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Maha Energy AB (publ) Announce June Production Volumes

­­­Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press release
Stockholm
July 3, 2020

Maha Energy AB (publ) Announce June Production Volumes

Production Volumes

The Company's aggregate sales production for the month of June totaled 112,1511 barrels of oil and 57.090 million scf of gas for a combined average production of approximately 4,056 BOE/day2, before royalties and taxes.

Other than some minor unplanned shutdowns, production continues to be affected by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

1   Subject to minor standard industry adjustments at the time of custody transfer.
2   Barrels of oil equivalent ("BOE") conversion ratio of 6,000 scf: 1 bbl is used.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11      
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 30 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil, Powder River (LAK Ranch) and Illinois basins in the United States For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Maha Energy AB (publ) Announce May Production Volumes

­­­Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press release
Stockholm
June 4, 2020

Maha Energy AB (publ) Announce May Production Volumes

Production Volumes

The Company's aggregate sales production for the month of May totaled 106,2481 barrels of oil and 52.765 million scf of gas for a combined average production of approximately 3,711 BOE/day2, before royalties and taxes.

The month of May saw increasing gas sales at Tie as a new gas end-user started taking deliveries allowing for higher oil production.  Further at both Tie and Tartaruga stations, oil production was somewhat affected due to temporary surface jet pump maintenance issues which were resolved during the month.  Despite the pump issues and continuing Covid-19 movement restrictions, production and off-take volumes in Brazil remain stable.

1   Subject to minor standard industry adjustments at the time of custody transfer.
2   Barrels of oil equivalent ("BOE") conversion ratio of 6,000 scf: 1 bbl is used.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11      
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 30 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil, Powder River (LAK Ranch) and Illinois basins in the United States For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Annual General Meeting in Maha Energy AB (publ)

Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca 

                                                                                                                                 
Press release
Stockholm
May 27, 2020

Annual General Meeting in Maha Energy AB (publ)

The shareholders of Maha Energy AB (publ) gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday May 27, 2020 for the Annual General Meeting.

The income statements and the balance sheets for the Company and the Group were approved and the Board of Directors and the CEO were discharged from liability for the financial year 2019.

The Meeting resolved that no dividend shall be paid for the financial year 2019 and that the company’s available funds shall be carried forward in new account.

Jonas Lindvall, Nicholas Walker, Anders Ehrenblad, Harald Pousette, Seth Liebermann, and Fredrik Cappelen were elected as members of the Board of Directors. Harald Pousette was elected as Chairman of the Board.

The Meeting approved fees payable to the members of the Board of Directors and the Chairman of the Board of Directors, including remuneration for committee work, to be as follows: (i) annual fees of the members of the Board of Directors of SEK 300,000 (excluding the CEO); (ii) annual fee of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SEK 415,000; (iii) annual fees of SEK 40,000 to members of the respective committees (excluding the CEO); (iv) annual fees of SEK 60,000 to the Chairman of the respective committees; (v) members of the Board of Directors shall be entitled to invoice the Company in so far as they perform services outside the Board assignment.

The accounting firm Deloitte AB was re-elected as the auditor of the Company, with authorized public accountant Fredrik Jonsson as the auditor in charge, for a period until the end of the 2021 Annual General Meeting. The auditor’s fee shall be paid upon approval of their invoice.

The Meeting approved the Nomination Committee’s proposal not to change the principles for the appointment of and instructions regarding a nomination committee adopted at the Annual General Meeting in 2019.

The Meeting resolved in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors to adopt a policy for remuneration and other employment conditions for senior executives of the group, which shall apply for the time being. The policy is applicable on agreements entered into after the Annual General Meeting, and as far as changes are made to existing agreements, thereafter, and shall be reviewed at least every four years.

The Meeting resolved in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors on an incentive programme for senior management and certain key employees through issuance of warrants entitling to subscription of new shares of class A in the Company. Under the resolution, the Company may issue a maximum of 460,000 warrants. The warrants may, with deviation from the shareholders’ preferential rights, only be subscribed for by the subsidiary Maha Energy Inc., after which Maha Energy Inc. is to transfer the warrants to the participants under the programme. Each warrant entitles to subscription for one new A-share in the Company during the period from and including June 1, 2023 up to and including February 29, 2024. The subscription price shall be equal to 100 percent of the volume weighted average last closing price for the Company’s share on Nasdaq First North during the period from and including May 20, 2020 until and including May 27, 2020. The increase of the Company’s share capital will, upon exercise of the warrants, amount to not more than SEK 5,060.

The Meeting resolved to authorize the Board of Directors to – for the period up to the next Annual General Meeting and at one or more occasions – resolve upon issuance of new shares, warrants and/or convertible debentures. Payment may be made in cash, in kind, through set-off of claims or otherwise be conditional. The Company’s share capital may be by support of the authorization be increased by an amount corresponding to 20 percent of the share capital and number of shares in the Company as of on the date the Board of Directors make use of the authorization. Deviation from the shareholders’ preferential rights shall be allowed in situations where a directed issue is deemed more appropriate for the Company due to timing, commercial or similar reasons, and in order to enable acquisitions.   

The Meeting resolved in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors on changes to the company’s articles of association (i) regarding the prerequisites for participating in general meetings and (ii) regarding the removal of share classes C1 and C2.

    

For more information please visit www.mahaenergy.ca or contact:                   
Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +1 403 454 7563                  
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

Or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Miscellaneous
This information is such that Maha Energy AB must disclose in accordance with First North Rulebook. The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact persons set out above on May 27, 2020, at [19:00] CET.

