Tiway Acquisition

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2016

Business Combinations [Abstract]

Tiway Acquisition

5.) Tiway Acquisition

The Company entered into a share purchase agreement on December 22, 2015 to acquire the three subsidiaries of Tiway Oil B.V. (“Tiway”), a company currently in bankruptcy in the Netherlands. These Tiway subsidiaries are oil and gas exploration and production companies operating in the Republic of Turkey. They own interests in three producing oil and gas fields, one offshore and two onshore, as well as a number of exploration licenses and operate one of the onshore fields. Current production for the Tiway subsidiaries is about 395 Boe/d (barrels per day equivalent). The purchase price is $2.1 million USD and the Company paid at signing a $500,000 deposit toward the purchase price. Prior to submitting the winning bid in the bankruptcy auction, the Company spent the prior 6 months actively gathering and evaluating a large amount of data derived from earlier exploration and production activities on Tiway properties.

The transaction is subject to obtaining the approval of two regulatory agencies in Turkey, the GDPA which regulates the oil and gas licenses and EMRA which regulates gas marketing. The approval from EMRA has been received; the approval from GDPA is still pending. During the period prior to closing, in consultation with the Tiway staff and partners in the various fields, the Company has prepared work programs for 2016 and into the future.

The transaction was originally scheduled to close March 31, 2016. However, the transaction is conditioned on receiving the EMRA and GDPA regulatory approvals. Accordingly, the closing date has been extended a number of times to allow sufficient time to secure the approvals from the respective regulatory agencies. Currently, the transaction has been extended to August 23, 2016. To facilitate closing, the Company has formed a new wholly owned subsidiary, Park Place Energy (Bermuda) Ltd. which will become the acquirer of the shares of the Tiway subsidiaries at closing.