreage in a disciplined manner in order to maximize the resource recovery from the assets. We believe the economics for development and production of our acreage is attractive at current commodity prices.

Continue to build scale.  We believe our management team’s familiarity with our key operating areas, experience with unique and distressed transactions, and a broad contact base across both operators and financial players enable us to identify high-return acquisition opportunities at attractive prices. We will tend to focus on distressed or capital starved properties with near term, high potential development drilling opportunities where we are able to utilize the operating and financial background of our management team to uncover and exploit more off-the-run acquisitions.  The targeted distressed deals are likely to include undercapitalized lease owners, energy lending institutions, and distressed equity sponsors.

Maintain our financial discipline in terms of exploration and production activities. As an operator, we leverage advanced technologies and integrate the knowledge, judgment and experience of our management and technical teams. We believe our team demonstrates financial discipline that is achieved by our approach to evaluating and analyzing prospects, along with prior drilling and completion results, before allocating capital. This discipline is reflected in the improvements our team has attained on reducing overall unit costs. When we are not the operator, we proactively engage with the operators in an effort to ensure similar financial discipline. Additionally, we conduct our own internal geological and engineering studies on these prospects and provide input on the drilling, completion and operation of many of these non-operated wells pursuant to our agreements and relationships with the operators. Through these methods and practices, we believe we are well-positioned to control the expenses and timing of development and exploitation of our properties.
 
 
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Our Competitive Strengths
 
We have a number of competitive strengths that we believe will help us to successfully execute our business strategies:
 
Multi-year development drilling program. Within our oil-rich south Texas locations, we have identified 76 estimated PUD reserves locations. Using reserve engineer estimates, we expect these locations to be sufficient to sustain operating cash flow growth for five years, allowing us to pursue other acquisition opportunities. For the year ending 2012, we drilled or participated in 5 wells requiring an investment of $5.6 million.  The result of this investment was an increase in proven developed producing reserves from $15.4 million to $16.4 million. We believe our multi-year, identified drilling and development portfolio provides visible near-term growth in our production and reserves, and highlights the long-term resource potential cross our asset base.

Financial focus and flexibility. Our management focuses on maintaining a conservative balance sheet while trying to best optimize the overall capital structure to provide the best balance of risk and return potential. We also have a hedge program in place to mitigate risks.

Experienced, proven, and incentivized management team. Our management team has extensive operating knowledge and deep upstream, midstream, and service sector experience from companies such as South Texas Oil, Clayton Williams, TXO Production, CPX Petroleum, and Universal Seismic.  The technical background of our management team includes experience drilling and implementing successful exploitation techniques in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and New Zealand. Additionally, we have a diversified group of board members with experience launching and managing a number of successful enterprises who provide insight and perspective regarding our business.

Multi-disciplined approach to new opportunities. Our process for evaluating and developing new oil and natural gas prospects is a result of what we believe to be an organizational philosophy that is dedicated to a systematic, multi-disciplinary approach to new opportunities with an emphasis on incorporating petroleum systems, geosciences, technology and finance into the decision-making process. We recognize the importance of consulting multiple individuals in our organization across all disciplines and all levels of responsibility prior to making exploration, acquisition or development decisions and the formulation of key criteria for successful exploration and development projects in any given play to enhance our decision-making. We believe this multi-disciplined approach underpins our record of value creation and represents the best way to deliver consistent, year-over-year results to our shareholders.
 
Approximately 84.0% of our estimated proved reserves and 77.9% of our PV-10 valuation are estimated proved undeveloped reserves and will require capital to put into production.  The breakdown of our estimated proved reserves may be found on page 70 of this prospectus.

Material Contracts
 
We have material contracts, including participation agreements and contracts relating to the formation of the Company.  These contracts are included as Exhibits 4.1 through 4.3 and 10.1 through 10.7.2.

Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement

We entered a “Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement” dated June 10, 2011, with Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P., Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC, and Summerline Capital Partners, LLC (collectively “Summerline”) attached as Exhibit 4.1.  The Agreement says that the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to reverse-merge with a public shell company or obtain an effective registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 within 90 days of the date of that agreement (September 8, 2011).  We did not successfully complete the reverse-merger or effective registration statement.  Moreover, the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement also provided the Summerline parties with a put option if we failed “to use . . . . commercially reasonable efforts” to consummate the reverse merger or effective registration statement by December 10, 2012.  Our audited financial statements dated December 31, 2011, value this put option liability at $18,400,000.   This put option liability hindered the Company’s ability to obtain bank financing on reasonable terms.
 
 
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On July 20, 2012, the Company and Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., Summerview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC and Summerline Capital Partners, LLC agreed to waive the Company’s put option liability from the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement in exchange for the issuance of a total of 707,336 in shares of the Company’s common stock and a cash payment of accrued going public delay fees of $166,668.49.  The going public delay fee was not waived on a going forward basis.  After the issuance of these referenced shares, Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC and Summerline Capital Partners, LLC collectively own 17.6127% of the Company’s common stock shares.  The waiver agreement is attached as Exhibit 4.3.

Agreement between Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, and SOSventures, LLC regarding Starboard Resources LLC.

Giddings Oil & Gas LP owns 5,266,967 of our common stock shares or 42.6049% of our equity. Asym Energy Fund III LP owns 3,497,941 of our common stock shares or 28.2951% of our equity. Hunton Oil Genpar LLC is general partner of Hunton Oil Partners LP which owns 870,092 of our common stock shares or 7.0382% of our equity.  Collectively, these entities own or control 9,635,000 of our common stock shares or 77.9383% of our equity.  Further, limited partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP claims beneficial ownership of another 550,000 Company shares held in the name of Giddings Investments LLC.  If such shares are delivered to Giddings Oil & Gas LP it would have 5,816,967 shares or 47.0539% of the Company and the three entities would own or control 10,185,000 shares or 82.3873% of the Company.

This portion of our equity is subject to an agreement dated January 20, 2012, attached as Exhibit 4.2, between Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC and SOSventures, LLC.  The Agreement provides that upon “monetization” of the Starboard Resources equity, that Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP shall be “dissolved” and their “affairs wound up.”  According to the agreement:

“Monetization” means the receipt of a liquidating distribution in cash from Starboard or its successors, including a corporate successor formed for the purposes of effecting a public offering, or the receipt of unrestricted and freely transferable securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended in connection with a going public transaction at Starboard Resources LLC, however affected.

While the Company views the ownership by the partnerships of Starboard common stock shares  eligible for sale by the partnerships under the Securities Act of 1933 through this Form S-1 Registration Statement as making the “monetization” agreement effective, the Company cannot provide assurances that the limited partners of the Partnerships would take the same view and would not contest the dissolution of the partnerships.  One issue that may arise is that this Agreement was entered into by Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC acting as general partners of the partnerships.  Moreover, the Company is not a signatory to the “monetization” agreement.

If the partnerships are dissolved through the “monetization” agreement, then our common stock shares would be distributed to the partnerships’ partners. We refer you to the partnerships’ limited partner ownership tables on pages 54 and 55 of this Prospectus for a presentation of the limited partners’ sharing percentages before dilution to the general partners’ interests and possible common stock ownership upon the dissolution of the partnerships. Such a distribution would lead to a change of voting control of the Company.

Senior Secured Credit Facility with Independent Bank

On June 27, 2013 we entered into a senior secured credit facility from Independent Bank, providing for a $100.0 million revolving credit facility, subject to scheduled or elective collateral borrowing base redeterminations based on our estimated oil and natural gas reserves. The credit facility matures on June 1, 2016.  The current borrowing base is $13.0 million. The outstanding borrowings bear interest at a rate that is currently based on the prime plus 0.0% with a 4.00% floor.  We also must pay an unused commitment fee of 0.5% per year on the undrawn amount of the borrowing base.  We have currently borrowed approximately $11 million on the credit facility.

 The credit facility is secured by our assets, including the oil and gas assets, and is guaranteed by our subsidiaries.  We are also required to limit our commodity hedges to collars with no more than 75% of our projected monthly oil and gas production from our estimated proved developed producing reserves. Finally, we may not pay dividends to stockholders without the consent of Independent Bank.
 
 
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The credit facility requires us to maintain certain financial ratios.  First, each quarter we must maintain an interest coverage ratio of 3:1 so that our consolidated net income, adjusted for interest expense, depreciation, depletion and amortization expenses less tax expenses and dividends/stock buybacks(“EBITDAX”) is greater than 3 times our interest expense under the credit facility.  Second, we must maintain a debt to EBITDAX ratio of less than 3.5:1 at the end of each fiscal quarter. Third, we must maintain a current ratio of at greater than 1:1 at the end of each fiscal quarter, meaning that our consolidated current assets (including the unused amount of the credit facility and excluding non-cash assets under ASC 410 and 815) must be greater than our consolidated current liabilities (excluding non-cash obligations under ASC 410 and 815 and current portion of the note under the credit facility.)

Further, the credit facility prohibits our incurring most debt outside the ordinary course of business except for the subordinated credit facility.

We may not merge or have a subsidiary merger with another company without the consent of Independent Bank.  We also must obtain Independent Bank’s consent to sell oil and gas assets.

The credit facility has no required amortizations unless there is a borrowing base deficiency.  There are no mandatory prepayments unless there is a borrowing base deficiency.

The bank credit facility provides us with financial flexibility and liquidity.  It also exposes us to interest rate risk, requires that we make business decisions with a focus on the credit facility’s financial ratios and other terms and presents a risk of loss of assets if we have an event of default.  Further, our liquidity may also be affected by material changes to our borrowing base that result from changes in hydrocarbon prices or other market conditions.

We also have additional affirmative and restrictive covenants. The credit agreement and related documents are attached as Exhibits 10.5.1 through 10.5.14.

Subordinated Credit Facility with SOSventures, LLC
 
On July 25, 2013 we entered into an amended credit agreement with SOSventures, LLC providing for a term loan through February 1, 2016 in an amount up to $10,000,000 at a 17.00% interest rate through May 29, 2014 and 22.00% interest rate thereafter.  The loan under this Agreement will be secured by a second lien on the Company’s assets.  The credit agreement and the related intercreditor agreement are attached as Exhibits 10.6.1 and 10.6.2.

The SOSventures, LLC credit agreement requires us to maintain certain financial ratios.  First, we must maintain an interest coverage ratio of 3:1 at the end of each quarter so that our consolidated net income less our fees under the credit facility, lender expenses, non-cash charges relating to the hedge agreements, interest, income taxes, depreciation, depletion, amortization, exploration expenditures and costs and other non-cash charges (netted for noncash income) (“EBITDAX”) is greater than 3 times our interest expense under the credit facility.  Second, we must maintain a debt to EBITDAX ratio of less than 3.5:1 at the end of each quarter. Third, we must maintain a current ratio of at greater than 1:1 at the end of each quarter, meaning that our consolidated current assets (including the unused amount of the credit facility by excluding non-cash assets under ASC 410 and 815) must be greater than our consolidated current liabilities (excluding non-cash obligations under ASC 410 and 815 and current maturities under the credit facility.)

The credit agreement prevents us from incurring indebtedness to banks or lenders, other than Independent Bank, without the consent of SOSventures, LLC.  It also prevents us from incurring most contingent obligations or liens (other than to Independent Bank).  It also restricts our ability to pay dividends, issue options and warrants and repurchase our common stock shares.  The limitation on options and warrants does not apply to equity compensation plans.

Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement and Going Public Delay Fee
 
We entered a “Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement” dated June 10, 2011 with Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC, Summerline Capital Partners, LLC, Giddings Oil & Gas LP and Giddings Investments LLC attached as Exhibit 4.1 to this prospectus.  This Agreement is also referenced in connection with the put option liability described on pages 48 - 49 of this prospectus.  Section 8(c) of the Agreement says that the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to reverse-merge with a public shell company or obtain an effective registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 within 90 days of the date of that agreement (September 8, 2011).
 
 
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Until the Company either engages in the reverse merger or obtains an effective Form 10 registration statement, the Company is subject to a going public delay fee.  Under Section 8(d) of the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement the Company shall pay or accrue a “going public delay fee” of $60,715 per month if it did not effect a public company reverse merger or effective registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by December 10, 2011.  As of December 31, 2012, we show approximately $488,000 in liabilities from the going public delay fee.

This Going Public Delay Fee will cease accruing upon the effectiveness of the Form 10 Registration Statement thus saving the Company $728,580 on an annual basis.

Hedging Activities
 
In August 2012, we placed a costless collar hedge on West Texas Intermediate Crude contracts covering 82,400 Bbls of crude oil for the period from August 2012 to July 2014 at $73.00 - $99.00 WTI.  These contracts amount to 3,110 bbls per month from January 2013 to December 2013 and 2,040 bbls per month from January 2014 to July 2014. These contracts and any future hedging arrangements may expose us to risk of financial loss in certain circumstances, including instances where production is less than expected or oil prices increase. In addition, these arrangements may limit the benefit to us of increases in the price of oil. Accordingly, our earnings may fluctuate significantly as a result of changes in the fair value of our derivative instruments.
 
Emerging Growth Company

We are an “Emerging Growth Company” under the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) which was signed into law by President Obama in April 2012.  This means that we have lesser SEC-reporting company requirements than we would otherwise have.  Specifically, Emerging Growth Companies are subject to the following lower reporting requirements:

No requirement for an independent auditor attestation as to the effectiveness of our internal controls;
No requirement to present more than two years of audited financial statements;
No requirement to discuss our financial performance or to present supplemental financial information for periods more than two years previous;
Any future possible periodic auditor rotation requirements will not apply to us;
We may elect to delay compliance with new or revised financial accounting standards until such time as those standards also apply to companies that do not file periodic reports with the SEC;
Our executive compensation disclosure will comply with the provisions applicable to smaller reporting companies, that is companies with less than $75 million in market capital, rather than other companies of comparable size to us;
No requirement that we seek an advisory vote from shareholders as to the approval of our executive compensation (say-on-pay);
No requirement that we seek a shareholder vote determining the frequency of shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation (say-on-pay vote frequency);
No requirement for shareholder approval of golden parachutes for our officers and directors in mergers or change-of-control transactions;
Research reports about us by a broker or dealer will not be part of our registration statement, even if the broker or dealer is participating in underwriting or selling our securities;
Our management or agents may communicate orally and in writing with qualified institutional buyers or institutional accredited investors who are prospective investors in our initial public offering (IPO) before or after our registration statement becomes effective (provided such communications are supplemented with the delivery of our prospectus); and
Brokers and dealers involved with offering and selling our securities may publish research reports relating to our company at any time after our IPO and within any restrictive period on the sale of securities by our holders after the IPO.

We will lose the above-described exemptions from our reporting and shareholder approval obligations when we cease to be an Emerging Growth Company.  We will cease to be an Emerging Growth Company on the last day of the fiscal year following the date of the fifth anniversary of our first sale of common equity securities under an effective registration statement or a fiscal year in which we have $1 billion in gross revenues.  We will also immediately cease to be an Emerging Growth Company if the market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million or upon our issuing $1 billion or more in non-convertible debt in a three year period.  Finally, we may choose to opt-out of the emerging growth company status at any time.  If we opt out of emerging growth company status we may not opt back in.
 
 
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No Delayed Adoption of New or Revised Accounting Standards under the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (JOBS ACT)
 
The JOBS Act provides that we have the option of deferring compliance with new or revised accounting standard until such date as companies that do not file periodic reports with the SEC are required to comply with the new or revised accounting standard.  We have elected not to use this provision and intend to implement new or revised accounting standards applicable to reporting issuers when such implementation is required of other reporting issuers.  This election is irrevocable.
 
Recent Developments

Recent Oil and Gas Activities

Since June 30, 2013, the Company has drilled and completed two wells (2 net wells), commenced drilling on another (.5 net wells), and is producing the joint well (.3 net wells) in Brazos County. The Company’s recent operations in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma include the completion and production of one well (0.2 net wells).

The Company’s recent operations in Texas include the drilling and completion of three wells (2.23 net wells) in Brazos County. In addition to these operations, the Company has drilled and completed an additional well (0.3 net well) in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.

New Bank Credit Facility

On June 27, 2013 we entered into a senior secured credit facility from Independent Bank, providing for a $100.0 million revolving credit facility, subject to scheduled or elective collateral borrowing base redeterminations based on our oil and natural gas estimated reserves. The credit facility matures on June 1, 2016.  The current borrowing base is $13.0 million. The outstanding borrowings bear interest at a rate that is currently based on the prime plus 0.0% with a 4.00% floor.  We also must pay an unused commitment fee of 0.5% per year on the undrawn amount of the borrowing base.  We have currently borrowed approximately $11 million on the credit facility.

 The credit facility is secured by our assets, including the oil and gas assets, and is guaranteed by our subsidiaries.  We are also required to limit our commodity hedges to collars with no more than 75% of our projected monthly oil and gas production from our proved developed producing estimated reserves. Finally, we may not pay dividends to stockholders without the consent of Independent Bank.

The credit facility requires us to maintain certain financial ratios.  First, each quarter we must maintain an interest coverage ratio of 3:1 so that our consolidated net income, adjusted for interest expense, depreciation, depletion and amortization expenses less tax expenses and dividends/stock buybacks(“EBITDAX”) is greater than 3 times our interest expense under the credit facility.  Second, we must maintain a debt to EBITDAX ratio of less than 3.5:1 at the end of each fiscal quarter. Third, we must maintain a current ratio of at greater than 1:1 at the end of each fiscal quarter, meaning that our consolidated current assets (including the unused amount of the credit facility and excluding non-cash assets under ASC 410 and 815) must be greater than our consolidated current liabilities (excluding non-cash obligations under ASC 410 and 815 and current portion of the note under the credit facility.)

Further, the credit facility prohibits our incurring most debt outside the ordinary course of business except for the subordinated credit facility.

We may not merge or have a subsidiary merger with another company without the consent of Independent Bank.  We also must obtain Independent Bank’s consent to sell oil and gas assets.

The credit facility has no required amortizations unless there is a borrowing base deficiency.  There are no mandatory prepayments unless there is a borrowing base deficiency.
 
 
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The bank credit facility provides us with financial flexibility and liquidity.  It also exposes us to interest rate risk, requires that we make business decisions with a focus on the credit facility’s financial ratios and other terms and presents a risk of loss of assets if we have an event of default.  Further, our liquidity may also be affected by material changes to our borrowing base that result from changes in hydrocarbon prices or other market conditions.

We also have additional affirmative and restrictive covenants. The credit agreement and related documents are attached as Exhibits 10.5.1 through 10.5.14.

New Subordinated Credit Facility
 
On July 25, 2013 we entered an amended credit agreement with SOSventures, LLC providing for a term loan through February 1, 2016 in an amount up to $10,000,000 at a 17.00% interest rate through May 29, 2014 and 22.00% interest rate thereafter.  The loan under this Agreement will be secured by a second lien on the Company’s assets.  The credit agreement and related intercreditor agreement are attached as Exhibits 10.6.1 and 10.6.2.  We have not yet borrowed funds under this credit facility.
 
Lawsuit Relating to Our Common Stock Shares

Approximately 82.39% of our common stock shares are the subject of litigation filed in Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk at Stamford, Cause Nos. FST-CV-12-5013927-S and FST-CV-12-6014987-S, styled Charles Henry III, Ahmed Ammar, John P. Vaile as Trustee of John P. Vaile Living Trust, John Paul Otieno, SOSventures, LLC, Bradford Higgins, William Mahoney, Robert J. Conrads, Edward M. Conrads, William F. Pettinati, Jr. individually and derivatively on behalf of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund LP v. Gregory Imbruce, Giddings Investments LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, Asym Capital III LLC, Starboard Resources, Inc., Glenrose Holdings LLC and Asym Energy Investments LLC.  This lawsuit was originally filed on July 18, 2012.  The Plaintiffs allege fiduciary duty breaches, conversion, civil theft, violations of Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, unjust enrichment, common law fraud, negligence, fraudulent conveyance and civil conspiracy and seek damages, injunctive relief, a constructive trust and an accounting.  These allegations focus on the issuance of 550,000 Starboard Resources LLC Units to “Giddings Investments, LLC.”  The allegations claim that this issuance was derived from the conversion of participation rights in Company wells that belong to Giddings Oil & Gas LP.  The lawsuit makes several other claims of breaches of duties by Defendants in connection with Defendants or their affiliates serving as general partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP, and Hunton Oil Partners LP.  Defendants deny the allegations.

The Plaintiffs are not Company stockholders.  They are limited partners of Partnerships that are Company stockholders.  Two Plaintiffs, Charles Henry III and William Mahoney have been non-executive directors of the Company.  Mr. Henry remains a Company director.  Mr. Mahoney resigned as a Company director in April 2013 and passed away shortly thereafter.   Another Plaintiff, SOSventures, LLC, employs our chairman, Bill Liao.  Defendant Gregory Imbruce was a Company director until April 2012.

The Plaintiffs allege in Paragraph 47 of their Third Amended Complaint (attached as Exhibit 99.1.2) that “Starboard is merely a nominal defendant for purposes of injunctive relief.”  The Plaintiffs seek the following relief against the Company:

a)  
A preliminary and permanent injunction enjoining the Defendant, Starboard Resources Inc., from the issuance and delivery of any shares or share certificates to Defendant, Giddings Investments LLC;
b)  
A preliminary and permanent injunction enjoining the Defendant, Starboard Resources Inc., from the delivery of any shares or share certificates to Imbruce and/or any of his affiliates, including Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, and ASYM Capital III LLC;
c)  
A preliminary and permanent injunction enjoining the Defendant, Starboard, from the payment of any Going Public Delay Fees to the Imbruce Defendants, as contemplated in the “Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement” dated June 10, 2011, by and among Starboard, Giddings Oil & Gas, LP and Giddings Investments, LLC;
d)  
A mandatory injunction, mandating that the Defendant, Starboard Resources Inc., deliver shares to Plaintiffs, Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, ASYM Energy Fund III LP, on an agreed percentage reflected in the Limited Partnership Agreements on a pro rata basis without any reduction for performance fees or expenses claimed by the Imbruce Defendants;
e)  
A mandatory injunction, mandating that the Defendant, Starboard Resources LLC, deliver shares to Giddings Oil & Gas LP reflecting the equity wrongfully converted by Defendants, Imbruce and Giddings Investments LLC, without any reduction for performance fees or expenses claimed by the Imbruce Defendants; and
f)  
A mandatory injunction, mandating that the Defendant, Starboard Resources LLC, deliver Going Public Delay Fees to Giddings Oil & Gas LP reflecting the amounts currently owed to Plaintiffs, without any reduction for performance fees or expenses claimed by the Imbruce Defendants.
 
 
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The Company agreed to preliminary injunctive relief as to the physical delivery of our common stock shares to Giddings Investments, LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, Asym Capital III LLC and Gregory Imbruce and said order has been entered.  The Company has also recognized the “Going Public Delay Fee” as a liability on its financial statements as of June 30, 2013 in the amount of $702,576 as part of the “accounts payable and accrued liabilities” stated on its balance sheet.  Consequently, the “Going Public Delay Fee” claim is fully recognized.
 
Additionally, the Company has interplead 550,000 of its common stock shares to the Court due to conflicting claims as to record and beneficial ownership of these shares by Giddings Investments LLC and derivative plaintiffs on behalf of Giddings Oil & Gas LP.  These shares amount to approximately 4.45% of the Company’s outstanding common stock.
 
Giddings Oil & Gas LP is the record owner of 5,266,967 common stock shares or 42.60% of our outstanding common stock. Asym Energy Fund III LP is the record owner of 3,497,941 common stock shares or 28.30% of our outstanding common stock. Hunton Oil Partners LP is the record owner of 870,092 common stock shares or 7.04% of our outstanding common stock.  Collectively, these entities are record owners of 9,635,000 or 77.94% of our common stock shares.  Further, we interplead an additional 550,000 common stock shares to the Court.  Consequently, the litigation relates to 10,185,000 of our common stock shares or 82.39% of our common stock.
 
While this lawsuit is pending we are likely to have corporate governance issues in shareholder meetings due to possible conflicts as to who can vote a majority of our common stock shares.
 
The lawsuit could result in multiple resolutions through litigation or settlement.  For example, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, and Asym Capital III LLC could remain general partner and the partnerships remain intact.  Alternatively, another general partner could be appointed and the partnerships remain intact.  Finally, a settlement could result in the dissolution of the partnerships.   If the litigation results in a dissolution where the partnerships are dissolved and the beneficial owners of the partnerships become the beneficial owners of the partnerships’ common stock shares in the Company, the Company would have a new shareholder base and a change in control of the majority of the Company’s common stock shares and could lead to new shareholders seeking to assert control over the Company.
 
Accordingly, the following tables indicate the partnership ownership structure before dilution for any carried allocations to former or current general partners (Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC and Asym Capital III LLC, all controlled by Gregory Imbruce).  Consequently, the final sharing percentages may be lower than stated below.  Additionally, the following tables present only limited partners who own at least an undiluted five percent or more of the sharing percentages for the partnerships.
 
Giddings Oil & Gas LP
5,226,967 Common Stock Shares Plus Claim to 550,000 Common Stock Shares in Interpleader Action
 
   
Name
 
LP Units
   
Undiluted
Sharing Percentage
 
SOSventures, LLC
    1,000       63.492063 %
Estate of William Mahoney
    200       12.698413 %
Bradford Robert Higgins IRA
    80       5.079365 %
10 other limited partners
    295       18.730159 %
                 
Total:
    1,575       100.000000 %
 
 
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Hunton Oil Partners LP
870,092 Common Stock Shares
 
   
Name
 
LP Units
   
Undiluted
Sharing Percentage
 
Sean O’Sullivan Revocable Living Trust
    200       74.906367 %
Rubicon Resources, LLC
    30       11.235955 %
7 other limited partners
    37       13.857678 %
                 
Total:
    267       100.000000 %
 
Asym Energy Fund III LP
3,497,941 Common Stock Shares
 
   
Name
 
LP Units
   
Undiluted Sharing Percentage
 
SOSventures, LLC
    500       39.745628 %
Estate of William Mahoney
    200       15.898251 %
Nicholas Garafolo
    100       7.949126 %
Robert Conrads
    90       7.154213 %
14 other limited partners
    368       29.252782 %
                 
Total:
    1,258       100.000000 %
 
Bradford Robert Higgins and Sean O’Sullivan Revocable Living Trust are affiliated with SOSventures, LLC. Mr. Higgins is SOSventures, LLC’s US representative.  Mr. O’Sullivan is the founder and principal of SOSventures, LLC.
 
Consequently, the following limited partners, alone or acting as a group, may possibly own 5% or more of the Company’s Common Stock before dilution of their interest in the partnerships to the general partner’s partnership interest upon dissolution of the partnerships:
 
Name of Limited Partner in Partnership
 
Equivalent Undiluted Common Stock Shares
   
Equivalent Undiluted Common Stock Ownership Percentage
 
SOSventures, LLC
    4,734,385       38.296845 %
Estate of William Mahoney
    1,224,933       9.908586 %
Sean O'Sullivan Revocable Living Trust
    651,754       5.272097 %
Bradford Robert Higgins IRA
    267,528       2.164061 %
                 
Possible shareholder group composed of SOSventures, LLC, Sean O’Sullivan Revocable Living Trust Group and Bradford Robert Higgins IRA
    5,653,667       45.733002 %

The dilution to the general partners’ interests for these listed shareholders may be based on a formula related to the valuation of the partnerships’ assets.  Almost all the partnerships’ assets are our common stock shares.
 
The partnership agreements appear to provide that after the return of capital contributed by the limited partners, partnership distributions flow 80% to the limited partners and 20% to the general partner for Giddings Oil and Gas LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP.   For Hunton Oil Partners LP the partnership agreement appears to provide that after the return of partnership capital contributed by the limited partners, distributions flow at least 70% to the limited partners and up to 30% to the general partner.

However, the plaintiffs in the Henry v. Imbruce litigation claim, among other things, that the general partners acted as unregistered investment advisers thus voiding their claims to compensation under Connecticut law.

Accordingly, the actual dilution of the limited partners to the general partners’ interest will depend on the course of the Henry v. Imbruce litigation and the agreed or court-determined valuation of the Company.
 
Thus, the resolution of this lawsuit may lead to a significant change of our common stock ownership structure and could lead to new shareholders seeking to assert control over the Company.

Finally, tying up 82.39% of our common stock shares in litigation will likely have a material effect on our trading liquidity should we obtain an exchange listing or an over-the-counter quotation.
 
 
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Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement and Going Public Delay Fee

We entered a “Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement” dated June 10, 2011 with Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC, and Summerline Capital Partners, LLC, Giddings Oil & Gas LP and Giddings Investments LLC attached as Exhibit 4.1.  Section 8(c) of the Agreement says that the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to reverse-merge with a public shell company or obtain an effective registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 within 90 days of the date of that agreement (September 8, 2011).

Until the Company either engages in the reverse merger or obtains an effective Form 10 registration statement, the Company is subject to a going public delay fee.  Under Section 8(d) of the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement the Company shall pay or accrue a “going public delay fee” of $60,715 per month if it did not effect a public company reverse merger or effective registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by December 10, 2011.  As of December 31, 2012, we show approximately $488,000 in liabilities from the going public delay fee.

This Going Public Delay Fee will cease accruing upon the effectiveness of a Form 10 Registration Statement thus saving the Company $728,580 on an annual basis.  The Company has recognized the “Going Public Delay Fee” as a liability on its financial statements as of June 30, 2013 in the amount of $702,576 as part of the “accounts payable and accrued liabilities” stated on its balance sheet.

“Monetization” Agreement between Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, and SOSventures, LLC regarding Starboard Resources LLC.

Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP collectively are record owners of 9,635,000 of common stock shares or 77.94% of our common stock.  This portion of our equity is subject to an agreement dated January 20, 2012, attached as Exhibit 4.2, between Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC and SOSventures, LLC.  If the 550,000 common stock shares interplead by the Company are included, that agreement could cover 10,185,000 of our common stock shares or 82.39% of our common stock.  The Agreement provides that upon “monetization” of the Starboard Resources equity, that Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP shall be “dissolved” and their “affairs wound up.”  According to the agreement:

“Monetization” means the receipt of a liquidating distribution in cash from Starboard or its successors, including a corporate successor formed for the purposes of effecting a public offering, or the receipt of unrestricted and freely transferable securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended in connection with a going public transaction at Starboard Resources LLC, however affected.

While the Company views the ownership by the partnerships of Starboard common stock shares eligible for sale by the partnerships under the Securities Act of 1933 as making the “monetization” agreement effective, the Company cannot provide assurances that the limited partners of the Partnerships would take the same view and would not contest the dissolution of the partnerships.  One issue that may arise is that this Agreement was entered into by Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC acting as general partners of the partnerships.  As stated below, counsel for limited partners maintains these business entities were subsequently removed as general partners and thus are not be in position to fulfill the terms of the Monetization Agreement on their own. Moreover, the Company is not a signatory to the “monetization” agreement.

If the partnerships are dissolved through the “monetization” agreement, then our common stock shares would be distributed to the partnerships’ partners. We refer you to the partnerships’ limited partner ownership tables on pages 54 and 55 of this prospectus for a presentation of the limited partners’ sharing percentages before dilution to the general partners’ interests and possible common stock ownership upon the dissolution of the partnerships.  Such a distribution would lead to a change of voting control of the Company.

Finally, it is important for the selling shareholders and prospective purchasers to understand that this prospectus only covers the sale of our common stock shares by the partnerships and other designated Selling Stockholders as stated in the table on page 106 of this prospectus. If our common stock shares are distributed by the partnerships to their limited partners through the monetization agreement or otherwise, those limited partners may only sell their shares through the effectiveness of another registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 covering the referenced common stock shares or through the limited sales allowed by the safe harbor from being found to be an underwriter as stated in SEC Rule 144.
 
 
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Common Control of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP
 
Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP have common control.  As stated below, there is a dispute over who controls these partnerships.  Regardless of the resolution of that dispute, the partnerships may be deemed to be under common control.

Control over Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP

On May 8, 2013, counsel for the limited partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP  in Henry et al., v. Imbruce et al., informed the Company that “87.5% of the limited partners of the three limited partnerships have removed Gregory Imbruce and/or his affiliates as general partner of said partnerships. In addition, the limited partners have appointed Chuck (Charles) Henry as the replacement general partner.”   We have also become aware of a letter from counsel for Gregory Imbruce and his affiliates to counsel for the limited partners dated April 6, 2013 denying the effectiveness of the removal notice.  Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Capital II, LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP own 77.94% of our common stock shares.   Charles S. Henry, III is a Company director.  The dispute over control of these partnerships will have a material impact on our shareholder voting and our corporate governance and presents the Company with substantial risk that we may have a disputed shareholder vote.

Management’s Experience with Horizontal Drilling
 
The Company intends to engage in directional drilling, which includes horizontal drilling, to develop our proven undeveloped reserves, particularly in our Eagle Ford Shale play acreage.  Both our CEO, Michael Pawelek, and our Chief Operating Officer, Edward Shaw, have been engaged in in directional drilling and operating wells in our target areas since 1999.  Further, the Company’s Vice-President of Operations, Thomas Saunders, has extensive directional drilling experience.  Mr. Saunders has 32 years of domestic and international drilling experience, including 27 years of direct supervisory drilling, workover, construction, and production operations experience. Mr. Saunders’ past experience has been with Tenneco, Arco, Anadarko, and BP. He received a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.  Combined Mr. Pawelek, Mr. Shaw and Mr. Saunders have been involved in drilling over 200 directional/horizontal wells.

Present Activities
 
Since June 30, 2013 through August 26, 2013, the Company has drilled and completed two wells (2 net wells), commenced drilling on another (.5 net wells), and is producing the joint well (.3 net wells) in Brazos County, Texas. The Company’s recent operations in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma include the completion and production of one well (0.2 net wells).

Delivery Commitments
 
 The Company is not currently committed to providing a fixed and determinable quantity of oil or gas under any existing contract.
 
 
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Major Customers
 
The Company sold oil and natural gas production representing more than 10% of its oil and natural gas revenues as follows:
 
2012:
 
     
Oil- Sunoco Inc.
 
 
96
%
Gas- DCP Midstream, LP
 
 
35
%
Superior Pipeline
 
 
64
%
   
2011:
 
     
Oil- Texon LP
 
 
86
%
Gas- DCP Midstream, LP
   
72
%
ETC Texas Pipeline
   
17
%
Superior Pipeline
 
 
10
%

 
Because alternate purchasers of oil are readily available, we believe that the loss of any of our purchasers would not have a material adverse effect on our financial results. Our agreement with Sunoco, Inc. provides that our oil will be sold at the posted prices for West Texas intermediate crude oil for the calendar month, deemed 40.0 API gravity, plus the average of Argus’s P-Plus for the trading month, less a downward adjustment depending on property of $2.51 – $4.80 per barrel with one property in Bastrop County having a $7.00 adjustment.

The DCP Midstream, LP gas purchase contract for our Texas properties states that the residue gas value will be the price per MMBtu published by Insider F.E.R.C.’s Gas Market Report on its first publication of the delivery month for “Prices of Spot Gas Delivered to Pipelines” for the Houston Ship Chanel less than $0.15 per MMBTU.  NGL net value is determined by an average of the daily high/low spot price for (i) ethane in E-P mix, (ii) non-TET propane, (iii) non-TET isobutene, (iv) non-TET normal butane, and (v) non-TET natural gasoline (pentanes and heaver) during the month as reported for Mont Belvieu, Texas by the Oil Price Information Service less a transportation, fractionation and storage fee of $0.06 per gallon, with the fee subject to inflation adjustments based on seasonally adjusted inflation statistics.  Further, the contract provides for the payment of the following percentages of the net value of the residue gas:

Month’s Average MCF/Day for all gas delivered under Contract
 
Applicable Percentage of Residue Gas and NGLs
Greater than 1,500
 
92%
1,000 – 1,500
 
90%
751 – 1,000
 
88%
400 - 750
 
86%
Less than 400
 
84%
 
If the Company delivers less than 300 Mcf per month at any delivery point, it will be charged a low volume fee of $200.00 per month.

Superior Pipeline is the purchaser of the natural gas from our non-operated properties in Oklahoma.  We are not directly contracted with Superior Pipeline and production purchase decisions are determined by the Operator.
 
 
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Competition

We encounter competition from other oil and natural gas companies in all areas of our operations, including the acquisition of exploratory prospects and proven properties. Many of our competitors are large, well-established companies that have been engaged in the oil and natural gas business for much longer than we have and possess substantially larger operating staffs and greater capital resources than we do. Our ability to explore for oil and natural gas reserves and to acquire additional properties in the future will be dependent upon our ability to conduct our operations, to evaluate and select suitable properties and to consummate transactions in this highly competitive environment. We believe that our technological expertise, our exploration, land, drilling and production capabilities and the experience of our management generally enable us to compete effectively.
Marketing

Our production is marketed to third parties consistent with industry practices. Typically, oil is sold at the wellhead at field-posted prices plus a bonus and natural gas is sold under contract at a negotiated price based upon factors normally considered in the industry, such as distance from the well to the pipeline, well pressure, estimated reserves, quality of natural gas and prevailing supply and demand conditions.

Our marketing objective is to receive the highest possible wellhead price for our product. We are aided by the presence of multiple outlets near our production in Texas and Oklahoma. We take an active role in determining the available pipeline alternatives for each property based on historical pricing, capacity, pressure, market relationships, seasonal variances and long-term viability.
 
Regulation of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
 
Regulation of Transportation and Sale of Oil

Sales of crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids are not currently regulated and are made at negotiated prices. Nevertheless, Congress could reenact price controls in the future.
 
Our sales of crude oil are affected by the availability, terms and cost of transportation. The transportation of oil in common carrier pipelines is also subject to rate regulation. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) regulates interstate oil pipeline transportation rates under the Interstate Commerce Act. Interstate oil pipeline rates are typically set based on a cost of service methodology (“Cost-Based Rates”); however, they may also be set based on the competitive market (“Market-Based Rates”) or by agreement between the pipeline and its shippers (“Settlement Rates”). Some oil pipeline rates may be increased pursuant to an index methodology, whereby the pipeline may increase its rates up to a ceiling set by reference to the Producer Price Index for Finished Goods (unless the rate increase is shown to be substantially in excess of the actual cost increases incurred by the pipeline). Intrastate oil pipeline transportation rates are subject to regulation by state regulatory commissions. The basis for intrastate oil pipeline regulation, and the degree of regulatory oversight and scrutiny given to intrastate oil pipeline rates, varies from state to state. Insofar as effective interstate and intrastate rates are equally applicable to all comparable shippers, we believe that the regulation of oil transportation rates will not affect our operations in any way that is of material difference from those of our competitors.
 