Maha in Brief
Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company’s auditors are Deloitte. The Company’s predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 30 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha’s strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates four oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, and IB in the Illinois Basin  U.S.A.  For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Maha Energy AB Announces Filing of First Quarter Report & Live Webcast

Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

                                                                
Press release
Stockholm
26 May 2020
                                                                                                                                                                                            
Maha Energy AB Announces Filing of First Quarter Report & Live Webcast

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce its First Quarter results.  The report is attached to this press release and available on the Company’s website at www.mahaenergy.ca.

First Quarter 2020

  • Daily oil & gas production for Q1 2020 averaged 3,288 BOEPD (Q1 2019: 2,669 BOEPD)
  • On 31 March 2020, the Company closed an acquisition for certain producing properties in the Illinois basin for USD 4 million (plus assumed working capital deficiency). 
  • During the quarter, the 107D well was placed on production with initial oil rates of 939 BOPD (on pump).
  • Revenue of USD 11.2 million (Q1 2019: USD 11.8 million)
  • Operating netback of USD 7.9 million or USD 27.91 per BOE (Q1 2019: USD 9.0 million or USD 40.22 per BOE)
  • EBITDA of USD 6.4 million (Q1 2019: USD 7.7 million)
  • Net result of USD 3.2 million (Q1 2019: USD 4.2 million)
  • Basic Earnings per share of USD 0.03 (Q1 2019: USD 0.04)
  • Diluted Earnings per share of USD 0.03 (Q1 2019: USD 0.04)
  • Cash and cash equivalents balance of USD 19.2 million (Q1 2019: 19.8 million)

Financial Summary

(TUSD, unless otherwise noted) Q1 2020 Q4 2019 Q3 2019 Q2 2019 Q1 2019 Full Year 2019
Net Daily Production (BOEPD) 3,288 3,165 3,593 2,739 2,669 3,044
Revenue 11,207 13,672 16,068 14,098 11,751 55,589
Operating netback 7,858 9,825 12,017 10,668 9,029 41,539
EBITDA 6,434 8,354 10,663 9,188 7,663 35,868
Net result for the period 3,191 2,679 6,570 6,157 4,248 19,654
Earnings per share – Basic (USD) 0.03 0.03 0.07 0.06 0.04 0.20
Earnings per share – Diluted (USD) 0.03 0.02 0.06 0.06 0.04 0.18
Cash and cash equivalents 19,190 22,450 20,421 20,504 19,768 22,450


Letter to shareholders

Dear Friends and Fellow Shareholders of Maha Energy AB,

“Bromsa inte i uppförsbacke!”  Roughly translated this means: “Do not brake when going uphill!”  This is the advice a good friend once imparted on me many years ago.  And I think that with the acquisition of the Illinois Basin assets in the USA, we clearly demonstrate that Maha is not slowing down even though the rest of the world seem to have come to a complete standstill.

The brief Saudi/Russia spat along with the unprecedented and massive demand erosion caused by the COVID-19 pandemic created for oil prices not seen since the 1990’s. The low oil price environment is a huge challenge for a sector that has been under siege since the 2014 oil price collapse. Maha is not unaffected but with a cash position of USD 19 million, low operating costs (USD 6.46/BOE), and increasing production volumes we are well positioned to ride the storm out.

In fact, with most of our capital requirements for production growth behind us, we are optimally positioned for organic growth and acquisitions. The Illinois Basin assets purchased at the end of Q1 represents very low risk growth potential in the USA. These assets are conventional, shallow, and proven. As production volumes increase, our operating costs decrease on a per barrel basis. It is our intention to grow these assets to around 1,000 BOPD as soon as COVID-19 and the current economic climate permits. The acquisition metrics on this deal are outstanding. With a purchase price of USD 4.0 million (adjusted for the assumption of USD 0.25 m in liabilities), and 2P reserves of 2.941 million bbls, Maha paid USD 1.44/bbl for the oil.  According to the Dome AB Inc. December 31, 2019 reserve report, Proved Developed Producing (PDP) reserves (0.458 m bbls) were valued at Net Present Value (10%) USD 7.2 million, which mean that we bought these producing assets well below the PDP value. Even though the value was based on a WTI price of USD 57/bbl – the value in the asset speaks for it-self. We are excited about the future growth in the Illinois Basin.

In Brazil, production for the first quarter was affected by a three week strike at Petrobras in February, a prolonged maintenance shutdown at one of the gas end users, and then by the COVID-19 Pandemic in March.  But even with these interruptions, the quarter marked the second highest production volumes in the Company’s short history.  As the COVID-19 pandemic expanded across the world and Brazil, our gas customers at the Tie field had to reduce and eventually cease receiving Tie gas deliveries. A decrease in gas deliveries meant a decrease in oil deliveries in order to comply with the country’s flaring limitations. By the middle of April, however, the Government of Brazil took swift and decisive action to safeguard oil production across the country and decreed a temporary flaring easement of up to 100,000 m3 per day. We continually monitor the oil offtake requirements with our customers, and as Brazil is a net importer of oil, we do not anticipate oil production reductions in the immediate future.

We recently announced a reduction in our 2020 production guidance which is attributable to the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic. With the reduction in the production guidance we also reduced our 2020 OPEX and G&A costs by similar amounts. And as previously announced we have rearranged our 2020 capital investments to further reduce spending in 2020. All these efforts are made in order to ensure we can meet all our future financial obligations, but at the same time, take full advantage of the opportunities this period of unprecedented volatility presents.

