Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
16 June 2023quarterly activities report▼ Bad
Prairie Operating Co. filed its quarterly report for the three months ended March 31, 2023. It disclosed May 2023 subsequent events, including the Exok merger, Series D preferred stock and the debenture exchange.
Bristol Investment Fund, Ltd, Bristol Capital, LLC reported a Prairie Operating Co. shareholding of 17,500,522 shares (10.50% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
Prairie Operating Co. filed its quarterly report for the three months ended March 31, 2023. It also disclosed May 2023 subsequent events, including the Exok merger, Series D preferred stock and the exchange of its original debentures.
Auditor MaughanSullivan resigned shortly after the Prairie merger closed; its most recent report had flagged substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern for fiscal 2022 (the pre-merger crypto-mining entity).
Prairie Operating Co. (then Creek Road Miners) filed its quarterly report for the three months ended March 31, 2023, covering its pre-merger crypto-mining and e-commerce businesses. It also noted the May 3, 2023 merger and related financing as subsequent events.
Bristol Investment Fund, Ltd. reported owning 17,500,522 Prairie Operating Co. shares, about 10.5% of the 166,886,084 outstanding, in a Schedule 13D amendment after the May 2023 merger. Bristol Capital, LLC reported a further 10,940,890 shares (6.6%).
On May 3, 2023 the Prairie merger and the $3 million Exok purchase of undeveloped Weld County, Colorado leases closed, and the company was renamed Prairie Operating Co. It also raised $17.3 million in the PIPE, converted its preferred stock, and exchanged its debentures for $1 million of amended debentures, shares and Series D preferred.
The Prairie merger agreement was amended: the planned reverse stock split was dropped, and the outside termination date was pushed to September 30, 2023, alongside updated terms for the Exok asset deal and the PIPE financing.
While the Prairie merger was still pending, the company (still doing crypto mining) signed a two-year hosting agreement with Atlas Power Hosting for its Bitcoin miners in North Dakota.
Bristol Investment Fund, Ltd, Bristol Capital, LLC, Paul Kessler, Bristol Capital Advisors Profit Sharing Plan reported a Prairie Operating Co. shareholding of 2,589,990 shares (21.10% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
Creek Road agreed to merge with Prairie Operating Co., LLC, a Delaware oil and gas company, planning to convert all its preferred stock and debentures into common shares, reverse split, rename itself "Prairie Operating Co.," and raise a $30 million PIPE -- contingent on closing a separate deal to buy Weld County, Colorado (DJ Basin) oil and gas assets from Exok, Inc. This is the transaction that created today's Prairie Operating Co.
Barlock Capital Management -- co-managed by the company's own recently-resigned former Co-CEO, Scott Kaufman -- declared a default on a $2.5 million secured debenture and demanded $5 million, alleging Kaufman's resignation and the Alpha settlement triggered default. The company rejected the claim and accused Kaufman of fraud, self-dealing and breach of fiduciary duty -- an open, contentious governance dispute right before the pending merger.
Creek Road Miners formalized a $500,000 loan it had already received from Leviston Resources into a convertible note tied to the pending Prairie Operating merger -- bridge financing to get the company to the closing.