Further, interstate and intrastate common carrier oil pipelines must provide service on a non-discriminatory basis. Under this open access standard, common carriers must offer service to all similarly situated shippers requesting service on the same terms and under the same rates. When oil pipelines operate at full capacity, access is governed by prorationing provisions set forth in the pipelines’ published tariffs. Accordingly, we believe that access to oil pipeline transportation services generally will be available to us to the same extent as to our competitors.
 
Regulation of Transportation and Sale of Natural Gas

Historically, the transportation and sale for resale of natural gas in interstate commerce have been regulated pursuant to the Natural Gas Act of 1938, the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 and regulations issued under those Acts by the FERC. In the past, the federal government has regulated the prices at which natural gas could be sold. While sales by producers of natural gas can currently be made at uncontrolled market prices, Congress could reenact price controls in the future.
 
 
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FERC regulates interstate natural gas transportation rates and service conditions, which affects the marketing of natural gas that we produce, as well as the revenues we receive for sales of our natural gas. Since 1985, the FERC has endeavored to make natural gas transportation more accessible to natural gas buyers and sellers. The interstate pipelines’ traditional role as wholesalers of natural gas has been eliminated and replaced by a structure under which pipelines provide transportation and storage service on an open access basis to others who buy and sell natural gas. Although the FERC’s orders do not directly regulate natural gas producers, they are intended to foster increased competition within all phases of the natural gas industry.
 
We cannot accurately predict whether the FERC’s actions will achieve the goal of increasing competition in markets in which our natural gas is sold. Additional proposals and proceedings that might affect the natural gas industry are pending before the FERC and the courts. The natural gas industry historically has been very heavily regulated. Therefore, we cannot provide any assurance that the less stringent regulatory approach recently established by the FERC will continue. However, we do not believe that any action taken will affect us in a way that materially differs from the way it affects other natural gas producers.
 
Gathering service, which occurs upstream of jurisdictional transmission services, is regulated by the states on shore and in state waters. Although its policy is still in flux, FERC has reclassified certain jurisdictional transmission facilities as non-jurisdictional gathering facilities, which has the tendency to increase our costs of getting natural gas to point of sale locations.
 
Intrastate natural gas transportation is also subject to regulation by state regulatory agencies. The basis for intrastate regulation of natural gas transportation and the degree of regulatory oversight and scrutiny given to intrastate natural gas pipeline rates and services varies from state to state. Insofar as such regulation within a particular state will generally affect all intrastate natural gas shippers within the state on a comparable basis, we believe that the regulation of similarly situated intrastate natural gas transportation in any states in which we operate and ship natural gas on an intrastate basis will not affect our operations in any way that is of material difference from those of our competitors. Like the regulation of interstate transportation rates, the regulation of intrastate transportation rates affects the marketing of natural gas that we produce, as well as the revenues we receive for sales of our natural gas.
 
Regulation of Production

The production of oil and natural gas is subject to regulation under a wide range of local, state and federal statutes, rules, orders and regulations. Federal, state and local statutes and regulations require permits for drilling operations, drilling bonds and reports concerning operations. All of the states in which we own and operate properties have regulations governing conservation matters, including provisions for the unitization or pooling of oil and natural gas properties, the establishment of maximum allowable rates of production from oil and natural gas wells, the regulation of well spacing, and plugging and abandonment of wells. The effect of these regulations is to limit the amount of oil and natural gas that we can produce from our wells and to limit the number of wells or the locations at which we can drill, although we can apply for exceptions to such regulations or to have reductions in well spacing. Moreover, each state generally imposes a production or severance tax with respect to the production and sale of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids within its jurisdiction.  The failure to comply with these rules and regulations can result in substantial penalties. Our competitors in the oil and natural gas industry are subject to the same regulatory requirements and restrictions that affect our operations.
 
Environmental Matters and Other Regulation
 
General

Our operations are subject to stringent and complex federal, state and local laws and regulations governing environmental protection as well as the discharge of materials into the environment. These laws and regulations may, among other things: 
 
require the acquisition of various permits before drilling commences;
restrict the types, quantities and concentration of various substances that can be released into the environment in connection with oil and natural gas drilling and production activities;
limit or prohibit drilling activities on certain lands lying within wilderness, wetlands and other protected areas; and
require remedial measures to mitigate pollution from former and ongoing operations, such as requirements to close pits and plug abandoned wells.

These laws and regulations may also restrict the rate of oil and natural gas production below the rate that would otherwise be possible. The regulatory burden on the oil and gas industry increases the cost of doing business in the industry and consequently affects profitability. Additionally, Congress and federal and state agencies frequently revise environmental laws and regulations, and any changes that result in more stringent and costly waste handling, disposal and cleanup requirements for the oil and gas industry could have a significant impact on our operating costs.  The following is a summary of some of the existing laws, rules and regulations to which our business operations are subject.
 
 
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Waste Handling

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, or RCRA, and comparable state statutes, regulate the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, disposal and cleanup of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes. Under the auspices of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, the individual states administer some or all of the provisions of RCRA, sometimes in conjunction with their own, more stringent requirements. Drilling fluids, produced waters and most of the other wastes associated with the exploration, development and production of crude oil or natural gas are not currently regulated under RCRA or state hazardous waste provisions though our operations may produce waste that do not fall within this exemption. However, these oil and gas production wastes may be regulated as solid waste under state law or RCRA. It is possible that certain oil and natural gas exploration and production wastes now classified as non-hazardous could be classified as hazardous wastes in the future. Any such change could result in an increase in our costs to manage and dispose of wastes, which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial position.
 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
 
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, or CERCLA, also known as the Superfund Law, imposes joint and several liability, without regard to fault or legality of conduct, on classes of persons who are considered to be responsible for the release of a hazardous substance into the environment. These persons include the current or former owner or operator of the site where the release occurred and anyone who disposed or arranged for the disposal of a hazardous substance released at the site. Under CERCLA, such persons may be subject to joint and several liability for the costs of cleaning up the hazardous substances that have been released into the environment, for damages to natural resources and for the costs of certain health studies. In addition, it is not uncommon for neighboring landowners and other third parties to file claims for personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by the hazardous substances released into the environment.
 
In the course of our operations, we generate wastes that may fall within CERCLA’s definition of hazardous substances. Further, we currently own, lease or operate properties that have been used for oil and natural gas exploration and production for many years. Hazardous substances or petroleum may have been released on, at or under the properties owned, leased or operated by us, or on, at or under other locations, including off-site locations, where such hazardous substances or other wastes have been taken for disposal. In addition, some of our properties have been operated by third parties or by previous owners or operators whose handling, treatment and disposal of hazardous substances, petroleum, or other materials or wastes were not under our control. These properties and the substances or materials disposed or released on, at or under them may be subject to CERCLA, RCRA or analogous or other state laws. Under such laws, we could be required to remove previously disposed substances and wastes or released petroleum, remediate contaminated property or perform remedial plugging or pit closure operations to prevent future contamination.
 
Water Discharges

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, or the Clean Water Act, and analogous state laws, impose restrictions and strict controls with respect to the discharge of pollutants, including spills and leaks of oil and other substances into waters of the United States or state waters. Under these laws, the discharge of pollutants into regulated waters is prohibited except in accordance with the terms of a permit issued by EPA or an analogous state agency. Federal and state regulatory agencies can impose administrative, civil and criminal penalties for non-compliance with discharge permits or other requirements of the Clean Water Act and analogous state laws and regulations.
 
The Oil Pollution Act of 1990, or OPA, which amends and augments the Clean Water Act, establishes strict liability for owners and operators of facilities that are the site of a release of oil into waters of the United States. In addition, OPA and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto impose a variety of regulations on responsible parties related to the prevention of oil spills and liability for damages resulting from such spills. OPA also requires certain oil and natural gas operators to develop, implement and maintain facility response plans, conduct annual spill training for certain employees and provide varying degrees of financial assurance.
 
 
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Air Emissions

The Federal Clean Air Act and comparable state laws regulate emissions of various air pollutants through air emissions permitting programs and the imposition of other requirements. In addition, EPA has developed and continues to develop stringent regulations governing emissions of toxic air pollutants at specified sources. Federal and state regulatory agencies can impose administrative, civil and criminal penalties for non-compliance with air permits or other requirements of the Federal Clean Air Act and associated state laws and regulations. Oil and gas operations may in certain circumstances and locations be subject to permits and restrictions under these statutes for emissions of air pollutants, including volatile organic compounds, nitrous oxides, and hydrogen sulfide.
 
Climate Change

In response to findings that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases present an endangerment to public health and the environment because emissions of such gases are contributing to warming of the earth’s atmosphere and other climatic changes, the EPA had adopted regulations under existing provisions of the federal Clean Air Act that would require a reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases, from motor vehicles and, also, could trigger permit review for greenhouse gas emissions from certain stationary sources. The EPA has asserted that the motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards triggered Clean Air Act construction and operating permit requirements for stationary sources, commencing when the motor vehicle standards took effect on January 2, 2011. The EPA published its final rule to address the permitting of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources under the PSD and Title V permitting programs. This rule “tailors” these permitting programs to apply to certain stationary sources of GHG emissions in a multi-step process, with the largest sources first subject to permitting. It is widely expected that facilities required to obtain PSD permits for their greenhouse gas emissions also will be required to reduce those emissions according to “best available control technology” standards for greenhouse gases that have yet to be developed. With regards to the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gases, on November 30, 2010, the EPA published a final rule expanding its existing greenhouse gas emissions reporting rule published in October 2009 to include onshore oil and natural gas production activities, which may include certain of our operations. In addition, both houses of Congress have actively considered legislation to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, and almost one-half of the states have already taken legal measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, primarily through the planned development of greenhouse gas emission inventories and/or regional greenhouse gas cap and trade programs. The adoption and implementation of any legislation or regulations imposing reporting obligations on, or limiting emissions of greenhouse gases from, our equipment and operations could require us to incur costs to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases associated with our operations or could adversely affect demand for the oil and natural gas we produce. Finally, it should be noted that some scientists have concluded that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere may produce climate changes that have significant physical effects, such as increased frequency and severity of storms, floods and other climatic event; if any such effects were to occur, they could have an adverse effect on our exploration and production operations.
 
National Environmental Policy Act
 
Oil and natural gas exploration and production activities on federal lands are subject to the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA. NEPA requires federal agencies, including the Department of Interior, to evaluate major agency actions that have the potential to significantly impact the environment. In the course of such evaluations, an agency will prepare an Environmental Assessment that assesses the potential direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of a proposed project and, if necessary, will prepare a more detailed Environmental Impact Statement that may be made available for public review and comment. All of our current exploration and production activities, as well as proposed exploration and development plans, on federal lands require governmental permits that are subject to the requirements of NEPA. This process has the potential to delay the development of oil and natural gas projects.
 
Endangered Species, Wetlands and Damages to Natural Resources

Various state and federal statutes prohibit certain actions that adversely affect endangered or threatened species and their habitat, migratory birds, wetlands, and natural resources. These statutes include the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Clean Water Act and CERCLA. Where takings of or harm to species or damages to wetlands, habitat, or natural resources occur or may occur, government entities or at times private parties may act to prevent oil and gas exploration or production or seek damages to species, habitat, or natural resources resulting from filling or construction or releases of oil, wastes, hazardous substances or other regulated materials.
 
OSHA and Other Laws and Regulations

We are subject to the requirements of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) and comparable state statutes. The OSHA hazard communication standard, the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act and similar state statutes require that we organize and/or disclose information about hazardous materials stored, used or produced in our operations.
 
 
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Private Lawsuits

In addition to claims arising under state and federal statutes, where a release or spill of hazardous substances, oil and gas or oil and gas wastes have occurred, private parties or landowners may bring lawsuits against oil and gas companies under state law. The plaintiffs may seek property damages, personal injury damages, remediation costs or injunctions to require remediation or restoration of contaminated property, soil, groundwater or surface water. In some cases, oil and gas operations are located near populated areas and emissions or accidental releases could affect the surrounding properties and population.

Market Price of and Dividends on the Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters
 
Market for Our Common Stock
 
Our common stock is not currently traded.  We have no market price.  Further, we have paid no dividends and do not anticipate paying dividends in the near future.  We intend to file for an application for a listing with Nasdaq Capital Markets, Inc. in conjunction with this Form S-1 registration statement.  We provide no assurance that such a listing will be obtained.
 
We have not paid any cash dividends to date, and have no intention of paying any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. The declaration and payment of dividends is subject to the discretion of our Board of Directors, certain limitations imposed under Delaware corporation law and the consent of our lenders pursuant to the terms of our credit facilities. The timing, amount and form of dividends, if any, will depend on, among other things, our results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements and other factors deemed relevant by our Board of Directors.
 
Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans
 
The following table provides information as of December 31, 2012, about our equity compensation plans and arrangements as of December 31, 2011.
 
Plan category
 
Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights
(a)
   
Weighted average
exercise price of
outstanding
options warrants
and rights
(b)
   
Number of securities remaining available for future issuance
under equity compensation plans(excluding securities
reflected in column(a))
(c)
 
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders
    0 (1)     $       (1) 
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders
    0 (1)     $       (1)
                           
Total
    0       $          
 
(1)  
No Equity Compensation Plan had been adopted as of June 30, 2013.   The Company is obligated to grant 349,650 common stock shares to Michael Pawelek, Edward Shaw and N.Kim Vo under their employment agreements with the Company. Michael Pawelek, Edward Shaw and Kim Vo will each earn 116,550 common stock shares as of March 1, 2015 provided they continue to be employed by the Company.  These common stock grants were not made pursuant to an equity compensation or stock grant plan.  The information about these stock grants is presented in the table of Outstanding Equity Grants on page 99 of this prospectus.
 
 
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Selected Financial Data
 
The Company’s subsidiaries, ImPetro Operating LLC and ImPetro Resources LLC were formed in Delaware in January 2010.  The Company was formed in Delaware in June 2011.  The following is the selected financial data under Item 301 of Regulation S-K.
 
   
Years Ended December 31
 
   
2012
   
2011
 
Operating Revenues
  $ 12,954,381     $ 4,898,438  
Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations per Share/Unit(1)
    (1.21 )     0.36  
Total Assets
    69,015,992       63,251,637  
Long-Term Obligations and Redeemable Preferred Share/Units(1)
    21,353,271       1,903,176  
Cash Dividends (or Distributions) Declared per Share/Unit(1)
    --       --  
 
(1)  
The Company converted from a Delaware limited liability corporation to a Delaware corporation on June 28, 2012 with one common stock share issued for each limited liability company unit.
 
Supplemental Financial Data
 
The following supplementary historical consolidated financial data are derived from our unaudited consolidated financial balance sheet as of such date, which is not included in this prospectus.  Operating results for the periods designated below are not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected in future periods.
 
Quarter
 
Net Sales
   
Gross Profit
   
Income (Loss) before extraordinary items and cumulative effect of change in accounting
   
Per Share Income (Loss) before extaordinary items and cumultive effect of change in accounting
 
Quarter ending March 31, 2011
    306,185       (269,937 )     (449,387 )     (0.04 )
Quarter ending June 30, 2011
    959,683       (229,273 )     3,474,224       0.30  
Quarter ending September 30, 2011
    1,414,722       (227,749 )     (228,388 )     (0.02 )
Quarter ending December 31, 2011
    2,217,848       696,225       585,699       0.05  
Quarter ending March 31, 2012
    4,086,757       1,482,291       1,258,790       0.11  
Quarter ending June 30, 2012
    3,057,834       565,454       (15,067,691 )     (1.26 )
Quarter ending September 30, 2012
    2,864,970       170,753       (505,072 )     (0.04 )
Quarter ending December 31, 2012
    2,944,820       (120,695 )     (184,831 )     (0.01 )
Quarter ending March 31, 2013
    2,949,864       (271,259 )     (505,475 )     (0.04 )
Quarter ending June 30, 2013
    3,241,798       (54,721 )     (264,594 )     (0.02 )
 
The Company has not disposed of any segments or businesses since formation.  Further, its predecessor business entity, ImPetro Resouces LLC, also has not disclosed of any of its segments or businesses since formation. Impetro Resources LLC is a predecessor because the Company acquired all of it in a single succession of a series of related successions in 2011.

The information specified in ASC topic 932-235-50 may be found in Item 3 relating to “Properties.”
 
 
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SELECTED HISTORICAL CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA
 
 You should read the following summary financial data in conjunction with “Selected Financial Data,” “Supplemental Financial Data” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our historical consolidated financial statements and unaudited financial information and related notes thereto included elsewhere in this prospectus. The financial information included in this prospectus may not be indicative of our future results of operations, financial position and cash flows.
 
Financial Data
 
The following selected historical consolidated financial data as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 are derived from our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.  The summary consolidated financial data for the six months ending June 30, 2013 and 2012 are derived from our historical unaudited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.  The summary consolidated balance sheet data as of June 30, 2013 and 2012 are derived from our unaudited consolidated financial balance sheet as of such date, which is not included in this prospectus.  Operating results for the periods ending December 31, 2012 and 2011 and the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 are not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected in future periods.
 
 
 
Six Months Ended
June 30
   
Years Ended
December 31
 
($ thousands)
 
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
                         
Statement of Operations Data:
                       
Oil, natural gas, and related sales
  $ 6,192     $ 7,145     $ 12,954     $ 4,898  
Expenses:
                               
Depreciation, depletion and amortization
    2,613       2,528       4,584       1,645  
Lease operating expenses
    1,798       1,371       2,897       1,603  
General and administrative
    1,587       882       2,470       608  
Professional fees
    327       227       576       545  
Production taxes
    153       160       279       206  
Management and performance fees
                            249  
Exploration expense
    40       23       50       73  
Total expenses
    6,518       5,191       10,857       4,929  
Operating income (loss) from operations
    (326 )     1,954       2,098       (31 )
Other income (expense)
                               
Interest Income
                            614  
Income (loss) from equity investment in ImPetro Resouces LLC
                            (307 )
Gain from ImPetro Resouces LLC business combination
                            6,980  
Put option expense
                            (3,700 )
Interest expense
    (372 )     (101 )     (370 )     (16 )
Going public delay expense
    (364 )     (364 )     (729 )     (101 )
Loss from derivative contracts
    103               (159 )     (57 )
Total other income (expense)
    (633 )     (465 )     (1,258 )     3,413  
Net income before income taxes
    (959 )     1,489       840       3,382  
Deferred income taxes
    (189 )     15,429       15,273          
Net income (loss)
  $ (770 )   $ (13,940 )   $ (14,499 )     3,382  
Net income (loss) per basic and diluted common share
  $ (0.6 )   $ (1.20 )   $ (1.21 )   $ 0.36  
Weighted average basic and diluted common shares outstanding
    12,362,336       11,665,000       11,971,948       9,436,614  
 
 
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Six Months Ended
June 30
   
Years Ended
December 31
 
   
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
($ thousands)
                       
Selected Cash Flow and Other Financial Data:
                       
Net income (loss)
  $ (7703 )   $ (13,940 )   $ (14,499 )   $ 3,382  
Depreciation, depletion and amortization
    2,613       2,528       4,584       1,645  
Other non-cash items
    911       16,184       17,361       (3,145 )
Change in operating assets and liabilities
    (519 )     (1,323 )     (1,438 )     708  
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
  $ 2,235     $ 3,449     $ 6,008     $ 2,590  
Net cash used in investing activities
  $ (6,841 )   $ (3,970 )   $ (10,299 )   $ (6,191 )
Net cash provided by financing activities
  $ 5,888     $ (4 )   $ 3,549     $ 4,394  
 
 
 
June 30
   
December 31
 
   
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
($ thousands)
                       
Balance Sheet Data:
                       
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 2,319     $ 1,885     $ 1,037     $ 1,779  
Other current assets
    1,603       1,303       1,489       1,452  
Oil and gas properties, net — using successful efforts method, net of accumulated depletion
    69,773       62,087       64,554       58,554  
Other property and equipment, net of depreciation
    160       116       184       133  
Other assets
    1,780       1,467       1,752       1,333  
Total assets
    75,635       66,858       69,016       63,252  
Current liabilities
    5,103       22,913       4,230       22,716  
Note payable —  long term
    10,078       12       4,008       19  
Deferred tax liabilities
    15,266       15,584       15,454          
Asset retirement obligations
    1,924       1,959       1,837       1,885  
Stockholders’ equity
    43,262       26,390       43,433       38,633  
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
    75,635       66,858       69,016       63,252  

Reserves Data
 
The following table presents summary data with respect to our estimated net proved oil and natural gas reserves at the dates indicated.  The reserves estimates at January 1, 2013, presented in the table below are based on evaluations prepared by our engineering staff, and an estimated reserve report prepared by Forrest A. Garb & Associates, Inc., independent reservoir engineers.  These reserves estimates were prepared in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules regarding oil and natural gas reserves reporting that were in effect at the time of the preparation of the reserves report.  Our total estimated proved reserves are estimated using a conversion ratio of one Bbl per six Mcf.
 
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The table below provides a reconciliation of PV-10 as of January 1, 2013 to the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows as of December 31, 2012 as stated in page F-38 of our financial statements: 
 
 
As of
 January 1,
2013
 
 
(dollars in thousands)
 
PV-10
  $ 123,045  
Standardized income of discounted future net cash flows
    85,467  

Present value, or PV-10, when used in connection with oil and gas reserves, means the estimated future gross revenue to be generated from the production of proved reserves, net of estimated production and future development costs, using prices calculated as the average natural gas and oil price during the preceding 12-month period prior to the end of the current reporting period, (determined as the unweighted arithmetical average of prices on the first day of each month within the 12-month period) and costs in effect at the determination date, without giving effect to non-property related expenses such as general and administrative expenses, debt service and future income tax expense or to depreciation, depletion and amortization, discounted using an annual discount rate of 10%.

Estimates of reserves as of January 1, 2013 were prepared using an average price equal to the unweighted arithmetic average of hydrocarbon prices received on a field-by-field basis on the first day of each month within the 12-month period ended January 1, 2013, in accordance with revised SEC guidelines applicable to reserves estimates as of the end of 2012. The reserve estimates represent our net revenue interest in our properties. Although we believe these estimates are reasonable, actual future production, cash flows, taxes, development expenditures, operating expenses and quantities of recoverable oil and natural gas reserves may vary substantially from these estimates.

Our proved reserve estimate report dated January 1, 2013, attached as Exhibit 99.2, as supplemented by Exhibit 99.4 uses the following average adjusted prices:
 
Oil - $92.18 / bbl
Gas - $5.29 / Mcf
 
Our proved reserve estimate report dated January 1, 2012, attached as Exhibit 99.3, as supplemented by Exhibit 99.5 uses the following average adjusted prices:
 
Oil - $91.79 / bbl
Gas - $7.14 / Mcf

Proved reserves are those oil and gas reserves, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with “reasonable certainty” to be economically producible—from a given date forward, from known reservoirs, and under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and government regulations—prior to the time at which contracts providing the right to operate expire, unless evidence indicates that renewal is reasonably certain.  For proved reserves, the drilling for oil and gas must have commenced or the operator must be reasonably certain that it will commence the project within a reasonable time period.

“Reasonable certainty” can be determined under two approaches.  If deterministic methods are used, reasonable certainty means a “high degree of confidence” that the quantities will be recovered. A “high degree of confidence” exists if the quantity is much more likely to be achieved than not, and, as changes due to increased availability of geoscience (geological, geophysical, and geochemical), engineering, and economic data are made to estimate ultimate recovery with time and with reasonable certainty that the estimated ultimate recovery is much more likely to increase or remain constant than to decrease.  If probabilistic methods are used, reasonable certainty means at least a 90% probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the estimate.
 
 
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The reserve estimates are prepared by Forrest Garb & Associates, Inc., qualified third party engineering firms by licensed engineers as part of the Company’s internal controls. All of the Company’s reserves were subject to the reserve report by Forrest Garb & Associates, Inc. and the Company has not presented any internally-generated reserve amounts that were not included in the report from Forrest Garb & Associates, Inc.  The Company’s technical person primarily responsible for overseeing the Forrest Garb & Associates, Inc. reserve report was Edward Shaw, our Chief Operating Officers.  Mr. Shaw has been an officer of ImPetro Resources LLC since its inception in February 2010 and our Chief Operating Officer since we were formed in June 2011.  Mr. Shaw was also Chief Operating Officer of South Texas Oil Company from 2005 to 2010 and headed its field operations in Texas.  Thus, Mr. Shaw has extensive operational experience in the areas in which we concentrate our oil and gas operations.  Mr. Shaw worked from 2000 to 2005 in New Zealand researching and developing methods of monitoring oil wells to optimize production, including using existing products integrated with emerging telemetry technologies.  Mr. Shaw has a degree in electrical engineering.

We believe that PV-10, a non-GAAP measure of estimated proved reserves is widely used by analysts and investors in evaluating oil and gas companies.  Our reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure (standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows) is found in the table on page 67 of this Prospectus.

Unaudited Operating Data
 
The following table sets forth summary unaudited production results for the Company and its subsidiaries for the year ended December 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011 and the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012.
 
   
Year Ended December 31
   
Six Months Ended June 30
 
   
2012
   
2011
   
2013
   
2012
 
Production:
                       
Natural gas (Mcf)
    442,004       129,527       239,402       196,275  
Oil (Bbl)
    115,398       43,596       52,701       63,503  
BOE
    189,065       65,184       92,601       96,216  
 
Employees
 
 As of June 30, 2013, we had 11 full-time employees. With the successful implementation of our business plan, management believes we may require additional employees in the future.
 
 Reports to Stockholders
 
Upon the effectiveness of this Form S-1 registration statement, we will be subject to the information reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and we will file reports with the SEC, including annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. The public may read and copy any materials the Company files with the SEC in the SEC’s Public Reference Section, Room 1580, 100 F Street N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Section by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. Additionally, the SEC maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC, which can be found at http://www.sec.gov.
 
 
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTIES.

Starboard Resources, a Delaware corporation, is an independent energy company based in San Antonio, Texas. We were formed in 2011 and we have been engaged in the exploration, development, acquisition and exploitation of crude oil and natural gas properties, with interests along in South and Central Texas and Oklahoma. Our properties cover 39,917 gross acres, or 20,212 net acres, with a majority within the Eagle Ford trend of South Texas.

Our total proved reserves, based on our January 1, 2013 independent reserve estimate report, were 5,072 MBOE, consisting of 9,447 MMcf of natural gas and 3,498 Mbbl of oil. The PV-10 of our proved reserves at January 1, 2013 was $123,045,000 based on the average of the beginning of each month prices for 2012 of $94.68 per Bbl and $2.76 per MMBtu.  At January 1, 2013, 16% of our estimated proved reserves were proved developed reserves and 69% of our estimated proved reserves were oil and condensate.  Our average daily production at year end December 31, 2012 was 515 BOE per day.

Core Areas of Operation and Certain Key Properties

As of December 31, 2012, our proved oil and gas reserves were concentrated primarily in the Giddings and Bigfoot fields in Texas, and the Cimmaron, Prarie Grove, and Cherokee Ridge fields in Oklahoma. The fields tend to have stacked multiple producing horizons. Some of the fields have numerous available wellbores capable of providing workover and recompletion opportunities. Additionally, new 3-D seismic data allows definition of numerous updip proved undeveloped locations throughout the fields. The characteristics of these fields allow the Company to record significant estimated proved behind pipe and estimated proved undeveloped reserves in the annual year-end reserve report. At January 1, 2013, our proved developed producing (PDP) reserves of 540 MBOE were 11% of our total proved reserves, the proved developed non-producing (PDNP) of 274 MBOE were 5% of the estimated total proved reserves and the estimated proved undeveloped (PUD) of 4,258 MBOE were 84% of the total estimated proved reserves.

Bigfoot – Texas
 
We control 2,930 net acres across Frio and Atascosa counties in southern Texas, comprising 14% of our total net acreage position.

Giddings – Bastrop – Texas
 
Giddings is our largest acreage position with 12,579 net acres located within the Eagle Ford trend.  Our acreage is spread across Bastrop, Burleson, Brazos, Fayette, Lee, Gonzales, and Robertson counties.  From an acreage position, Giddings comprises the largest portion of net acres at 62%. 

Logan County – Oklahoma
 
Our non-operated working interests are located in Oklahoma, spread across Logan and Kingfisher counties. Our position consists of 4,385 net acres or 22% of our total net acreage position.

Oil and Natural Gas Reserves

Due to the inherent uncertainties and the limited nature of reservoir data, proved reserves are subject to change as additional information becomes available. The estimates of reserves, future cash flows and present value are based on various assumptions, including those prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and are inherently imprecise. Although we believe these estimates are reasonable, actual future production, cash flows, taxes, development expenditures, operating expenses and quantities of recoverable oil and natural gas reserves may vary substantially from these estimates. Also, the use of a 10% discount factor for reporting purposes may not necessarily represent the most appropriate discount factor, given actual interest rates and risks to which our business or the oil and natural gas industry in general are subject.

These calculations were prepared using standard geological and engineering methods generally accepted by the petroleum industry and in accordance with SEC financial accounting and reporting standards. The estimated present value of proved reserves does not include indirect expenses such as general and administrative expenses, debt service, future income tax expense or depletion, depreciation, and amortization.  In accordance with applicable financial accounting and reporting standards of the SEC, the estimates of our proved reserves and the present value of proved reserves set forth herein are made using the average of oil and natural gas spot prices for the West Texas Intermediate oil and Henry Hub gas on the first day of each of the twelve months during 2012. Estimated quantities of proved reserves and their present value are affected by changes in oil and natural gas prices. The arithmetic average reference prices utilized for the purpose of estimating our proved reserves and the present value of proved reserves as of January 1, 2013 were $94.68 per barrel of oil and $2.76 per MMBtu of natural gas.
 
 
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The following table sets forth our estimated net total oil and natural gas reserves and the PV-10 value of such reserves as of the January 1, 2013 reserve report. The estimated reserve data and the present value as of January 1, 2013 were prepared by Forrest A. Garb & Associates, independent petroleum engineers. For further information concerning our independent engineer’s estimates of our proved reserves as of January 1, 2013, see the reserve report filed as Exhibit 99.2 as supplemented by Exhibit 99.4 to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. The PV-10 value is not intended to represent the current market value of the estimated oil and natural gas reserves owned by us. For further information concerning the present value of future net revenues from these reserves, see Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosure in our Financial Statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.  All reserves are located in the United States.

   
Estimated Net Reserves
   
Estimated Future Net Revenue ($ thousands)
 
As of January 1, 2013
 
Oil and Condensate (MBbl)
   
Gas (MMcf)
   
Undiscounted
   
Discounted at 10% Per Year(1)
 
Proved:
                       
Developed Producing
    256.3       1,703.8     $ 22,310.7     $ 16,420.2  
Developed Nonproducing
    169.9       622.7       14,560.8       10,774.5  
Proved Undeveloped
    3,071.7       7,120.2       174.496.9       95,850.6  
Total Proved
    3,497.9       9,446.7       211,368.4       123,045.3  
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(1)
Management believes that the presentation of PV-10 may be considered a non-GAAP financial measure as defined in Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K. Therefore we have included a reconciliation of the measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure (standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows in the table immediately below). Management believes that the presentation of PV-10 value provides useful information to investors because it is widely used by professional analysts and sophisticated investors in evaluating oil and natural gas companies. Because many factors that are unique to each individual company may impact the amount of future income taxes to be paid, the use of the pre-tax measure provides greater comparability when evaluating companies. It is relevant and useful to investors for evaluating the relative monetary significance of our oil and natural gas properties. Further, investors may utilize the measure as a basis for comparison of the relative size and value of our reserves to other companies. Management also uses this pre-tax measure when assessing the potential return on investment related to its oil and gas properties and in evaluating acquisition candidates. The PV-10 value is not a measure of financial or operating performance under GAAP, nor is it intended to represent the current market value of the estimated oil and natural gas reserves owned by us. PV-10 should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows as defined under GAAP.
 
We have not reported our reserves to other federal authorities or agencies.
 
 
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Oil and Natural Gas Volumes, Prices and Operating Expense

The following tables set forth certain information regarding the production volumes, revenue, average prices received and average production costs associated with our sale of oil and natural gas from continuing operations for the two years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011.

Bigfoot - Texas
  
Year Ended December 31,
 
 
  
2012
 
  
2011
 
Net Production:
  
     
  
     
Oil (Bbl)
  
 
4,469
  
  
 
2,405
  
Natural Gas (Mcf)
  
   
-  
  
 
-
 
Barrel of Oil Equivalent (Boe)
  
 
4,469
  
  
 
2,405
  
Oil and Natural Gas Sales:
  
     
  
     
Oil
  
$
408,233
  
   
214,127
  
Natural Gas
  
 
-
  
   
-
  
Total
  
$
408,233
  
   
214,127
  
Average Sales Price:
  
             
Oil ($ per Bbl)
  
$
91.35
  
   
89.03
  
Natural Gas ($ per Mcf)
  
 
-
  
   
-
  
                 
Barrel of Oil Equivalent ($ per Boe)
  
$
91.35
  
   
89.03
  
Oil and Natural Gas Costs:
  
             
Lease operating expenses
  
$
311,903
  
   
202,037
  
Production taxes
  
 
18,815
  
   
9,838
  
Other operating expenses
  
 
-
  
   
-
  
Average production cost per Boe
  
$
74.00
  
   
88.10
  
 
 Giddings – Texas
  
Year Ended December 31,
 
 
  
2012
 
  
2011
 
Net Production:
  
     
  
     
Oil (Bbl)
  
 
62,132
 
  
 
26,280
  
Natural Gas (Mcf)
  
 
128,479
 
  
 
57,727
  
Barrel of Oil Equivalent (Boe)
  
 
83,545
 
  
 
35,901
  
Oil and Natural Gas Sales:
  
     
  
     
Oil
  
$
5,789,889
 
  
$
2,311,419
  
Natural Gas
  
 
890,466
 
  
 
521,214
  
 
  
     
  
     
Total
  
$
6,680,355
 
  
$
2,832,633
  
Average Sales Price:
  
     
  
     
Oil ($ per Bbl)
  
$
93.19
 
  
$
87.95
  
Natural Gas ($ per Mcf)
  
 
6.93
 
  
 
9.03
  
 
  
     
  
     
Barrel of Oil Equivalent ($ per Boe)
  
$
79.96
 
  
$
78.90
  
Oil and Natural Gas Costs:
  
     
  
     
Lease operating expenses
  
$
2,271,663
 
  
$
1,236,608
  
Production taxes
  
 
221,674
 
  
 
82,443
  
Other operating expenses
  
   
-
  
 
-
  
Average production cost per Boe
  
$
29.84
 
  
$
36.74
  
 
 
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Logan, Kingfisher, McClain - Oklahoma
  
Year Ended December 31,
 
 
  
2012
 
  
2011
 
Net Production:
  
     
  
     
Oil (Bbl)
  
 
48,797
  
  
 
14,912
 
Natural Gas (Mcf)
  
 
313,525
  
  
 
71,800
 
Barrel of Oil Equivalent (Boe)
  
 
101,051
  
  
 
26,879
 
Oil and Natural Gas Sales (dollars in thousands):
  
     
  
     
Oil
  
$
4,461,724
  
  
$
1,376,176
  
Natural Gas
  
 
1,404,069
  
  
 
475,502
  
 
  
     
  
     
Total
  
$
5,865,793
  
  
$
1,851,678
  
Average Sales Price:
  
     
  
     
Oil ($ per Bbl)
  
$
91.43
  
  
$
92.29
  
Natural Gas ($ per Mcf)
  
 
4.48
  
  
 
6.62
  
 
  
     
  
     
Barrel of Oil Equivalent ($ per Boe)
  
$
58.05
  
  
$
68.89
  
Oil and Natural Gas Costs (dollars in thousands):
  
     
  
     
Lease operating expenses
  
$
313,648
  
  
$
164,539
  
Production taxes
  
 
38,548
  
  
 
114,022
  
Other operating expenses
  
 
-
  
  
 
-
  
Average production cost per Boe
  
$
3.49
  
  
$
10.36
  
 
Exploration, Development and Acquisition Capital Expenditures
 
The following table sets forth certain information regarding the gross costs incurred in the purchase of proved and unproved properties and in development and exploration activities.
 
Bigfoot - Texas
  
Year Ended December 31,
 
 
  
2012
   
2011
 
 
  
   
Unproved prospects
  
$
-
   
$
 12,189
  
Proved prospects
  
 
393,716
     
1,123
 
Development and exploration costs
  
 
1,094
     
708,774
 
 
  
             
Total consolidated operations
  
 
394,810
     
722,086
  
 
  
             
Asset Retirement Obligations (non-cash)
  
$
(180,577
)
 
$
455,902
  

Giddings - Texas
  
Year Ended December 31,
 
 
  
2012
   
2011
 
 
  
   
Unproved prospects
  
$
126,184
  
 
$
16,344
  
Proved prospects
  
 
1,093,916
  
   
46,567,234
  
Development and exploration costs
  
 
1,039,669
  
   
4,826,566
  
 
  
             
Total consolidated operations
  
 
2,259,769
     
51,410,144
  
 
  
             
Asset Retirement Obligations (non-cash)
  
$
(80,244
)
 
$
1,493,516
  
 
 
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Logan, Kingfisher, McClain - Oklahoma
  
Year Ended December 31,
 
 
  
2012
   
2011
 
 
  
   
Unproved prospects
  
$
818,600
  
 
$
450,465
  
Proved prospects
  
 
621,609
  
   
19,630
  
Development and exploration costs
  
 
6,660,127
  
   
2,633,738
  
 
  
             
Total consolidated operations
  
 
8,100,336
  
   
3,103,833
  
 
  
             
Asset Retirement Obligations (non-cash)
  
$
24,137
   
$
1,347
  
 
Producing Wells

The following table sets forth the number of producing oil and natural gas wells in which we owned an interest as of December 31, 2012. Some wells produce both oil and natural gas.
 