Right now, in this market, Maha is almost in poll position. We can afford to keep all our options open; if we need to, we can hunker down and conserve our future cashflows, or we can use this opportunity to acquire quality assets and position us for even greater growth when the oil market returns. It’s a good place to be, right now.

Stay well, stay safe and stay with us!  We are hitting the accelerator (not the brake) on this hill.

 “Jonas Lindvall”
Managing Director


Q1 Webcast 26 May, 2020

The Company will present its Q1 Report on Tuesday 26 May at 6 PM CET.  During this presentation, Jonas Lindvall, the CEO of Maha Energy AB, will provide a full Company operational update, comment on the production guidance revision and be available to take questions. A link to the webcast is available on the Company’s website: www.mahaenergy.ca. Interested parties are encouraged to e-mail questions ahead of time to victoria@mahaenergy.ca.  Questions posed on the day of the presentation should be done directly in the YouTube Comments/Questions field.

Adviser

Certified Advisor: FNCA Sweden AB, info@fnca.se, Telephone: +46-8-528 00 399.

For more information, please contact:              


Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11                                             
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Andres Modarelli (CFO)
Tel: +1-403-454-7560
Email: andres@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11                   
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Miscellaneous
             
This information is published in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 30 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil, Powder River (LAK Ranch) and Illinois basins in the United States For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) Announce Updated production guidance and capital plan for 2020 due to effects from Covid-19

­­­Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

 

Press release
Stockholm
May 22, 2020

Updated production guidance and capital plan for 2020 due to effects from Covid-19

Due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic currently sweeping across Brazil, Maha Energy AB (publ) has reduced its’ average annual production guidance from 5,000 – 5,500 BOEPD to 4,000 – 5,000 BOEPD.

“The Covid-19 pandemic is now taking a toll on our operations.  The domino effect of border closures, deliveries of vital equipment and services and lower end user gas demand, to name a few, has required us to revise our 2020 production guidance.  These factors, which are outside our control, have indirectly led to an unforeseen reduction in oil production.  At this time, we continue to be uncertain on the future impact of Covid-19 to our production volumes, but like most companies we are working hard to offset the reduction in production volumes with a corresponding reduction in expenditures.  At current oil prices, the Company’s financial condition is robust and we expect to continue to fulfill all our future financial obligations, including the full repayment of the SEK 300 million bond next year, despite the production guidance reduction” stated Jonas Lindvall, CEO of Maha Energy AB.

Natural gas is a by-product of the produced oil, and if the gas cannot be disposed of, the oil production must be curtailed accordingly.  The Brazilian Government has granted a temporary flaring easement to ensure continuous oil production during the Covid-19 pandemic, which is reducing the impact of the curtailment.  And even though the Tie oil processing plant is capable of handling oil and gas mixtures of up to 4,850 BOPD, the plant is not designed to flare 100% of the liberated gas on a continuous basis.

As a result of the annual average production guidance revision, the Company continues to revise and optimize its’ 2020 Capital Plan.  The previously announced reduction in the Capital Plan for 2020 has now been amended to include rephasing of the Tie wells (TS-1 & TS-2) and the inclusion of a new Compression Project at Tie along with some work on the newly acquired Illinois Basin assets.  Total capital expenditures for 2020 is now estimated at USD 15.5 million, down 25% from the original USD 20.7 million. 

Maha Energy’s assets are low cost, low risk producing assets, and at current oil prices ($32 – $36 per barrel), the Company estimates consolidated annual average OPEX to be +/- US$ 4.95 – US$ 5.65 per BOE.

           
CAPEX (Capital Plan)

Tie Field
-TS-1 & TS-2: These two Tie field development wells, originally scheduled for Q2/Q3 this year, will now be drilled towards the end of Q4, and TS-2 (water injector) may slip into 2021.

-Tie Compression Project (new): the addition of two (2) 1,380 HP Ariel Compressors at the Tie field to provide ‘spill over’ gas reinjection capabilities have now been added to the capital plan for 2020.

Tartaruga Field
-Maha-2: This contingent follow-up well to Maha-1 on Tartaruga has been rescheduled for 2021.

-Maha-1: The completion of the testing of this well at Tartaruga has been rescheduled for 2021. 
           
-Tartaruga expansion: With the postponement of completing Maha-1, the Tartaruga expansion project will continue, but at a slower pace. Oil production from Maha-1 (above) is needed in order to achieve the planned 2,500 BOPD capacity production at Tartaruga.

Illinois Basin (IB)
Contractual commitments may require the Company to drill one well and to complete a drilled but uncompleted well on the IB asset.  This activity is scheduled for Q3 and Q4 this year. Other 2020 commitments have been successfully rescheduled to 2021. 

OPERATIONAL UPDATE
Tie Field

New Wells TS-1 & TS-2
Location work is all but complete, a drilling rig has been identified and will be contracted in due course, but the drilling of these two wells has been pushed back to Q4 this year.  The delay in drilling and completing these wells will not affect field production at the Tie field.

GTE-4
GTE-4 was worked over and dually completed in April.  GTE-4 is now on pump and is being flow tested.

