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COMMON STOCK
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Equity [Abstract]  
COMMON STOCK
COMMON STOCK

The total number of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock is 750,000,000 shares, $0.001 par value per share. As of December 31, 2014, there were 28,108,105 common shares issued and outstanding.

Each share of the Company's common stock is entitled to equal dividends and distributions per share with respect to the common stock when, as and if declared by the Company's board of directors.  No holder of any shares of the Company's common stock has a preemptive right to subscribe for any of the Company's securities, nor are any shares of the Company's common stock subject to redemption or convertible into other securities.  Upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company and after payment of creditors and preferred shareholders of the Company, if any, the assets of the Company will be divided pro rata on a share-for-share basis among the holders of the Company's common stock.  Each share of the Company's common stock is entitled to one vote.  Shares of the Company's common stock do not possess any cumulative voting rights.

During the year ending December 31, 2014, 688,583 shares of the Company's Series A Preferred Stock were converted into 688,583 shares of our common stock on a one-for-one basis. Additionally, warrants to purchase 6,250 shares of the Company's common stock were exercised for a net of 6,250 shares of common stock with $10,937 of exercise price paid in cash; and options to purchase 637,750 shares of common stock were exercised for a net of 609,722 shares of common stock (when adjusting for a cashless exercise of such certain of such options and the payment, in shares of common stock ($205,125) and cash ($359,238), of an aggregate exercise price of $564,363 in connection with such exercises) and 609,722 shares of common stock were issued to the option holders in connection with such exercises.

In May 2014, 500,000 shares of our restricted common stock (valued at $3,266,000) were issued in connection with the initial closing of the Omega Refining acquisition (see Note 18).
In June 2014, 2,200,000 shares were sold in connection with a private offering of the Company's common stock for net proceeds of $15,803,000 after deducting offering costs of $1,247,000 from the $17,050,000 raised.
In August 2014, the Company granted one employee Incentive Stock Options to purchase an aggregate of 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, which have a term of ten years, and exercise price of $8.44 per share and vest at the rate of 25,000 of such options on the grant date and 18,750 on each of the first four anniversaries of the grant date.

In April 2014, the company granted two employees Incentive Stock Options to purchase an aggregate of 150,000 shares of the Company's common stock, which have a term of ten years, an average exercise price of $7.55, and vest at the rate of one quarter on each anniversary date of the grant. The options were granted under the Company’s 2013 Stock Incentive Plan, which is registered on a Form S-8 Registration Statement.

In September, 2014, 207,743 shares of Company's common stock, valued at $1,790,745, were issued as payment for the remaining 30% ownership in E-Source (additional information included in Note 18).
Effective October 3, 2014, we entered into a consulting agreement with our director, Timothy C. Harvey, pursuant to which Mr. Harvey agreed to provide consulting services to us in connection with overseeing our trading and selling of finished products and assisting us with finding the best markets for products from our facilities for a term of one year (automatically renewable thereafter unless either party provides the other 30 days written notice of their intent not to renew), provided that we can terminate the agreement at any time with thirty days prior written notice. In consideration for agreeing to provide services under the agreement, we agreed to pay Mr. Harvey $10,000 per month, and to grant him an option to purchase up to 75,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $6.615 per share, the mean between the highest and lowest quoted selling prices of our common stock on October 2, 2014 (the day immediately preceding the approval by the Board of Directors of the agreement), which vest at the rate of 1/4th of such options per year, subject to Mr. Harvey’s continued consulting, employment or service as our director, which options were granted under the Company’s 2013 Stock Incentive Plan.

In December, 2014, 2,201,601 shares of our restricted common stock (valued at $5,349,000) were issued as consideration in connection with the Heartland acquisition (see Note 18).

In December, 2014, 488,598 shares of restricted common stock (valued at $1,470,680) and warrants to purchase 109,934 shares of common stock were sold to our Chief Executive Officer, which funds were required in connection with the Heartland acquisition. The warrants have a fair value of $74,074 (representing 45% warrant coverage in connection with the above sale of stock to our Chief Executive Officer). The warrants have a term of five years, an exercise price of $3.01 per share and cashless exercise rights beginning six months after the grant date, to the extent that the shares of common stock issuable are not registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.