   
Company Operated
   
Non-Operated
   
Total
 
   
Gross
   
Net
   
Gross
   
Net
   
Gross
   
Net
 
Oil
    73       68.2       14       2.7       87       57.6  
Natural gas
    1       0.7       -       -       1       1.7  
Total
    74       68.9       14       2.7       88       59.3  
 
Acreage Data

The following table summarizes our gross and net developed and undeveloped oil and natural gas acreage under lease as of December 31, 2012.
 
   
 
Developed Acres
   
Undeveloped Acres
 
 
 
Gross
   
Net
   
Gross
   
Net
 
Bigfoot (Texas)(1)
    2,924       2,924       0       0  
Giddings (Texas)(2)
    9,516       9,017       4,300       4,010  
Logan, Kingfisher, McClain  (Oklahoma)
    6,096       6,004       14,071       8,307  
                                 
Total
    18,536       17,945       18,371       12,317  
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(1)
Undeveloped acreage includes acreage located in the Bigfoot fields.
(2)
Other includes acreage in Giddings.
 

As is customary in the oil and natural gas industry, we can generally retain our interest in undeveloped acreage by drilling activity that establishes commercial production sufficient to maintain the leases or by paying delay rentals during the remaining primary term of leases. The oil and natural gas leases in which we have an interest are for varying primary terms, and if production under a lease continues from our developed lease acreage beyond the primary term, we are entitled to hold the lease for as long as oil or natural gas is produced.

Our oil and natural gas properties consist primarily of oil and natural gas wells and our interests in leasehold acreage, both developed and undeveloped.
 
 
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Drilling Activity

The following table sets forth our drilling activity during the twelve month period ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 (excluding wells in progress at the end of the period). In the table, “gross” refers to the total number of wells in which we have a working interest and “net” refers to gross wells multiplied by our working interest therein.
 
Bigfoot - Texas
  
Year Ended December 31,
 
 
  
2012
 
  
2011
 
 
  
Gross
 
  
Net
 
  
Gross
 
  
Net
 
Development wells
               
  
     
  
     
Productive
  
                 
1
     
1
 
Non-productive
  
                             
Exploratory wells
  
                             
Productiveproduction
  
                             
Non-productive
  
                             

Giddings - Texas
  
Year Ended December 31,
 
 
  
2012
 
  
2011
 
 
  
Gross
 
  
Net
 
  
Gross
 
  
Net
 
Development wells
  
     
  
     
  
     
  
     
Productive
  
                 
2
     
1.96
  
Non-productive
  
                           
  
Exploratory wells
  
                             
Productive
  
                           
  
Non-productive
  
                           
  

Logan, Kingfisher, McClain - Oklahoma
Year Ended December 31,
 
 
  
2012
 
  
2011
 
 
  
Gross
 
  
Net
 
  
Gross
 
  
Net
 
Development wells
  
     
  
     
  
     
  
     
Productive
  
 
5
     
1.2
     
2
     
.5
  
Non-productive
  
                           
  
Exploratory wells
  
                             
Productive
  
                           
  
Non-productive
  
                           
  

Present Activities

Since June 30, 2013, the Company has drilled and completed two wells (2 net wells), commenced drilling on another (.5 net wells), and is producing the joint well (.3 net wells) in Brazos County, Texas. The Company’s recent operations in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma include the completion and production of one well (0.2 net wells).

Lease Expiration Summary

Most of our oil and gas leases are held by production or have terms, including delay rentals, which extend beyond December 31, 2014.  The following table is a summary of our expiring leases in 2013 and 2014 cross-referenced to assigned proven undeveloped estimated reserves.  14.75% of our estimated proved reserves and 19.25% of our estimated proven undeveloped reserves are subject to oil and gas leases that expire before December 31, 2014.  In order to maintain these reserves, we will need to either commence operations relating to these properties or negotiate lease extensions.  We will require sufficient capital to complete or participate in the required drilling program or lease extensions. We do not anticipate that any lease extension will bring the lease terms past 2017.
 
 
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The following table is based on estimates as of December 31, 2012.  Some of the Texas reserve units with assigned proven undeveloped reserves have leases expiring in both 2013 and 2014.  Such unit reserves have been divided up between 2013 and 2014 based on the percentage net acreage within the reserve units assigned to the respective leases.  The Oklahoma properties do not have proven undeveloped reserve units containing leases with both 2013 and 2014 expirations. Our Bigfoot properties do not have expiring leases in 2013 or 2014.
 
Effective Date – December 31, 2012
 
2013 and 2014 Expiring Leases
 
Proven Reserves Assigned to 2013 Lease Expirations ($ thousands)
   
Percentage PUD Reserves Assigned to 2013 Lease Expirations
   
Percentage Total Proven Reserves Assigned to 2013 Lease Expirations
   
Proved Reserves Assigned to 2014 Lease Expirations ($ thousands)
   
Percentage PUD Reserves Assigned to 2014 Lease Expirations
   
Percentage Total Proved Reserves Assigned to 2014 Lease Expirations
   
Proved Reserves Assigned to 2013 and 2014 Lease Expirations ($ thousands)
   
Percentage PUD Reserves Assigned to 2013 and 2014 Lease Expirations
   
Percentage Total Proved Reserves Assigned to 2013 and 2014 Lease Expirations
 
                                                                         
Giddings - Texas
    10,032       10.47 %     8.15 %     10,997       11.47 %     6.74 %     15,310       15.24 %     11.68 %
McClain -Oklahoma
    -       -       -       328       0.34 %     0.79 %     1,031       1.03 %     0.79 %
Logan/ Kingfisher  Oklahoma
    -       -       -       1,180       1.23 %     1.70 %     2,989       2.98 %     2.28 %
Total(1)
    10,032       10.47 %     8.15 %     12,506       13.04 %     9.23 %     19,330       19.25 %     14.75 %
 
(1)  Discrepancies in “Total” line due to rounding
 
Effective Date – December 31, 2012
 
2013 and 2014 Expiring Leases
 
PUD Reserves Assigned to 2013 Lease Expirations
($ thousands)
   
PUD Oil Reserves Assigned to 2013 Lease
Expirations
(BBL)
   
PUD Natural Gas Reserves Assigned to 2013 Lease Expirations (MMCF)
   
PUD Reserves Assigned to 2014 Lease Expirations
($ thousands)
   
PUD Oil Reserves Assigned to 2014 Lease
Expirations
(BBL)
   
PUD Natural Gas Reserves Assigned to 2013 Lease Expirations (MMCF)
   
PUD Reserves Assigned to 2013 and 2014 Lease Expirations
($ thousands)
   
PUD Oil Reserves Assigned to 2013 and 2014 Lease Expirations
(BBL)
   
PUD Natural Gas Reserves Assigned to 2013 and 2014 Lease Expirations (MMCF)
 
                                                                         
Giddings - Texas
     10,032       337       543       10,997       243       650        21,029       581        1,193  
McClain -Oklahoma
     -       -       -       328       188       35       328       188       35  
Logan/ Kingfisher Oklahoma
     -       -       -       1,180       35       281        1,180       35       281  
Total(1)
     10,032       337       543       12,506       466       966       22,538       804       1,509  
(1)  
Discrepancies in “Total” line due to rounding

Management’s Experience with Horizontal Drilling

The Company intends to engage in directional drilling, which includes horizontal drilling, to develop our estimated proven undeveloped reserves, particularly in our Eagle Ford Shale play acreage.  Our CEO, Michael Pawelek has been engaged in directional drilling and operating wells in our target areas since 1999.  Our Chief Operating Officer, Edward Shaw has been engaged in directional drilling and operating wells in our target areas since 2005 and has been involved in thirteen directionally drilled wells during that period.  Further, the Company’s Vice-President of Operations, Thomas Saunders, has extensive directional drilling experience.  Mr. Saunders has 32 years of domestic and international drilling experience, including 27 years of direct supervisory drilling, workover, construction, and production operations experience. Mr. Saunders’ past experience has been with Tenneco, Arco, Anadarko, and BP. He received a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.  Mr. Saunders worked from 1979 to 1982 in our operational area and has had several consulting engagements in our operational area since then. Mr. Saunders has participated in the drilling of over 200 directionally drilled wells starting in the 1990s.
 
 
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Delivery Commitments
 
The Company is not currently committed to providing a fixed and determinable quantity of oil or gas under existing contracts.
 
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
 
Forward-Looking Statements

This registration statement includes “forward-looking statements.” Forward-looking statements are statements other than historical fact and give our current expectations or forecasts of future events. They may include estimates of natural gas and oil reserves, expected natural gas and oil production and future expenses, assumptions regarding future natural gas and oil prices, planned capital expenditures, and anticipated asset acquisitions and sales, as well as statements concerning anticipated cash flow and liquidity, business strategy and other plans and objectives for future operations.
 
Although we believe the expectations and forecasts reflected in these and other forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance they will prove to have been correct. They can be affected by inaccurate assumptions or by known or unknown risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expected results include:

  
the volatility of natural gas and oil prices;
  
the limitations our level of cash flow or ability to raise capital may have on our operational and financial flexibility;
  
declines in the values of our natural gas and oil properties resulting in ceiling test write-downs;
  
the availability of capital on an economic basis to fund reserve replacement costs;
  
our ability to replace reserves and sustain production;
  
uncertainties inherent in estimating quantities of natural gas and oil reserves and projecting future rates of production and the timing of development expenditures;
  
inability to generate profits or achieve targeted results in our drilling and well operations;
  
leasehold terms expiring before production can be established;
  
drilling and operating risks, including potential environmental liabilities associated with hydraulic fracturing;
  
changes in legislation and regulation adversely affecting our industry and our business;
  
general economic conditions negatively impacting us and our business counterparties; and
  
transportation capacity constraints and interruptions that could adversely affect our cash flow.

We caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this registration statement, and we undertake no obligation to update this information. We urge you to carefully review and consider the disclosures made in this registration statement and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that attempt to advise interested parties of the risks and factors that may affect our business.

Overview
 
Starboard is an independent energy company engaged primarily in the exploration for, and development of, natural gas and crude oil reserves. We generate our revenues and cash flows from two primary sources: investing activities and the proceeds from the sale of oil and gas production on properties we hold or participate in.

As of December 31, 2012, we owned interests in 88 producing oil and natural gas wells.  Our oil and natural gas production for 2012 consisted of 115,398 bbls of oil and 442,004 Mcf of gas.  

We began 2012 with estimated proved reserves of 4,898 MBOE and ended the year with 5,072 MBOE.
 
 
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Strategy

Starboard produces from operated oil and natural gas wells in the liquids rich, oil bearing window of the Eagle Ford trend of South Texas and the nearby oil-prone Giddings field where in combination we control approximately 16,000 gross acres (14,000 net acres). The company also has material non-operated working interests in producing properties and conventional prospects located throughout Logan and McClain counties in Oklahoma which account for 23,000 gross acres. The combined reserve base and net production are each over 70% oil-weighted.

At January 1, 2013, based on the reserves estimated by our independent reservoir engineers, we had 5,072 MBOE of estimated proved reserves with a PV-10 of $123.0 million. At January 1, 2013, 16% of our estimated proved reserves were proved developed reserves and 69% of our estimated proved reserves were oil and condensate. We grew our average daily production by 63% from 315 BOE per day for the year ending December 31, 2011 to 515 BOE per day for the year ended December 31, 2012.
 
As part of this strategy, we focus on the following areas:

Bigfoot - Texas

We control about 3,000 gross acres across Frio and Atascosa counties in southern Texas, comprising 8% of our total proved reserves.

 Giddings – Bastrop - Texas
 
Giddings is our largest acreage position with just over 13,000 gross acres located within the Eagle Ford trend.  Our acreage is spread across Bastrop, Burleson, Brazos, Fayette, Lee, Gonzales, and Robertson counties.  From an estimated reserve perspective, Giddings comprises the largest portion of our total estimated proved reserves at 68%. 

Logan County - Oklahoma
 
Our non-operated working interests are located in Oklahoma, spread across Logan, Kingfisher, and McClain counties. Our position consists of just over 23,360 gross acres and comprises 24% of our total proved estimated reserves.
 
Key Performance Indicators
 
Our management team has defined and tracks performance against several key production, sales and operational performance indicators, including, without limitation, the following:

  
average daily natural gas and oil production;
  
weighted average sales price received for natural gas and oil; and
  
lifting costs.
 
We believe that tracking these performance indicators on a regular basis enables us to better understand whether we are on target to achieve our internal production, sales and other plans and projections and forecast working capital, cash flow and liquidity items and allows us to determine whether we are successfully implementing our strategies.
 
The following table sets forth information regarding production volumes, average sales prices received and lifting costs for the periods indicated:
 
 
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Production Volumes, Sales Prices and Lifting Costs
 
   
Years Ended December 31,
   
2012
   
2011
 
Production:
           
Natural gas-Mcf (1)
   
442,004
     
129,527
 
Crude oil-bbl (2)
   
115,398
     
43,596
 
                 
Average Sales Prices:
               
Natural gas (1)
 
$
5.19
   
$
7.70
 
Crude oil (2)
   
92.37
     
89.50
 
                 
Lifting cost per equivalent BOE (3)
 
$
16.80
   
$
27.76
 

(1)
Natural gas production is located in Texas and Oklahoma.
 
(2)
Crude oil production is located in Texas and Oklahoma.
   
(3)
Lifting cost represents lease operating expenses divided by the net volumes of production, and is measured in BOE based on an energy content factor of six-to-one (i.e., six Mcf of natural gas to one barrel of oil).  Lease operating expenses include normal operating costs such as pumper fees, operator overhead, salt water disposal, repairs and maintenance, chemicals, equipment rentals, production taxes and ad valorem taxes.
 
Operating expenses
 
Lease operating expense and production taxes
 
The following table presents the major components of Starboard’s lease operating expense for the last two years and for the year ended December 31, 2011 and 2012 and the six months ended June 30, 2013 and June 30, 2012 on a BOE basis:

 
  
Years Ending December 31,
 
 
  
2012
   
2011
 
   
Total
   
Per BOE
   
Total
   
Per BOE
 
Lease operating costs
  
$
2,897,214
  
 
$
15.32
   
$
1,603,184
   
$
24.59
 
Production taxes
  
$
279,037
  
  
$
1.48
   
$
206,303
   
$
3.17
 
                                 
 Total
  
$
3,176,251
  
  
$
16.80
   
$
1,809,487
   
$
27.76
 
 
 
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Six Months Ending June 30,
 
 
  
2013
   
2012
 
   
Total
   
Per BOE
   
Total
   
Per BOE
 
Lease operating costs
  
$
1,798,141
  
 
$
19.42
   
$
1,371,010
   
$
14.25
 
Production taxes
  
$
152,883
  
  
$
1.65
   
$
159,264
   
$
1.66
 
                                 
 Total
  
$
1,951,024
  
  
$
21.07
   
$
1,530,274
   
$
15.91
 
 
Lease operating expense and production taxes from continuing operations for the year ended December 31, 2012 totaled $3,176,251 versus $1,809,487 for the year ended December 31, 2011. This translated to a decrease of $10.96/BOE on a volume basis. This reduction reflects Starboard’s efforts to reduce overall field operating expenses and a significant recoupment of production taxes resulting from drilling incentives.

Lease operating expense and production taxes from continuing operations for the six months ended June 30, 2013 totaled $1,951,024 versus $1,530,274 for the six months ended June 30, 2012. This translated to an increase of $5.16/BOE on a volume basis. This increase reflects Starboard’s increased drilling activity.
 
Results of Operations
 
Explanation of Consolidation

On June 13, 2011, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement that required Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP to exchange substantially all of their assets and liabilities for 7,550,000 common shares of the Company. Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP combined owned 82.10% of our common shares as of June 13, 2011 and were deemed to be under common control through ASYM Energy Investments, LLC, which serves as the management company for Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP.  Consequently, under GAAP, prior to June 13, 2011, the financial results of Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP were combined to reflect the historical results of the Company.  After June 13, 2011, the financial results of Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP were not consolidated with the Company’s financial results.

Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP have no interests in other operational business entities. Thus, the impact of the consolidated reports through June 13, 2011 is that the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2011 shows the payment of a management fee of $139,000 and a performance fee of $110,000, which were obligations of the Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, and Asym Energy Fund III LP and not the Company.  The combined $249,000 in 2011 expenses amounts to 5.05% of the Company’s 2011 expenses and 5.08% of the Company’s 2011 revenue as well as the equivalent of 2.29% of the Company’s 2012 expenses and 1.92% of the Company’s 2012 revenue.  Consequently, the Company has determined not to present a pro forma presentation as to this consolidation because such a pro forma would not result in significantly different financial statement results for the Company’s financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2011 and would not have any impact on the Company’s financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2012.

We caution investors to include the effect of these consolidation issues in considering our securities.
 
 
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Comparison of Year Ended December 31, 2012 to Year Ended December 31, 2011

Total Revenues. Total revenues increased $8,055,943 to $12,954,381 for 2012 from $4,898,438 for 2011, driven primarily by increased oil and natural gas production from existing reserves.
 
Oil and Gas Production. Total natural gas and oil production for 2012 consisted of 442,004 Mcf of natural gas and 115,398 bbls of oil, as compared to total natural gas and oil production for 2011, which consisted of 129,527 Mcf of natural gas and 43,596 bbls of oil.
 
Our average sales price received for natural gas decreased to $5.19 per Mcf in 2012 from $7.70 per Mcf in 2011. Our average sales price received for oil increased to $92.37 per bbl in 2012 from $89.50 per bbl in 2011.  Changes in natural gas and oil prices can significantly impact our natural gas and oil sales and related cash flows. Natural gas prices have declined slightly over the past two to three years. Although we are hopeful that natural gas prices will begin to increase within the next 12 months, continued lower prices may materially adversely affect the sales prices we receive and our revenues and cash flow.
 
Costs and Expenses. Total costs and expenses (excluding depreciation and depletion) increased $2,988,549 to $6,272,898 for 2012 from $3,284,349 for 2011, due generally to increased drilling and production expenses.  Lease operating expenses increased $1,294,030 to $2,897,214 for 2012 from $1,603,184 for 2011, due primarily to increased production activity.  General and administrative expenses increased $1,862,007 to $2,470,345 for 2012 from $608,338 for 2011, due primarily to fees charged in connection with increased staffing due to greater drilling activity. Depletion, depreciation and amortization expense increased to $4,583,680 for 2012 from $1,644,823 for 2011, due primarily to increased depletion expenses associated with new property acquisitions.
 
Net Income. Net income was $(14,498,804), or $(1.21) per diluted common share, for 2012 as compared to $3,382,148, or $0.36 per diluted common share, for 2011. The decrease in net income was attributable primarily to the $15.3 million deferred tax liability in 2012 which resulted from a revaluation of various properties upon the transition into a c-corporation from an LLC.
 
Other Income (Expenses) Total other income (expenses) decreased $4,670,864 to $(1,257,982) in 2012 due to interest expense on our bank facility and a full year of the going public delay expense. We also hedge part of our production in 2012 and incurred an additional expense as a result of the fair value of these derivative contracts.
 
In 2012 we invested $10,815,356 million in oil and gas properties. We produced 189,065 BOE during the year.
 
Capital Costs ($000):
 
Year Ended
 2012
   
Year Ended
 2011
 
Acquisitions
 
$
700
   
$
50,837
 
Exploration and Development
   
10,071
     
3,919
 
Total CAPEX before asset retirement obligations
   
10,771
     
54,756
 
Asset retirement obligation costs
   
44
     
2,433
 
Total CAPEX
 
$
10,815
   
$
57,189
 
                 
Asset retirement obligation (non-cash)
 
$
 
   
$
   
                 
Proved Reserves (MBOE):
               
Beginning
   
4,898
     
1,272
 
Production
   
(189
)
   
(65
)
Purchases
   
--
     
2,257
 
Sale of reserves
   
--
     
--
 
Discoveries and extensions
   
1,095
     
619
 
Revisions
   
(732
)
   
815
 
                 
Ending reserves
   
5,072
     
4,898
 
                 
Reserve additions before revisions (BOE)
   
5,804
     
4,083
 
Reserve additions after revisions (BOE)
   
5,072
     
4,898
 

The implementation of our strategy requires that we continually incur significant capital expenditures in order to replace current production and find and develop new oil and gas reserves. In order to finance our capital and exploration program, we depend on cash flow from operations, bank debt and equity offerings as discussed below in Liquidity and Capital Resources.
 
 
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Liquidity and Capital Resources

During fiscal 2012 compared to fiscal 2011, net cash flow provided by operating activities improved by $3,418,106 to $6,008,187. This improvement was primarily attributable to increased drilling and production activity.

Our current assets were $2,525,676 on December 31, 2012. Cash on hand comprised approximately $1,036,859, of which there is nothing in restricted cash accounts. This compared to $1,778,733 at December 31, 2011. Accounts payable decreased slightly from $3,216,243 at December 31, 2011 to $3,113,938 at December 31, 2012.

The consolidated financial statements continue to reflect a much increased but ongoing drilling program which amounted to $10,115,356 during 2012. Our capital program is designed to increase production through exploration and workovers within our fields and through joint venture programs. This strategy will involve industry partners in these efforts so as to reduce our upfront cash requirements and reduce risk dollars expended. This represents an increase of $3,084,764 from our capital investment in 2011.

Our primary sources of liquidity are cash provided by operating activities, our revolving bank facility, a subordinated credit facility, sales of non-core properties and access to capital markets.  Historically, our primary sources of liquidity have been borrowings under bank credit facilities, cash flows from operations, and private financings. Our primary use of capital has been for the exploration, development and acquisition of oil and gas properties. As we pursue reserves and production growth, we continually consider which capital resources, including equity and debt financings, are available to meet our future financial obligations, planned capital expenditure activities and liquidity requirements. Our future ability to grow proved reserves and production will be highly dependent on the capital resources available to us. We continually monitor market conditions and consider taking on additional debt, selling non-core assets, or farm-out arrangements. We strive to maintain substantial borrowing capacity under our senior secured revolving credit facility to facilitate drilling on our undeveloped acreage positions and permit us to selectively expand our acreage positions. Depending on the timing and concentration of the development of our non-proved locations, we may be required to generate or raise significant amounts of capital to develop all of our potential drilling locations should we endeavor to do so. In the event our cash flows are materially less than anticipated and other sources of capital we historically have utilized are not available on acceptable terms, we may curtail our capital spending.

Our 2013 capital budget is primarily focused on the development of existing core areas through exploitation and development. We expect to fund our 2013 capital budget predominantly with cash flows from operations. The exact amount of capital spending for 2013 will depend upon individual well performance results, cash flow and, where applicable, partner negotiations on the timing of drilling operations. In addition, we expect to offer participations in our drilling program to industry partners over this time frame, thus potentially reducing our capital requirements. If necessary, we may also access capital through proceeds from potential asset dispositions, borrowings under our senior secured revolving credit facility and the future issuance of debt and/or equity securities. We expect our 2013 capital budget to be $13 - $15 million. We spent $5,108,178 of our capital budget between January 1, 2013 and June 30, 2013.

The amount, timing and allocation of capital expenditures are largely discretionary and within management's control. If oil and gas prices decline to levels below our acceptable levels, or costs increase to levels above our acceptable levels, we may choose to defer a portion of our budgeted capital expenditures until later periods in order to achieve the desired balance between sources and uses of liquidity and prioritize capital projects that we believe have the highest expected returns and potential to generate near-term cash flow. We may also increase our capital expenditures significantly to take advantage of opportunities we consider to be attractive. Since the majority of our acreage is held by production, we have the flexibility to develop our acreage in a disciplined manner in order to maximize the resource recovery of the assets. We consistently monitor and adjust our projected capital expenditures in response to success or lack of success in drilling activities, changes in prices, availability of financing, drilling and acquisition costs, industry conditions, the timing of regulatory approvals, the availability of rigs, contractual obligations, internally generated cash flow and other factors both within and outside our control.
 
 
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The following table summarizes our contractual obligations and commercial commitments as of December 31, 2012:
 
   
Payments Due By Period
 
   
Total
   
Less than
 1 year
   
1 - 3 years
   
4 - 5 years
   
After 5
 years
 
Contractual obligations:
         
(in thousands)
     
 
 
    Principal debt payments
  $ 4,026     $ 18     $ 3,979     $ 29     $  
Office lease
    278       126       152              —  
                                         
Total
  $ 4,304     $ 144     $ 4,131     $ 29     $  

Results of Operations
 
Comparison of the years ended December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2012 and the six months ended June 30, 2013 to the six months ended June 30, 2012
 
Year-over-year production decreased from 96,216 BOE for the six months ended June 30, 2012 to 92,601 BOE for the six months ended June 30, 2013. This decrease was due to reduced crude oil production from existing wells.  The following table reflects the increase (decrease) in oil and gas sales revenue due to changes in price and volume:

   
6 Months ended June 30,
   
Years Ended December 31,
 
   
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
Production:
                       
Natural gas-Mcf (1)
    239,402       196,275       442,004       129,527  
Crude oil-bbl (2)
    52,701       63,503       115,398       43,596  
                                 
Average Sales Prices:
                               
Natural gas (1)
  $ 5.38     $ 5.40     $ 5.19     $ 7.70  
Crude oil (2)
    93.05       95.82       92.37       89.50  
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(1)  
Natural gas production is located in Texas and Oklahoma.
(2)  
Crude oil production is located in Texas and Oklahoma.
 
 Revenues
 
Revenues from continuing operations for the six months ended June 30, 2013 totaled $6,191,662 as compared to $7,144,591 for the six months ended June 30, 2012 representing a $952,929 decrease. Production volumes for the six months ended June 30, 2013 were 52,701 bbls of oil and 239,402 Mcf of natural gas or 92,601 BOE. This compares to 63,503 bbls of oil and 196,275 Mcf of natural gas or 96,216 BOE for the six months ending June 30, 2012 representing a 3,615 BOE decrease in production.  For the six months ended June 30, 2013, the average sales price per barrel of oil was $93.05 and $5.38 per Mcf for natural gas as compared to $95.82 per barrel and $5.40 per Mcf, respectively for the six months ended June 30, 2012. These results indicate that the decrease in revenue is primarily attributable to reduced production volumes and to a lesser extent a decline in commodity prices.
 
 
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Operating expenses
 
Lease operating expense and production taxes
 
The following table presents the major components of Starboard’s lease operating expense for the last two years and for the year ended December 31, 2011 and 2012 and the six months ended June 30, 2013 and June 30, 2012 on a BOE basis:

 
  
Years Ending December 31,
 
 
  
2012
   
2011
 
   
Total
   
Per BOE
   
Total
   
Per BOE
 
Lease operating costs
  
$
2,897,214
  
 
$
15.32
   
$
1,603,184
   
$
24.59
 
Production taxes
  
$
279,037
  
  
$
1.48
   
$
206,303
   
$
3.17
 
                                 
 Total
  
$
3,176,251
  
  
$
16.80
   
$
1,809,487
   
$
27.76
 
 
 
  
Six Months Ending June 30,
 
 
  
2013
   
2012
 
   
Total
   
Per BOE
   
Total
   
Per BOE
 
Lease operating costs
  
$
1,798,141
  
 
$
19.42
   
$
1,371,010
   
$
14.25
 
Production taxes
  
$
152,883
  
  
$
1.65
   
$
159,264
   
$
1.66
 
                                 
 Total
  
$
1,951,024
  
  
$
21.07
   
$
1,530,274
   
$
15.91
 
 
Lease operating expense and production taxes from continuing operations for the year ended December 31, 2012 totaled $3,176,251 versus $1,809,487 for the year ended December 31, 2011. This translated to a decrease of $10.96/BOE on a volume basis. This reduction reflects Starboard’s efforts to reduce overall field operating expenses and a significant recoupment of production taxes resulting from drilling incentives.

Lease operating expense and production taxes from continuing operations for the six months ended June 30, 2013 totaled $1,951,024 versus $1,530,274 for the year ended December 31, 2012. This translated to an increase of $5.16/BOE on a volume basis. This increase reflects Starboard’s increased drilling activity.

Accretion of asset retirement obligation
 
Accretion expense for asset retirement obligations decreased by $3,000 for the six months ending June 30, 2013 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2012. This decrease is the result of a slight increase in the wells remaining lives.
 
Depletion, depreciation and amortization (DD&A)
 
For the six months ended June 30, 2013, the Company recorded DD&A expense of $2,613,191 ($28.22/BOE) compared to $2,527,988 ($26.27/BOE) for the six months ended June 30, 2012 representing an increase of $85,000. This increase reflects the impact of the  depletion expenses associated with new property acquisitions on the balance sheet.
 
General and administrative expense (G&A expense)
 
G&A expense for the six months ended June 30, 2013 increased $704,835 from the six months ended June 30, 2012 to $1,586,812. The increase was due primarily to fees charged in connection with increased staffing due to greater drilling activity.
 
 
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Bank Credit Facility

On June 27, 2013 we entered into a senior secured credit facility from Independent Bank, providing for a $100.0 million revolving credit facility, subject to scheduled or elective collateral borrowing base redeterminations based on our oil and natural gas reserves. The credit facility matures on June 1, 2016.  The current borrowing base is $13.0 million. The outstanding borrowings bear interest at a rate that is currently based on the prime plus 0.0% with a 4.00% floor.  We also must pay an unused commitment fee of 0.5% per year on the undrawn amount of the borrowing base.  We have currently borrowed approximately $11 million on the credit facility.

The credit facility is secured by our assets, including the oil and gas assets, and is guaranteed by our subsidiaries.  We are also required to limit our commodity hedges to collars with no more than 75% of our projected monthly oil and gas production from our estimated proved developed producing reserves. Finally, we may not pay dividends to stockholders without the consent of Independent Bank.

The credit facility requires us to maintain certain financial ratios.  First, each quarter we must maintain an interest coverage ratio of 3:1 so that our consolidated net income, adjusted for interest expense, depreciation, depletion and amortization expenses less tax expenses and dividends/stock buybacks(“EBITDAX”) is greater than 3 times our interest expense under the credit facility.  Second, we must maintain a debt to EBITDAX ratio of less than 3.5:1 at the end of each fiscal quarter. Third, we must maintain a current ratio of at greater than 1:1 at the end of each fiscal quarter, meaning that our consolidated current assets (including the unused amount of the credit facility and excluding non-cash assets under ASC 410 and 815) must be greater than our consolidated current liabilities (excluding non-cash obligations under ASC 410 and 815 and current portion of the note under the credit facility.)

Further, the credit facility prohibits our incurring most debt outside the ordinary course of business except for the subordinated credit facility.

We may not merge or have a subsidiary merger with another company without the consent of Independent Bank.  We also must obtain Independent Bank’s consent to sell oil and gas assets.

The credit facility has no required amortizations unless there is a borrowing base deficiency.  There are no mandatory prepayments unless there is a borrowing base deficiency.

The bank credit facility provides us with financial flexibility and liquidity.  It also exposes us to interest rate risk, requires that we make business decisions with a focus on the credit facility’s financial ratios and other terms and presents a risk of loss of assets if we have an event of default.  Further, our liquidity may also be affected by material changes to our borrowing base that result from changes in hydrocarbon prices or other market conditions.

We also have additional affirmative and restrictive covenants. The credit agreement and related documents are attached as Exhibits 10.5.1 through 10.5.14.
 
SOSventures, LLC Credit Agreement

On July 25, 2013 we entered into an amended credit agreement with SOSventures, LLC providing for a term loan through February 16, 2016 in an amount up to $10,000,000 at a 17.00% interest rate through May 29, 2014 and 22.00% interest rate thereafter.  The loan under this Agreement will be secured by a second lien on the Company’s assets.  The credit agreement and the related intercreditor agreement are attached as Exhibits 10.6.1 and 10.6.2.

The SOSventures, LLC credit agreement requires us to maintain certain financial ratios.  First, we must maintain an interest coverage ratio of 3:1 at the end of each quarter so that our consolidated net income less our fees under the credit facility, lender expenses, non-cash charges relating to the hedge agreements, interest, income taxes, depreciation, depletion, amortization, exploration expenditures and costs and other non-cash charges (netted for noncash income) (“EBITDAX”) is greater than 3 times our interest expense under the credit facility.  Second, we must maintain a debt to EBITDAX ratio of less than 3.5:1 at the end of each quarter. Third, we must maintain a current ratio of at greater than 1:1 at the end of each quarter, meaning that our consolidated current assets (including the unused amount of the credit facility by excluding non-cash assets under ASC 410 and 815) must be greater than our consolidated current liabilities (excluding non-cash obligations under ASC 410 and 815 and current maturities under the credit facility.)
 
 
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The credit agreement prevents us from incurring indebtedness to banks or lenders, other than Independent Bank, without the consent of SOSventures, LLC.  It also prevents us from incurring most contingent obligations or liens (other than to Independent Bank).  It also restricts our ability to pay dividends, issue options and warrants and repurchase our common stock shares.  The limitation on options and warrants does not apply to equity compensation plans.

Hedging Activities

In August 2012, we placed a costless collar hedge on West Texas Intermediate Crude contracts covering 82,400 Bbls of crude oil for the period from August 2012 to July 2014 at $73.00 - $99.00 WTI.  These contracts amount to 3,110 bbls per month from January 2013 to December 2013 and 2,040 bbls per month from January 2014 to July 2014. These contracts and any future hedging arrangements may expose us to risk of financial loss in certain circumstances, including instances where production is less than expected or oil prices increase. In addition, these arrangements may limit the benefit to us of increases in the price of oil. Accordingly, our earnings may fluctuate significantly as a result of changes in the fair value of our derivative instruments.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Sources and Uses of Funds
 
Cash flow from operations is a significant source of liquidity. We generate our operating cash flow from two primary sources:

  
Oil and natural gas, which are generally attributable to working interests owned and held directly by us in wells on producing oil and gas properties (which generate monthly revenue and cash flow to the extent such wells produce natural gas and oil) and carried working interests in such wells (which also generate monthly revenue and cash flow to the extent such wells produce natural gas and oil), as well as overriding royalty interests and reversionary interests (which may generate additional monthly revenue and cash flow to the extent such wells produce natural gas and oil).

  
Investment income, which had come from our 40% ownership in ImPetro Resources until June 2011 when we acquired 100% of ImPetro Resources, resulting in the operations and financials being consolidated into Starboard.

Cash and cash equivalents totaled $1,036,859 as of December 31, 2012, as compared to $1,778,733 as of December 31, 2011.  Cash provided by (used in) operating activities was $6,008,187 for the year ended December 31, 2012, compared to $2,590,081 for the year ended December 31, 2011.
 
Cash and cash equivalents totaled $2,318,595 as of June 30, 2013.  Cash provided by (used in) operating activities was $2,234,971 for the six months ended June 30, 2013, compared to $3,449,518 for the six months ended  June 30, 2012.

Changes in cash flows from operations are largely due to the same factors that affect our net income, excluding various non-cash items such as impairments of assets, depreciation, depletion and amortization and deferred income taxes. For example, changes in turnkey drilling revenues, production volumes and market prices for natural gas and oil directly impact the level of our cash flow from operations. See the discussion under “Results of Operations.”
 
We use cash flows from operations to fund expenditures related to our exploration, development and acquisition of natural gas and oil properties. We use cash provided by our oil and natural gas sales. We have historically obtained most of the capital to fund expenditures related to oil and natural gas production from a combination of free cash flow and borrowing on our bank facility.

Net cash provided by financing activities was $3,549,082 for the year ended December 31, 2012, compared to $4,393,110 for the year ended December 31, 2011. These financing activities primarily reflect borrowing on our bank facility of $3,920,000 in 2012.
 
Net cash provided by financing activities was $5,888,260 for the six months  ended June 30, 2013, compared to $627,180 for the six months ended June 30, 2012. These financing activities primarily reflect borrowing on our bank credit facility of $5,978,000 in the first six months of 2013.
 
 
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Although we typically retain a significant degree of control over the timing of our capital expenditures, we may not always be able to defer or accelerate certain capital expenditures to address any potential liquidity issues. In addition, changes in drilling and field operating costs, drilling results that alter planned development schedules, acquisitions or other factors could cause us to revise our drilling program, which is largely discretionary.

As of December 31, 2012, we had a working capital deficit of $1,703,939, which consisted of $2,525,676 of current assets offset by $4,229,615 of current liabilities. Current assets as of December 31, 2012 included cash of $1,036,859 and accounts receivable of $1,200,316. Current liabilities as of December 31, 2012 included accounts payable and accrued liabilities of $3,113,938 and revenue payable of $557,832.
 
As of June 30, 2012, we had a working capital deficit of $19,725,166, which consisted of $3,188,352 of current assets offset by $22,913,518 of current liabilities. Current assets as of June 30, 2013 included cash of $2,318,595 and accounts receivable of $1,274,582. Current liabilities as of June 30, 2013 included accounts payable and accrued liabilities of $3,969,218 and revenue payable of $658,934.

 Our current credit facility is with Independent Bank (See Exhibits 10.5.1 through 10.5.14).  The $100 million secured facility has a current borrowing base of $13 million, matures in 2016, and has a prime plus 0.0% interest rate with a 4.0% floor.  We currently have approximately $11 million drawn on the facility.

On July 25, 2013 we entered an amended credit agreement with SOSventures, LLC providing for a term loan through February 1, 2016 in an amount up to $10,000,000 at a 17.00% interest rate through May 29, 2014 and 22.00% interest rate thereafter.  The loan under this Agreement will be secured by a second lien on the Company’s assets.  The credit agreement and the related intercreditor agreement are attached as Exhibits 10.6.1 and 10.6.2.  We have yet to draw on this credit facility.

Outlook
 
We believe that our future growth is dependent on our ability to continue drilling and developing our existing reserve base across our core areas in Texas and Oklahoma.  Our 2013 drilling capital expense budget is estimated at $9 million, of which we have spent about $7 million through June, 2013.  As we continue to drill and produce from our existing reserve base, we expect our unit costs to decline as our production increases. To further grow our revenues, we also expect to actively pursue an acquisition strategy that will focus on our core areas in Texas and Oklahoma.

As of July 22, 2013, we have borrowed approximately $11,000,000 on our Independent Bank credit facility which carries a $13,000,000 borrowing base.  We have not borrowed any funds under our $10,000,000 SOSventures, LLC subordinated credited agreement.