Gas Compression
Two (2) 1,380 HP (each) gas compressors have been leased by Enerflex Inc to provide gas reinjection for unsold gas at the Tie field.  Any associated gas that cannot be sold will be reinjected to provide pressure support to the reservoir and redundancy to the production operations.  The compressors will take any ‘spill over’ gas that cannot be sold downstream and reinject it to ensure that oil production can continue uninterrupted.  The gas compressors are expected to be commissioned at the end of Q3.

Tartaruga

Maha-1
The testing of Maha-1 was suspended in March due to the indirect effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic.  As Brazil started to lock down, it became more and more difficult to move goods and services to and from Tartaruga.  A key item required for the testing and stimulation for Maha-1 was perforating explosives, which became impossible to move in a timely fashion.  As a result, it was decided to suspend testing operations at Tartaruga.  Testing operations will resume as soon as services resume as normal in Brazil. 

Tartaruga Facilities
The current oil handling facilities at Tartaruga can handle up to 800 BOPD.  Work is underway to expand these facilities to handle up to 2,500 BOPD.  Equipment has been identified and purchased.  However, the 2,500 BOPD handling capacity at Tartaruga is not expected to be required until Maha-1 is brought on stream.  A temporary oil handling system will be leased to ensure sufficient handling capacity at Tartaruga whilst the Facility upgrades are being finished. 

Webcast Question & Answers Session

The Company will present its Q1 Report on Tuesday 26 May at 6 PM CET.  During this presentation, Jonas Lindvall, the CEO of Maha Energy AB, will provide a full Company operational update, comment on the production guidance revision and be available to take questions. A link to the webcast is available on the Company’s website: www.mahaenergy.ca.  Interested parties are encouraged to e-mail questions ahead of time to victoria@mahaenergy.ca.  Questions posed on the day of the presentation should be done directly in the YouTube Comments/Questions field.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11      
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

This information is published in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact persons set out above on 22 May 2020, at 7:00 PM CET.

 

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 30 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil, Powder River (LAK Ranch) and Illinois basins in the United States For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

 

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) Announce April Production Volumes

­­­Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press release
Stockholm
May 5, 2020

Maha Energy AB (publ) Announce April Production Volumes

Production Volumes

The Company's aggregate sales production for the month of April totaled 90,6641 barrels of oil and 2.250 million scf of gas for a combined average production of approximately 3,035 BOE/day2, before royalties and taxes.

The month of April saw unusually low gas sales at the Tie field which was due to the suspension of gas offtake by CDGN, the Company’s main gas customer.  As a result of the indirect effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, CDGN’s end customers are currently closed due to weak product demand and Covid-19 restrictions. This in turn resulted in a temporary reduction in oil production from the Tie field during the month.

The company is working at many levels to maximize oil production despite the current low gas offtake at the Tie field. A temporary easing in flaring restrictions have been received for the Tie and Tartaruga fields and CDGN have commenced trial gas deliveries to a new gas consumer at the Tie field.  If successful, this may result in increased gas offtake requirements from the Tie field whilst the regular CDGN customers are shut in due to Covid-19 effects. 

1   Subject to minor standard industry adjustments at the time of custody transfer.
2   Barrels of oil equivalent ("BOE") conversion ratio of 6,000 scf: 1 bbl is used.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11      
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 30 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil, Powder River (LAK Ranch) and Illinois basins in the United States For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Correction: Maha Energy AB Publishes the 2019 Annual Report

Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A, SE-114 51 Stockholm, Sweden
www.mahaenergy.ca

                                                                                                                                 
Press release
Stockholm
May 4, 2020          

                                                                                                                                                                                            
Correction: Maha Energy AB Publishes the 2019 Annual Report

Correction refers to reference to the EU Market Abuse Regulation in the original press release.

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the publication of its Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2019.  The Annual report is available hereto (in English and Swedish) and on the Company’s website at www.mahaenergy.ca.

Adviser

FNCA Sweden AB is the Company’s Certified Adviser.  info@fnca.se, +46(0)8-528 00 399

For more information, please contact:              
Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Andres Modarelli (CFO)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11
Email: andres@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser. The Company’s auditors are Deloitte. The Company’s predecessor Maha Energy Inc was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 30 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha’s strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates four oil properties: Tartaruga and TIE fields in Brazil, Powder River (LAK Ranch) and Illinois basins in the United States. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca

Maha Energy AB Publishes the 2019 Annual Report

Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägan 5A, SE-114 51 Stockholm, Sweden
www.mahaenergy.ca

                                                                                                                                 
Press release
Stockholm
April 30, 2020          

                                                                                                                                                                                            
Maha Energy AB Publishes the 2019 Annual Report

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the publication of its Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2019.  The Annual report is available hereto (in English and Swedish) and on the Company’s website at www.mahaenergy.ca.

Adviser

FNCA Sweden AB is the Company’s Certified Adviser.    

For more information, please contact:              
Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Andres Modarelli (CFO)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11
Email: andres@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Miscellaneous 

This information is published in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation and/or the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact persons set out above on April 30, 2020.

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser. The Company’s auditors are Deloitte. The Company’s predecessor Maha Energy Inc was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 30 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha’s strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates four oil properties: Tartaruga and TIE fields in Brazil, Powder River (LAK Ranch) and Illinois basins in the United States. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca

Notice to attend the Annual General Meeting in Maha Energy AB (publ)

Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca 

                                                                                                                                 
Press release
Stockholm
April 24, 2020

                                                                                                                                                                                            
Notice to attend the Annual General Meeting in Maha Energy AB (publ)

The shareholders in Maha Energy AB (publ), reg. no. 559018-9543, are hereby given notice to attend the annual general meeting at 3:00 p.m. CET on Wednesday 27 May 2020 at Setterwalls Advokatbyrå’s offices at Sturegatan 10 in Stockholm, Sweden. Registration for the meeting commences at 2:30 p.m. CET.

