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Ruvuma Farm-Out and Corporate Update
Ruvuma Farm-Out and Corporate Update.
About this update from Aminex Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n RNS Number : 9987S\n Aminex PLC\n 14 July 2020\n \n \n \n 14 July 2020\n \n \n \n \n Aminex plc\n \n (\"Aminex\" or \"the Company\")\n \n \n \n Ruvuma Farm-Out and Corporate Update\n Ruvuma Farm-Out\n Aminex announces that the parties to the Ruvuma Farm-Out Agreement have agreed to extend the long stop date for satisfaction of the conditions to the Farm-Out from 14 July 2020 to 31 July 2020. Aminex and ARA Petroleum Tanzania Limited (\"APT\") remain hopeful that Government approval for the Farm-Out will be received this month.\n As announced on 30 June 2020, the Company is obliged to grant security to ARA Petroleum LLC (\"ARA\") over (a) the US$2 million loan that was advanced by ARA to Aminex to assist Ndovu Resources Limited (\"Ndovu\") (a wholly owned subsidiary of Aminex) to pay the capital gains tax bill it had received from the Tanzanian authorities in respect of the transaction (the \"Loan\"); and (b) the US$3 million funding arrangement provided by ARA in November 2019 (the \"Advance\"), all of which has been drawn down by the Company. Such security will be over all the Company's oil and gas assets.\n At the Company's request (and entirely without prejudice to ARA's rights under the Loan and the Advance), ARA has agreed that at this stage it will: (a) not issue a demand for immediate repayment of the Loan or declare an immediate default under the Loan; and (b) not insist on its right to demand monthly payment of interest under the Loan and Advance, such interest instead being added, at the Company's request, to the principal amounts repayable.\n At the Company's request, ARA has agreed in principle to provide additional funding support to the Company if the Farm-Out is delayed further by advancing part of the interim period costs (which are otherwise only payable to the Company on completion of the Farm-Out), if required (the \"Further Additional Advance\").\n Corporate\n As previously announced, the Company has implemented significant cost reductions including director and employee remuneration waiver and reduction in staff levels to make the Company more resilient during the current downturn. The cost saving initiatives implemented by the Company since 2018 has led to savings of circa US$ 2.5 million per annum, a reduction of around 50%. To preserve cash, some directors of t...