We will be hindered in raising capital through the equity capital markets as long as the disputed control and the litigation covering a majority of our common stock shares remain unresolved because investors will likely want to have certainty as to who will control the Company.
 
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
 
The following discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.  The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses. Certain accounting policies involve judgments and uncertainties to such an extent that there is reasonable likelihood that materially different amounts could have been reported under different conditions, or if different assumptions had been used.  We evaluate such estimates and assumptions on a regular basis.  We base our estimates on historical experience and various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.  Actual results may differ from these estimates and assumptions used in preparation of our consolidated financial statements.  Below, we have provided expanded discussion of the more significant accounting policies, estimates and judgments. We believe these accounting policies reflect the more significant estimates and assumptions used in preparation of our consolidated financial statements.  Please read the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included in this registration statement for a discussion of additional accounting policies and estimates made by management.
 
 
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Oil and Gas Producing Activities

Our oil and gas producing activities were accounted for using the successful efforts method of accounting as further defined under FASB ASC 932, Extractive Activities – Oil and Natural Gas. Costs to acquire leasehold rights in oil and gas properties, to drill and equip exploratory wells that find proved reserves, and to drill and equip development wells are capitalized.  Costs to drill exploratory wells that do not find proved reserves, delay rentals and geological and geophysical costs are expensed.
 
Depletion and Depreciation
 
Estimates of natural gas and oil reserves utilized in the calculation of depletion are prepared using certain assumptions. Reserve estimates are based upon existing economic and operating conditions with no provision for price and cost escalations except by contractual arrangements.  Natural gas and oil reserve estimates are inherently imprecise and are subject to change as more current information becomes available. Capitalized costs are depleted and amortized using the units of production method, based upon reserve estimates. 
 
Impairments

The carrying value of oil and gas properties is assessed for possible impairment on a field by field basis and on at least an annual basis, or as circumstances warrant, based on geological analysis or changes in proved reserve estimates. When impairment occurs, an adjustment is recorded as a reduction of the asset carrying value.  For the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company’s impairment charges were approximately $0, and $231,000, respectively.
 
Asset Retirement Obligations

The Company records for the estimated liability for the plugging and abandonment of natural gas and oil wells at the end of their productive lives following the provisions of ASC 410-20, Asset Retirement Obligations. Asset retirement obligations are estimated at the present value of expected future net cash flows based on reserve estimates and federal and state regulatory requirements and are discounted using the Company’s credit adjusted risk free rate.  Because the Company uses unobservable inputs in estimating asset retirement obligations, it considers such obligations a Level 3 measurement under ASC 820.  At the time of abandonment, we recognize a gain or loss on abandonment to the extent that actual costs do not equal the estimated costs.

Goodwill
 
At June 30, 2013, December 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011 the Company had goodwill of $959,681.
 
Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of the net assets acquired.  The Company follows FASB ASC Topic 350 Goodwill and Intangible Asset Impairment Testing. Our analysis consists of two steps. Step 1 tests the company for impairment by comparing the fair value of equity to the book value of equity. If the fair value is less than the book value, then Step 2 analysis must be performed. If the fair value of goodwill is less than its carrying amount, impairment is recorded based on the difference. The Company annually assesses the carrying value of goodwill for impairment.  

Pricing mechanism for oil and gas reserves estimation

The SEC’s rules require reserve estimates to be calculated using a 12-month average price. Price changes can still be incorporated to the extent defined by contractual arrangements. The use of a 12-month average price rather than a single-day price is expected to reduce the impact on reserve estimates.
 
 
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The SEC rules also amend the definition of proved oil and gas reserves to include reserves located beyond development spacing areas that are immediately adjacent to developed spacing areas if economic recoverability can be established with reasonable certainty. These revisions are designed to permit the use of alternative technologies to establish proved reserves in lieu of requiring companies to use specific tests. In addition, they establish a uniform standard of reasonable certainty that applies to all proved reserves, regardless of location or distance from producing wells. Because the revised rules generally expand the definition of proved reserves, proved reserve estimates could increase in the future based upon adoption of the revised rules.
 
Estimated proved oil and gas reserves

The evaluation of our oil and gas reserves is critical to management of our operations and ultimately our economic success. Decisions such as whether development of a property should proceed and what technical methods are available for development are based on an evaluation of reserves. These oil and gas reserve quantities are also used as the basis of calculating the unit-of-production rates for depreciation, evaluating impairment and estimating the life of our producing oil and gas properties in our asset retirement obligations. Proved reserves are classified as either proved developed or proved undeveloped. Proved developed reserves are those reserves which can be expected to be recovered through existing wells with existing equipment and operating methods. Estimated proved undeveloped reserves include reserves expected to be recovered from new wells from undrilled proven reservoirs or from existing wells where a significant major expenditure is required for completion and production.
 
Independent reserve engineers prepare the estimates of our oil and gas reserves presented in this prospectus based on guidelines promulgated under GAAP and in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The evaluation of our reserves by the independent reserve engineers involves their rigorous examination of our technical evaluation and extrapolations of well information such as flow rates and reservoir pressure declines as well as other technical information and measurements. Reservoir engineers interpret these data to determine the nature of the reservoir and ultimately the quantity of total oil and gas reserves attributable to a specific property. Our total reserves in this prospectus include only quantities that we expect to recover commercially using current prices, costs, existing regulatory practices and technology. While we are reasonably certain that the total reserves will be produced, the timing and ultimate recovery can be affected by a number of factors including completion of development projects, reservoir performance, regulatory approvals and changes in projections of long-term oil and gas prices. Revisions can include upward or downward changes in the previously estimated volumes or proved reserves for existing fields due to evaluation of (1) already available geologic, reservoir or production data or (2) new geologic or reservoir data obtained from wells. Revisions can also include changes associated with significant changes in development strategy, oil and gas prices or production equipment/facility capacity.
 
Standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows

The standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows relies on these estimates of oil and gas reserves using commodity prices and costs at year-end. The benchmark oil and gas prices used are the preceding 12-month averages of the first-day-of-the month spot prices posted for the WTI oil and Henry Hub natural gas.  Oil prices are based on a benchmark price of $94.68 per barrel and have been adjusted by lease for gravity, transportation fees, and regional price differentials.  Gas prices per thousand cubic feet are based on a benchmark price of $2.76 per million British thermal units and have been adjusted by lease for Btu content, transportation fees, and regional price differentials.  The adjustments are based on the differential between historic oil and gas sales and the corresponding benchmark price.  While we believe that future operating costs can be reasonably estimated, future prices are difficult to estimate since the market prices are influenced by events beyond our control. Future global economic and political events will most likely result in significant fluctuations in future oil prices.
 
Unproved reserves

The SEC’s rules permit disclosure of probable and possible reserves and provide definitions of probable reserves and possible reserves. Disclosure of probable and possible reserves is optional.
 
In January 2010, the FASB issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2010-03, Extractive Industries-Oil and Gas (Topic 932): Oil and Gas Reserve Estimation and Disclosure. This ASU amends the FASB accounting standards to align the reserve calculation and disclosure requirements with the requirements in the new SEC Rule, Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting Requirements. The ASU is effective for reporting periods ending on or after December 31, 2009.
 
 
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Executive Compensation

The Company entered into employment contracts with Michael Pawelek, Edward Shaw and Kim Vo which provide for stock grants, stock options and change of control payments.  The company accounts for these grants, options and payments using the intrinsic value method.  After the Company obtains an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Act of 1934, it will begin to account for equity-based compensation under FASB ASC 718. This would be a change to the Company’s accounting methods.

No Delayed Adoption of New or Revised Accounting Standards under the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (JOBS ACT)
 
The JOBS Act provides that we have the option of deferring compliance with new or revised accounting standard until such date as companies that do not file periodic reports with the SEC are required to comply with the new or revised accounting standard.  We have elected not to use this provision and intend to implement new or revised accounting standards applicable to reporting issuers when such implementation is required of other reporting issuers. This election is irrevocable.   

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

We have not changed our independent accountant or principal accountant to audit our financial statements covering the period stated in this prospectus.

We engaged Rothstein Kass on November 29, 2011, to audit our financial statements for the year December 31, 2011.   On August 23, 2012 we engaged Rothstein Kass to audit our financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2012.

We have not consulted Rothstein Kass. regarding 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 registrant’s financial statements.  Further, no written report was provided to the registrant or oral advice was provided that Rothstein Kass concluded was an important factor considered by the registrant in reaching a decision as to the accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue.

Further, we have not consulted Rothstein Kass regarding disagreements with a former accountant on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure or a reportable event under SEC Regulation S-K Item 304(a)(1)(v).

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

We are exposed to a variety of market risks including commodity price risk, interest rate risk and counterparty and customer risk. We address these risks through a program of risk management which may include the use of derivative financial instruments in the future.

Commodity price exposure.  We are exposed to market risk as the prices of oil and natural gas fluctuations as a result of changes in supply and demand and other factors.  To partially reduce price risk caused by these market fluctuations, we enter into derivative financial instruments to cover a portion of our future production.
 
 
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We use costless (or zero-cost) collars to manage risks related to changes in oil and natural gas prices.  A costless collar provides us with downside price protection through the purchase of a put option which is financed through the sale of a call option.  Because the call option proceeds are used to offset the cost of the put option, this arrangement is initially “costless” to us.
 
Our costless collar hedging program has a target of hedging at least 50% of our production.  The following table sets forth the summary position of our derivative contracts as of December 31, 2012:

Contract Period
 
Monthly Oil Volume Hedged (Bbl)
   
Floor Price
   
Ceiling Price
 
2013
    3,110     $ 73.00     $ 99.00  
2014 (1)
    2,040     $ 73.00     $ 99.00  
(1)  Current hedged through July 31, 2014

Our costless collar was included as a current and long-term liability in our financial statements dated December 31, 2012 in the amount of $159,369.  Further information about the fair value measurement of our costless collar may be found in Footnote 3 to our Financial Statements included in this prospectus.
 
Counterparty and customer credit risk.  Joint interest receivables arise from billing entities which own partial interest in the wells we operate. These entities participate in our wells primarily based on their ownership in leases on which we wish to drill. We have limited ability to control participation in our wells. We are also subject to credit risk due to concentration of our oil and natural gas receivables with several significant customers. The inability or failure of our significant customers to meet their obligations to us or their insolvency or liquidation may adversely affect our financial position, results of operations and cash flows

While we do not require our customers to post collateral and we do not have a formal process in place to evaluate and assess the credit standing of our significant customers for oil and natural gas receivables, we do evaluate the credit standing of such counterparties as we deem appropriate under the circumstances. This evaluation may include reviewing a counterparty’s credit rating, latest financial information and, in the case of a customer with which we have receivables, its historical payment record, the financial ability of the customer’s parent company to make payment if the customer cannot and undertaking the due diligence necessary to determine credit terms and credit limits.

Impact of Inflation. Inflation in the United States has been relatively low in recent years and did not have a material impact on our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2012.

Although the impact of inflation has been generally insignificant in recent years, it is still a factor in the United States economy and we tend to specifically experience inflationary pressure on the cost of oilfield services and equipment with increases in oil and natural gas prices and with increases in drilling activity in our areas of operations. The unavailability or high cost of drilling rigs, completion equipment and services, supplies and personnel, including hydraulic fracturing equipment and personnel, could adversely affect our ability to establish and execute exploration and development plans within budget and on a timely basis, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

MANAGEMENT AND DIRECTORS

Each of our executive officers shall serve until his successor is elected and qualified. Each member of our board of directors serves until the next annual meeting of stockholders unless removed for breaches of director duties under our By-laws. The directors listed below were appointed in connection with the adoption of our Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Operating Agreement dated January 20, 2012 and will serve until the Company’s next annual meeting or until their earlier resignation.
 
Name
 
Age
 
Position
Michael Pawelek (1)
 
55
 
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Edward Shaw
 
51
 
Chief Operating Officer
Eric Alfuth
 
38
 
Chief Financial Officer
Kim Vo
 
40
 
Chief Accounting Officer
Bill Liao (1)
 
45
 
Director and Chairman of Board of Directors
Charles S. Henry, III (1)
 
45
 
Director
Peter Benz(1)
 
53
 
Director
Craig Dermody (1)
 
54
 
Director
 
 
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(1)
Pawelek, Liao, Henry, Benz and William Mahoney were elected to the Board pursuant Starboard Resources, LLC Restated and Amended Operating Agreement dated January 20, 2012, which provided for the designation of new members of the board of directors.  Craig Dermody was elected to the Board of Directors in May 2012 pursuant to the Operating Agreement.  Under that Agreement one designated director was the Chief Executive Officer (Michael Pawelek), one director was designated by SOSventures, LLC (Bill Liao), one director was designated by Summerline Asset Management, LLC on behalf of Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC, and Summerline Capital Partners, LLC (Peter Benz), and one director was designated by Asym Energy Investments LLC (Craig Dermody).  Additionally, two other directors, designated “independent directors” were designated under the Operating Agreement, Charles Henry, III and William Mahoney. William Mahoney resigned from the Board of Directors in April 2013 for personal reasons and has not been replaced.  He subsequently passed away.  The same director structure and designations were carried over to Starboard Resources, Inc. upon its conversion from a limited liability company.

Michael Pawelek became a Director of our Company on January 20, 2012 and has been our and Chief Executive Officer since our acquisition of the assets of ImPetro Resources LLC on June 10, 2011. Mr. Pawelek has over 27 years of exploration and production and oilfield services industries experience. Prior to Starboard, he was the CEO and President of ImPetro Resources LLC from 2010 to 2011 and CEO and President of South Texas Oil Company in 2009.  South Texas Oil Company was a reporting company that filed bankruptcy in 2009 in San Antonio, Texas in Cause No. 09-54233 and was liquidated in bankruptcy.  From 2004 to 2008 Mr. Pawelek was President of BOSS Exploration & Production Corporation, a privately held Gulf Coast exploration and production company.   Mr. Pawelek began his career as a geophysicist with Clayton Williams Company; was a district geophysicist with TXO Production Corporation; founded CPX Petroleum which drilled over 60 wells under his management; founded and was the CEO of Universal Seismic Associates, Inc.; served as VP of Operations of Amenix USA, Inc., a private exploration and production company focused on oil and natural gas exploration in Louisiana and served as President of Sonterra Resources, Inc., a company that has oil and natural gas assets in Texas state waters in Matagorda Bay. He received a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M. As a result of these professional experiences, Mr. Pawelek possesses particular knowledge and experience in the operations of oil and gas companies that strengthen the board’s collective qualifications, skills, and experience.

Edward Shaw has been our Chief Operating Officer since our acquisition of the assets of ImPetro Resources LLC on June 10, 2011.  Mr. Shaw was Chief Operating Officer of ImPetro Resources LLC from 2010-2011.  From 2005 to 2009 Mr. Shaw was COO and Vice-President of Operations for Nutek Oil and South Texas Oil Company.  South Texas Oil Company was a reporting company that filed bankruptcy in 2009 in San Antonio, Texas in Cause No. 09-54233 and was liquidated in bankruptcy.  Mr. Shaw began his career as a systems analyst before becoming involved in the oil and gas industry. He has prior experience in Saudi Arabia and in New Zealand researching and developing methods of monitoring oil wells to optimize production, including using existing products integrated with emerging telemetry technologies. He holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering.

Eric Alfuth has been our Chief Financial Officer since June 2012.  From January 2012 to June 2012 Mr. Alfuth consulted for the Company.  From May 2009 to December 2011 Mr. Alfuth was a principal, portfolio manager and director of fixed income for Hourglass Capital where he worked on high yield debt, distressed debt, and private equity energy investments.  From September 2007 to May 2009 Mr. Alfuth was a Senior Investment Manager – Fixed Income for AIG Investments.  From September 2003 to September 2007 Mr. Alfuth was a Senior Investment Analyst – Fixed Income for AIG Investments. Prior to joining AIG Investments, Mr. Alfuth was a sell-side equity analyst with Prudential Securities where he helped cover the natural gas and electric utility sectors for an institutional investor team.  He received both an undergraduate degree in Finance and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

Kim Vo has been our Controller and Chief Accounting Officer since our acquisition of the assets of ImPetro Resources LLC on June 10, 2011. Ms. Vo previously worked as the Controller of ImPetro Resources from February 2010 to June 2011 and the Controller of South Texas Oil Company from June 2008 to January 2010.  Previously Starboard, Ms. Vo was the controller for Blackbrush Oil & Gas and Aminex USA. Ms. Vo earned a Masters in Professional Accounting and BBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Bill Liao became a Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of our Company on January 20, 2012. Mr. Liao has extensive experience with public company dynamics, governance and investor relations.  Mr. Liao has been a venture partner with SOSventures, LLC since 2011.  Mr. Liao was also a director of XING AG from 2003 to 2009.  XING AG is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange.  Mr. Liao also has worked in the commodities trading arena with several boutique Swiss investment funds and has established BandWithVentures an Irish based tech startup.  As a result of these professional experiences, Mr. Liao possesses particular knowledge and experience in developing companies that strengthen the board’s collective qualifications, skills, and experience. Mr. Liao serves on our Audit Committee and Compensation Committee.
 
 
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Charles S. Henry III became a Director of our Company on January 20, 2012. Since August 2007 Mr. Henry has been a Senior Geological Advisor for the Gulf of Mexico for Energy XXI (Bermuda) Limited. (NASDAQ: EXXI).  Energy XXI’s oil and gas operations focus on South Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico and do not overlap with the Company’s oil and gas operations onshore in Texas and Oklahoma. From 2006 to 2007 Mr. Henry worked as a Senior Asset Geoscientist for Energy Partners, Ltd. focusing on South Louisiana exploration.  From 2002 to 2006 Mr. Henry was a Senior Geologist for Domination Exploration & Production, Inc. focusing on South Louisiana exploration.  Mr. Henry has a B.S in Geology from Louisiana State University, a M.S. in Geology from the University of New Orleans and a M.B.A. from Tulane University.  As a result of these professional experiences and academic training, Mr. Henry possesses particular knowledge and experience in understanding and advising on geological and oil and gas issues involving our current and accretive oil and gas properties that strengthen the board’s collective qualifications, skills, and experience.  Mr. Henry serves on our Compensation Committee.

Peter Benz became a Director of our Company on January 20, 2012. Mr. Benz serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Viking Asset Management, LLC and is a member of its Investment Committee. He has been affiliated with Viking Asset Management, LLC since 2002.  His responsibilities include assuring a steady flow of candidate deals, making asset allocation and risk management decisions and overseeing all business and investment operations. He has more than 25 years of experience specializing in investment banking and corporate advisory services for small growth companies in the areas of financing, merger/acquisition, funding strategy and general corporate development. Prior to founding Viking in 2001, Mr. Benz founded Bi Coastal Consulting Company where he advised hundreds of companies regarding private placements, initial public offerings, secondary public offerings and acquisitions. He has founded three public companies and served as a director for four other public companies. Prior to founding Bi Coastal Consulting, Mr. Benz was responsible for private placements and investment banking activities at Gilford Securities in New York, NY. Mr. Benz is a graduate of Notre Dame University. As a result of these professional experiences, Mr. Benz possesses particular knowledge and experience in developing companies and capital markets that strengthen the board’s collective qualifications, skills, and experience.  Mr. Benz serves on our Audit Committee.

Craig Dermody became a Director of our Company on May 20, 2012. Mr. Dermody brings over 30 years of experience in the institutional investment securities industry. Mr. Dermody is currently a partner with the energy investment banking security firm of Johnson Rice & Co. LLC.  Mr. Dermody has been employed by Johnson Rice since 1994. Prior to Johnson Rice, he was a Sr. Vice President with Prudential Securities and a Sr. Vice President with Howard Weil Labouisse Friedrichs, where he began his career in 1981. He served on the Board of Directors of Halter Environmental, a company focused on oil spill recovery vessels from 1990-1991. Mr. Dermody received his BS from Southeastern Louisiana University. As a result of these professional experiences, Mr. Dermody possesses particular knowledge and experience in developing companies and capital markets that strengthen the board’s collective qualifications, skills, and experience.  Mr. Dermody serves on our Audit Committee and Compensation Committee.

PROMOTER

Gregory Imbruce, acting alone or in conjunction with one or more other persons, directly or indirectly took initiative in founding and organizing Starboard Resources LLC in June 2011.  Thus Mr. Imbruce is defined as a “Promoter” under SEC Rule 405.  Mr. Imbruce was a Company director from its founding to April 2012.  Mr. Imbruce is the founder and Managing Director of Asym Energy Investments, LLC, formed in 2009, and related business entities.  On March 7, 2012 the FINRA National Adjudicatory Council found that Mr. Imbruce “violated Exchange Act Rule 105 and NASD Rule 2110 because he “purchased securities in a secondary public offering from a participating underwriter, after he sold the subject securities short during the restricted period.”  The National Adjudicatory Council fined Mr. Imbruce $5,000 and imposed a ten business day suspension.  On July 18, 2012 Mr. Imbruce was named a defendant in Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk at Stamford, Cause Nos. FST-CV-12-5013927-S and FST-CV-12-6014987-S, styled Charles Henry III, Ahmed Ammar, John P. Vaile as Trustee of John P. Vaile Living Trust, John Paul Otieno, SOSventures, LLC, Bradford Higgins, William Mahoney, Robert J. Conrads, Edward M. Conrads, William F. Pettinati, Jr. individually and derivatively on behalf of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund LP v. Gregory Imbruce, Giddings Investments LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, Asym Capital III LLC, Starboard Resources, Inc., Glenrose Holdings LLC and Asym Energy Investments LLC.  This lawsuit was originally filed on July 18, 2012.  The Plaintiffs allege fiduciary duty breaches, conversion, civil theft, violations of Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, unjust enrichment, common law fraud, negligence, fraudulent conveyance and civil conspiracy and seek damages, injunctive relief, a constructive trust and an accounting.  These allegations focus on the issuance of 550,000 Starboard Resources LLC Units to “Giddings Investments, LLC.”  The allegations claim that this issuance was derived from the conversion of participation rights in Company wells that belong to Giddings Oil & Gas LP.  The lawsuit makes several other claims of breaches of duties by Defendants in connection with Defendants or their affiliates serving as general partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP, and Hunton Oil Partners LP.  Mr. Imbruce denies the allegations.
 
 
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Other than the Going Public Delay Fee described below, the Company has no current or future obligation to pay Gregory Imbruce or his affiliates.  The following transactions resulted in payments or potential payments to affiliates of Gregory Imbruce:

Going Public Delay Fee

Under the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement dated June 10, 2011, if the Company failed to go public by reverse merger with a public company or through obtaining an effective Form 10 registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company is obligated to pay or accrue $60,715 per month to the parties to the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement.  The going public delay fee ceased accruing on August 6, 2013.  Our financial statements for the quarter ending June 30, 2013 showed an accrued liability for this fee in the amount of approximately $702,576.  Of this amount $183,959 was accrued to Giddings Investments, LLC a business entity controlled by Gregory Imbruce. Limited partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP in the Henry v. Imbruce litigation seek injunctive relief against the Company to enjoin it from paying the Going Public Delay Fee to Giddings Investments, LLC.

Overriding Royalty Interests Transactions
 
Before the formation of Starboard Resources, Inc. or its current subsidiary, ImPetro Resources, LLC, Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. and Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. provided financing to South Texas Oil Company.  As part of that financing, Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. and Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. received an assignment of certain overriding royalty interests in the South Texas Oil Company properties in Atascosa, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Fayette, Frio, Gonzales and Lee County, Texas.

In 2009 South Texas Oil Company filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and received debtor-in-possession financing from Giddings Oil & Gas LP.  In February 2010 the bankruptcy court accepted a credit bid from Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. and Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. for the oil and gas assets of South Texas Oil Company subject to the debtor-in-possession security interest of Giddings Oil & Gas LP.

ImPetro Resources LLC was formed in Delaware on January 21, 2010 to provide a vehicle to own and operate these South Texas Oil Company assets.  The formation agreements from February and March 2010 as to the equity and debt of ImPetro Resources LLC are described below in our description of previous unregistered securities transactions in Item 10.  As part of these organizational transactions, Glenrose Holdings LLC, an affiliate of the general partner of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP, received an allocation of overriding royalty interests in the oil and gas properties in Atascosa, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Fayette, Frio, Gonzales and Lee County, Texas.  Glenrose Holdings, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company controlled by Gregory Imbruce.

Between February 4, 2010 and June 12, 2011, ImPetro Resources LLC paid $115,769 to Glenrose Holdings LLC on the overriding royalty interests. These payments were made before the Company acquired ImPetro Resources LLC and its properties and are not consolidated into our financial statements.

Between June 12, 2011 and February 21, 2012, we paid $120,788 to Glenrose Holdings LLC on the overriding royalty interests. We integrated these payments into our financial statements for the relevant time periods.

In an agreement dated June 10, 2011 Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. and Longview Master Fund, L.P. sold their overriding royalty interests to Glenrose Holdings LLC for $200,000.  After this transaction Glenrose Holdings LLC owned all the overriding royalty interests.

In an agreement dated January 20, 2012, we purchased all the overriding royalty interest from Glenrose Holdings LLC for $700,000.

Participation Rights Transaction
 
In 2011 Giddings Investments, LLC owned certain participation rights in oil and gas properties related to the Company’s oil and gas projects.  Giddings Investments LLC is a Delaware limited liability company controlled by Gregory Imbruce.  The limited partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP have claimed in a lawsuit that these participation rights were paid for and were property of Giddings Oil & Gas LP and that Mr. Imbruce illegally converted this asset to Giddings Investments, LLC.  As part of the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement dated June 10, 2011, Giddings Investments, LLC received 550,000 limited liability company units in Starboard Resources, LLC.  These were subsequently converted into 550,000 common stock shares in June 2012 when the Company converted to a Delaware corporation.  Due to the dispute over the rightful ownership of the consideration provided to the Company for the 550,000 limited liability company units, the Company filed an interpleader action regarding the resulting 550,000 common stock shares in Connecticut District Court.
 
 
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Management Fees and Performance Reallocation

Through June 12, 2011, the Company, on a consolidated basis with Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP, incurred a management fee calculated and payable annually in advance equal to 2.00% of the total capital commitments determined as of the beginning of each calendar quarter. Further, through June 12, 2011, generally 20% of the interest income allocated to the partners in Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP was reallocated to the partnerships’ manager, subject to certain conditions.  These manager entities were controlled by Gregory Imbruce.  As of June 12, 2011, the Company no longer paid a management fee or reallocated interest income to management.  The management fee appears on our December 31, 2011 Consolidated Statement of Operations as a payment in the amount of $110,000.
 
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The Company entered into employment contracts with Michael Pawelek, Edward Shaw and Kim Vo which provide for stock grants, stock options and change of control payments.  The company accounts for these grants, options and payments using the intrinsic value method.  After the Company obtains an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Act of 1934, it will begin to account for equity-based compensation under FASB ASC 718. This would be a change to the Company’s accounting methods.

Financial Restatement. Currently, the Company does not have an official policy in place governing retroactive modifications to any cash or equity-based incentive compensation paid to the Named Executive Officers where the payment of such compensation was predicated upon the achievement of specified financial results that were subsequently the subject of a restatement. The Company will, if the need arises, make a determination as to whether and to what extent compensation should be clawed back should there be a financial restatement.

Stock Ownership Requirements. The Company does not maintain a policy relating to stock ownership guidelines or requirements for its Named Executive Officers. The Company does not believe it is necessary to impose such a policy on the executive officers. The Named Executive Officers, as a group, held approximately 0% of the Company’s stock as of December 31, 2012. If circumstances change, the Compensation Committee will review whether such a policy is appropriate for its executive officers.

Trading in the Company’s Stock Derivatives. The Company does not currently have a policy in place prohibiting executive officers of the Company from purchasing or selling options on the Company’s common stock, engaging in short sales with respect to the Company’s common stock, or trading in puts, calls, straddles, equity swaps or other derivative securities that are directly linked to the Company’s common stock. The Company is not aware that any of the executive officers have entered into these types of arrangements.

Tax Deductibility of the Named Executive Officers’ Incentive and Equity Compensation. Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, generally disallows a tax deduction to public companies for compensation over $1.0 million paid to a corporation’s Principal Executive Officer and the three (3) other most highly compensated executive officers (excluding the Principal Financial Officer). In connection with the compensation of the Company’s executive officers, the Company is aware of Code section 162(m) as it relates to deductibility of qualifying compensation paid to executive officers. The Company attempts, where practical, to comply with the requirements of Code section 162(m) so that all compensation is deductible.

Employment Agreements. In 2012 the Company executed employment agreements with the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer and the Controller. To date, none of these employment agreements were approved by shareholders.  Further, none of these employment agreements involve securities issued under a shareholder-approved equity compensation plan.  The Company anticipates seeking shareholder approval of these employment agreements at its next shareholder meeting.  Indeed, these employment agreements require that such approval be sought “promptly.” If it does not obtain such shareholder approval, the Company and the employees could be at risk of the following:

1)  
violating exchange listing rules that requiring equity compensation paid to employees and directors receive approval by shareholder vote;

2)  
incurring liability under Internal Revenue Code Sections 162(m), 280G and 409A; and

3)  
losing the exemption to liability under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act found in SEC Rule 16b-3.
 
 
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Michael Pawelek—Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Pawelek’s current employment agreement was entered into as of April 1, 2012 and is for a term of three years. At the conclusion of that term, Mr. Pawelek would be an at-will employee.

Under the agreement, Mr. Pawelek serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Pursuant to the agreement, Mr. Pawelek will receive a $200,000 annual base salary for the period beginning on the Commencement Date (April 1, 2012) and for each subsequent year through the ending date of the agreement. Mr. Pawelek is also entitled to earn an annual performance bonus. The amount of the annual bonus is targeted at 100% of his annual base salary, based upon performance criteria established by the Committee. The amount of the actual annual bonus can be less than or more than the target annual bonus, but in no event will it exceed 200% of the then applicable base salary.

According to the terms of the agreement, Mr. Pawelek also received a grant of 116,500 shares of restricted stock (“Pawelek Restricted Shares”) payable upon: (1) the Company obtaining of an effective underwritten registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 (“IPO”), (2) the consummation of a merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or share exchange involving the Company that involves a change of 50% or more of the directly or indirectly held beneficial ownership of the Company; or 3) March 1, 2015, all so long as Mr. Pawelek is employed on the vesting dates.

Mr. Pawelek will further receive a stock grant upon the Company’s IPO equal to 1% of the difference between Company’s market capital based on its underwritten IPO price and the Company’s book value at the time of the IPO based upon pricing such shares at the IPO price. Upon the IPO Mr. Pawelek will also receive two sets of options from the Company.  The first set of options is options to purchase 1.0% of fully-diluted capital stock as of the IPO date at 100% of underwritten IPO price.  These options will vest after two years after the IPO date and carry a ten year term and with cashless exercise provisions. The second set of options is options to purchase 1.0% of the Company’s fully-diluted capital stock as of the second anniversary of IPO date at 100% of closing sale price on second anniversary of IPO date. These options will vest after six years and carry a ten year term and with cashless exercise provisions.

Finally, Mr. Pawelek will receive: (1) .75% of the “Net Proceeds” of the consummation of a merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or share exchange involving the Company that involves a change of 50% or more of the directly or indirectly held beneficial ownership of the Company that closes before September 1, 2012; or (2) .4% of such Net Proceeds for a transaction that closes before March 1, 2013. “Net Proceeds” means the proceeds actually received by the Company and/or its stockholders from the transaction in excess of the relevant transaction costs and the aggregate consideration received by the Company for all issued and outstanding shares of capital stock (including all securities and other instruments convertible into the common stock)
 
Mr. Pawelek is entitled to participate in employee benefit plans, including executive bonus plans, cash bonus awards and long-term incentive plans that are generally made available by the Company to its senior executives.  The Company will also provide health, dental, disability and life insurance to Mr. Pawelek under such group plans as the Company has available to all its full-time employees.

Mr. Pawelek will also receive reimbursement of all reasonable and necessary out-of-pocket expenses incurred by him while working on behalf of the Company.

Mr. Pawelek is entitled to receive 30 days’ pay plus accrued vacation pay and reimbursable expenses upon termination of the employment agreement for death, disability or a termination for cause.  “Cause” includes Mr. Pawelek: (1) engaging in dishonesty in the performance of his duties; (2) being convicted or entering a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to any felony or to any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; (3) breaching a material covenant in his employment agreement that is not cured within 30 days of written notice of such breach; (4) committing willful misconduct, bad faith, fraud or gross negligence in fulfilling his responsibilities for the Company or its subsidiaries; or (5) committing an act of fraud, embezzlement or similar crime against any individual or entity.

If Mr. Pawelek is terminated without Cause or terminates his employment agreement for a “Good Reason” he would be due the payment of his base salary for the lesser of one year or the period remaining on his employment agreement.  “Good Reason” means: (1) a material breach of the employment agreement by the Company; (2) a reduction in Mr. Pawelek’s base salary; or (3) the Company moving its principal offices from San Antonio, Texas.  All these “Good Reasons” are subject to notice provisions to the Company within 90 days of the event and a 30 day cure period for the Company.
 
 
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Mr. Pawelek’s employment agreement is attached as Exhibit 10.1 to this prospectus.

Edward Shaw—Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Shaw’s current employment agreement was entered into as of April 1, 2012 and is for a term of three years. At the conclusion of that term, Mr. Shaw would be an at-will employee.

Under the agreement, Mr. Shaw serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Company. Pursuant to the agreement, Mr. Shaw will receive a $158,000 annual base salary for the period beginning on the Commencement Date (April 1, 2012) and for each subsequent year through the ending date of the agreement. Mr. Shaw is also entitled to earn an annual performance bonus. The amount of the annual bonus is targeted at 100% of his annual base salary, based upon performance criteria established by the Committee. The amount of the actual annual bonus can be less than or more than the target annual bonus, but in no event will it exceed 200% of the then applicable base salary.

According to the terms of the agreement, Mr. Shaw also received a grant of 116,500 shares of restricted stock (“Shaw Restricted Shares”) payable upon: (1) the Company obtaining of an effective underwritten registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 (“IPO”), (2) the consummation of a merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or share exchange involving the Company that involves a change of 50% or more of the directly or indirectly held beneficial ownership of the Company; or 3) March 1, 2015, all so long as Mr. Shaw is employed on the vesting dates.

Mr. Shaw will further receive a stock grant upon the Company’s IPO equal to 1% of the difference between Company’s market capital based on its underwritten IPO price and the Company’s book value at the time of the IPO based upon pricing such shares at the IPO price. Upon the IPO Mr. Shaw will also receive two sets of options from the Company.  The first set of options is options to purchase 1.0% of fully-diluted capital stock as of the IPO date at 100% of underwritten IPO price.  These options will vest after two years after the IPO date and carry a ten year term and with cashless exercise provisions. The second set of options is options to purchase 1.0% of the Company’s fully-diluted capital stock as of the second anniversary of IPO date at 100% of closing sale price on second anniversary of IPO date. These options will vest after six years and carry a ten year term and with cashless exercise provisions.

Finally, Mr. Shaw will receive: (1) .75% of the “Net Proceeds” of the consummation of a merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or share exchange involving the Company that involves a change of 50% or more of the directly or indirectly held beneficial ownership of the Company that closes before September 1, 2012; or (2) .4% of such Net Proceeds for a transaction that closes before March 1, 2013. “Net Proceeds” means the proceeds actually received by the Company and/or its stockholders from the transaction in excess of the relevant transaction costs and the aggregate consideration received by the Company for all issued and outstanding shares of capital stock (including all securities and other instruments convertible into the common stock)
 
Mr. Shaw is entitled to participate in employee benefit plans, including executive bonus plans, cash bonus awards and long-term incentive plans that are generally made available by the Company to its senior executives.  The Company will also provide health, dental, disability and life insurance to Mr. Shaw under such group plans as the Company has available to all its full-time employees.

Mr. Shaw will also receive reimbursement of all reasonable and necessary out-of-pocket expenses incurred by him while working on behalf of the Company.

Mr. Shaw is entitled to receive 30 days’ pay plus accrued vacation pay and reimbursable expenses upon termination of the employment agreement for death, disability or a termination for cause.  “Cause” includes Mr. Shaw: (1) engaging in dishonesty in the performance of his duties; (2) being convicted or entering a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to any felony or to any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; (3) breaching a material covenant in his employment agreement that is not cured within 30 days of written notice of such breach; (4) committing willful misconduct, bad faith, fraud or gross negligence in fulfilling his responsibilities for the Company or its subsidiaries; or (5) committing an act of fraud, embezzlement or similar crime against any individual or entity.

If Mr. Shaw is terminated without Cause or terminates his employment agreement for a “Good Reason” he would be due the payment of his base salary for the lesser of one year or the period remaining on his employment agreement.  “Good Reason” means: (1) a material breach of the employment agreement by the Company; (2) a reduction in Mr. Shaw’s base salary; or (3) the Company moving its principal offices from San Antonio, Texas.  All these “Good Reasons” are subject to notice provisions to the Company within 90 days of the event and a 30 day cure period for the Company.
 
 
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Mr. Shaw’s employment agreement is attached as Exhibit 10.2 to this prospectus.

Eric Alfuth – Chief Financial Officer
 
Mr. Alfuth serves as our chief financial officer.  He is paid $15,000 per month.  He has employment term, no contingent compensation, no change of control compensation and no options.

Kim Vo – Controller

Ms. Vo’s current employment agreement was entered into as of April 1, 2012 and is for a term of three years. At the conclusion of that term, Ms. Vo would be an at-will employee.

Under the agreement, Ms. Vo serves as the Controller of the Company. Pursuant to the agreement, Ms. Vo will receive a $95,000 annual base salary for the period beginning on the Commencement Date (April 1, 2012) and for each subsequent year through the ending date of the agreement. Ms. Vo is also entitled to earn an annual performance bonus. The amount of the annual bonus is targeted at 100% of her annual base salary, based upon performance criteria established by the Committee. The amount of the actual annual bonus can be less than or more than the target annual bonus, but in no event will it exceed 200% of the then applicable base salary.

According to the terms of the agreement, Ms. Vo also received a grant of 116,500 shares of restricted stock (“Vo Restricted Shares”) payable upon: (1) the Company obtaining of an effective underwritten registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 (“IPO”), (2) the consummation of a merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or share exchange involving the Company that involves a change of 50% or more of the directly or indirectly held beneficial ownership of the Company; or 3) March 1, 2015, all so long as Ms. Vo is employed on the vesting dates.