Information in relation to the Corona virus (Covid-19)

In view of the recent developments of the spread of the Corona virus (Covid-19), the company has taken certain precautionary measures in relation to the annual general meeting on 27 May 2020. The measures are being taken to reduce the risk of spread of contagion.

  • Shareholders should carefully consider the possibility to vote in advance, please see below, as well as the possibility of participating by way of proxy. Shareholders who display symptoms of infection (dry cough, fever, respiratory distress, sore throat, headache, muscle and joint ache), have been in contact with people displaying symptoms, have visited a risk area, or belong to a risk group, are in particular encouraged to vote in advance or utilize a proxy. A form for advance voting and proxy form is available at www.mahaenergy.ca.
  • Only registered shareholders will admitted and no external guests will be invited
  • No refreshments will be served prior to or after the annual general meeting.
  • Statements will be limited to a few minutes, or be cancelled in order to limit the length of the meeting. No statement will be held by the CEO on the annual general meeting.
  • The annual general meeting will be conducted in the shortest possible time without limiting the rights of the shareholders. The questions at the meeting will be focused on the items on the agenda. For any general questions regarding the company or the group, shareholders are welcome to send these in advance to the company via e-mail to victoria@mahaenergy.ca.
  • Participation by the company’s management and board members at the general meeting will be limited, and may take place in whole or in part through telephone link.
  • Kindly review the information and recommendations issued by the Swedish Public Health Authority (Sw. Folkhälsomyndigheten).

The continued spread of the Corona virus (Covid-19) and its effects are still difficult to assess with certainty and the company is closely following the developments. If any further precautionary measures in relation to the annual general meeting must be taken, information thereof will be published on the company’s website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Notice

Shareholders wishing to participate at the meeting must:

  1. be entered in the shareholders’ register, kept by Euroclear Sweden AB (the Swedish Central Securities Depository & Clearing Organisation), on the record day which is Wednesday 20 May 2020; and
  2. notify the company of their attendance and any assistant no later than Wednesday 20 May 2020. Notification can be made via letter to Setterwalls Advokatbyrå AB, Attn: Magnus Melin, P.O. Box 1050, SE-101 39 Stockholm, Sweden or by e-mail to magnus.melin@setterwalls.se.

Notification shall include full name, personal identification number or corporate registration number, address and daytime telephone number and, where appropriate, information about representative, proxy and assistants. The number of assistants may not be more than two. In order to facilitate entry to the meeting, notification should, where appropriate, be accompanied by powers of attorney, registration certificates and other documents of authority.

Personal data obtained from the share register kept by Euroclear Sweden AB, notices and attendance at the meeting and information on representatives, proxies and assistants will be used for registration, preparation of the voting list for the meeting and, where appropriate, the minutes of the meeting. 

Nominee registered shares

Shareholders who have their shares registered in the name of a nominee must request temporary entry in the transcription of the share register kept by Euroclear Sweden AB in order to be entitled to participate and vote for their shares at the meeting. The shareholder must inform the nominee well in advance of Wednesday 20 May 2020, at which time the register entry must have been made.

Advance voting

The shareholders may exercise their voting rights at the general meeting by voting in advance, so called postal voting in accordance with section 3 of the Act (2020:198) on temporary exceptions to facilitate the execution of general meetings in companies and other associations. The company encourages the shareholders to use this opportunity in order to minimise the number of participants attending the general meeting in person and thus reduce the spread of the infection.

A special form shall be used for advance voting. The form is available on www.mahaenergy.ca. A shareholder who is exercising its voting right through postal voting do not need to notify the company of its attendance to the general meeting. The advance voting form is considered as the notification of attendance to the general meeting.

The completed voting form must be submitted to the company no later than on Wednesday 20 May 2020. The completed and signed form shall be sent to the address stated under “Notice” above. A completed form may also be submitted electronically and is to be sent to magnus.melin@setterwalls.se. If the shareholder is a legal entity, a certificate of incorporation or a corresponding document shall be enclosed to the form. The shareholder may not provide special instructions or conditions in the voting form. If so, the vote is invalid.

Further instructions and conditions is included in the form for postal voting.

Proxy

A shareholder represented by proxy shall issue a power of attorney which shall be dated and signed by the shareholder. If issued by a legal entity the power of attorney shall be accompanied by registration certificate or, if not applicable, equivalent documents of authority. Power of attorney forms for those shareholders wishing to participate by proxy are available on the company’s website www.mahaenergy.ca. The original version of the power of attorney shall also be presented at the meeting.