Ms. Vo will further receive a stock grant upon the Company’s IPO equal to 1% of the difference between Company’s market capital based on its underwritten IPO price and the Company’s book value at the time of the IPO based upon pricing such shares at the IPO price. Upon the IPO Ms. Vo will also receive two sets of options from the Company.  The first set of options is options to purchase 1.0% of fully-diluted capital stock as of the IPO date at 100% of underwritten IPO price.  These options will vest after two years after the IPO date and carry a ten year term and with cashless exercise provisions. The second set of options is options to purchase 1.0% of the Company’s fully-diluted capital stock as of the second anniversary of IPO date at 100% of closing sale price on second anniversary of IPO date. These options will vest after six years and carry a ten year term and with cashless exercise provisions.
 
Finally, Ms. Vo will receive: (1) .75% of the “Net Proceeds” of the consummation of a merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or share exchange involving the Company that involves a change of 50% or more of the directly or indirectly held beneficial ownership of the Company that closes before September 1, 2012; or (2) .4% of such Net Proceeds for a transaction that closes before March 1, 2013. “Net Proceeds” means the proceeds actually received by the Company and/or its stockholders from the transaction in excess of the relevant transaction costs and the aggregate consideration received by the Company for all issued and outstanding shares of capital stock (including all securities and other instruments convertible into the common stock).
 
Ms. Vo is entitled to participate in employee benefit plans, including executive bonus plans, cash bonus awards and long-term incentive plans that are generally made available by the Company to its senior executives.  The Company will also provide health, dental, disability and life insurance to Ms. Vo under such group plans as the Company has available to all its full-time employees.

Ms. Vo will also receive reimbursement of all reasonable and necessary out-of-pocket expenses incurred by her while working on behalf of the Company.

Ms. Vo is entitled to receive 30 days’ pay plus accrued vacation pay and reimbursable expenses upon termination of the employment agreement for death, disability or a termination for cause.  “Cause” includes Ms. Vo: (1) engaging in dishonesty in the performance of her duties; (2) being convicted or entering a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to any felony or to any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; (3) breaching a material covenant in her employment agreement that is not cured within 30 days of written notice of such breach; (4) committing willful misconduct, bad faith, fraud or gross negligence in fulfilling her responsibilities for the Company or its subsidiaries; or (5) committing an act of fraud, embezzlement or similar crime against any individual or entity.
 
 
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If Ms. Vo is terminated without Cause or terminates her employment agreement for a “Good Reason” she would be due the payment of her base salary for the lesser of one year or the period remaining on her employment agreement.  “Good Reason” means: (1) a material breach of the employment agreement by the Company; (2) a reduction in Ms. Vo’s base salary; or (3) the Company moving its principal offices from San Antonio, Texas.  All these “Good Reasons” are subject to notice provisions to the Company within 90 days of the event and a 30 day cure period for the Company.

Ms. Vo’s employment agreement is attached as Exhibit 10.3 to this prospectus.

Summary Compensation Table

The Summary Compensation Table below displays the total compensation awarded to, earned by or paid to the Named Executive Officers for the fiscal years ending December 31, 2012 and 2011. All amounts shown below are in dollars.
 
Name and Principal Position
 
Year
   
Salary
   
Bonus
   
Stock Award(s)
   
Option Award(s)
   
Non-
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Compen-sation
   
Change in
Pension Value
and Non-Qualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings
   
All
 Other
Compe-
 nsation
   
Total
 
Michael Pawelek
 
2012
    $ 200,000     $ -     $ 1,116,500 (1)     -     $ -     $ -     $ -     $ 1,365,000  
  Chief Executive Officer
  2011     $ 200,000     $ -     $ -       -     $ -     $ -     $ -     $ 200,000  
Edward Shaw
  2012     $ 158,000     $ -     $ 1,165,500 (1)     -     $ -     $ -     $ -     $ 1,323,500  
  Chief Operating Officer
  2011     $ 138,000     $ -     $ -       -     $ -     $ -     $ -     $ 138,000  
Eric Alfuth
  2012     $ 138,304     $ -     $ -       -     $ -     $ -     $ -     $ 138,304  
  Chief Financial Officer
  2011     $ -     $ -     $ -       -     $ -     $ -     $ -     $ -  
N. Kim Vo
  2012     $ 95,000     $ -     $ 1,165,500 (1)     -     $ -     $ -     $ -     $ 1,260,500  
  Controller
  2011     $ 85,000     $ -     $ -       -     $ -     $ -     $ -     $ 85,000  
 
(1)  
Under their employment agreements, Michael Pawelek, Edward Shaw and Kim Vo will each earn 116,550 common stock shares as of March 1, 2015 provided they continue to be employed by the Company.  These common stock grants were not made pursuant to an equity compensation or stock grant plan.    The stock awards were valued at $10 per share under FASB ASC Topic 718 in 2012 when the Company was a private company. The Company currently has no market for its common stock shares.
 
 
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OUTSTANDING EQUITY AND GRANTS OF PLAN-BASED AWARDS

The Company granted no plan-based awards in 2012 or 2011.  The Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End Table reflects each Named Executive Officer’s unexercised option award holdings and unvested restricted stock awards at December 31, 2012 on an individual award basis.
 
Name
 
Number of
 Securities
 Underlying
 Unexercised
 Options (#)
 Exercisable
   
Number of
 Securities
 Underlying
 Unexercised
 Options (#)
Unexercisable
   
Equity
 Incentive
 Plan
 Awards:
 Number of
 Securities
 Underlying
 Unexercised
 Unearned
 Options
   
Option
 Exercise
 Price
   
Option
 Expiration
 Date
   
Number
 of
 Shares
 of Stock
 That
 Have
 Not
 Vested
   
Market
 Value of
 Shares
of Stock
 That
 Have
 Not
 Vested
   
Equity
 Incentive
 Plan
 Awards:
 Number
 of
 Unearned
 Shares,
 Other
 Rights
 That
 Have Not
 Vested
   
Equity
 Incentive
 Plan
 Awards:
 Market
 or Payout
 Value of
 Unearned
 Shares,
Other
 Rights
 That
 Have Not
 Vested
 
Michael Pawelek
                                  116,550 (1)                  
Edward Shaw
                                  116,550 (1)                  
Kim Vo
                                  116,550 (1)                  
Eric Alfuth
                                                         
 
(1) 
Under their employment agreements, Michael Pawelek, Edward Shaw and Kim Vo will each earn 116,550 common stock shares as of March 1, 2015 provided they continue to be employed by the Company.  These common stock grants were not made pursuant to an equity compensation or stock grant plan.  The Company currently has no market for its common stock shares.
 
OPTION EXERCISES AND STOCK VESTED
 
The Option Exercises and Stock Vested Table reflects the stock options actually exercised by, and shares of stock that vested for, each of the Named Executive Officers during 2012.
 
   
Option Awards
   
Stock Awards
 
Name
 
Number of Shares
 Acquired On Exercise
   
Value Realized 
on Exercise
   
Number of Shares
 Acquired on Vesting
   
Value Realized on
 Vesting
 
Michael Pawelek
                       
Edward Shaw
                       
Kim Vo
                       
Eric Alfuth
                       
 
No stock options or awards were earned or exercised by the Named Executive Officers in 2012.  The Company entered employment agreements in 2012 with Mr. Pawelek, Mr. Shaw and Ms. Vo that provide for the vesting of options contingent on the Company’s underwritten initial public offering or change of control.  No options have been awarded to date under these agreements.

The Company does not provide pension benefits to the Named Executive Officers.

The Company does not provide nonqualified deferred compensation benefits to the Named Executive Officers.
 
 
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POTENTIAL PAYMENTS UPON TERMINATION OR CHANGE OF CONTROL

This section discusses the incremental compensation that would be payable by the Company to each Named Executive Officer in the event of the Named Executive Officer’s termination of employment with the Company under various scenarios (“termination events”) including 1) voluntary resignation; 2) involuntary termination; 3) termination without cause or for Good Reason in connection with a change in control; 4) termination in the event of disability; and 5) termination in the event of death.

The Company does not have a stock trading price.  It cannot present calculations based on a stock trading price.

Pursuant to applicable SEC rules, the analysis contained in this section does not consider or include payments made to a Named Executive Officer with respect to contracts, agreements, plans or arrangements to the extent they do not discriminate in scope, terms or operation, in favor of executive officers of the Company and that are available generally to all salaried employees, such as the Company’s 401(k) Plan. The actual amounts that would be paid upon a Named Executive Officer’s termination of employment can only be determined at the time of such executive officer’s termination from the Company. Due to the number of factors that affect the nature and amount of any compensation or benefits provided upon the termination events, any actual amounts paid or distributed may be higher or lower than reported below. Factors that could affect these amounts include the timing during the year of any such event and the Company’s stock price

Michael Pawelek, Edward Shaw and Kim Vo

We entered into employment agreements with Michael Pawelek, Edward Shaw and Kim Vo effective as of April 1, 2012.  We previously did not have a written employment agreement with them.  These agreements have initial three (3) year terms. Mr. Pawelek, Mr. Shaw and Ms. Vo would be at-will employees thereafter.

Mr. Pawelek, Mr. Shaw, and Ms. Vo will each be entitled to receive 30 days’ pay plus accrued vacation pay and reimbursable expenses upon termination of the employment agreement for death, disability or a termination for cause.  “Cause” includes Mr. Pawelek, Mr. Shaw or Ms. Vo: (1) engaging in dishonesty in the performance of his or her duties; (2) being convicted or entering a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to any felony or to any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; (3) breaching a material covenant in his or her employment agreement that is not cured within 30 days of written notice of such breach; (4) committing willful misconduct, bad faith, fraud or gross negligence in fulfilling his or her responsibilities for the Company or its subsidiaries; or (5) committing an act of fraud, embezzlement or similar crime against any individual or entity.

If Mr. Pawelek, Mr. Shaw or Ms. Vo is terminated without Cause or terminates his or her employment agreement for a “Good Reason” he or she would be due the payment of his or her base salary for the lesser of one year or the period remaining on his or her employment agreement.  “Good Reason” means: (1) a material breach of the employment agreement by the Company; (2) a reduction in Mr. Pawelek’s, Mr. Shaw’s or Ms. Vo’s base salary; or (3) the Company moving its principal offices from San Antonio, Texas.  All these “Good Reasons” are subject to notice provisions to the Company within 90 days of the event and a 30 day cure period for the Company.

Eric Alfuth is employed on a month-to-month basis at $15,000 per month.

COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS

Non-employee members of the Board of Directors have not been paid in the past for participation on the Board or on Board committees.  Further, the Board of Directors has not adopted any policy on paying members of the Board of Directors.  Finally, none of the members of the Board of Directors have a written agreement with the Company.  Mr. Michael Pawelek serves as a Director but is not entitled to any additional compensation for such service.

The Director Compensation Table below displays the total compensation awarded to, earned by or paid to Directors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012. All amounts shown below are in dollars.
 
 
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Name
  
Fees
 Earned
 or Paid
 in Cash
 
  
Stock
Awards
 ($)
 (c)
 
  
Option
 Awards
 ($)
 (d)
 
  
Non-Equity
 Incentive Plan
 Compensation
(e)
 
  
Change in
 Pension Value
 and
 Nonqualified
 Deferred
 Compensation
 Earnings
 (f)
 
  
All Other
 Compensation
 ($)
 (g)
 
  
Total
 ($)
 (h)
 
Michael Pawelek (1)
  
$
200,000
  
  
$
 
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
$
200,000
  
Bill Liao
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
Peter Benz
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
Charles Henry, III
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
William Mahoney
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
Craig Dermody
   
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
  
  
 
—  
 
 
(1)
Includes compensation for serving as Chief Executive Officer.

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS, RELATED TRANSACTIONS AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

Director Independence

The Company defines “independent director” as an independent director defined by Nasdaq Rule 5605(a)(2).  Under the Company’s independent director policy, all references to the Company include the Company’s subsidiaries and “Family Member” means a director’s spouse, parents, children and siblings, whether by blood, marriage or adoption, or anyone residing in the director’s home.  Specifically, the Company’s independent directors:

1)  
are not Company executive officers or employees or family members of Company executive officers and neither the director nor the family member has been so employed as an executive officer or (for the director only) employee in the past three years;

2)  
do not have a relationship which, in the opinion of the Company’s Board of Directors, would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of directors or would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the director’s responsibilities;
 
3)  
have not accepted (and have not had a family member accept) compensation from the Company in excess of $120,000 during any twelve consecutive months within the three years preceding the determination of independence except for:
 
a.  
compensation for board or board committee service;
b.  
employee compensation paid to a family member of the director, provided that the family member is not an executive officer of the Company;
c.  
benefits under tax-qualified retirement plans; and
d.  
non-discretionary compensation;

4)  
are not and have no family members who are, partners in, or a controlling shareholders or executive officers of, any organization to which the Company made, or from which the Company received, payments for property or services in the current or any of the past three fiscal years that exceed 5% of the recipient's consolidated gross revenues for that year, or $200,000, whichever is more, other than the following:
 
a.  
payments arising solely from investments in the Company's securities; or
b.  
payments under non-discretionary charitable contribution matching programs;

5)  
are not employed and have no family member who are employed as executive officers of another business entity where, at any time in the past three years, an executive officer of the Company has served on the compensation committee of that entity; or
 
6)  
are not employed and have no family member who are employed as a current partner of the Company's outside auditor, or were partners or employees of the Company's outside auditor who worked on the Company's audit at any time during any of the past three years.
 
 
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On May 8, 2013 the Company was notified that the limited partners of these limited partnerships have appointed Charles S. Henry, III the “replacement general partner” of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP. Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and Hunton Oil Partners LP own approximately 77.94% of our common stock shares. Mr. Henry is thus an affiliated director.

Our remaining four directors are designated directors or an officer under our bylaws effective before our registration statement becomes effective, and thus do not meet independent standards.  However, our bylaws after our registration statement becomes effective provide that our directors shall serve until the next special or annual shareholders’ meeting to elect directors, that all directors will be elected by all the shareholders, and that there will be no designated directors. The Company anticipates electing additional independent directors at such election.

Related Party Transactions Policy

Our Board of Directors has adopted a Related-Party Transactions Policy.  Under our policy a “related party” is:

1.  
an executive officer or director of the Company;

2.  
a stockholder that beneficially owns in excess of five percent of the Company;

3.  
a person who is an immediate family member of an executive officer or director. Immediate family member includes a person’s spouse, parents, stepparents, children, stepchildren, siblings, mothers- and fathers-in-law, sons and daughters-in-law and brothers-and sisters- in law and anyone residing in such person’s home (other than a tenant or employee); or

4.  
an entity which is owned or controlled by someone listed in 1, 2 or 3 above, or an entity in which someone listed in 1, 2 or 3 above has a substantial ownership interest or control of such entity.

The Related-Party Transactions Policy applies to transactions expected to exceed $120,000 in any calendar year involving the participation by the Company or its subsidiary in which the related party has or will have a direct or indirect interest (other than solely as a result of being a director or a less than 10% beneficial owner of another entity).  Such transactions would be required to have approval of the Company’s Audit Committee.
 
The Related-Party Transactions Policy does not apply to:

1.  
employment of executive officers;
2.  
director compensation;
3.  
transactions with other companies in which the related party’s relationship is only as an employee and not as an executive officer, director or owner of 10% of the counterparty’s equity;
4.  
charitable contributions to entities which the related party’s only relationship is as an employee or director if the aggregate contribution does not exceed the lesser of $100,000 annually or two percent of the charitable organization’s total annual receipts;
5.  
transactions where the related party’s interest arises solely from ownership of the Company’s common stock and the related party receives the same benefit as other shareholders on a pro rata basis;
6.  
transactions involving the establishment or maintenance of banking accounts or services, trading, investment management, custody or other accounts if the terms of such account or services are generally the same as or similar accounts offered to others in the ordinary course of business;
7.  
transactions involving competitive bids; and
8.  
transactions with similar terms to all employees.

The Related-Party Transactions Policy was adopted June 2012.  It did not apply to the Company’s transactions before that date.

Related-Party Transactions
 
The following related-party transactions were not subject to the Company’s Related Party’s Transactions Policy.   Further details of these transactions may be found in our financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2012 in Note 16.
 
 
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Transactions before January 20, 2012 were not approved by the Board of Directors at the time of the transaction.  Transactions after January 20, 2012 were approved by the Board of Directors.

SOSventures, LLC Notes and Credit Agreement

On May 16, 2012, we issued a note with a principal amount of $909,090 to SOSventures, LLC with approval by the Board of Directors.  SOSventures, LLC is a limited partner of Giddings Oil and Gas LP and Hunton Oil Partners, LLC and would be a major shareholder on an indirect basis. Our chairman, Bill Liao, is a venture partner for SOSventures, LLC.  He was originally appointed to our Board of Directors as a designated director of SOSventures, LLC.  The note carried an interest rate of ten percent (10%) and matured May 1, 2013.  The note was fully repaid in July 2012.

On May 29, 2013 we entered a credit agreement with SOSventures, LLC, which was amended on July 25, 2013, providing for a term loan through February 16, 2016 in an amount up to $10,000,000 at a 17.00% interest rate through May 29, 2014 and 22.00% interest rate thereafter.  The loan under this Agreement will be secured by a second lien on the Company’s assets.  The amended credit agreement and related intercreditor agreement are attached as Exhibits 10.6.1 and 10.6.2.

Purchased Member Unit Put Option and Waiver

Under the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement dated June 10, 2011, if the Company failed to go public by reverse merger with a public company or through obtaining an effective Form 10 registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, shareholders affiliated with Summerline Asset Management, LLC may elect to sell the company all of its shareholder interest in exchange for cash of approximately $12.52 per share.  The put option holders agreed to waive the put option provision effective July 20, 2012 in exchange for an additional 707,336 Company common stock shares. The waiver agreement is attached as Exhibit 4.3 to this prospectus. Peter Benz was originally appointed to our Board of Directors as a designated director of Summerline Asset Management, LLC.  Further, Mr. Benz is the chairman for Viking Asset Management, LLC which serves as the investment manager for Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. and Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., parties to the July 20, 2012 put option waiver agreement.

Going Public Delay Fee

Under the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement dated June 10, 2011, if the Company failed to go public by reverse merger with a public company or through obtaining an effective Form 10 registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company is obligated to pay or accrue $60,715 per month to the parties to the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement.  Our financial statements for the six months ending June 30, 2013 showed an accrued liability for this fee in the amount of approximately $702,576.

The going public delay fee is payable to several parties, including Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. and Longview Marquis Fund, L.P.. Counsel for limited partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP has claimed that Charles S. Henry, III, one of our directors, is general partner of Giddings Oil & Gas LP.  Alternatively, Giddings Genpar LLC, controlled by Gregory Imbruce, who was a director through April 2012, may have a competing claim to be general partner of Giddings Oil & Gas LP.  Further, Peter Benz, a director, is Chairman of Viking Asset Management, LLC which serves as the investment manager for Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. and Longview Marquis Fund, L.P.

Overriding Royalty Interests Transactions

Since 2012 Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. and Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. have been managed by Viking Asset Management, LLC.  Our director, Peter Benz is currently chairman of Viking Asset Management, LLC.  Glenrose Holdings LLC is controlled by Gregory Imbruce who was a Company director until April 2012.

Before the formation of Starboard Resources, Inc. or its current subsidiary, ImPetro Resources, LLC, Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. and Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. provided financing to South Texas Oil Company.  As part of that financing, Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. and Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. received an assignment of certain overriding royalty interests in the South Texas Oil Company properties in Atascosa, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Fayette, Frio, Gonzales and Lee County, Texas.
 
 
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In 2009 South Texas Oil Company filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and received debtor-in-possession financing from Giddings Oil & Gas LP.  In February 2010 the bankruptcy court accepted a credit bid from Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. and Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. for the oil and gas assets of South Texas Oil Company subject to the debtor-in-possession security interest of Giddings Oil & Gas LP.

ImPetro Resources LLC was formed in Delaware on January 21, 2010 to provide a vehicle to own and operate these South Texas Oil Company assets.  The formation agreements from February and March 2010 as to the equity and debt of ImPetro Resources LLC are described below in our description of previous unregistered securities transactions in Item 10.  As part of these organizational transactions, Glenrose Holdings LLC, an affiliate of the general partner of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP, received an allocation of overriding royalty interests in the oil and gas properties in Atascosa, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Fayette, Frio, Gonzales and Lee County, Texas.

Between February 4, 2010 and June 12, 2011, ImPetro Resources LLC paid $115,769 to Glenrose Holdings LLC, $101,852 to Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P., and $34,545 to Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. on the overriding royalty interests. These payments were made before the Company acquired ImPetro Resources LLC and its properties and are not consolidated into our financial statements.

Between June 12, 2011 and February 21, 2012, we paid $120,788 to Glenrose Holdings LLC, $3,054 to Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P., and $9,093 to Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. on the overriding royalty interests. We integrated these payments into our financial statements for the relevant time periods.

In an agreement dated June 10, 2011 Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. and Longview Master Fund, L.P. sold their overriding royalty interests to Glenrose Holdings LLC for $200,000.  After this transaction Glenrose Holdings LLC owned all the overriding royalty interests.

In an agreement dated January 20, 2012, we purchased all the overriding royalty interest from Glenrose Holdings LLC for $700,000.  As of that date Glenrose Holdings LLC was an affiliate of the general partner of Giddings Oil & Gas LP.

Participation Rights Transaction

In 2011 Giddings Investments, LLC owned certain participation rights in oil and gas properties related to the Company’s oil and gas projects.  Giddings Investments LLC is a Delaware limited liability company controlled by Gregory Imbruce.  The limited partners of Giddings Oil & Gas LP have claimed in a lawsuit that these participation rights were paid for and were property of Giddings Oil & Gas LP and that Mr. Imbruce illegally converted this asset to Giddings Investments, LLC.  As part of the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement dated June 10, 2011, Giddings Investments, LLC received 550,000 limited liability company units in Starboard Resources, LLC.  These were subsequently converted into 550,000 common stock shares in June 2012 when the Company converted to a Delaware corporation.  Due to the dispute over the rightful ownership of the consideration provided to the Company for the 550,000 limited liability company units, the Company filed an interpleader action regarding the resulting 550,000 common stock shares in Connecticut District Court.

Siete Oilfield Supply, LLC

Our officers Michael J. Pawelek and Edward Shaw own Siete Oilfield Supply, LLC with equal beneficial ownership. Beginning in January 2011 ImPetro Resources LLC began renting oil pipe from Siete Oilfield Supply, LLC at a time when it lacked liquidity. Those rentals continued through December 31, 2011, including after the Company’s acquisition of ImPetro Resources in June 2011.

Siete Oilfield Supply, LLC paid $ 93,697 for the oil pipe.  It rented the pipe at market rates to ImPetro Resources LLC and the Company at market rates.  On a consolidated basis ImPetro Resources LLC paid Siete Oilfield Supply LLC $61,582 to rent the oil pipe before its June 2011 acquisition by us. On a consolidated basis we paid Siete Oilfield Supply LLC $60,961 for pipe rental after the acquisition. Total combined payments were $122,542.  In January 2012 Siete Oilfield Supply, LLC transferred the pipe to us for no additional charge, having receiving a bid of $68,932 for the pipe from its original seller.
 
 
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Management Fees and Performance Reallocation

Through June 12, 2011, the Company, on a consolidated basis with Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP, incurred a management fee calculated and payable annually in advance equal to 2.00% of the total capital commitments determined as of the beginning of each calendar quarter. Further, through June 12, 2011, generally 20% of the interest income allocated to the partners in Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP was reallocated to the partnerships’ manager, subject to certain conditions.  These payments were made to business entities controlled by Gregory Imbruce who was a Company director at the time of the payments.  As of June 12, 2011, the Company no longer paid a management fee or reallocated interest income to management. The management fee appears on our December 31, 2011 Consolidated Statement of Operations as a payment in the amount of $110,000.

Legal Proceedings
 
Lawsuit Relating to Our Common Stock Shares
 
The Company is currently a defendant in a lawsuit filed in Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk at Stamford, Cause Nos. FST-CV-12-5013927-S and FST-CV-12-6014987-S, styled Charles Henry III, Ahmed Ammar, John P. Vaile as Trustee of John P. Vaile Living Trust, John Paul Otieno, SOSventures, LLC, Bradford Higgins, William Mahoney, Robert J. Conrads, Edward M. Conrads, William F. Pettinati, Jr. individually and derivatively on behalf of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund LP v. Gregory Imbruce, Giddings Investments LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, Asym Capital III LLC, Starboard Resources, Inc., Glenrose Holdings LLC and Asym Energy Investments LLC. The required disclosures relating to this lawsuit are found on pages 53 to 55 of this prospectus.
 
PRINCIPAL AND SELLING STOCKHOLDERS
 
The following table sets forth certain information with respect to the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of August 26, 2013 by:

  
each selling stockholder;
  
each stockholder known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than five percent of the outstanding shares of our common stock;
  
each of our directors;
  
each of our named executive officers; and
  
all of our directors and executive officers as a group.

Except as otherwise indicated, we believe that each of the stockholders named in this table has sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares indicated as beneficially owned.
 
 
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Name of Beneficial Owner
 
Shares Beneficially
Owned Prior to Offering(1)
   
Number
of Shares
Offered
   
Shares Beneficially Owned After Offering (1)
 
Selling Stockholders:
 
Number
   
Percentage
         
Number
   
Percentage
 
Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. (2)
    876,957       7.0938 %     876,957       -       -  
LMIF Investments, LLC(2)
    750,514       6.0710 %     750,514       -       -  
SMF Investments, LLC(2)
    547,307       4.4272 %     547,307       -       -  
Summerline Capital Partners, LLC(3)
    2,558       0.0207 %     2,558       -       -  
Giddings Oil & Gas LP(4)
    5,266,967       42.6049 %     5,266,967       -       -  
Shares Interplead into Connecticut Court in Henry et al. v. Imbruce et al.(5)
    550,000       4.4490 %     550,000       -       -  
Hunton Oil Partners LP(4)
    870,092       7.0382 %     870,092       -       -  
Asym Energy Fund III LP(4)
    3,497,941       28.2951 %     3,497,941       -       -  
                                         
Executive Officers and Directors:
                                       
Michael Pawelek
    -       -               -       -  
Edward Shaw
    -       -               -       -  
Eric Alfuth
    -       -               -       -  
N. Kim Vo
    -       -               -       -  
Bill Liao
    -       -               -       -  
Peter Benz(2)
    2,174,778       17.5920 %             -       -  
Craig Dermody
    -       -               -       -  
Charles Henry, III(4)
    9,635,000       77.9383 %             -       -  
All executive officers directors and director nominees as a group  (8 persons)
    -       -               -       -  
 
(1)
Percentage of beneficial ownership is based upon shares of common stock outstanding immediately prior to the offering, and shares of common stock outstanding after the offering. For purposes of this table, a person or group of persons is deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of any shares which such person has the right to acquire within 60 days. For purposes of computing the percentage of outstanding shares held by each person or group of persons named above, any security which such person or group of persons has the right to acquire within 60 days is deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership for such person or persons, but is not deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. As a result, the denominator used in calculating the beneficial ownership among our stockholders may differ.
 
(2)
Selling stockholders address is c/o Viking Asset Management, LLC, 66 Bovet Road, Suite 320, San Mateo, CA 99402.  The natural persons with ultimate voting or investment control over the common stock shares held by Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC and SMF Investments, LLC are Peter Benz, S. Michael Rudolph and Merrick Okamoto.  Peter Benz is a Company director.
 
Due to Mr. Benz’s possible voting control over the 2,174,778 common stock shares owned by Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC and SMF Investments, LLC, he is listed as beneficial owner of said common stock shares.
 
(3)
 
Selling stockholders address is c/o Summerline Asset Management, LLC, 70 West Red Oak Lane, 4th Floor, White Plains, NY  The natural persons with ultimate voting or investment control over the common stock shares held by Summerline Capital Partners, LLC are Robert Brantman and David Kittay.
   
(4)
Selling stockholders address on our share transfer registry is c/o Asym Energy Investments LLC, 1055 Washington Blvd, Suite 410. Stamford, CT 06901. As described above, on May 8, 2013, the Company received a notice stating that entities affiliated with Asym Energy Investments LLC had been removed as general partner of the partnerships by a vote of the limited partners and replaced by Charles S. Henry, III.  Charles S. Henry’s address is c/o Jon Whitcomb, Diserio Martin O'Connor & Castiglioni LLP, One Atlantic Street, Stamford, CT 06901,   The Company has also become aware of a letter from counsel for Asym Energy Investments LLC denying the effectiveness of said removal.   Consequently, the address and control of these selling stockholders is currently in dispute.
 
 
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  The natural persons with ultimate voting or investment control over the common stock shares held by Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP is disputed.   If Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, Asym Capital III LLC are deemed to be the general partners of the partnerships, then Gregory Imbruce is the natural person with ultimate voting or  investment control over the common stock shares held by Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP.  If Charles S. Henry, III is deemed to be the general partner of the three partnerships, then Charles S. Henry, III is the natural person with ultimate voting or investment control over the common stock shares held by Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP.
 
Due to Mr. Henry’s possible voting control over the partnership shares, he is listed as beneficial owner of the partnerships’ 9,635,000 common stock shares.  Mr. Henry’s address for partnerships matters is c/o Jonathan P. Whitcomb, Diserio Martin O'Connor & Castiglioni LLP, One Atlantic Street, Stamford, CT 06901.
   
(5)
The Company has interplead these shares of common stock into the registry of Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk at Stamford, Cause Nos. FST-CV-12-5013927-S and FST-CV-12-6014987-S, styled Charles Henry III, Ahmed Ammar, John P. Vaile as Trustee of John P. Vaile Living Trust, John Paul Otieno, SOSventures, LLC, Bradford Higgins, William Mahoney, Robert J. Conrads, Edward M. Conrads, William F. Pettinati, Jr. individually and derivatively on behalf of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund LP v. Gregory Imbruce, Giddings Investments LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, Asym Capital III LLC, Starboard Resources, Inc., Glenrose Holdings LLC and Asym Energy Investments LLC.  The Company’s Bill of Interpleader dated August 8, 2012 is attached as Exhibit 99.1.3.

Each of the selling stockholders in this offering is deemed to be an underwriter within the meaning of Section 2(a)(11) of the Securities Act.
 
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
 
This prospectus relates to the sale of 12,362,336 common stock shares being registered on behalf of selling stockholders.  We are bearing all costs relating to the registration of the common shares. The selling stockholders, however, will pay any commissions or other fees payable to brokers or dealers in connection with any sale of the common shares.
 
There has been no market for our securities.  Our common stock is not traded on any exchange or on the over-the-counter market.  After the effective date of the registration statement relating to this prospectus, we hope to have a market maker file an application with FINRA for our common stock to be eligible for trading on the over-the-counter market.  We do not yet have a market maker who has agreed to file such application.
 
The sales price to the public is fixed at $3.50 per share for the duration of the offering.  This share price offering price is based on the Company’s book value.  Our book value as of June 30, 2013 was $43,262,000.  We have 12,362,336 common stock shares outstanding.  This yields a book value per share of $3.4995.
 
If the selling stockholders engage in short selling activities, they must comply with the prospectus delivery requirements of Section 5(b)(2) of the Securities Act.
 
Pursuant to Regulation M of the Securities Act, the selling stockholders will not, directly or indirectly, bid for, purchase, or attempt to induce any person to bid for or purchase their common shares during the offering except for offers to sell or the solicitation of offers to buy and unsolicited purchases that are not effected from or through a broker or dealer, on a securities exchange or through an inter-dealer quotation system or electronic communications network.
 
These requirements may restrict the ability of broker/dealers to sell our common stock, and may affect the ability to resell our common stock.
 
The 12,362,336 common stock shares offered by the selling stockholders may be sold by one or more of the following methods, without limitation:
 
a)  
ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker solicits purchases; and
 
b)  
face-to-face transactions between sellers and purchasers without a broker-dealer.  In effecting sales, brokers or dealers engaged by the selling stockholders may arrange for other brokers or dealers to participate.
 
 
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The selling security holder or dealer effecting a transaction in the registered securities, whether or not participating in a distribution, is required to deliver a prospectus.

Under the Securities Act of 1933, the selling stockholders will be considered to be underwriters of the offering.  The selling stockholders may have civil liability under Section 11 and 12 of the Securities Act for any omissions or misstatements in the registration statement because of their status as underwriters.  We may be sued by selling stockholders if omissions or misstatements result in civil liability to them.

Once a market has been developed for our common stock, the shares may be sold or distributed from time to time by the shareholders directly to one or more purchasers or through brokers or dealers who act solely as agents, at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to such prevailing market prices, at negotiated prices or at fixed prices, which may be changed. The distribution of the shares may be effected in one or more of the following methods:

a)  
ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker solicits purchasers;
 
b)  
privately negotiated transactions;
 
c)  
market sales (both long and short to the extent permitted under the federal securities laws);
 
d)  
at the market to or through market makers or into an existing market for the shares;
 
e)  
through transactions in options, swaps or other derivatives (whether exchange listed or otherwise); and
 
f)  
a combination of any of the aforementioned methods of sale.
 
In effecting sales, brokers and dealers engaged by the selling stockholders may arrange for other brokers or dealers to participate. Brokers or dealers may receive commissions or discounts from a selling security holder or, if any of the broker-dealers act as an agent for the purchaser of such shares, from a purchaser in amounts to be negotiated which are not expected to exceed those customary in the types of transactions involved. Broker-dealers may agree with a selling security holder to sell a specified number of the shares of common stock at a stipulated price per share. Such an agreement may also require the broker-dealer to purchase as principal any unsold shares of common stock at the price required to fulfill the broker-dealer commitment to the selling security holder if such broker-dealer is unable to sell the shares on behalf of the selling security holder. Broker-dealers who acquire shares of common stock as principal may thereafter resell the shares of common stock from time to time in transactions which may involve block transactions and sales to and through other broker-dealers, including transactions of the nature described above. Such sales by a broker-dealer could be at prices and on terms then prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to the then-current market price or in negotiated transactions. In connection with such re-sales, the broker-dealer may pay to or receive from the purchasers of the shares commissions as described above.

The shareholders and any broker-dealers or agents that participate with the shareholders in the sale of the shares of common stock may be deemed to be "underwriters" within the meaning of the Securities Act in connection with these sales. In that event, any commissions received by the broker-dealers or agents and any profit on the resale of the shares of common stock purchased by them may be deemed to be underwriting commissions or discounts under the Securities Act.
 
None of the selling stockholders listed in this registration statement are registered broker-dealers or affiliates of registered broker-dealers.

State Law Restrictions on Resale
 
If a selling security holder wants to sell our common shares under this registration statement in the United States, the selling stockholders will also need to comply with the states securities laws with regard to secondary sales.  All states offer a variety of exemption from registration for secondary sales.

Any person who purchases common shares from a selling stockholder under this registration statement who then wants to sell such shares will also have to comply with state laws regarding secondary sales.  When the registration statement becomes effective, and a selling stockholder indicates in which state(s) he desires to sell his shares, we will be able to identify whether it will need to register or it will rely on an exemption there from.
 
 
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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

The Company is registering its common stock under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  The common stock has 150,000,000 common stock shares authorized and 12,362,336 shares outstanding.

Bylaws
 
Under our Bylaws the Company’s common stock has no preferences or voting, dividend, liquidation, or conversion rights.  Its voting rights consist of one vote for each share of stock.  The Board of Directors is unclassified.  The Company’s certificate of incorporation and Bylaws carry no provision discriminating against any existing or prospective shareholders as a result of a shareholder holding a substantial amount of the common stock shares.

A majority-in-interest of shareholders must approve Bylaw amendments.  This majority-in-interest may include the common stock and any other class or series of stock with voting rights.  Currently, there are no other such classes or series of stock and the Bylaws require shareholder approval of the issuance of ten percent (10%) of the Company’s shares in preferred stock or the issuance of preferred stock that is convertible into common stock at a greater than one-to-one ratio.  Other than the above, the rights of common stock shareholders may not be modified other than by a vote of a majority or more of the shares outstanding, voting as a class.

Subject to the above-described limitations in the Bylaws, the Board of Directors may authorize the issuance of Preferred Stock on terms that it determines without the approval of the common stockholders.  As stated above, the Bylaws require shareholder approval of the issuance of ten percent (10%) of the Company’s shares in preferred stock or the issuance of preferred stock that is convertible into common stock at a greater than one-to-one ratio.

Directors are elected annually at the annual meeting, except that the Company may have an initial special meeting to elect directors after the effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

The Company does not have a poison pill.  Its Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and post-effective Bylaws have no provisions that would delay, defer or prevent a change of control of the Company or that that would operate only with respect to an extraordinary transaction involving the Company such as a merger, reorganization, tender offer, sale or transfer or substantially all its assets or liquidation.

Several Company common stock certificates carry restricted legends relating to contractual provisions.  Such legends state and the contractual provisions provide that most restrictions terminate upon an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Act of 1934, except for the “Monetization Agreement” described above and attached as Exhibit 4.2 to this Prospectus.
 
The shares of the Company’s common stock will carry no restrictions on transferability after the effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, except for those restrictions on transferability applicable to all securities under federal and state securities laws.  However, it is important for the selling stockholders and prospective purchasers to understand that this prospectus only covers the sale of our common stock shares by Giddings Oil and Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP, Asym Energy Fund III LP and other designated selling stockholders. If our common stock shares are distributed by these partnerships to their limited partners through the resolution of litigation, the monetization agreement referenced above or otherwise, this prospectus will not cover sales of our common stock by those former limited partners.  The former limited partners may only sell their common stock shares through the effectiveness of another registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 covering the referenced common stock shares or through the limited sales allowed by the safe harbor from being found to be an underwriter as stated in SEC Rule 144.
 
No stock warrants or rights are being registered and the Company has no warrants outstanding.
 
The Company has no established trading market for any securities that are not common equity.  Plus, the Company does not anticipate that the Company’s common equity will have an established trading market until the effectiveness of its Form S-1 under the Securities Act of 1933.
 
The post-effective bylaws were adopted by a majority vote of the shareholders in connection with the conversion to a Delaware corporation in June 2012.
 
 
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SECURITIES TRANSFER AGENT
 
Our securities transfer agent is Registrar and Transfer Company, 10 Commerce Drive, Cranford, NJ 07016.  The contact number is (800) 368-5948.  The website is rtco.com.

LEGAL MATTERS
 
The validity of the common stock offered in this prospectus will be passed upon by Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz, PLLC, Fort Worth, Texas, as shown in Exhibit 5.1.
 
EXPERTS
 
The consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and for the years then ended included in this prospectus have been audited by Rothstein Kass, an independent registered public accounting firm. Such financial statements have been included in this prospectus in reliance upon the report of such firm given their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.
 
Our oil and gas reserve calculations as of January 1, 2013 and 2012 included in this prospectus were calculated in a reserve report prepared by Forrest A. Garb & Associates, Inc., independent petroleum engineers. Such reserve reports have been included in this prospectus in reliance upon the report of such firm given their authority as experts in petroleum engineering.
 
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
 
We are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and its rules and regulations. The Exchange Act requires us to file reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. Copies of these reports, proxy statements and other information can be read and copied at the SEC Public Reference Room, 100 F Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20549.
 
Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling the SEC at 1–800–SEC–0330. The SEC also maintains a website that contains reports, proxy statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. These materials may be obtained electronically by accessing the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
AND
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
 
DECEMBER 31, 2012 AND 2011
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONTENTS
 

 
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
    F-1  
         
Financial Statements
       
         
Consolidated Balance Sheets
    F-2  
         
Consolidated Statements of Operations
    F-3  
         
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders' Equity
    F-4  
         
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
    F-5-6  
         
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
    F-7-F-31  
         
Supplemental Information
       
         
Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures
    F-33-F-40  
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM


To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Starboard Resources, Inc.:

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Starboard Resources, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the "Company") as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in stockholders' equity and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2012.  These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the management of the Company.  Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated 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 audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.  The Company 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 also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, 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 consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Starboard Resources, Inc. and Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2012, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
 
  /s/ Rothstein Kass
  Dallas, Texas
  May 10, 2013
 
 
F-1

 
 
STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
 

 
           
   
June 30,
   
December 31,
    2013    
2012
   
2011
 
    (Unaudited)              
ASSETS
                 
                   
Current assets
                 
Cash
  $ 2,318,595     $ 1,036,859     $ 1,778,733  
Trade receivable
    1,274,582       1,200,316       1,364,874  
Joint interest receivable
    4,823       55,721       50,875  
Deferred tax assets
    182,526       181,709          
Prepaid expenses
    141,703       51,071       36,144  
                         
Total current assets
    3,922,229       2,525,676       3,230,626  
                         
Oil and natural gas properties and other equipment
                       
Oil and natural gas properties, successful efforts method, net of accumulated depletion
    69,772,655       64,553,872       58,554,524  
Other property and equipment, net of depreciation
    160,156       184,522       133,146  
                         
Total oil and natural gas properties and other equipment, net
    69,932,811       64,738,394       58,687,670  
                         
Other assets
                       
Goodwill
    959,681       959,681       959,681  
Other
    820,046       792,241       373,660  
                         
Total other assets
    1,779,727       1,751,922       1,333,341  
                         
Total assets
  $ 75,634,767     $ 69,015,992     $ 63,251,637  
                         
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
                       
                         
Current liabilities
                       
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
  $ 3,969,218     $ 3,113,938     $ 3,216,243  
Joint interest revenues payable
    658,934       557,832       637,246  
Current derivative liabilities
    54,432       104,939          
Current maturities of notes payable
    18,768       17,997       14,875  
Current asset retirement obligations
    401,014       434,909       447,287  
Put option
                    18,400,000  
                         
Total current liabilities
    5,102,366       4,229,615       22,715,651  
                         
Long-term liabilities
                       
Derivative liabilities
    2,116       54,430          
Notes payable
    10,077,857       4,007,534       18,598  
Deferred tax liabilities
    15,265,791       15,454,217          
Asset retirement obligations
    1,924,206       1,837,090       1,884,578  
                         
Total long-term liabilities
    27,269,970       21,353,271       1,903,176  
                         
Commitments and contingencies
                       
                         
Stockholders' equity
                       
Preferred stock, $.001 par value, authorized 10,000,000 shares;
                       
none issued and outstanding
                       
Common stock, $.001 par value, authorized 150,000,000 shares;
                       
12,362,336, 12,362,336, and 11,655,000 shares issued at
                       
June 30, 2013, December 31, 2012, and 2011, respectively
    12,362       12,362       11,655  
Paid-in capital in excess of par
    53,846,705       53,247,305       33,948,912  
Retained earnings (deficit)
    (10,596,636 )     (9,826,561 )     4,672,243  
                         
Total stockholders' equity
    43,262,431       43,433,106       38,632,810  
                         
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity
  $ 75,634,767     $ 69,015,992     $ 63,251,637  
 
 
F-2

 
 
STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
 

 
   
Six Months Ended June 30,
   
Year Ended December 31,
 
   
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
   
(Unaudited)
   
(Unaudited)
             
                         
                         
Oil, natural gas, and related product sales
  $ 6,191,662     $ 7,144,591     $ 12,954,381     $ 4,898,438  
                                 
Expenses
                               
Depreciation and depletion
    2,613,191       2,527,988       4,583,680       1,644,823  
Lease operating
    1,798,141       1,371,010       2,897,214       1,603,184  
General and administrative
    1,586,812       881,977       2,470,345       608,338  
Professional fees
    327,258       227,069       575,858       545,216  
Production taxes
    152,883       159,264       279,037       206,303  
Management fees
                            138,439  
Performance fees
                            109,945  
Exploration
    39,363       23,110       50,444       72,924  
                                 
Total expenses
    6,517,648       5,190,418       10,856,578       4,929,172  
                                 
Operating income (loss)
    (325,986 )     1,954,173       2,097,803       (30,734 )
                                 
Other income (expense)
                               
Interest income
            165       165       613,930  
Income from equity investment in ImPetro
                               
   Resources, LLC
                            (307,154 )
Gain from ImPetro Resources, LLC business
                               
   combination acquired in stages
                            6,979,873  
Put option expense
                            (3,700,000 )
Interest expense
    (371,921 )     (100,618 )     (370,198 )     (15,522 )
Going public delay expense
    (364,290 )     (364,464 )     (728,580 )     (101,192 )
Income (loss) from derivative contracts
    102,821               (159,369 )     (57,053 )
                                 
Total other income (expense)
    (633,390 )     (464,917 )     (1,257,982 )     3,412,882  
                                 
Income (loss) before income taxes
    (959,376 )     1,489,256       839,821       3,382,148  
                                 
Income tax expense:
                               
Current income taxes
                    66,117          
Deferred income taxes
    (189,301 )     15,428,873       15,272,508          
                                 
Total income tax expense
    (189,301 )     15,428,873       15,338,625          
                                 
Net income (loss)
  $ (770,075 )   $ (13,939,617 )   $ (14,498,804 )   $ 3,382,148  
                                 
Net income (loss) per basic and diluted
                               
common share
  $ (0.06 )   $ (1.20 )   $ (1.21 )   $ 0.36  
                                 
Weighted average basic and diluted
                               
common shares outstanding
    12,362,336       11,655,000       11,971,948       9,436,614  
                                 
Pro forma information (unaudited) (1)
                               
Pro forma income (loss) before income taxes
  $ (595,086 )   $ 1,853,720     $ 1,568,401     $ (96,727 )
Pro forma tax expense (benefit)
    (189,301 )     635,839       519,498       (33,620 )
                                 
Pro forma net income (loss)
  $ (405,785 )   $ 1,217,881     $ 1,048,903     $ (63,107 )
                                 
Pro forma net income (loss) per basic
                               
 and diluted common share
  $ (0.03 )   $ 0.10     $ 0.09     $ (0.01 )
 
(1)
The pro forma information illustrates the Company’s pro forma income (loss), tax expense, and net income (loss) per share by period had the Company been taxed as a C-corporation and the Company’s roll-up transaction occurred prior to the periods presented.
 
 
F-3

 
 
STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDER'S EQUITY
 

 
For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2013 (Unaudited) and for the Years Ended December 31, 2012 and 2011
 
     
   
Common Stock
($.001 Par Value)
   
Paid-In
Capital in
   
Retained
Earnings
       
   
Shares
(3)  
Amount
(3)  
Excess of Par
(3)  
(Deficit)
(3)  
Total
 
                               
Balances, January 1, 2011
    6,030,854 (2)   $ 6,031     $ 8,693,719     $ 1,290,095     $ 9,989,845  
                                         
Issuance of member units in ASYM
                                       
Energy Fund III prior to roll up
    1,519,146 (2)     1,519       1,288,481               1,290,000  
                                         
Issuance of common stock, net
                                       
of $450,000 in placement costs
    535,000       535       4,899,465               4,900,000  
                                         
Distribution of assets and liabilities
                                       
   not included in rollup transaction
                    (1,929,183 )             (1,929,183 )
                                         
Common stock issued for acquisition
                                       
of ImPetro Resources, LLC
    3,570,000       3,570       35,696,430               35,700,000  
                                         
Put option
                    (14,700,000 )             (14,700,000 )
                                         
Net income
                            3,382,148       3,382,148  
                                         
Balances, December 31, 2011
    11,655,000     $ 11,655     $ 33,948,912     $ 4,672,243     $ 38,632,810  
                                         
Stock-based compensation
                    899,100               899,100  
                                         
Waiver of put option in exchange
                                       
for common shares
    707,336       707       18,399,293               18,400,000  
                                         
Net loss
                            (14,498,804 )     (14,498,804 )
                                         
Balances, December 31, 2012
    12,362,336     $ 12,362     $ 53,247,305     $ (9,826,561 )   $ 43,433,106  
                                         
Stock-based compensation (unaudited)
                    599,400               599,400  
                                         
Net loss (unaudited)
                            (770,075 )     (770,075 )
                                         
Balances, June 30, 2013 (unaudited)
    12,362,336     $ 12,362     $ 53,846,705     $ (10,596,636 )   $ 43,262,431  
 
(2) Common stock issued to Common Controlled Entities as a result of the Roll-up Transaction have been retroactively applied.
 
(3) The Company's conversion to a C-Corporation on June 28, 2012 has been retroactively applied to the consolidated financial statements. See Note 12.
 
 
F-4

 
 
STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
 

 
   
Six Months Ended June 30,
   
Year Ended December 31,
 
   
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
   
(Unaudited)
   
(Unaudited)
             
                         
Cash flows from operating activities
                       
Net income (loss)
  $ (770,075 )   $ (13,939,617 )   $ (14,498,804 )   $ 3,382,148  
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash
                               
 provided by operating activities:
                               
Depreciation and depletion
    2,613,191       2,527,988       4,583,680       1,644,823  
Deferred income taxes
    (189,301 )     15,428,873       15,272,508          
Stock-based compensation
    599,400       299,700       899,100          
Bad debt expense
                            4,107  
Accretion of discount on note receivable, related party
                            (348,379 )
Income from equity investment in ImPetro
                            307,154  
Gain from ImPetro Resources, LLC business
                               
   combination acquired in stages
                            (6,979,873 )
Put option expense
                            3,700,000  
Accretion of asset retirement obligation
    79,413       82,413       273,564       13,833  
Going public delay expense
    364,290       364,464       728,580       101,192  
Income (loss) from derivative contracts
    (102,821 )             159,369       57,053  
Accretion of debt issuance costs
    161,098       6,750       27,691          
Increase (decrease) in cash attributable to
                               
 changes in operating assets and liabilities:
                               
Trade receivable
    (74,266 )     352,774       164,558       (856,234 )
Joint interest receivable
    50,898       48,242       (4,846 )     116,245  
Note and interest receivable
                            389,879  
Prepaid management fee
                            186,400  
Prepaid expenses and other assets
    (96,643 )     (94,541 )     (14,927 )     (106,993 )
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
    (501,315 )     (1,598,390 )     (1,502,872 )     1,393,348  
Joint interest revenues payable
    101,102       (29,138 )     (79,414 )     (128,504 )
Related party payable
                            (286,118 )
                                 
Net cash provided by operating activities
    2,234,971       3,449,518       6,008,187       2,590,081  
                                 
Cash flows from investing activities
                               
Development of oil and natural gas properties
    (6,823,835 )     (3,273,638 )     (9,476,806 )     (5,675,211 )
Acquisition of oil and natural gas properties
            (700,000 )     (700,000 )        
Acquisition of ImPetro Resources, LLC, net of cash acquired
                            (293,567 )
Acquisition of other property and equipment
    (42 )     (2,840 )     (23,257 )     (20,637 )
Oil and natural gas abandonment costs
    (17,618 )     (18,441 )     (100,704 )     (201,206 )
Bonds and deposits
            24,811       1,624          
                                 
Net cash used in investing activities
    (6,841,495 )     (3,970,108 )     (10,299,143 )     (6,190,621 )
                                 
Cash flows from financing activities
                               
Starboard common stock issued, net of placement costs
                            4,900,000  
ASYM Energy Fund III member units issued
                            1,290,000  
Proceeds from notes payable, net of debt issuance costs
    5,977,868       789,050       4,565,753          
Distribution of cash from roll-up transaction
                            (1,788,628 )
Deferred offering costs
    (80,702 )     (154,621 )     (179,011 )        
Repayments of notes payable
    (8,906 )     (7,249 )     (837,660 )     (8,262 )
                                 
Net cash provided by financing activities
    5,888,260       627,180       3,549,082       4,393,110  
                                 
Net increase (decrease) in cash
    1,281,736       106,590       (741,874 )     792,570  
                                 
Cash, beginning of period
    1,036,859       1,778,733       1,778,733       986,163  
                                 
Cash, end of period
  $ 2,318,595     $ 1,885,323     $ 1,036,859     $ 1,778,733  
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (CONTINUED)
 

 
   
Six Months Ended June 30,
   
Year Ended December 31,
 
   
2013
   
2012
   
2012
   
2011
 
   
(Unaudited)
   
(Unaudited)
             
                         
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information
                       
Cash paid during the period for interest
  $ 128,178     $ 1,373     $ 68,943     $ 1,383  
                                 
                                 
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing transactions
                               
Payables related to oil and natural gas capitalized expenditures
  $ 992,305     $ 660,772     $ 1,420,816     $ 863,467  
Capitalized asset retirement cost
  $ (16,546 )   $ 10,587     $ (232,726 )   $ 33,393  
Net assets and liabilities acquired from ImPetro Resources, LLC
                               
   in a business combination acquired in stages
  $       $       $       $ 46,356,676  
                                 
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash financing transactions
                               
Common stock issued for settlement of put option
  $       $       $ 18,400,000     $    
Notes payable issued for purchase of equipment
  $       $       $ 109,718     $    
Common stock issued for acquisition of ImPetro Resources LLC
  $       $       $       $ 35,700,000  
Reclassification of equity to current liabilities
                               
in recognition of put option
  $       $       $       $ 14,700,000  
Distribution of assets and liabilities not included
                               
   in the Roll-up transaction
  $       $       $       $ 140,555  
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
1. 
Organization and Nature of Operations

Starboard Resources LLC was formed in Delaware on June 2, 2011 as a limited liability company to acquire, own, operate, produce, and develop oil and natural gas properties primarily in Texas and Oklahoma. On June 28, 2012, Starboard converted from a Delaware limited liability company to a Delaware C-Corporation and is now known as Starboard Resources, Inc. (“Starboard”). The membership units of Starboard Resources LLC were exchanged on a 1:1 basis for common shares of Starboard.
 
Starboard was capitalized on June 13, 2011 (the “Roll-up Date”) through the execution of a Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) between Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. (“Longview”), Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. (“Summerview”), LMIF Investments, LLC (“LMIF”), SMF Investments, LLC (“SMF”), Summerline Capital Partners, LLC (“Summerline”), Giddings Oil and Gas LP (“Giddings”) and Giddings Investments LLC (“Giddings Investments”), which combined Giddings, Hunton Oil Partners LP (“Hunton”), ASYM Energy Fund III LP (“ASYM III”) and ImPetro Resources, LLC (“ImPetro”), including its wholly owned subsidiary, ImPetro Operating, LLC (“Operating”) (collectively the “Company”), in a roll-up transaction.
 
The Exchange Agreement required Giddings, Hunton and ASYM III to exchange substantially all of their assets and liabilities for 7,550,000 common shares of Starboard and required Starboard to perform a private placement of common shares at a price of at least $10.00 per share and receive net proceeds of at least $5,350,000 before placement costs. Through the private placement, Starboard issued 535,000 common shares at $10 per share, or $4,900,000 net of capital placement costs of $450,000, in June 2011. Additionally, as of the Roll-up Date, Giddings, Hunton and ASYM III (collectively the “Common Controlled Entities”) were deemed to be under common control through ASYM Energy Investments, LLC, which served as the management company for the Common Controlled Entities.
 
The Exchange Agreement also required ImPetro and Operating to exchange all of its member units for 3,570,000 common shares of Starboard and $1,150,000 of cash, which was distributed directly to the members of ImPetro. Additionally, Longview, Summerview and Giddings agreed to the cancellation of working interest participation rights and $11,000,000 in principal notes, of which $4,500,000 was held by Giddings as of the Roll-up Date.
 
2. 
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation
 
The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and are presented in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC”) 805, Business Combinations, which requires that entities under common control be reflected at their historical cost. Accordingly, the accompanying consolidated financial statements reflect the historical combined results of the Common Controlled Entities prior to the Roll-up Date.
 
Additionally, the accompanying consolidated financial statements as of June 30, 2013 and for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for interim financial statements and with the instructions to Form 10-Q, and reflect, in the opinion of management, all adjustments, which are of a normal and recurring nature, necessary for a fair presentation of the results for such periods. Operating results for the six months ended June 30, 2013 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2013.
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
2. 
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Basis of Presentation (continued)
 
These consolidated financial statements were approved by management and available for issuance on May 10, 2013. Subsequent events have been evaluated through this date.
 
Principles of Consolidation
 
Since the Roll-up Date, the accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Starboard and its wholly owned subsidiaries, ImPetro and Operating. Prior to the Roll-up Date, the accompanying consolidated financial statements reflected the historical combined results of the Common Controlled Entities. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.
 
Fair Value Measurements
 
The Company has adopted and follows ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, for measurement and disclosures about fair value of its financial instruments. ASC 820 establishes a framework for measuring fair value in GAAP, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. To increase consistency and comparability in fair value measurements and related disclosures, ASC 820 establishes a fair value hierarchy which prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three (3) broad levels. The fair value hierarchy gives the highest priority to quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs. The three (3) levels of fair value hierarchy defined by ASC 820 are:
 
Level 1 — Inputs are unadjusted, quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities at the measurement date.
 
Level 2 — Inputs (other than quoted market prices included in Level 1) are either directly or indirectly observable for the asset or liability through correlation with market data at the measurement date and for the duration of the instrument’s anticipated life.
 
Level 3 — Inputs reflect management’s best estimate of what market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability at the measurement date. Consideration is given to the risk inherent in the valuation technique and the risk inherent in the inputs to the model. Valuation of instruments includes unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of fair value of assets or liabilities.
 
As defined by ASC 820, the fair value of a financial instrument is the amount at which the instrument could be exchanged in a current transaction between willing parties, other than in a forced or liquidation sale, which was further clarified as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (“an exit price”) in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The carrying amounts of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities, such as cash, trade receivable, joint interest receivable, joint interest revenues payable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities and related party payable, approximate their fair values because of the short maturity of these instruments.
 
Cash
 
The Company considers all highly-liquid debt instruments with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents. As of June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and December 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company did not hold any cash equivalents.
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
2. 
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Cash (continued)

The Company maintains its cash balances in financial institutions which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”).  The cash accounts maintain FDIC coverage of up to $250,000 per institution.  Non-interest bearing accounts were fully covered subject to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”) for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011.  This provision of the Act expired on December 31, 2012. As of June 30, 2013 and December 31, 2011, the Company had approximately $2,069,000 (unaudited) and $785,000 in excess of its FDIC coverage respectively.  As of December 31, 2012 the Company had no amounts in excess of FDIC coverage.

Trade Receivable and Joint Interest Receivable

Trade receivable is comprised of accrued natural gas and crude oil sales and joint interest receivable is comprised of amounts owed to the Company from joint interest owners for their proportionate share of expenses.  Generally, operators of natural gas and crude oil properties have the right to offset joint interest receivables with revenue payables.  Accordingly, any joint interest owner that has a joint interest receivable and joint interest revenue payable as of June 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012 and 2011 are shown at net in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers’ and extends credit to virtually all of its customers. Credit losses to date have not been significant and have been within management’s expectations.  In the event of complete non-performance by the Company’s customers and joint interest owners, the maximum exposure to the Company is the outstanding trade and joint interest receivable balance at the date of non-performance. For the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 (unaudited) and the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company had no bad debt expense. For the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company’s bad debt expense approximated $4,000.

Derivative Activities

The Company utilized oil and natural gas derivative contracts to mitigate it’s exposure to commodity price risk associated with its future oil and natural gas production. These derivative contracts have historically consisted of options, in the form of price floors or collars. The Company’s derivative financial instruments are recorded on the consolidated balance sheets as either an asset or a liability measured at fair value. The Company does not apply hedge accounting to its oil and natural gas derivative contracts and accordingly the changes in the fair value of these instruments are recognized in the statement of operations in the period of change.

The Company’s derivative instruments are issued to manage the price risk attributable to our expected natural gas and oil production. While there is risk that the financial benefit of rising natural gas and oil prices may not be captured, Company management believes the benefits of stable and predictable cash flow are more important. Among these benefits are more efficient utilization of existing personnel and planning for future staff additions, the flexibility to enter into long-term projects requiring substantial committed capital, smoother and more efficient execution of our ongoing development drilling and production enhancement programs, more consistent returns on invested capital and better access to bank and other capital markets. Every unsettled derivative instrument is recorded on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as either an asset or a liability measured at its fair value. Changes in a derivative’s fair value are recognized in earnings unless specific hedge accounting criteria are met. Cash flows from natural gas and oil derivative contract settlements are reflected in operating activities in the accompanying consolidated statements of cash flows.

 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
2. 
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Derivative Activities (continued)

Realized and unrealized gains and losses on derivatives are accounted for using the mark-to-market accounting method. The Company recognizes all unrealized and realized gains and losses related to these contracts in each period in gain (loss) from derivative contracts in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
 
Oil and Gas Natural Gas Properties
 
The Company uses the successful efforts method of accounting for oil and natural gas producing activities, as further defined under ASC 932, Extractive Activities - Oil and Natural Gas. Under these provisions, costs to acquire mineral interests in oil and natural gas properties, to drill exploratory wells that find proved reserves, and to drill and equip development wells are capitalized.
 
Exploratory drilling costs are capitalized when incurred pending the determination of whether a well has found proved reserves. A determination of whether a well has found proved reserves is made shortly after drilling is completed. The determination is based on a process that relies on interpretations of available geologic, geophysic, and engineering data. If a well is determined to be successful, the capitalized drilling costs will be reclassified as part of the cost of the well. Capitalized costs of producing oil and natural gas interests are depleted on a unit-of-production basis.
 
If a well is determined to be unsuccessful, the capitalized drilling costs will be charged to expense in the period the determination is made. If a determination can not be made as to whether the reserves that have been found can be classified as proved, the cost of drilling the exploratory well is not carried as an asset for more than one year following completion of drilling. If, after that year has passed, a determination that proved reserves exist cannot be made, the well is assumed to be impaired and its costs are charged to expense. Its cost can, however, continue to be capitalized if a sufficient quantity of reserves is discovered in the well to justify its completion as a producing well and the entity is making sufficient progress assessing the reserves and the economic and operating viability of the project.
 
Additionally, the Company assesses the impairment of capitalized costs of its proved oil and natural gas properties and other equipment when circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. The Company determines if impairment has occurred through either adverse changes or as a result of their annual petroleum engineering review. When it is determined that the estimated future net cash flows of an asset will not be sufficient to recover its carrying amount, an impairment loss must be recorded to reduce the carrying amount to its estimated fair value. For the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 (unaudited) and the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company did not have an impairment charge.
 
Other Property and Equipment
 
Other property and equipment, which includes field equipment, vehicles, and office equipment, is stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. Vehicles and office equipment are generally depreciated over a useful life of five years and field equipment is generally depreciated over a useful life of twenty years.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
2. 
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Equity Investment
 
The Company previously held a 40% interest in ImPetro through the Roll-up Date. Prior to the Roll-up Date, the equity investment in ImPetro was carried at cost and was adjusted for the Company’s proportionate share of their undistributed earnings or losses through the Roll-up Date. On the Roll-up Date, the Company acquired the remaining 60% of ImPetro and has consolidated its results subsequent to the Roll-up Date. Additionally, the Company followed the provisions of ASC 805-10, Business Combinations, which requires the Company to record a gain or loss in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2011 as a result of remeasuring its prior equity interest at fair-value in a business combination acquired in stages. As such, the Company recorded a gain of approximately $6,980,000 during the year ended December 31, 2011.
 
Goodwill
 
Goodwill was generated as part of the ImPetro acquisition during the year ended December 31, 2011 and represents the excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair value of the net assets acquired in the step acquisition of a business. Goodwill is not amortized; rather, it is tested for impairment annually and when events or changes in circumstances indicate that fair value of a reporting unit with goodwill has been reduced below carrying value. The impairment test requires allocating goodwill and other assets and liabilities to reporting units. However, the Company only has one reporting unit. To assess impairment, the Company has the option to qualitatively assess if it is more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than the book value. Absent a qualitative assessment, or, through the qualitative assessment, if the Company determines it is more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than the book value, a quantitative assessment is prepared to calculate the fair market value of the reporting unit. If it is determined that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than the book value, the recorded goodwill is impaired to its implied fair value with a charge to operating expenses.
 
Deferred Offering Costs
 
The Company complies with the requirements of the SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) Topic 5A ‘‘Expenses of Offering’’. Deferred offering costs consist principally of accounting, legal and other fees incurred through the consolidated balance sheet dates that are related to the proposed initial public offering and that will be charged to stockholders’ equity upon the receipt of the offering proceeds or charged to expense if the offering is not completed. For the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 and the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company incurred deferred offering costs of approximately $81,000 (unaudited), $155,000 (unaudited), and $294,000, respectively, relating to expenses connected with the offering. The deferred offering costs are included in other assets in the consolidated balance sheets. Additionally, these costs are reviewed periodically by management for indications of impairment. For the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 (unaudited) and the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company did not have an impairment charge.
 
Asset Retirement Obligations
 
 
The Company follows the provisions of ASC 410-20, Asset Retirement Obligations. ASC 410-20 requires entities to record the fair value of obligations associated with the retirement of tangible long-lived assets in the period in which it is incurred. When the liability is initially recorded, the entity capitalizes a cost by increasing the carrying amount of the related long-lived asset. Over time, the liability is accreted to its present value each period, and the capitalized cost is depleted as part of the oil and natural gas property. Upon settlement of the liability, an entity either settles the obligation for its recorded amount or incurs a gain or loss upon settlement. The Company’s asset retirement obligations relate to the plugging, dismantlement, removal, site reclamation and similar activities of its oil and natural gas properties.
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
2. 
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Asset Retirement Obligations (continued)
 
Asset retirement obligations are estimated at the present value of expected future net cash flows and are discounted using the Company’s credit adjusted risk free rate. The Company uses unobservable inputs in the estimation of asset retirement obligations that include, but are not limited to, costs of labor, costs of materials, profits on costs of labor and materials, the effect of inflation on estimated costs, and the discount rate. Accordingly, asset retirement obligations are considered a Level 3 measurement under ASC 820. Additionally, because of the subjectivity of assumptions and the relatively long lives of the Company’s wells, the costs to ultimately retire the Company’s wells may vary significantly from prior estimates.
 
Put Option Liability
 
On the Roll-up Date, the Company entered into the Exchange Agreement which contained a contingent put option provision which allows the Put Option Holders to sell their shares to the Company, at their discretion, if the Company failed to register its shares with the SEC within six months of the closing the Exchange Agreement. On December 13, 2011, the six month period expired and the put option liability was recorded as an $18,400,000 current liability. At December 31, 2011, the put option is presented as a current liability in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet. This contingent put option provision is removed upon the completion of a successful registration with the SEC. Additionally, when the Exchange Agreement was executed, the equity interest held by the Put Option Holders was $14,700,000 (1,470,000 common shares); however, the put option feature requires payment of $18,400,000 if exercised by the Put Option Holders, at a redemption value of $12.52 per share. This beneficial option feature has been recorded as a $3,700,000 put option expense within the accompanying consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2011.
 
Effective July 20, 2012, the Put Option Holders agreed to waive the put option provision in exchange for an additional 707,336 common shares of Starboard.
 
Revenue Recognition and Natural Gas Imbalances
 
The Company utilizes the accrual method of accounting for natural gas and crude oil revenues, whereby revenues are recognized based on the Company’s net revenue interest in the wells. The Company will also enter into physical contract sale agreements through its normal operations.
 
Gas imbalances are accounted for using the sales method. Under this method, revenues are recognized based on actual volumes of oil and gas sold to purchasers. However, the Company has no history of significant gas imbalances.
 
Lease Operating Expenses
 
Lease operating expenses represent, pumpers’ salaries, saltwater disposal, ad valorem taxes, repairs and maintenance, expensed workovers and other operating expenses. Lease operating expenses are expensed as incurred.
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
2. 
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Sales-Based Taxes
 
The Company incurs severance tax on the sale of its production which is generated in Texas and Oklahoma. These taxes are reported on a gross basis and are included in production taxes within the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. Sales-based taxes for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 and for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 were approximately $153,000 (unaudited), $159,000 (unaudited), $279,000, and $206,000, respectively.
 
Income Taxes
 
The Company was a limited liability company until June 28, 2012. As such, income or loss of the Company prior to June 28, 2012, in general, was allocated to the members for inclusion in their income tax return. Accordingly, the Company has not provided for federal income taxes prior to June 28, 2012. The pro forma financial information at the bottom of consolidated statements of operations illustrates the Company’s pro forma income (loss), tax expense and net income (loss) per share by period had the Company been taxed as a C-corporation and the Company’s roll-up transaction occurred effective prior to the periods presented.
 
The Company complies with GAAP which requires an asset and liability approach to financial reporting for income taxes. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are computed for differences between the financial statement and tax basis of assets and liabilities that will result in future taxable or deductible amounts, based on enacted tax laws and rates applicable to the periods in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred income tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.
 
The Company is required to determine whether its tax positions are more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by the applicable taxing authority, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits of the position. The tax benefit recognized is measured as the largest amount of benefit that has a greater than fifty percent likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement with the relevant taxing authority. De-recognition of a tax benefit previously recognized results in the Company recording a tax liability that reduces ending retained earnings. Based on its analysis, the Company has determined that it has not incurred any liability for unrecognized tax benefits as of June 30, 2013 (unaudited), December 31, 2012 and 2011. The Company’s conclusions may be subject to review and adjustment at a later date based on factors including, but not limited to, on-going analyses of and changes to tax laws, regulations and interpretations thereof.
 
The Company recognizes interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense and other expenses, respectively. The Company incurred filing related penalties of approximately $7,000 for the year ended December 31, 2012. No interest expense or penalties have been recognized as of June 30, 2013 and 2012 and for the six month period then ended (unaudited) and as of December 31, 2011 and for the year then ended.
 
The Company files an income tax return in the U.S. federal jurisdiction, and may file income tax returns in various U.S. states and foreign jurisdictions. Generally, the Company is subject to income tax examinations by major taxing authorities since the commencement of operations.
 
The Company may be subject to potential examination by U.S. federal, U.S. states or foreign jurisdiction authorities in the areas of income taxes. These potential examinations may include questioning the timing and amount of deductions, the nexus of income among various tax jurisdictions and compliance with U.S. federal, U.S. state and foreign tax laws. The Company’s management does not expect that the total amount of unrecognized tax benefits will materially change over the next twelve months.
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
2. 
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Stock-Based Compensation and Equity Incentive Plans
 
The Company accounts for stock-based compensation in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation. The standard requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations for all share-based payment awards made to the Company’s employees, directors and consultants including employee stock options, non-vested equity stock and equity stock units, and employee stock purchase grants. Stock-based compensation expense is measured at the grant date, based on the estimated fair value of the award, reduced by an estimate of the annualized rate of expected forfeitures, and is recognized as an expense over the employees’ expected requisite service period, generally using the straight-line method. In addition, ASC 718 requires the benefits of tax deductions in excess of recognized compensation expense to be reported as a financing cash flow, rather than as an operating cash flow as prescribed under previous accounting rules.
 
The Company’s forfeiture rate represents the historical rate at which the Company’s stock-based awards were surrendered prior to vesting. ASC 718 requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised on a cumulative basis, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates.
 
During the six months ended June 30, 2013 and the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company incurred a stock based compensation expense of approximately $599,000 (unaudited) and $899,000, respectively and is included in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations in general and administrative expenses.
 
Net Income (loss) Per Common Share
 
Basic net income (loss) per common share is computed by dividing the net income (loss) attributable to stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net income per common share is calculated in the same manner, but also considers the impact to net income (loss) and common shares for the potential dilution from stock options, non-vested share appreciation rights and non-vested restricted shares. For the six month period ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 (unaudited) and for the year ended December 31, 2012, there were 349,650 potentially dilutive non-vested restricted shares. The potentially dilutive shares at June 30, 2013 and 2012 (unaudited) and December 31, 2012 are considered antidilutive and thus result in the basic net loss per common share equaling the diluted net loss per common share. For the year ended December 31, 2011, there were no potentially dilutive shares.
 
Additionally, net income (loss) per common share includes the shares held by the Put Option Holders (1,470,000 common shares) for the six month period ended June 30, 2012 (unaudited) and for the year ended December 31, 2011.
 
Use of Estimates
 
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
2. 
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)
 
Use of Estimates (continued)
 
The Company’s estimates of oil and natural gas reserves are, by necessity, projections based on geologic and engineering data, and there are uncertainties inherent in the interpretation of such data as well as the projection of future rates of production and the timing of development expenditures. Reserve engineering is a subjective process of estimating underground accumulations of natural gas and oil that are difficult to measure. The accuracy of any reserve estimate is a function of the quality of available data, engineering and geological interpretation and judgment. Estimates of economically recoverable natural gas and oil reserves and future net cash flows necessarily depend upon a number of variable factors and assumptions, such as historical production from the area compared with production from other producing areas, the assumed effect of regulations by governmental agencies, and assumptions governing future natural gas and oil prices, future operating costs, severance taxes, development costs and workover costs, all of which may in fact vary considerably from actual results. The future drilling costs associated with reserves assigned to proved undeveloped locations may ultimately increase to the extent that these reserves are later determined to be uneconomic. For these reasons, estimates of the economically recoverable quantities of expected natural gas and oil attributable to any particular group of properties, classifications of such reserves based on risk of recovery, and estimates of the future net cash flows may vary substantially. Any significant variance in the assumptions could materially affect the estimated quantity of the reserves, which could affect the carrying value of the Company’s oil and natural gas properties and/or the rate of depletion related to the oil and natural gas properties.
 
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
 
The Company qualifies as an “emerging growth company” pursuant to the provisions of the JOBS Act. Section 107 of the JOBS Act provides that an “emerging growth company” can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards. However, the Company has chosen to “opt out” of this extended transition period, and as a result, the Company will comply with new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for non-“emerging growth companies”. The Company’s decision to opt out of the extended transition period is irrevocable.
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
3. 
Fair Value Measurements

As of June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and December 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company had no assets which were measured at fair value.

The following tables present information about the Company’s liabilities measured at fair value as of June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and December 31, 2012 and 2011:

    Level 1     Level 2     Level 3    
Balance as of
June 30 ,
2013
 
   
(unaudited)
    (unaudited)     (unaudited)    
(unaudited)
 
Liabilities (at fair value):
                       
                         
Asset retirement obligations
  $       $       $ 2,325,220     $ 2,325,220  
Derivative liabilities (oil collar)
            56,548               56,548  
                                 
Total liabilities (at fair value)
  $       $ 56,548     $ 2,325,220     $ 2,381,768  

     
Level 1
     
Level 2
     
Level 3
   
Balance as of
December 31,
2012
 
Liabilities (at fair value):
                       
                         
Asset retirement obligations
  $       $       $ 2,271,999     $ 2,271,999  
Derivative liabilities (oil collar)
            159,369               159,369  
                                 
Total liabilities (at fair value)
  $       $ 159,369     $ 2,271,999     $ 2,431,368  

   
Level 1
   
Level 2
   
Level 3
   
Balance as of
December 31,
2011
 
Liabilities (at fair value):
                               
                                 
Asset retirement obligations
  $       $       $ 2,331,865     $ 2,331,865  
 
4. 
Acquisition of ImPetro Resources LLC

On the Roll-up Date, the Company acquired 100% of the member units of ImPetro by issuing 3,570,000 common shares and cash consideration of $1,150,000 in exchange for all of ImPetro’s outstanding member units and cancelation of certain notes payable. Through this acquisition, the Company acquired ImPetro’s various oil and natural gas working interests ranging from 15%-100%, net revenue interests ranging from 8%-79% and royalty interests ranging from 1%-4% in Atascosa, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Fayette, Frio, Gonzales and Lee Counties in the southern region of Texas. Additionally, the Company acquired field equipment, vehicles, office equipment, permits, and assumed various assets and liabilities as part of the purchase.