Proposed agenda

  1. Opening of the meeting and election of chairman of the meeting;
  2. Preparation and approval of the voting list;
  3. Approval of the agenda;
  4. Election of one (1) or two (2) persons who shall approve the minutes of the meeting;
  5. Determination of whether the meeting has been duly convened;
  6. Submission of the annual report and the auditor’s report and the consolidated financial statements and the auditor’s report on the group;
  7. Resolution in respect of adoption of the profit and loss statement and the balance sheet and the consolidated profit and loss statement and the consolidated balance sheet;
  8. Resolution in respect of allocation of the company’s profit or loss according to the adopted balance sheet;
  9. Resolution in respect of the members of the board of directors’ and the managing director’s discharge from liability;
  10. Determination of the number of members of the board of directors and the number of auditors and, where applicable, deputy auditors;
  11. Determination of the fees payable to the members of the board of directors and the auditors;
  12. Election of members of the board of directors, auditors and, where applicable, deputy auditors;
  13. Resolution regarding principles for the appointment of and instructions regarding a nomination committee;
  14. Resolution on a policy for remuneration to the senior executives;
  15. Resolution on an incentive programme and issuance of warrants to senior management and key employees (LTIP);
  16. Resolution regarding authorization for the board of directors to increase the share capital;
  17. Resolution on changes to the prerequisites for participating in shareholders’ meetings in the articles of association;
  18. Resolution on changes to the articles of association (removal of share classes C1 and C2);
  19. Closing of the meeting.

Proposed resolutions                

Item 1. Election of chairman of the meeting

The nomination committee, consisting of Harald Pousette, representing Kvalitena AB, Lars Carnestedt, representing Nerthus Investments Ltd., Patrik Lindvall, representing Jonas Lindvall and Anders Ehrenblad, the chairman of the board of directors, proposes that attorney Marcus Nivinger is appointed chairman of the annual general meeting.

Item 8. Allocation of the company’s profit or loss according to the adopted balance sheet

The board of directors proposes that the company’s available funds shall be carried forward in new account and that no dividend shall be paid for the last financial year.

Item 10. Determination of the number of members of the board of directors and the number of auditors and deputy auditors

The nomination committee proposes that six board members are elected.

Further, the nomination committee proposes that a registered public auditor is appointed as auditor.

Item 11. Determination of the fees payable to the members of the board of directors and auditors

The nomination committee proposes that the fees payable to the board of directors for the period until the end of the next annual general meeting shall remain the same and amount to a total of SEK 1,915,000 (remuneration for committee work not included) out of which SEK 415,000 shall be paid to the chairman and SEK 300,000 to each of the other ordinary members. The managing director shall not receive a fee as an ordinary member of the board of directors.

Board members shall also be entitled to invoice the company in so far as they perform services outside the board assignment.

Furthermore, it is proposed, as remuneration for the committee work, the chairman of the audit committee is to receive SEK 60,000, the chairman of the compensation and governance committee SEK 60,000, the chairman of the reserves and health, safety and environment committee SEK 60,000, members of the audit committee (the chairman excluded) SEK 40,000 each, members of the compensation and governance committee (the chairman excluded) SEK 40,000 each and members of the reserves and health, safety and environment committee (the chairman excluded) SEK 40,000 each. The managing director shall not receive remuneration as a member of a committee.    

It is proposed that the company’s auditor shall be paid in accordance with approved invoices.

Item 12. Election of members of the board of directors and auditors

The nomination committee proposes re-election of Jonas Lindvall, Anders Ehrenblad, Harald Pousette and Nicholas Walker as ordinary board members. The nomination committee further proposes the new-election of Seth Lieberman and Fredrik Cappelen as new ordinary board members. The nomination committee proposes election of Harald Pousette as chairman of the board of directors.

Seth Lieberman, born 1961 and a resident of United Kingdom, obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Tuft University, USA. Seth Lieberman is a seasoned veteran within the international real estate sector, particularly in his native USA and Europe. He also has broad experience within business solutions, financing and private equity participation. He has held senior roles at Advanced Capital’s Real Estate Fund, UBS Investment Bank, Hypo Real Estate, Lehman Brothers International, Credit Suisse and GE Capital. Seth Lieberman is a member of EQT Real Estate Funds I & II investment committee. Seth Lieberman is the Chairman of Kvalitena AB (publ) and a number of its’ subsidiaries, including Huski Chockolate and Svenskt Industrifly.

Fredrik Cappelen, born 1962, and a resident of Norway, obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Business from Regents University in the United Kingdom. Fredrik Cappelen has a long history in the Norwegian oil and gas financing scene. He is currently the managing director and majority shareholder of M25 Industrier AS and Vinfos AS.  Prior work experience includes Head of Sales of Equity Capital Markets at Arctic AS, before which he held several senior management positions at SEB, including Head of Sales and Corporate Finance. Fredrik Capellen is a Director of Sikri AS, Proxll AS and Proterm AS.

Information on the board members proposed for re-election and new-election can be found in the annual report and on the company’s website at www.mahaenergy.ca.

The nomination committee further proposes re-election of the accounting firm Deloitte AB as auditor. Deloitte AB has informed that Fredrik Jonsson will continue to be appointed as the auditor-in-charge.

Item 13. Resolution regarding principles for the appointment of and instructions regarding a nomination committee

The nomination committee does not propose any changes to the principles adopted at the annual general meeting in 2019 (applicable until the general meeting decides otherwise). The principles are kept available on the company’s website at www.mahaenergy.ca

Item 14. Resolution on a policy for remuneration to the senior executives

The board of directors proposes that the general meeting resolves on the adoption of a policy for remuneration and other employment conditions for senior executives, as set forth below, which shall apply for the time being. The policy is applicable on agreements entered into after the general meeting held in 2020, and as far as changes are made to existing agreements, thereafter.