 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
4.
Acquisition of ImPetro Resources LLC (continued)

The consideration exchanged for assets was derived using the asset approach to calculate the asset’s, and related liabilities, fair-value shortly before the Roll-up Date and was completed to provide a return to the investors of the Company. Goodwill of approximately $960,000 was recognized as a result of this roll-up transaction and is calculated as the excess of the consideration transferred over the net assets recognized and represents the future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired that could not be individually identified and separately recognized. It specifically includes the expected synergies and other benefits the Company believes will result from the Company’s operational experience. The following table presents a summary of the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the Roll-up Date in accordance with ASC 805-10, Business Combinations:

Fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed
     
Cash
  $ 856,433  
Trade receivable
    326,361  
Joint interest receivable
    167,120  
Prepaid expenses
    76,455  
Proved oil and natural gas properties
    50,836,948  
Field equipment, vehicles, and office equipment
    132,659  
Other
    368,738  
    Goodwill
    959,681  
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
    (692,298 )
Joint interest revenue payable
    (765,750 )
Notes payable
    (41,735 )
Asset retirement obligations
    (2,399,568 )
Total fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, net
  $ 49,825,044  
         
Consideration transferred and fair value adjustment
       
Fair value of common stock issued (4)
  $ 35,700,000  
Cash payment to ImPetro members
    1,150,000  
Carrying value of ImPetro equity interest, note receivable, and related interest (5)
    5,995,171  
Fair value adjustment in a business combination acquired in stages (6)
    6,979,873  
Total consideration transferred and fair value adjustment
  $ 49,825,044  
 
(4)
3,570,000 common shares were issued at $10.00 per unit. The fair value of the shares were determined based on a private offering of shares at $10.00 per share on the Roll-up Date.
(5)
Prior to acquiring 100% of the member units of ImPetro, the Company held a 40% interest in ImPetro which was carried at cost and was adjusted for the Company’s proportionate share of their undistributed earnings or losses through the Roll-up Date. Additionally, the Company held a note receivable with related interest receivable which was forgiven in the acquisition.
(6)
The Company followed the provisions of ASC 805-10, Business Combinations, which requires the Company to record a gain or loss in the consolidated statement of operations as a result of remeasuring its prior equity interest at fair-value in a business combination acquired in stages.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
4.
Acquisition of ImPetro Resources LLC (continued)

Pro Forma Acquisition Information (unaudited)
 
Had the Company’s acquisition of ImPetro occurred effective January 1, 2011, the combined pro forma revenues and net income (loss) for the years ended December 31, 2011 would have been as follows:
 
   
Year Ended December 31, 2011
 
   
As Reported
   
ImPetro
   
Pro Forma
Adjustment
   
Total
 
                         
   Total revenues
  $ 4,898,438     $ 1,983,065     $       $ 6,881,503  
   Total expenses
    4,929,172       2,071,253               7,000,425  
   Other income (expense)
    3,412,882       (1,392,021 )     (2,247,050 )
(7)
  (226,189 )
   Net income (loss)
    3,382,148       (1,480,209 )     (2,247,050 )     (345,111 )
                                 
Basic and diluted loss per common share
      (0.03 )
 
These unaudited consolidated pro forma financial statements are provided for illustrative purposes and do not purport to represent what the Company's results would have been if such transactions had occurred on the above mentioned date. These statements were prepared based on GAAP. The use of estimates is required and actual results could differ from the estimates used. The Company believes the assumptions used provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects directly attributable to the Company’s acquisition of ImPetro.

(7)
To eliminate income from the Company’s equity investment in ImPetro, the gain from the ImPetro business combination acquired in stages, the effects of historical debt that is converted to equity at the Roll-up Date, the put option liability, and the going public delay expenses.
 
5. 
Roll-up Transaction

Starboard was formed on June 2, 2011, for the sole purpose of facilitating a roll-up transaction amongst the Common Controlled Entities and ImPetro. The roll-up transaction was subject to the Exchange Agreement, which required Giddings, Hunton and ASYM III to exchange substantially all of their assets and liabilities for 7,550,000 common shares of Starboard and required Starboard to perform a private placement of common stock at a price of at least $10.00 per share and receive net proceeds of at least $5,350,000 before placement costs. Through the private placement, Starboard issued 535,000 common shares at $10 per share, or $4,900,000 net of capital placement costs of $450,000, in June 2011. The Exchange Agreement also required ImPetro to exchange all of its member units for 3,570,000 common shares of Starboard and $1,150,000 of cash, which was distributed directly to the members of ImPetro. Additionally, Longview, Summerview and Giddings agreed to the cancellation of $11,000,000 in principal notes and working interest participation rights held by ImPetro.
 
 
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5.
Roll-up Transaction (continued)

Pro Forma Information (unaudited)

Had the Company’s roll-up transaction occurred on January 1, 2011, the combined pro forma revenue and net income (loss) for the year ended December 31, 2011 would have been as follows:
 
   
Year Ended December 31, 2011
 
   
 
As Reported
   
 
ImPetro
   
Pro Forma
Adjustment
   
 
Total
 
                         
   Total revenues
  $ 4,898,438     $ 1,983,065     $       $ 6,881,503  
   Total expenses
    4,929,172       2,071,253       (248,384 )
(8)
  6,752,041  
   Other income (expense)
    3,412,882       (1,392,021 )     (2,247,050 )
(9)
  (226,189 )
   Net income (loss)
    3,382,148       (1,480,209 )     (1,998,666 )     (96,727 )
                                 
Basic and diluted loss per common share
      (0.01 )
 
These unaudited consolidated pro forma financial statements are provided for illustrative purposes and do not purport to represent what the Company's results would have been if such transactions had occurred on the above mentioned date. These statements were prepared based on GAAP. The use of estimates is required and actual results could differ from the estimates used. The Company believes the assumptions used provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects directly attributable to the Company’s roll-up transaction.

(8)
To eliminate the management and performance fees charged by the Common Controlled Entities.
(9)  
To eliminate income from the Company’s equity investment in ImPetro, the gain from the ImPetro business combination acquired in stages, the effects of historical debt that is converted to equity at the Roll-up Date, the put option liability, and the going public delay expenses.
 
6. 
Oil and Natural Gas Properties and Other Equipment

The following table presents a summary of the Company’s oil and natural gas properties at June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and December 31, 2012 and 2011:
 
   
June 30,
   
December 31,
 
    2013    
2012
   
2011
 
Oil and natural gas properties
  (unaudited)              
                   
   Proved-developed producing properties
  $ 65,972,788     $ 60,972,994     $ 53,430,437  
   Proved-developed non producing properties
    1,316,064       1,060,181       1,045,532  
   Proved-undeveloped properties
    8,344,572       7,720,179       5,868,704  
   Unproved properties
    3,385,144       1,529,913       508,352  
   Less: Accumulated depletion
    (9,245,913 )     (6,729,395 )     (2,298,501 )
Total oil and natural gas properties, net of  accumulated depletion
  $  69,772,655     $  64,553,872     $  58,554,524  
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
6. 
Oil and Natural Gas Properties and Other Equipment (continued)

The following table presents a summary of the Company’s other equipment at June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and December 31, 2012 and 2011:

   
June 30,
   
December 31,
 
    2013    
2012
   
2011
 
Other equipment
  (unaudited)              
                   
   Field equipment
  $ 7,031     $ 7,031     $ 7,031  
   Vehicles
    179,179       179,179       113,938  
   Office equipment
    41,429       41,387       32,494  
   Less: Accumulated depreciation
    (67,483 )     (43,075 )     (20,317 )
Total other equipment, net of accumulated deprecation
  $  160,156     $  184,522     $  133,146  
 
7. 
Equity Investment in ImPetro Resources LLC

The Company previously held a 40% interest in ImPetro through the Roll-up Date. Prior to the Roll-up Date, the equity investment in ImPetro was carried at cost and was adjusted for the Company’s proportionate share of their undistributed earnings or losses through the Roll-up Date. On the Roll-up Date, the Company acquired the remaining 60% of ImPetro and has consolidated its results subsequent to the Roll-up Date. Additionally, the Company followed the provisions of ASC 805-10, Business Combinations, as described more fully in Note 4 of the consolidated notes to financial statements, which requires the Company to record a gain or loss in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations as a result of remeasuring its prior equity interest at fair-value in a business combination acquired in stages. As such, the Company recorded a gain of approximately $6,980,000 during the year ended December 31, 2011. On the Roll-up Date, the carrying value of the equity investment, note receivable and the related interest receivable were removed upon consolidation of ImPetro, which approximated $5,995,000 in the aggregate.
 
8. 
Note Receivable from ImPetro Resources LLC

On March 4, 2010, ImPetro issued a $4,500,000 principal note to Giddings. The note had at an 18% interest rate, a maturity date of December 31, 2012, and was collateralized by virtually all of ImPetro’s assets. Additionally, Giddings was assigned a 40% membership interest in ImPetro. At the date of issuance, the fair value of the equity investment was bifurcated from the fair value of the note receivable, as required under GAAP, with $2,800,000 being assigned to the equity investment and $1,700,000 to the note receivable. The $2,800,000 has been recorded as discount to the note receivable and was being amortized using the effective interest method to interest income in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations through the Roll-up Date, at which time the Company acquired the remaining 60% of ImPetro. On the Roll-up Date, the carrying value of the equity investment, note receivable and the related interest receivable were removed upon consolidation of ImPetro, which approximated $5,995,000 in the aggregate. Interest income from the note receivable for the year ended December 31, 2011 was approximately $613,000.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
9. 
Asset Retirement Obligations
 
The Company has recognized the fair value of its asset retirement obligations related to the future costs of plugging, abandonment, and remediation of oil and natural gas producing properties. The present value of the estimated asset retirement obligations has been capitalized as part of the carrying amount of the related oil and natural gas properties. The liability has been accreted to its present value as of the end of each period. At June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and December 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company evaluated 122 (unaudited), 122 and 128 wells, respectively, and has determined a range of abandonment dates between January 2013 and September 2059. The following table represents a reconciliation of the asset retirement obligations for the six months ended June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011:

   
Six Month Period Ended June 30,
   
Year Ended December 31,
 
    2013    
2012
   
2011
 
    (unaudited)              
                   
Asset retirement obligations, beginning of period
  $ 2,271,999     $ 2,331,865     $ 86,277  
Additions to asset retirement obligation
    21,615       44,305       2,432,961  
Liabilities settled during the period
    (47,807 )     (100,704 )     (201,206 )
Accretion of discount
    79,413       273,564       13,833  
Revision of estimate
            (277,031 )        
Asset retirement obligations, end of period
  $ 2,325,220     $ 2,271,999     $ 2,331,865  

For the year ended December 31, 2011, approximately $2,400,000 of the additions to the asset retirement obligation are the result of the assumed asset retirement obligations from the ImPetro acquisition.
 
10.
Put Option Liability and Going Public Delay Fee

On the Roll-up Date, the Company entered into the Exchange Agreement which contained a contingent put option provision which allows the Put Option Holders to sell their common shares to the Company, at their discretion, if the Company failed to register its shares with the SEC within six months of the closing the Exchange Agreement.  On December 13, 2011, the six month period expired and the put option liability was recorded as an $18,400,000 current liability.  At December 31, 2011, the put option is presented as a current liability in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet. This contingent put option provision is removed upon the completion of a successful registration with the SEC.  Additionally, when the Exchange Agreement was executed, the equity interest held by the Put Option Holders was $14,700,000; however, the put option feature requires payment of $18,400,000 if exercised by the Put Option Holders, at a redemption value of $12.52 per share.  This beneficial option feature has been recorded as a $3,700,000 put option expense within the accompanying consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2011.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
10. 
Put Option Liability and Going Public Delay Fee (continued)

Additionally, if the Company, for any reason, does not go public on or before that date that is one hundred fifty days after the Roll-up Date (the “Going Public Delay Date”), the Company shall pay to each applicable stockholder an aggregate amount equal to the product of (i) such stockholder’s allocation percentage multiplied by (ii) $60,715 (the “Going Public Delay Fee”) on the last business day of each calendar month, for each such calendar month following the Going Public Delay Date through and including the date of going public (the “Going Public Delay Period”). For any partial calendar months during the Going Public Delay Period, the Going Public Delay Fee shall be pro-rated appropriately. For the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 and for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company has incurred a penalty of approximately $364,000 (unaudited), $364,000 (unaudited), $729,000 and $101,000, respectively, which is currently included in accrued liabilities on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
 
Effective July 20, 2012, the Put Option Holders agreed to waive the put option provision in exchange for an additional 707,336 common shares.
 
11. 
Notes Payable

Vehicle Notes
 
On February 16, 2010, ImPetro purchased two vehicles and financed the vehicles with an auto financing company over a period of 48 months at a 4.84% and 7.5% interest rate. The Company assumed these notes when the Company acquired ImPetro on the Roll-up Date. The notes are collateralized by the vehicles. The total monthly payments, including interest, approximate $1,400. As of December 31, 2011, the Company owed approximately $33,000 on these notes, of which approximately $15,000 is considered a current liability.
 
During August and September 2012, the Company purchased four new vehicles and financed the vehicles with an auto financing company over a period of 66 to 72 months at interest rates ranging from 3.00% to 9.84%. As part of the purchase the Company traded in the two vehicles financed on February 16, 2010 and two additional vehicles. The total monthly payments, including interest, approximate $1,800. As of June 30, 2013, the Company owed approximately $97,000 (unaudited) on these notes, of which approximately $19,000 (unaudited) is considered a current liability as of June 30, 2013. As of December 31, 2012, the Company owed approximately $106,000 on these notes, of which approximately $18,000 is considered a current liability.
 
Credit Agreement
 
On July 26, 2012, the Company entered into a credit agreement (“Credit Agreement”) with a financial institution to borrow up to $5,000,000 at a current rate of 3.75% annum. The Credit Agreement was obtained to fund the development of the Company’s oil and natural gas properties. In November 2012, the borrowing based was increased to $7,000,000 while maintaining the same interest rate. At June 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, the Company had $10,000,000 (unaudited) and $3,920,000, respectively, in borrowings outstanding under the Credit Agreement.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
11. 
Notes Payable (continued)
 
Credit Agreement (continued)
 
The Credit Agreement currently provides for a borrowing base of $10,000,000, which is re-determined semi-annually on or prior to May 15 and November 15 and upon requested special redeterminations. Additionally, the borrowing base may be adjusted at the financial institutions discretion which is based in part upon external factors over which the Company has no control. If the re-determined borrowing base were to be less than outstanding borrowings under the Credit Agreement, the Company would be required to repay the deficit. The Company incurs a commitment fee of 0.5% on the unused portion of the credit facility or if less, the borrowing base. The Credit Agreement matures at July 26, 2015.
 
Loans under the Credit Agreement bear interest at the greater of: (1) the prime rate, the annual rate of interest announced by JPMorgan as its “prime rate” (3.25% at June 30, 2013), plus the applicable margin of 0.5% or (2) the floor rate of 3.75%.
 
The Credit Agreement is collateralized by the oil and natural gas properties and contains several restrictive covenants including, among others: (1) a requirement to maintain a current ratio, of not less than 1.0 to 1.0; (2) a maximum permitted ratio of debt to adjusted EBITDAX of not more than 4.0 to 1.0; (3) a maximum permitted ratio of adjusted EBITDAX to interest expense of not more than 3.0 to 1.0; and (4) a prohibition against incurring debt, subject to permitted exceptions. As of December 31, 2012, the Company was in compliance with all such covenants.
 
Future aggregate required principal payments, as of December 31, 2012 are as follows:

Year ending December 31,
     
2013
  $ 18,000  
2014
    19,000  
2015
    3,940,000  
2016
    20,000  
2017
    21,000  
Thereafter
    8,000  
Total future principal payments
  $ 4,026,000  

12. 
Stockholders’ Equity
 
Conversion to C-Corporation
 
On June 28, 2012, the Company converted from a Delaware limited liability company to a Delaware C-Corporation. The membership units outstanding as of June 28, 2012 were converted to common shares at a 1:1 ratio. The conversion to a C-Corporation has been retroactively applied throughout the consolidated financial statements.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
12. 
Stockholders’ Equity (continued)

Conversion to C-Corporation (continued)
 
Prior to June 28, 2012, at the end of each fiscal year of the Company, the net profits or losses were allocated to the capital accounts of the members based on the members’ ownership percentage of the Company, which is determined by taking the number of common shares held by the stockholder and dividing by the total issued and outstanding common shares (“Sharing Percentage”).
 
Preferred Shares
 
The Company is authorized to issue up to 10,000,000 preferred shares, par value $0.001 per share, with such designations, voting and other rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by the Company’s board of directors. No preferred shares were issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and as of December 31, 2012 and 2011.
 
Common Shares
 
The Company has a single class of common shares that have the same rights, preferences, limitations, and qualifications. The Company is authorized to issue up to 150,000,000 shares, par value $0.001 per share, in the aggregate and from time to time may increase the number of shares authorized.
 
On the Roll-up Date, the Company issued 7,550,000 common shares of Starboard to the Commonly Controlled Entities in exchange for substantially all of their assets and liabilities, which is reflected retroactively in the accompanying consolidated statements of changes in stockholders’ equity. The common shares were retroactively considered issued based on the date that the Commonly Controlled Entities issued equity interests. Additionally, 3,570,000 common shares of Starboard were issued to ImPetro on the Roll-up Date in consideration of the ImPetro acquisition (see Note 4).
 
13. 
Derivative Contracts, at Fair Value

In the normal course of business, the Company utilizes derivative contracts in connection with its oil and natural gas operations.  Derivative contracts are subject to additional risks that can result in additional losses.  The Company’s derivative activities and exposure to derivative contracts are classified by the following primary underlying risks of commodity price risk.  In addition to its primary underlying risks, the Company is also subject to additional counterparty risk due to inability of  its counterparties to meet the terms of their contracts.
 
Options
 
The Company is subject to commodity price risk in the normal course of pursuing its investment objectives.  The Company may enter into options to speculate on the price movements of the commodity underlying the option or for use as an economic hedge against oil and natural gas production.  Option contracts purchased give the Company the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell within a limited time, a commodity at a contracted price that may also be settled in cash, based on differentials between specified indices or prices.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
13. 
Derivative Contracts, at Fair Value (continued)

Options (continued)
For some OTC options, the Company may be exposed to counterparty risk from the potential that a seller of an option contract does not sell or purchase the underlying asset as agreed under the terms of the option contract. The maximum risk of loss from counterparty risk to the Company is the fair value of the contracts and the premiums paid to purchase its open option contracts. In these instances, the Company considers the credit risk of the intermediary counterparty to its option transactions in evaluating potential credit risk.
 
Collar Contracts
 
A collar is an option strategy that limits the range of possible positive or negative returns on an underlying commodity to a specific range based on the strike prices of the underlying commodities. The Company’s collar contracts are comprised of a purchased put option (the “Floor”) and a written call option (the “Ceiling”) on crude oil commodities. The current fair value of the collar contracts as of June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and as of December 31, 2012 are included in the derivative liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet.
 
Underlying Exposure
 
At June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and December 31, 2012, the Company’s derivative activities were composed of 1 outstanding collar contract that hedged oil prices from October 2012 to July 2014. The volumes and the related floor and celling prices for the collars, categorized by the primary underlying risk, are as follows:
 
Primary underlying risk

Commodity price
 
Volume (Bbl)
   
Floor
   
Ceiling
 
    Collars
                 
    Crude oil
                 
Jan – Dec 2013
    37,320     $ 73.00     $ 99.00  
Jan – July 2014
    14,280     $ 73.00     $ 99.00  

The Company did not hold any derivative contracts at December 31, 2011.

Impact of Derivatives on the Consolidated Balance Sheets and Consolidated Statement of Operations

The following tables identify the fair value amounts of derivative instruments included in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as derivative contracts, categorized by primary underlying risk.  Balances are presented on a gross basis, prior to the application of the impact of counterparty and collateral netting.  The following tables also identify the net loss amounts included in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations as loss from derivative contracts.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
13. 
Derivative Contracts, at Fair Value (continued)

Impact of Derivatives on the Consolidated Balance Sheets and Consolidated Statement of Operations (continued)

   
Six Months Ended June 30, 2013
 
    (unaudited)  
   
Derivative
Assets
   
Derivative
Liabilities
   
Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
   
Realized
Gain (Loss)
 
Primary underlying risk
    Commodity price
                       
          Collars (crude oil)
  $       $ 56,548     $ 102,821     $    

   
Year Ended December 31, 2012
 
   
Derivative
Assets
   
Derivative
Liabilities
   
Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
   
Realized
Gain (Loss)
 
Primary underlying risk
    Commodity price
                       
          Collars (crude oil)
  $       $ 159,369     $ (159,369 )   $    

   
Year Ended December 31, 2011
 
   
Derivative
Assets
   
Derivative
Liabilities
   
Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
   
Realized
Gain (Loss)
 
Primary underlying risk
    Commodity price
                       
          Put options
  $       $       $       $ (57,053 )

For the six months ended June 30, 2012 (unaudited), the Company had no realized or unrealized gains or losses on derivative contracts.
 
14. 
Stock Based Compensation and Conditional Performance Awards

On April 1, 2012, the Company entered into employment agreements (the “Employment Agreement”) which provided a restricted stock grant and a conditional performance award to key members of management.
 
The restricted stock grant of 349,650 shares had a grant date fair value of $10.00 per share and vests in full upon the earlier of an initial public offering (“IPO”) which includes the sale of shares to the public, a business combination whereas 50% or more of the voting power is transferred to the new owners, or March 1, 2015. During the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 and for the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company incurred a stock-based compensation expense of approximately $599,000 (unaudited), $300,000 (unaudited), and $899,000, respectively, related to the restricted stock grant, which is included in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations in general and administrative expenses. As of June 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, there was approximately $1,998,000 (unaudited) and $2,597,000, respectively, of unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to the non-vested restricted stock grant. At June 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, this unrecognized stock-based compensation is expected to be expensed on a straight-line basis over 20 (unaudited) and 26 months. As of June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and as of December 31, 2012, there have been no forfeitures associated with the restricted stock grant.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
14. 
Stock Based Compensation and Conditional Performance Awards (continued)

Additionally, the Employment Agreement provides for a conditional performance award where if an IPO occurs, the employee will receive: (1) a cash payment of 1% of the difference between the Company market capital and the book value at the time of the IPO, (2) common stock options to purchase 1.0% of the fully-diluted capital stock as of the IPO date and IPO price which will vest over a four year period and contain a cashless exercise, (3) common stock options to purchase 1.0% of the fully-diluted capital stock as of the 2nd anniversary of the IPO date at the closing price of the common stock on the 2nd anniversary date of the IPO and will vest six years after the grant and contain a cashless exercise.
 
15. 
Income Taxes
 
On June 28, 2012, Starboard converted from a Delaware limited liability company to a Delaware C-Corporation. The conversion resulted in a change in the Company’s tax status from nontaxable to taxable for federal and state income tax purposes. Income (loss) from June 28, 2012 and forward is considered taxable. For the six months ended June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and for the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company estimated that its current and deferred tax provision was as follows:
 
   
June 30,
2013
   
December 31,
2012
 
Current taxes:
  (unaudited)        
Federal
  $       $    
State
            66,117  
              66,117  
Deferred taxes:
               
Federal
    (205,339 )     14,818,045  
State
    16,038       454,463  
      (189,301 )     15,272,508  
Total current and deferred taxes
  $ (189,301 )   $ 15,338,625  

A reconciliation of income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate and the reported effective tax rate on income for the six months ended June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and for the year ended December 31, 2012 are as follows:

   
June 30,
2013
   
December 31,
2012
 
      (unaudited)          
                 
Income tax provision calculated using the federal statutory income tax rate (10)
  $ (326,186 )   $ (760,086 )
State income taxes, net of federal income taxes (10)
    (57,562 )     (122,772 )
Additional expense due to LLC to C-Corporation conversion (11)
            15,496,018  
Permanent differences  and other
    194,447       725,465  
Total income tax expense (benefit)
  $ (189,301 )   $ 15,338,625  

(10)  
Prior to June 28, 2012, the Company's tax liability flowed to the members of the Company.
(11)
Under ASC 740, Income Taxes, when an entity has a change in tax status from non-taxable to taxable, the entity is required to recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities associated with the initial temporary tax differences at the time of the change in tax status. The recognition of initial temporary differences is recorded in income from continuing operations.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
15. 
Income Taxes (continued)

Deferred income taxes arise from temporary differences in the recognition of certain items for income tax and financial reporting purposes. The approximate tax effects of significant temporary differences which comprise the deferred tax assets and liabilities at June 30, 2013 (unaudited) and December 31, 2012 are as follows:

   
June 30,
2013
   
December 31,
2012
 
    (unaudited)        
Deferred tax assets
           
Federal and state net operating loss carryforwards
  $ 3,518,981     $ 1,608,834  
Derivatives
    20,257       57,186  
Stock-based compensation
    774,793       322,622  
Asset retirement obligations
    536,805       757,072  
Total deferred tax assets
    4,851,907       2,745,714  
                 
Deferred tax liabilities:
               
Oil and natural gas properties and other equipment
    (19,590,901 )     (17,673,862 )
Goodwill
    (343,784 )     (344,360 )
Total deferred tax liabilities
    (19,934,685 )     (18,018,222 )
Total net deferred tax liability
  $ (15,082,778 )   $ (15,272,508 )

At June 30, 2013 (unaudited), the Company has net operating losses as follows:

   
Amount
 
Expiration
Net operating losses:
       
Federal
  $ 10,624,044  
Dec. 2032 to 2033
State
    1,643,052  
Dec. 2032 to 2033

At December 31, 2012, the Company has net operating losses as follows:

   
Amount
 
Expiration
Net operating losses:
       
Federal
  $ 4,857,181  
December 2032
State
       
 
 
16.
Related Party Transactions

Related Party Receivables and Payables 

The Company borrowed cash and had operating expenses paid on their behalf by members of management and affiliates of management during the year ended December 31, 2011 at 0% interest for periods less than a year.  These transactions were incurred to provide the Company with positive cash flows throughout the year due to timing of revenues and expenses.  As of December 31, 2011 the Company did not owe any amounts to the related parties. During the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company did not borrow or owe any amounts to the related parties.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
16.
Related Party Transactions (continued)

Related Party Note Payable
 
In May 2012, the Company issued a $909,090 promissory note due on May 1, 2013 to a significant stockholder of the Company. The note carried an interest rate of 10.0% per annum and was sold for approximately $789,000, net of debt issuance costs of approximately $11,000. The Company opted to repay the note and the related interest in July 2012, which allowed the Company to cancel the note for cash consideration of $800,000 or 88% of the face value. Interest expense from the note payable for the year ended December 31, 2012 was approximately $18,000.
 
Related Party Credit Agreement (unaudited)
 
On March 29, 2013, the Company entered a credit agreement with SOSventures, LLC providing for a term loan through February 16, 2016 in an amount up to $10,000,000 at a 17.00% interest rate through March 29, 2014 and 22.00% interest rate thereafter. The loan under this agreement will be secured by a second lien on the Company’s assets. The Company may not incur further indebtedness beyond this loan and the Credit Agreement without the consent of SOS Ventures, until such time as the SOS Ventures loan is fully repaid. As of June 30, 2013, the Company has not yet borrowed any funds under this credit agreement.
 
Transactions with Members of Management
 
During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company rented drilling pipe from a company that is owned by members of Company management. For the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company incurred approximately $61,000 in costs capitalized into oil and natural gas properties. At December 31, 2011, the Company owed approximately $20,000 to this related party. The payable balance is presented as part of accounts payable and accrued liabilities on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Subsequent to December 31, 2011, the Company has not utilized this vendor.
 
Management Fees and Performance Reallocation
 
Through the Roll-up Date, the Common Controlled Entities incurred a management fee, calculated and payable annually in advance, equal to 2.00% of the greater of the total capital commitments or total capital contributions determined as of the beginning of each calendar quarter. The management fee was payable to the management company of the Common Controlled Entities. For the year ended December 31, 2011, the Common Controlled Entities incurred approximately $138,000 in management fees.
 
Through the Roll-up Date and subject to certain limitations, generally 20% of the interest income allocated to the Common Controlled Entities was reallocated to management of the Common Controlled Entities.
 
Related Party Participation Rights
 
The Company provides participation rights to certain related parties, which given these related parties the ability to be direct working interest owners in the Company’s drilling activities.
 
Related Party Overriding Royalty Interest Purchase
 
On January 20, 2012, the Company agreed to reacquire overriding royalty interests (“ORRI”) in oil and natural gas wells the Company currently operates, from a related party, for cash consideration of $700,000.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
17.
Commitment and Contingencies
 
Legal
 
From time-to-time, the Company may become subject to proceedings, lawsuits and other claims in the ordinary course of business including proceedings related to environmental and other matters. Such matters are subject to many uncertainties, and outcomes are not predictable with assurance. The Company is unaware of any claim or lawsuit as of December 31, 2011.
 
As of December 31, 2012, the Company was subject to litigation filed in Connecticut Superior Court in regards to 10,185,000 of the Company’s common shares. The only relief sought against the Company by the plaintiffs relate to the distribution of the Company’s shares. The Company agreed to a preliminary injunction directing the Company to not deliver common stock certificates to the defendants.
 
The Company is subject to various possible contingencies that arise primarily from interpretation of federal and state laws and regulations affecting the oil and natural gas industry. Such contingencies include differing interpretations as to the prices at which oil and natural gas sales may be made, the prices at which royalty owners may be paid for production from their leases, environmental issues and other matters. Although management believes that it has complied with the various laws and regulations, administrative rulings and interpretations thereof, adjustments could be required as new interpretations and regulations are issued. In addition, environmental matters are subject to regulation by various federal and state agencies.
 
Office Lease
 
The Company leases its primary office space under an operating lease which expires in 2015. Lease expense was approximately $90,000 (unaudited) for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and approximately $50,000 (unaudited) for the six months ended June 30, 2012. Lease expense was approximately $132,000 for the year ended December 31, 2012 and approximately $59,000 for the year ended December 31, 2011.
 
Aggregate future minimum annual rental payments in the years subsequent to December 31, 2012 are as follows:
 
Year ending December 31,
     
2013
  $ 126,000  
2014
    101,000  
2015
    51,000  
Total future minimum rental payments
  $ 278,000  
 
Employment Contracts
 
The Company has entered into employment contracts with its CEO, COO, and controller effective April 1, 2012 through March 2015 that provides for a minimum annual salary, restricted stock grants, and incentives based on the Company’s attainment of a business combination or initial public offering.
 
Aggregate future minimum commitments, excluding incentives and restricted stock grants, in the years subsequent to December 31, 2012 are as follows:
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
17.
Commitment and Contingencies (continued)

Employment Contracts (continued)

Year ending December 31,
     
2013
  $ 453,000  
2014
    453,000  
2015
    113,000  
    Total future minimum employment contract payments
  $ 1,019,000  
 
18.
Risk Concentrations
 
 
Fore the six months ended June 30, 2013 (unaudited), revenues from the Company’s  93 producing wells ranged from approximately 0.01% to 10.57% of total revenues and for the year ended December 31, 2012, revenues from the Company’s 88 producing wells ranged from approximately 0.02% to 19.20% of total revenues.  These wells are all located in the southern region of Texas and central Oklahoma, with the Texas wells operated by the Company and the Oklahoma wells operated by one outside operator.

For the year ended December 31, 2012, the oil and natural gas produced by the Company is sold and marketed to six purchasers. Oil sales to two purchasers accounted for 100% of the oil sales, one purchaser accounted for approximately 96.2% and the other purchaser accounted for approximately 3.8%. Natural gas sales to two purchasers accounted for 98.3% of the natural gas sales, one purchaser accounted for approximately 63.8% and the other purchaser accounted for approximately 34.5%. Natural gas liquid sales to one purchaser accounted for 100% of the natural gas liquids sales. Accordingly, the Company’s entire trade receivable balance at December 31, 2012 was comprised of amounts due from its six purchasers.
 
19.
Subsequent Events

On June 27, 2013, the Company entered into a senior secured credit facility from Independent Bank, providing for a $100.0 million revolving credit facility, subject to scheduled or elective collateral borrowing base redeterminations based on our oil and natural gas reserves.  Effective July 2, 2013, the Company refinanced all outstanding amounts of the existing Credit Agreement into this credit facility. The credit facility matures on June 1, 2016.  The current borrowing base is $13.0 million. The outstanding borrowings bear interest at a rate that is currently based on the prime plus 0.0% with a 4.00% floor.  The Company also must pay an unused commitment fee of 0.5% per year on the undrawn amount of the borrowing base.

On July 25, 2013, the Company amended its credit agreement with SOSventures, LLC providing for a term loan through February 1, 2016 in an amount up to $10,000,000 at a 17.00% interest rate through May 29, 2014 and 22.00% interest rate thereafter.
 
 
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SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

Presented in accordance with
FASB ASC Topic 932, Extractive Activities - Oil and Gas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited)

The following tables set forth supplementary disclosures for oil and gas producing activities in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 932, Extractive Activities - Oil and Gas. These supplemental schedules include the amounts of the Company and its proportionate share of its equity investment in ImPetro, through the Roll-up Date.

Capitalized Costs

The following table presents a summary of the Company’s oil and natural gas properties at December 31, 2012 and 2011:

 
 
2012
   
2011
 
Oil and natural gas properties
           
    Proved-developed producing properties
  $ 60,972,994     $ 53,430,437  
    Proved-developed non producing properties
    1,060,181       1,045,532  
    Proved-undeveloped properties
    7,720,179       5,868,704  
    Unproved properties
    1,529,913       508,352  
    Less: Accumulated depletion
    (6,729,395 )     (2,298,501 )
Total oil and natural gas properties, net of  accumulated depletion
  $ 64,553,872     $ 58,554,524  

Costs Incurred
 
The following table summarizes costs incurred in oil and natural gas property acquisition, exploration, and development activities. Property acquisition costs as those incurred to purchase lease or otherwise acquire property, including both undeveloped leasehold and the purchase of reserves in place. Exploration costs include costs of identifying areas that may warrant examination and examining specific areas that are considered to have prospects containing oil and natural gas reserves, including costs of drilling exploratory wells, geological and geophysical costs, and carrying costs on undeveloped properties. Development costs are incurred to obtain access to proved reserves, including the cost of drilling development wells, and to provide facilities for extracting, treating, gathering and storing oil and natural gas. Additionally, costs incurred also include new asset retirement obligations established. Asset retirement obligations included in the tables below in the as reported columns for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 were approximately $44,000 and $2,433,000, respectively
 
Costs incurred (capitalized and charged to expense) in oil and natural gas activities for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 were as follows:

   
Year ended
December 31,
2012
 
 
Acquisitions of proved properties
  $ 700,000  
Exploration
    50,444  
Development
    10,064,912  
Total costs incurred
  $ 10,815,356  
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited) (continued)

Costs Incurred (continued)

   
Year ended December 31, 2011
 
   
 
As Reported(12)
   
Equity
Investment(13)
 
             
Acquisitions of proved properties
  $ 50,836,948     $    
Exploration
    72,924       25,175  
Development
    6,279,033       653,460  
Total costs incurred
  $ 57,188,905     $ 678,635  
 
(12)
Amounts represent those of the Common Controlled Entities through the Roll-up Date.
(13)  
Amounts represent those of ImPetro through the Roll-up Date.

Oil and Natural Gas Operating Results

Results of operations from oil and natural gas producing activities for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, excluding Company overhead and interest costs, were as follows:

   
Year ended
December 31,
2012
 
 
Oil, natural gas and related product sales
  $ 12,954,381  
Lease operating costs
    (2,897,214 )
Production taxes
    (279,037 )
Exploration costs
    (50,444 )
Depletion
    (4,583,680 )
Results of operations from oil and natural gas producing activities
  $ 5,144,006  

   
Year ended December 31, 2011
 
   
As Reported(12)
   
Equity
Investment(13)
   
Total
 
 
Oil, natural gas and related product sales
  $ 4,898,438     $ 793,226     $ 5,691,664  
Lease operating costs
    (1,603,184 )     (385,911 )     (1,989,095 )
Production taxes
    (206,303 )     (23,764 )     (230,067 )
Exploration costs
    (72,924 )     (25,175 )     (98,099 )
Depletion
    (1,624,672 )     (230,456 )     (1,855,128 )
Results of operations from oil and natural gas producing activities
  $  1,391,355     $  127,920     $  1,519,275  
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited) (continued)

Proved Reserves Methodology

The Company’s estimated proved reserves, as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, are made in accordance with the SEC’s final rule, Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting, which amended Rule 4-10 of Regulation S-X (the “Final Rule”). As defined by the Final Rule, proved reserves are those quantities of oil and natural gas, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible in future years from known reservoirs under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and government regulations. Projects to extract the hydrocarbons must have commenced or an operator must be reasonably certain that it will commence the projects within a reasonable time. In addition, there must exist, or there must be a reasonable expectation that there will exist, the legal right to produce or a revenue interest in the production, installed means of delivering oil and gas or related substances to market, and all permits and financing required to implement the projects. Further requirements for assignment of estimated proved reserves include the following:

The area of a reservoir considered proved includes (A) that portion delineated by drilling and defined by natural gas, oil, and/or water contacts, if any; and (B) adjacent undrilled portions of the reservoir that can, with reasonable certainty, be judged to be continuous with it and to contain economically producible oil or gas on the basis of available geoscience and engineering data. In the absence of data on fluid contacts, proved quantities in a reservoir are limited by the lowest known hydrocarbons and highest known oil seen in well penetrations unless geoscience, engineering, or performance data and reliable technology establishes a lower or higher contact with reasonable certainty. Reliable technologies are any grouping of one or more technologies (including computational methods) that have been field-tested and have been demonstrated to provide reasonably certain results with consistency and repeatability in the formation being evaluated or in an analogous formation.
 
Reserves which can be produced economically through applications of improved recovery techniques (including, but not limited to fluid injections) are included in the proved classification when successful testing by a pilot project in an area of the reservoir with properties no more favorable than in the reservoir as a whole, the operation of an installed program in the reservoir or an analogous reservoir, and other evidence using reliable technology establishes the reasonable certainty of the engineering analysis on which the project or program was based.
 
Existing economic conditions include prices and costs at which economic producibility from a reservoir is to be determined. The prices used are the average crude oil and natural gas prices during the twelve month period prior to the ending date of the period covered by the report, determined as an unweighted arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month price for each month within such period, unless prices are defined by contractual arrangements, excluding escalations based upon future conditions.

Reserves engineering is a subjective process of estimating underground accumulations of crude oil, condensate, natural gas, and natural gas liquids that cannot be measured in an exact manner. The accuracy of any reserves estimate is a function of the quality of available date and of engineering and geological interpretation and judgment. The reserves actually recovered, the timing of production of those reserves, as well as operating costs and the amount and timing of development expenditures may be substantially different from original estimates. Revisions result primarily from new information obtained from development drilling, production history, field tests, and data analysis and from changes in economic factors including expectation and assumptions as to availability of financing for development projects.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited) (continued)

Reserve Quantity Information
 
The following table presents the Company’s estimate of its proved oil and gas reserves all of which are located in the United States. The estimates have been prepared with the assistance of Forrest A. Garb & Associates, Inc., an independent petroleum reservoir engineering firm. Oil reserves, which include condensate and natural gas liquids, are stated in barrels and gas reserves are stated in thousands of cubic feet.