Purpose

This remuneration policy includes salary and other terms and conditions for Senior Executives of Maha Energy AB (publ) and its subsidiaries (collectively “Maha” or the “Company”), including the managing director, hereinafter collectively referred to as “Management Persons”. Senior Executives for the purpose of this Policy shall include all Officers of the Company.  The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines for salary and other benefits for the Management Persons in accordance with applicable law and the requirements of the Swedish Corporate Governance Code. 

This policy is only applicable to Maha’s Management Persons.

This policy shall be adopted at the annual general meeting (“AGM”) 2020 and reviewed at least every four years.

Main principles

Salary and other terms and conditions shall enable Maha to attract and retain competent Management Persons. The remuneration for Management Persons may consist of fixed salary, variable remuneration, pension, other benefits and share related incentive programs. Variable remuneration is to be linked to predetermined and measurable performance criteria, formulated with the objective to promote Maha’s long-term value creation.

Remuneration shall not discriminate on grounds of gender, ethnic background, national origin, age, disability or other irrelevant factors.

Fixed salary

Management Persons employed by Maha shall be offered a market level fixed salary, commensurate with the international oil and gas sector, based on responsibilities, sector and time experience and performances. Salary shall be determined per calendar year with salary revision on 1 January each year.

Management Persons, if active in Maha on a consultancy basis will be paid a market level consultancy fee, commensurate with the international oil and gas sector, based on responsibilities and performances for time spent.

Variable remuneration

The managing director and other Management Persons employed by Maha may from time to time be offered variable remuneration. Such variable remuneration eligibility shall be set forth in each Management Person’s employment agreement. Maha’s maximum cost of variable remuneration to Management Persons, including social security contributions, is to be accounted for in the Annual Report which shall be available prior to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.

Variable remuneration for the Management Persons shall primarily be based on Maha’s result and the individual’s performance. The Company’s remuneration committee shall propose and evaluate goals for variable remuneration for Management Persons each year. The evaluation made by the remuneration committee shall be reported to the board of directors.

Share related incentive programs

The share related incentive program is designed to retain and attract long term qualified and committed personnel in a global oil and gas market setting.  The program is available to select employees and is meant to re-occur annually.

The number of share related options shall be in the middle range of listed companies in Sweden.

Some Management Persons and Maha employees (including some of Maha’s consultants) may participate in share related option programs in Maha. The programs is described in the annual report.

The remuneration committee and the board of directors shall annually evaluate whether to propose share related incentive programs at the Annual General Meeting.

Pension

The Pension benefits comprise of a defined contribution scheme with premiums calculated on the full basic salary.  The Pension contributions shall be in relation to the basic salary and is set on an individual basis but shall not be higher than what is tax deductible.

The Company will, at the minimum, follow statutory requirements for Pension contributions in each applicable jurisdiction it operates.

Termination and severance payment

The Company are bound by individual employment agreements where severance obligations are common for Management Persons.  Additionally, the Company abides by statutory severance obligations in the countries it operates.

Redundancy payment, apart from salary, during the period of termination notice is not allowed.

Preparations and decision-making of the board of directors

The remuneration committee proposes, and the board of directors decides, on remuneration and other employment terms for the managing director according to the above. The remuneration committee and the managing director together propose, and the board of directors decides, on remuneration and other employment terms for other Management Persons according to the above. 

Maha’s auditor shall annually review the implementation of this policy under applicable rules. The auditor’s report shall be submitted to the board of directors and presented at the AGM as and when required by law or listing agreements.

Deviations from the remuneration policy

The board of directors shall be entitled to deviate from the guidelines in this policy in individual cases if there are special reasons for doing so.

Item 15. Resolution on an incentive programme and issuance of warrants to senior management and key employees (LTIP)

The board of directors in Maha Energy AB (publ) (the “Company”) proposes that the annual general meeting resolves on an incentive programme for senior management and certain key employees through issuance of warrants entitling to subscription of new shares of class A in the Company (“Shares”) as set forth below.

Background

The proposal to launch an incentive programme by the issuance of warrants is presented by the board of directors of the Company in order to strengthen the retention of employees with the company group and to motivate the employees to create shareholder value. The board of directors assess that these objectives are in line with all shareholders’ interests.

The programme encompasses employees employed by the Company and subsidiaries of the Company (together, the “Group”). Board members are not allowed to participate. Those entitled to participate in the incentive programme are hereinafter referred to as “Participants”.

Terms and conditions for the issue of warrants

  1. The Company shall issue not more than 460,000 warrants. Each warrant entitles to subscription of one (1) new Share, each with a quotient value of SEK 0.011.
  2. The warrants may, with deviation from the shareholders’ preferential rights, only be subscribed for by Maha Energy Inc (the “Subsidiary”), a subsidiary of the Company, after which the Subsidiary is to transfer the warrants to the Participants in accordance with the resolution adopted by the general meeting and instructions from the board of directors of the Company.  
  3. Subscription of warrants shall be made by the Subsidiary on a subscription list following the general meeting’s issue resolution, but no later than 1 June 2020. The board of directors of the Company shall be entitled to prolong the subscription period.
  4. The warrants shall be issued without consideration (i.e. free of charge) to the Subsidiary.
  5. If all issued warrants are subscribed for by the Subsidiary, transferred to and exercised by the Participants for subscription of new Shares, the Company’s share capital will increase with SEK 5,060 (subject to potential recalculations in accordance with standard terms and conditions applicable to the warrants).
  6. The warrants may be exercised for subscription of new Shares during the period from and including 1 June 2023 until and including 29 February 2024. Warrants that have not been exercised for subscription of new Shares by 29 February 2024 shall lapse.
  7. Each warrant shall entitle the warrant holder to subscribe for one new Share in the Company at a subscription price per Share (the “Exercise Price”) corresponding to 100% of the volume weighted average last closing price for the Company’s share on Nasdaq First North Growth Market during the period from and including 20 May 2020 until and including 27 May 2020. The Exercise Price thus calculated shall be rounded off to the nearest whole SEK 0.10, whereupon SEK 0.5 shall be rounded upwards. The Exercise Price may never be below the quotient value of the shares.
  8. The warrants are subject to customary recalculation conditions.