   
As Reported(12)
   
Equity Investment(13)
   
Total
 
PROVED-DEVELOPED AND UNDEVELOPED RESERVES
 
Crude Oil
(Bbl)
   
Natural
Gas (Mcf)
   
Crude Oil
(Bbl)
   
Natural
Gas (Mcf)
   
Crude Oil
(Bbl)
   
Natural
Gas (Mcf)
 
                     
December 31, 2010
    966,540       1,832,010       548,000       2,015,348       1,514,540       3,847,358  
Revisions of previous estimates
    492,210       1,935,552       21,983       33,017       514,193       1,966,569  
Extensions and discoveries
    511,837       646,974       764       3,996       512,601       650,970  
Acquisitions of reserves
    1,409,529       5,087,411                       1,409,529       5,087,411  
Sales of reserves
                    (563,812 )     (2,034,964 )     (563,812 )     (2,034,964 )
Production
    (43,596 )     (129,527 )     (6,935 )     (17,397 )     (50,531 )     (146,924 )
December 31, 2011
    3,336,520       9,372,420                       3,336,520       9,372,420  
Revisions of previous estimates
    (760,571 )     171,497                       (760,571 )     171,497  
Extensions and discoveries
    1,037,240       344,575                       1,037,240       344,575  
Acquisitions of reserves
    69       162                       69       162  
Sales of reserves
                                               
Production
    (115,398 )     (442,004 )                     (115,398 )     (442,004 )
December 31, 2012
    3,497,860       9,446,650                       3,497,860       9,446,650  
                                                 
PROVED DEVELOPED RESERVES
                         
December 31, 2012
    426,180       2,326,440                       426,180       2,326,440  
December 31, 2011
    491,890       1,368,550                       491,890       1,368,550  
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited) (continued)

Reserve Quantity Information (continued)

The following table presents the Company’s changes in proved undeveloped reserves.

   
As Reported(12)
   
Equity Investment(13)
   
Total
 
PROVED UNDEVELOPED RESERVES
 
Crude Oil
(Bbl)
   
Natural
Gas (Mcf)
   
Crude Oil
(Bbl)
   
Natural
Gas (Mcf)
   
Crude Oil
(Bbl)
   
Natural
Gas (Mcf)
 
                     
December 31, 2010
    778,580       1,618,370       450,160       1,639,648       1,228,740       3,258,018  
Revisions of previous estimates
    553,871       1,828,065       6,269       13,644       553,871       1,841,709  
Extensions and discoveries
    456,807       477,744                       456,807       477,744  
Acquisitions of reserves
    1,141,072       4,133,231                       1,141,072       4,133,231  
Sales of reserves
                    (456,429 )     (1,653,292 )     (456,429 )     (1,653,292 )
Transfer to developed
    (85,700 )     (53,540 )                     (85,700 )     (53,540 )
December 31, 2011
    2,844,630       8,003,860                       2,844,630       8,003,860  
Revisions of previous estimates
    (706,809 )     (906,873 )                     (706,809 )     (906,873 )
Extensions and discoveries
    966,558       251,180                       966,558       251,180  
Acquisitions of reserves
                                               
Sales of reserves
                                               
Transfer to developed
    (32,699 )     (227,967 )                     (32,699 )     (227,967 )
December 31, 2012
    3,071,680       7,120,210                       3,071,680       7,120,210  

Approximately $3,092,000 was spent during 2012 related to proved undeveloped reserves that were transferred to proved developed reserves. Estimated future development costs relating to the development of proved undeveloped reserves are projected to be approximately $38 million for 2013, $34 million for 2014, and $8 million for 2015. All proved undeveloped drilling locations are scheduled to be drilled prior to the end of 2017.
 
Future cash flows are computed by applying a first-day-of-the-month 12-month average price of natural gas (Henry Hub) and oil (West Texas Intermediate) to year end quantities of proved natural gas and oil reserves. Future operating expenses and development costs are computed primarily by the Company's petroleum engineers by estimating the expenditures to be incurred in developing and producing the Company’s proved natural gas and oil reserves at the end of the year, based on year end costs and assuming continuation of existing economic conditions. For the year ended December 31, 2012, the oil and natural gas prices were applied at $94.68/Bbl and $2.76/MMBtu, respectively, in the standardized measure. For the year ended December 31, 2011, the oil and natural gas prices were applied at $95.84/Bbl and $4.15/MMBtu, respectively, in the standardized measure.
 
Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flow and Changes Therein Relating to Proved Oil and Gas Reserves
 
The following tables, which presents a standardized measure of discounted future cash flows and changes therein relating to proved oil and gas reserves as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, is presented pursuant to ASC 932. In computing this data, assumptions other than those required by the Financial Accounting Standards Board could produce different results. Accordingly, the data should not be construed as being representative of the fair market value of the Company’s proved oil and gas reserves.
 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited) (continued)

Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flow and Changes Therein Relating to Proved Oil and Gas Reserves (continued)
 
A discount factor of 10 percent was used to reflect the timing of future net cash flows. The standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows is not intended to represent the replacement costs or fair value of the Company's natural gas and oil properties. An estimate of fair value would take into account, among other things, the recovery of reserves not presently classified as proved, anticipated future changes in prices and costs, and a discount factor more representative of time value of money and the risks inherent in reserve estimates of natural gas and oil producing operations. There have been no estimates for future plugging and abandonment costs.
 
Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows as of December 31, 2012

Future cash inflows
  $ 372,354,360  
Less:  Future production costs
    (76,379,540 )
          Future development costs
    (84,606,420 )
          Future income tax expense
    (67,749,782 )
Future net cash flows
    143,618,618  
10% discount factor
    (58,152,111 )
Standardized measure of discounted future   net cash inflows
  $ 85,466,507  
Estimated future development cost anticipated
       
   for following two years on existing properties
  $ 73,632,793  

Changes in Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows for the Year Ended December 31, 2012

Beginning of year
  $ 96,935,872  
    Sales of oil and natural gas, net of production costs
    (9,778,130 )
    Net changes in prices and production costs
    (29,051,895 )
    Development costs incurred during the year
    3,748,385  
    Changes in future development costs
    8,004,694  
    Extensions, discoveries, and improved recoveries
    22,912,434  
    Revisions of previous quantity estimates
    (22,802,261 )
    Accretion of discount
    13,467,746  
    Net change in income taxes
    1,427,642  
    Purchases and sale of mineral interests
    700,000  
    Timing and other
    (97,980 )
End of year
  $ 85,466,507  
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited) (continued)

Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flow and Changes Therein Relating to Proved Oil and Gas Reserves (continued)

Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows as of December 31, 2011

   
Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows as of December 31, 2011
 
   
As Reported(12)
   
Equity Investment(13)
   
Total
 
Future cash inflows
  $ 373,147,400     $       $ 373,147,400  
Less:  Future production costs
    (68,043,390 )             (68,043,390 )
          Future development costs
    (58,544,420 )             (58,544,420 )
          Future income tax expense
    (63,061,605 )             (63,061,605 )
Future net cash flows
    183,497,985               183,497,985  
10% discount factor
    (86,562,114 )             (86,562,114 )
Standardized measure of discounted future   net cash inflows
  $ 96,935,871     $       $ 96,935,871  
Estimated future development cost anticipated
                       
   for following two years on existing properties
  $ 33,060,600     $       $ 33,060,600  
 
Changes in Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows for the Year Ended December 31, 2011

   
Changes in Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net
Cash Flows For the Year Ended December 31, 2011
 
   
As Reported(12)
   
Equity Investment(13)
   
Total
 
Beginning of year
  $ 22,419,906     $ 12,139,384     $ 34,559,290  
    Sales of oil and natural gas, net of production costs
    (3,088,951 )     (358,376 )     (3,447,327 )
    Net changes in prices and production costs
    15,783,148       4,266,534       20,049,682  
    Development costs incurred during the year
    6,340,475       94,895       6,435,370  
    Changes in future development costs
    (21,250,762 )     225,899       (21,024,863 )
    Extensions, discoveries, and improved recoveries
    28,742,962       36,152       28,779,114  
    Revisions of previous quantity estimates
    4,544,550       458,900       5,003,450  
    Accretion of discount
    3,035,761       649,343       3,685,104  
    Net change in income taxes
    (11,028,853 )     (1,147,850 )     (12,176,703 )
    Purchases and sale of mineral interests
    50,836,938       (14,490,489 )     36,346,449  
    Timing and other
    600,697       (1,874,392 )     (1,273,695 )
End of year
  $ 96,935,871     $       $ 96,935,871  
 
 
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STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited) (continued)
 
Significant Changes in Reserves for the Year Ended December 31, 2012
 
Net Changes in Prices and Production Costs: For the year ended December 31, 2012, the oil and natural gas prices were applied at $94.68/Bbl and $2.76/MMBtu, respectively, in the standardized measure. At December 31, 2011, the oil and natural gas prices were applied at $95.84/Bbl and $4.15/MMBtu, respectively, in the standardized measure. Additionally, estimated future production costs per barrel of oil equivalent (BOE) increased from December 31, 2011 to 2012. The decrease in oil and natural gas prices and increase in production costs resulted in a significant decrease in future expected cash flows and reserves.
 
Extensions, Discoveries, and Improved Recoveries: During the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company had extensions and discoveries of 1,037,240 Bbl of crude oil and 344,575 Mcf of natural gas from primarily newly identified drilling opportunities in the Eaglebine and Hunton oil and natural gas reservoirs.
 
Revisions of Previous Quantity Estimates: During the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company adjusted its previous estimates by (760,571) Bbl of crude oil and 171,497 Mcf of natural gas from primarily revisions of proved undeveloped reserves that the Company currently has interests in due to decreases in future forecasted prices of oil and natural gas and increases in estimated production costs.
 
Accretion of Discount: Accretion during the year ended December 31, 2012 was the result of accretion of the future net revenues at a standard rate of 10% due to the passage of time.
 
Significant Changes in Reserves for the Year Ended December 31, 2011
 
Net Changes in Prices and Production Costs: For the year ended December 31, 2011, the oil and natural gas prices were applied at $95.84/Bbl and $4.15/MMBtu, respectively, in the standardized measure. At December 31, 2010, the oil and natural gas prices were applied at $79.79/Bbl and $4.39/MMBtu, respectively, in the standardized measure. The increase in oil and natural gas resulted in a significant increase in future expected cash flows and reserves.
 
Purchases and Sale of Mineral Interests: During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company acquired 1,409,529 Bbl of crude oil and 5,087,411 Mcf of natural gas through the ImPetro acquisition.
 
Extensions, Discoveries, and Improved Recoveries: During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company had extensions and discoveries of 512,601 Bbl of crude oil and 650,970 Mcf of natural gas from primarily newly identified drilling opportunities in oil and natural gas fields that the Company currently operates in.
 
Changes in Future Development Costs and Income Taxes: During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company significantly increased its reserves through revision of previous quantity estimates, purchases of mineral interests, and extensions and discoveries. As such, this increase in proven undeveloped properties requires additional future development expenditures, most of which is expected to take place over the next five years as part of the Company’s current drilling and development plan and will increase taxable income.
 
 
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PART II—INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
 
ITEM 13.  OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.
The following table sets forth the fees and expenses in connection with the issuance and distribution of the securities being registered hereunder. Except for the SEC registration fee and FINRA filing fee, all amounts are estimates.
 
SEC registration fee
  
$
6,745
  
FINRA filing fee
  
 
*
  
Exchange listing fee
  
 
*
  
Accounting fees and expenses
  
 
*
  
Legal fees and expenses
  
 
*
  
Blue Sky fees and expenses (including counsel fees)
  
 
*
  
Printing and Engraving expenses
  
 
*
  
Transfer Agent and Registrar fees and expenses
  
 
*
  
Miscellaneous expenses
  
 
*
  
 
  
     
Total
  
$
*
  
_____________________
*
To be completed by amendment.
 
ITEM 14. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
 
Section 145(a) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) empowers a corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person’s conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that the person’s conduct was unlawful.

Section 145(b) of the DGCL empowers a corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

Section 145(c) of the DGCL provides that to the extent that a present or former director or officer of a corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 145, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith.
 
 
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Section 145(d) of the DGCL provides that any indemnification under subsections (a) and (b) of Section 145 (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or former director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because the person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 145. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination, (1) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (2) by a committee of such directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, or (3) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (4) by the stockholders.

Section 145(e) of the DGCL provides that expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by an officer or director in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as authorized in Section 145. Such expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by former directors and officers or other employees and agents may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the corporation deems appropriate.

Section 145(f) of the DGCL provides that the indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the other subsections of Section 145 shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office.

Section 145(g) of the DGCL provides that a corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under Section 145.

Section 145(j) of the DGCL provides that the indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, Section 145 shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

Further, Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL provides that a certificate of incorporation may contain a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a director to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that such provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director: (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders; (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law; (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. In accordance with Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL, our Restated Certificate of Incorporation contains a provision that generally eliminates the personal liability of directors for monetary damages for breaches of their fiduciary duty, subject to the limitations of Section 102(b)(7).

Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL permits a corporation, in its certificate of incorporation, to limit or eliminate, subject to certain statutory limitations, the liability of directors to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breaches of fiduciary duty, except for liability:

  
for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the company or its stockholders;
  
for acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
  
in respect of certain unlawful dividend payments or stock redemptions or repurchases; and
  
for any transaction from which the director derives an improper personal benefit.

In accordance with Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL, Section 9.1 of our certificate of incorporation provides that that no director shall be personally liable to us or any of our stockholders for monetary damages resulting from breaches of their fiduciary duty as directors, except to the extent such limitation on or exemption from liability is not permitted under the DGCL. The effect of this provision of our certificate of incorporation is to eliminate our rights and those of our stockholders (through stockholders’ derivative suits on our behalf) to recover monetary damages against a director for breach of the fiduciary duty of care as a director, including breaches resulting from negligent or grossly negligent behavior, except as restricted by Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL. However, this provision does not limit or eliminate our rights or the rights of any stockholder to seek non-monetary relief, such as an injunction or rescission, in the event of a breach of a director’s duty of care.
 
 
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If the DGCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the liability of directors, then, in accordance with our certificate of incorporation, the liability of our directors to us or our stockholders will be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL, as so amended. Any repeal or amendment of provisions of our certificate of incorporation limiting or eliminating the liability of directors, whether by our stockholders or by changes in law, or the adoption of any other provisions inconsistent therewith, will (unless otherwise required by law) be prospective only, except to the extent such amendment or change in law permits us to further limit or eliminate the liability of directors on a retroactive basis.

Furthermore, our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws provide for (i) indemnification of our directors, officers and employees and agents (to the extent deemed appropriate by the board of directors) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law; (ii) the right of our directors, officers, employees and agents to be paid or reimbursed by us for the reasonable expenses incurred in advance of a proceeding’s final disposition to the fullest extent authorized by applicable law; and (iii) the purchase of insurance by us to protect us and any person who is or was serving as our director, officer, employee or agent.

Our certificate of incorporation provides that we will, to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by applicable law, indemnify our current and former directors and officers, as well as those persons who, while directors or officers of our corporation, are or were serving as directors, officers, employees or agents of another entity, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan, in connection with any threatened, pending or completed proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, against all expense, liability and loss (including, without limitation, attorney’s fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes and penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by any such person in connection with any such proceeding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a person eligible for indemnification pursuant to our certificate of incorporation will be indemnified by us in connection with a proceeding initiated by such person only if such proceeding was authorized by our board of directors, except for proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification.

The right to indemnification conferred by our certificate of incorporation is a contract right that includes the right to be paid by us the expenses incurred in defending or otherwise participating in any proceeding referenced above in advance of its final disposition, provided, however, that if the DGCL requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by our officer or director (solely in the capacity as an officer or director of our corporation) will be made only upon delivery to us of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such officer or director, to repay all amounts so advanced if it is ultimately determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under our certificate of incorporation or otherwise.

The rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses will not be deemed exclusive of any other rights which any person covered by our certificate of incorporation may have or hereafter acquire under law, our certificate of incorporation, our bylaws, an agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise.

Any repeal or amendment of provisions of our certificate of incorporation affecting indemnification rights, whether by our stockholders or by changes in law, or the adoption of any other provisions inconsistent therewith, will (unless otherwise required by law) be prospective only, except to the extent such amendment or change in law permits us to provide broader indemnification rights on a retroactive basis, and will not in any way diminish or adversely affect any right or protection existing at the time of such repeal or amendment or adoption of such inconsistent provision with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to such repeal or amendment or adoption of such inconsistent provision. Our certificate of incorporation also permits us, to the extent and in the manner authorized or permitted by law, to indemnify and to advance expenses to persons other than those specifically covered by our certificate of incorporation.

 Our bylaws include the provisions relating to advancement of expenses and indemnification rights consistent with those set forth in our certificate of incorporation. In addition, our bylaws provide for a right of indemnitee to bring a suit in the event a claim for indemnification or advancement of expenses is not paid in full by us within a specified period of time. Our bylaws also permit us to purchase and maintain insurance, at our expense, to protect us and/or any director, officer, employee or agent of our corporation or another entity, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not we would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the DGCL.

Any repeal or amendment of provisions of our bylaws affecting indemnification rights, whether by our board of directors, stockholders or by changes in applicable law, or the adoption of any other provisions inconsistent therewith, will (unless otherwise required by law) be prospective only, except to the extent such amendment or change in law permits us to provide broader indemnification rights on a retroactive basis, and will not in any way diminish or adversely affect any right or protection existing thereunder with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to such repeal or amendment or adoption of such inconsistent provision.
 
 
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We will enter into indemnification agreements with each of our current directors and executive officers. These agreements will require us to indemnify these individuals to the fullest extent permitted under Delaware law against liabilities that may arise by reason of their service to us, and to advance expenses incurred as a result of any proceeding against them as to which they could be indemnified. We also intend to enter into indemnification agreements with our future directors and executive officers.  We maintain insurance policies that provide coverage to our directors and officers against certain liabilities.

ITEM 15. RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES.
 
Formation of ImPetro Resources LLC – 2010

A material portion of the oil and gas assets owned by Starboard Resources LLC were subject to a bankruptcy proceeding relating to South Texas Oil Company.  South Texas Oil Company filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 29, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas in Cause No. 09-54233-lmc.  On December 4, 2009, the bankruptcy court approved a debtor-in-possession loan to South Texas Oil Company from Giddings Investments LLC in the amount of $1,500,000 with a first-priority lien and security interest in South Texas Oil Company’s properties and superpriority administrative expense claim priority under § 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code.  Giddings Investments LLC subsequently assigned the debtor-in-possession financing claim to Giddings Oil & Gas LP.

On February 3, 2010 South Texas Oil Company’s material oil and gas assets were sold in court-administered bankruptcy auction for a $16,500,000 credit bid to Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. and Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. who had been South Texas Oil Company’s pre-petition lenders.  This credit bid was subject to the debtor-in-possession financing held by Giddings Oil and Gas, L.P.

Starboard Resources LLC is a successor corporation to ImPetro Resources LLC.  ImPetro Resources, LLC was formed in Delaware on January 21, 2010.  It was initially capitalized by cash and non-cash payments from investors in the first quarter of 2010 resulting in the issuance of equity and debt.

First, under a Securities Purchase and Sale Agreement dated March 4, 2010, Giddings Oil & Gas LP provided $4,500,000 in capital in the form of relief of approximately $1,700,000 in liability from the debtor-in-possession financing and security interest plus cash for the remainder.  In exchange, Giddings Oil & Gas LP received forty percent (40%) of ImPetro Resources LLC’s units and a senior secured note with a principal amount $4,500,000 at 18.00% interest.

Second, under the terms of a Contribution Agreement dated February 5, 2010, ImPetro Resources received the South Texas Oil Company assets from Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. and Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. in exchange for issuing second lien promissory notes in the amount of $6,500,000 at 15% interest to Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. and Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P., dated February 5, 2010 and amended on March 4, 2010 and issuing sixty percent (60%) of its limited liability company units to Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC and Summerline Capital Partners, LLC.

Additionally, through these transactions Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. and Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. received a combined 5% working interest participation right in ImPetro Resources LLC’s wells, and Giddings Investments, LLC, which was the original debtor-in-possession financer in the South Texas Oil Company bankruptcy, received a 15% working interest participation right in ImPetro Resources LLC’s wells.

Michael Pawelek and Edward Shaw were officers of South Texas Oil Company.  Further, the Bankruptcy Court ordered the assignment of South Texas Oil Company’s office lease to Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. and Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. as part of its credit bid for the bankruptcy assets.  The office lease was further assigned to the Company which now occupies the office.
 
 
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Formation of Starboard Resources – 2011

Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement – June 10, 2011

The Company was formed in Delaware on June 2, 2011.  We entered a Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement dated June 10, 2011 with Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC, Summerline Capital Partners, LLC, Giddings Oil & Gas LP and Giddings Investments LLC.  This agreement is attached as Exhibit 4.1 to this prospectus.

The June 10, 2011 Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement provided for the following exchange:
1)  
The transfer of ImPetro Resources LLC’s assets to Starboard Resources LLC;
2)  
The cancellation of the $10,000,000 in principal notes dated March 4, 2010 payable to Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. and Giddings Oil & Gas LP;
3)  
The acquisition of one hundred percent of ImPetro Resources LLC’s units by Starboard Resources LLC;
4)  
The issuance of the following Starboard Resources Units:
a.  
Longview Marquis Fund, L.P. - 592,066 units;
b.  
LMIF Investments, LLC – 506,700 units;
c.  
SMF Investments, LLC – 369,507 units;
d.  
Summerline Capital Partners, LLC – 1,727 units;
e.  
Giddings Oil & Gas LP – 1,550,000 units; and
f.  
Giddings Investments LLC – 550,000 units (Said shares after conversion to a corporation were interplead to Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk at Stamford as described above);
5)  
Cash payments totaling $1,150,000 to the following ImPetro Resources LLC noteholders:
a.  
Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P. - $598,908;
b.  
Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. - $201,092;
c.  
Giddings Oil & Gas LP - $350,000; and
6)  
Cancellation of the working interest participation rights held by Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P. and Giddings Investments LLC.

Further, the June 10, 2011 Securities Purchase and Sale Agreement provided that the Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC and Summerline Capital Partners, LLC have a put option to sell their limited liability company units to the Company if the Company does not “use its commercially reasonable efforts” to enter a reverse merger with a public company or obtain an effective registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 within 6 months of the closing date.  That 6 month period has expired. Our December 31, 2011 financial statements record this put option liability as a current liability in the amount of $18,400,000.

Finally, the June 10, 2011 Securities Purchase and Sale Agreement provides that is required to pay Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC and Summerline Capital Partners, LLC, Giddings Oil & Gas LP, and Giddings Investments, LLC a “Going Public Delay Fee” of $60,715 per month if it has not entered a reverse merger with a public company or obtained an effective registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by November 7, 2011.  As of June 30, 2013, the Company has accrued a liability of $702,576 under this provision and it will continue to accrue this liability monthly until its Form 10 registration statement is declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

   Contribution Agreement – Giddings Oil & Gas LP – June 13, 2011

On June 13, 2011, we entered a contribution agreement with Giddings Oil & Gas LP by which we exchanged 3,443,774 of its limited liability company units for the following oil and gas properties:
 
County
State
Name
API #
Working Interest
 
Net Revenue Interest
Approximate
Gross Acreage
Bastrop
Texas
Webb 1-H
42-021-31585
10.0000000%
7.2385270%
445.54
Brazos
Texas
Brocksmith
42-041-31117
12.5000000%
8.6937394%
40.30
Brazos
Texas
Williams 1-H
42-041-30959
19.7006900%
14.4142700%
562.64
Fayette
Texas
Victor Elias #1
42-149-30676
19.9448410%
14.3085410%
590.51
Lee
Texas
Fred Becker #1H
42-287-30934
15.0000000%
10.7511970%
287.87
 
 
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Contribution Agreement – Asym Energy Fund III LP – June 13, 2011

On June 13, 2011, we entered a contribution agreement with Asym Energy Fund III LP by which we exchanged 3,236,134 of our limited liability company units for the following oil and gas properties:
 
County
State
Name
API #
Working Interest
 
Net Revenue Interest
Approximate
Gross Acreage
Logan
Oklahoma
Olin 1-20H
35-083-23937
14.2500000%
11.2931250%
320.0
Lee
Texas
Lovings 1-H
42-287-31337
100.0000000%
80.0000000%
74.51
Lee
Texas
Oscar Mann #1 ST3
42-287-31251
100.0000000%
80.0000000%
235.97
Lee
Texas
El Capitan
42-287-31538
20.0000000%
15.8000000%
113.00
Lipscomb
Texas
Non-Producing
 
100.0000000%
80.0000000%
323.90
Logan
Oklahoma
Non-Producing
 
14.2500000%
11.2931250%
560.61
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Non-Producing
 
14.2500000%
11.2931250%
687.20

Contribution Agreement – Hunton Oil Partners LP – June 13, 2011

On June 13, 2011, we entered a contribution agreement with Hunton Oil Partners LP by which we exchanged 870,092 of our limited liability company units for the following oil and gas properties:

County
State
Name
API #
Working Interest
 
Net Revenue Interest
Approximate
Gross Acreage
Logan
Oklahoma
Farland #1-32H
35-083-23914
14.2500000%
11.2931250%
640.00
Logan
Oklahoma
Robinson 1-30H
35-083-23922
14.2500000%
11.2931250%
315.80
Logan
Oklahoma
William 1-6H
35-083-23931
14.2500000%
11.2931250%
490.05
Logan
Oklahoma
Naomi 1-29H
35-083-23939
14.2500000%
11.2931250%
320.00

Subscription by Giddings Oil & Gas LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP – June 13, 2011

On June 13, 2011 we sold 145,000 of our limited liability company units to Giddings Oil & Gas LP and 20,000 of our limited liability company units to Asym Energy Fund III LP at $10.00 per unit for a total subscription amount of $1,650,000.
 
Subscription by Giddings Oil & Gas LP and Asym Energy Fund III LP – June 28, 2011

On June 28, 2011 we sold 128,193 of our limited liability company units to Giddings Oil & Gas LP and 241,807 of our limited liability company units to Asym Energy Fund III LP at $10.00 per unit for a total subscription amount of $3,700,000.

Bridge Financing – 2012

On May 16, 2012, we issued a note with a principal amount of $909,090 to SOSventures, LLC.  SOSventures, LLC is a limited partner of Giddings Oil and Gas LP and Hunton Oil Partners, LLC and is affiliated with our chairman, Bill Liao.  The note carried an interest rate of ten percent (10%) and maturing May 1, 2013.  The note was prepaid in full in July 2012.

Put Option Waiver – 2012

On July 20, 2012, we obtained a waiver of our put option liability under the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement dated June 10, 2011 from Longview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., Summerview Marquis Master Fund, L.P., Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC and Summerline Capital Partners, LLC in exchange for the issuance of a total of 707,336 in shares of the Company’s common stock and a cash payment of accrued going public delay fees of $166,668.49.  As of December 31, 2011, this put option liability was recorded on our balance sheet in our audited financial statements as an $18,400,000 current liability.  The waiver agreement also provides certain of these contractual parties with veto rights over certain Company actions.  The veto rights expire upon our obtaining an effective registration statement. The put option waiver agreement is attached as Exhibit 4.3 to this prospectus.
 
 
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SOSventures Credit Agreement

The Company may issue future notes under its amended credit agreement with SOSventures, LLC dated July 25, 2013.  To date the Company has not yet borrowed any funds under this credit agreement.  The credit agreement and related intercreditor agreement are attached as Exhibit 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 to this prospectus.

Relevant Exemptions under Securities Act of 1933

We claim that all of our previous issuances of securities have been exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 pursuant to exemptions for the sale to accredited investors in non-public offerings pursuant to SEC Regulation D.  The Company filed a Form D notice with regards to the 707,336 common stock shares issued to obtain the waiver of the put option on July 20, 2012.  The Company did not file a Form D notice in connection with the 2011 transactions.  These transactions involved only accredited investors and were conducted without general solicitation as the principals of the investing entities had previously been involved in ImPetro Resources LLC and because several of these transactions involved the reorganization of ImPetro Resources, LLC into Starboard Resources LLC. Consequently, The Company holds the view that the failure to file a Form D for the 2011 transactions is an insignificant deviation from a term, condition or requirement of Regulation D pursuant to Rule 508.

ITEM 16. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.
  
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Financial Statements
     
Contents to Financial Statements
       
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Rothstein Kass
       
Consolidated Balance Sheets
    F-3  
Consolidated Statements of Operations
    F-4  
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders' Equity
    F-5  
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
    F-6  
Notes to Financial Statements
    F-8  
Supplemental Information – Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures
    F-33  
 
The Exhibit List follows the Signatures.
 
ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS.
 
Insofar as indemnification by the Registrant for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer, or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered hereunder, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
 
 
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The Registrant hereby undertakes that:
 
(1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this Registration Statement as of the time it was declared effective.
 
(2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. 
 
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
 
(1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

 
(i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;
 
 
(ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) (§ 230.424(b) of this chapter) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement.
 
 
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

(2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(4)  That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

 
(i) If the registrant is relying on Rule 430B (§ 230.430B of this chapter):
 
 
(A) Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) (§ 230.424(b)(3) of this chapter) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and
 
 
(B)  Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) (§ 230.424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) of this chapter) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) (§ 230.415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) of this chapter) for the purpose of providing the information required by section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date; or
 
 
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(ii) If the registrant is subject to Rule 430C (§ 230.430C of this chapter), each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A (§ 230.430A of this chapter), shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.
 
(5)  That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities:
 
The undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:
 
(i)  Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 (§ 230.424 of this chapter);
 
(ii)  Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;
 
(iii)  The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and
 
(iv)  Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

 
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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Antonio, State of Texas, on September 12, 2013.
 
  STARBOARD RESOURCES, INC.
   
  By: /s/ Michael J. Pawelek
 
   
Michael J. Pawelek
Chief Executive Officer
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
 
Signature
  
Title
 
Date
     
/S/ MICHAEL J. PAWELEK
  
Director, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
 
September 12, 2013
Michael J. Pawelek    
     
/S/ ERIC ALFUTH
  
Chief Financial Officer
 
September 12, 2013
Eric Alfuth   (Principal Financial Officer)  
       
/S/ N. KIM VO
  
Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)
 
September 12, 2013
N. Kim Vo    
     
/S/ BILL LIAO
  
Director, Chairman of the Board
 
September 12, 2013
Bill Liao    
     
/S/ PETER BENZ
  
Director
 
September 12, 2013
Peter Benz    
 
 
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EXHIBITS

The following exhibits are included as part of this Form S-1. References to “the Company” in this Exhibit List mean Starboard Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 Exhibit No.
 
Description
     
3.1.1
**
Certificate of Incorporation(1)
     
3.1.2
**
Certificate of Conversion(2)
     
3.2.1
**
Post-Effective Bylaws(3)
     
3.2.2
**
Pre-Effective Bylaws(4)
     
3.2.3
**
Starboard Resources Amended and Restated Operating Agreement dated January 20, 2012(5)
     
4.1
**
Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement between Starboard Resources, LLC, Longview Marquis Master Marquis Fund, L.P., Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P., Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC, and Summerline Capital Partners, LLC dated June 10, 2011(6)
     
4.2
**
Agreement between Asym Capital III LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC and SOSventures, LLC regarding Starboard Resources, LLC dated January 20, 2012(7)
     
4.3
**
Agreement between Starboard Resources, LLC, Longview Marquis Master Marquis Fund, L.P., Summerview Marquis Fund, L.P., Longview Marquis Fund, L.P., LMIF Investments, LLC, SMF Investments, LLC, and Summerline Capital Partners, LLC dated July 20, 2012 (Relating to Waiver of Put Option)(8)
     
5.1
*****
Opinion of Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz, PLLC
     
10.1
**
Employment Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2012, between Starboard Resources, Inc. and Michael Pawelek.(9)
     
10.2
**
Employment Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2012, between Starboard Resources, Inc. and Edward Shaw.(10)
     
10.3
**
Employment Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2012, between Starboard Resources, Inc. and N. Kim Vo.(11)
     
10.4
**
Participation Agreement with Husky Ventures, LLC.(12)
     
10.5.01
***
Credit Agreement dated as of June 27, 2013 between Starboard Resources, Inc. as borrower and Independent Bank as lender.(13)
     
10.5.02
***
Security Agreement dated as of June 27, 2013 between Starboard Resources, Inc. as debtor and Independent Bank as secured party.(14)
     
10.5.03
***
Mortgage, Deed of Trust, Security Agreement, Fixture Filing and Financing Statement for Texas oil and gas properties from Starboard Resources, Inc., Mortgagor, to John E. Davis, Trustee, and Independent Bank, mortgagee.(15)
     
10.5.04
***
Note from Starboard Resources, Inc. to Independent Bank dated July 27, 2012.(16)
     
10.5.05
***
Certificate of Ownership Interests – Starboard Resources, Inc. dated June 27, 2013.(17)
 
 
 
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  Exhibit No.
 
Description
10.5.06
***
Omnibus Certificate – Starboard Resources, Inc. dated June 27, 2013.(18)
     
10.5.07
***
Guaranty dated June 27, 2013 from ImPetro Operating, LLC(19)
     
10.5.08
***
Security Agreement dated June 27, 2013 between ImPetro Operating, LLC and Independent Bank(20)
     
10.5.09
***
Omnibus Certificate – ImPetro Operating, LLC dated June 27, 2013(21)
     
10.5.10
***
Waiver of Operator’s Lien – ImPetro Operating, LLC dated June 27, 2013(22)
     
10.5.11
***
Guaranty dated June 27, 2013 from ImPetro Resources, LLC(23)
     
10.5.12
***
Security Agreement dated June 27, 2013 between ImPetro Resources, LLC and Independent Bank(24)
     
10.5.13
***
Omnibus Certificate – ImPetro Resources, LLC dated June 27, 2013(25)
     
10.5.14
***
Note dated June 27, 2013 – Starboard Resources, Inc.(26)
     
10.6.1
***
Credit Agreement dated July 25, 2013 between Starboard Resources, Inc. and SOSventures, LLC(27)
     
10.6.2
***
Intercreditor Agreement dated July 25, 2013 between Independent Bank, and SOSventures LLC(28)
     
10.7.1
***
Sunoco – Texon LP Crude Purchase Agreement(29)
     
10.7.2
***
Sunoco – Texon LP Crude Purchase Agreement Amendment(30)
     
10.8
***
DCP Midstream, LP Gas Purchase Agreement(31)
     
21
**
List of subsidiaries(32)
     
*
Consent of Rothstein Kass
     
*
Consent of Forrest A. Garb & Associates, Inc., independent petroleum engineers.
     
99.1.1
**
Third Amended Complaint dated June 6, 2013 in Cause Nos. FST-CV-12-5013927-S and FST-CV-12-6014987-S, styled Charles Henry III, Ahmed Ammar, John P. Vaile as Trustee of John P. Vaile Living Trust, John Paul Otieno, SOSventures, LLC, Bradford Higgins, William Mahoney, Robert J. Conrads, Edward M. Conrads, William F. Pettinati, Jr. individually and derivatively on behalf of Giddings Oil & Gas LP, Hunton Oil Partners LP and Asym Energy Fund LP v. Gregory Imbruce, Giddings Investments LLC, Giddings Genpar LLC, Hunton Oil Genpar LLC, Asym Capital III LLC, Starboard Resources, Inc., Glenrose Holdings LLC and Asym Energy Investments LLC (hereinafter ”Henry et al v. Imbruce et al.”)(33)
     
99.1.2
****
Answer of Starboard Resources, Inc. dated August 8, 2013 in Henry et al v. Imbruce et al.(34)
     
99.1.3
**
Starboard Resources, Inc. Bill of Interpleader dated August 8, 2012(35)
     
99.1.4
**
Stipulation and Order dated August 9, 2012 in Henry et al v. Imbruce et al.(36)
 
 
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 Exhibit No.
 
Description
99.2
**
Reserve Report as of January 1, 2013 from Forrest Garb & Associates, Inc.(37)
     
99.3
**
Reserve Report as of January 1, 2012 from Forrest Garb & Associates, Inc.(38)
     
99.4
***
Supplement to Reserve Report as of January 1, 2013 from Forrest Garb & Associates, Inc.(39)
     
99.5
***
Supplement to Reserve Report as of January 1, 2012 from Forrest Garb & Associates, Inc.(40)
     
*
Financial Statements of ImPetro Resources LLC as of December 31, 2010
     
 
*
Filed herewith.
**
Filed as corresponding numbered exhibit with Starboard Resources, Inc. Form 10 filed June 7, 2013
***
Filed as corresponding numbered exhibit with Starboard Resources, Inc. Form 10/A filed July 26, 2013
****
Filed as corresponding numbered exhibit with Starboard Resources, Inc. Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2013
*****
To be filed by amendment.

 
Reference No.
Reference Description
(1)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1.1 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(2)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1.2 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(3)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2.1 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(4)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2.2 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(5)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2.3 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(6)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(7)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(8)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(9)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(10)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(11)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(12)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
 
 
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Reference No.
Reference Description
(13)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.01 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(14)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.02 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(15)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.03 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(16)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.04 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(17)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.05 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(18)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.06 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(19)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.07 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(20)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.08 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(21)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.09 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(22)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.10 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(23)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.11 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(24)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.12 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(25)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.13 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(26)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5.14 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(27)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6.1 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(28)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6.2 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(29)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7.1 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(30)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7.2 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
 
 
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Reference No.
Reference Description
(31)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(32)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 21 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(33)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(34)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 of the Company’s Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2013.
   
(35)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1.3 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(36)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1.4 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(37)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(38)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.3 of the Company’s Form 10 filed with the SEC on June 7, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(39)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.4 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   
(40)
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.5 of the Company’s Form 10/A filed with the SEC on July 26, 2013 which became effective August 6, 2013.
   

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