Allocation principles to be applied in relation to Participants

Warrants subscribed for by the Subsidiary shall be transferred to the Participants in accordance with instructions from the board of directors of the Company and the principles set forth below.

The transfers of warrants from the Subsidiary to the Participants are to be made without consideration (i.e. free of charge).

The Participants’ right to receive warrants shall be differentiated based on position, responsibility and work performance in the Group and the maximum allocation of warrants for each Participant is set forth in the following schedule:

Participant Country Maximum no. of
allocated warrants
VP Operations Canada 175,000
VP Exploration & Production Canada 30,000
CFO Canada 30,000
Other key employees (maximum of 15) USA, Brazil, Canada, Sweden 225,000
Total: 460,000

Allocated warrants may be exercised for subscription of new Shares in the Company during the period from and including 1 June 2023 until and including 29 February 2024. Subscription of new Shares may however not take place during so-called closed periods according to the EU Market Abuse Regulation, or otherwise in breach of relevant insider rules and regulations (including the Company’s internal guidelines in this respect).

Warrant agreement

All warrants will be governed by warrant agreements to be entered into between each Participant and the Subsidiary in connection with the transfer of warrants from the Subsidiary. The warrant agreement will include certain transfer restrictions and other terms and conditions customary for such agreements.

Reasons for the deviation from the shareholders’ preferential rights

The reasons for the deviation from the shareholders’ preferential rights is that the Company wishes to offer warrants to employees of the Group in order to strengthen the retention of employees and to motivate them to contribute to the creation of shareholder value.

Dilution, costs, etc.

Upon full subscription, transfer and exercise of all 460,000 issued warrants; a total of 460,000 new Shares will be issued in the Company (subject to potential recalculations in accordance with standard terms and conditions applicable to the warrants). This would lead to a dilution corresponding to approx. 0.5 per cent of the total share capital and number of votes in the Company (based on the share capital and number of shares in the Company registered as of the date of this proposal and calculated as the maximum amount of share capital and number of shares that may be issued, divided by the total share capital and the total number of shares in the Company after the proposed warrants to be issued have been exercised).

The incentive programme is expected to have a marginal effect on the Company's earnings per share. A preliminary estimate of the market value of the warrants is SEK 3.63 per warrant for the call period (as at 22 April 2020), assuming an underlying market value and exercise price of SEK 8.15 per share (as at 22 April 2020). The Black Scholes valuation model has been used for valuing the warrants and assumes a risk free interest of -0.27 percent and a volatility of 61.5 percent.

Costs related to the issuance of warrants under the incentive programme will be accounted for in accordance with IFRS 2 and recognized as an expense in the income statement during the vesting period. The preliminary estimate of total cost to be recorded during the term of the programme is SEK 1,670,628. Ongoing administration costs and other costs of the programme are minimal.

Outstanding incentive programmes

In addition, 2,000,000 warrants are outstanding under three (3) long term incentive program for employees and senior management of the Group, of which the first program comprises of 750,000 warrants (“Program One”), the second program comprises of 750,000 warrants (“Program Two”), and the third program comprises of 500,000 warrants (“Program Three”). Each warrant under the respective program entitles to subscribe for one new Share in the Company. The exercise price of the warrants corresponds to 100 per cent of the volume weighted average last closing price for the Company’s share on Nasdaq First North Growth Market during the period from and including (i) 12 June 2017 until and including 15 June 2017 for Program One, (ii) 24 May 2018 until and including 29 May 2018 for Program Two, and (iii) 17 May 2019 until and including 23 May 2019 for Program Three. The warrants may be exercised from and including (i) 1 June 2020 until and including 31 December 2020 for Program One, (ii) 1 May 2021 until and including 30 November 2021 for Program Two, and 1 June 2022 until and including 28 February 2023 for Program Three.

Approval of transfer of warrants from the Subsidiary to Participants

A resolution to issue warrants in accordance with this proposal also includes an approval of the transfers of warrants from the Subsidiary to the Participants.   

Majority requirements

This proposal to adopt the incentive programme and to issue warrants, as well as the approval of the transfers of warrants from the Subsidiary to the Participants, is governed by the provisions in Chapter 16 of the Swedish Companies Act (Sw. Aktiebolagslagen (2005:551)), and a valid resolution therefore requires that the proposal is supported by shareholders representing at least nine-tenths (9/10) of the votes cast as well as of all shares represented at the meeting.

Miscellaneous

The chairman of the board of directors, the managing director or a person appointed by the board of directors shall be authorised to make any minor adjustments required to register the resolution with the Swedish Companies Registration Office.

Item 16. Resolution regarding authorization for the board of directors to increase the share capital

The board of directors proposes that the general meeting resolves on an authorization for the board of directors to – for the period up to the next annual general meeting and at one or more occasions – resolve upon issuance of new shares, warrants and/or convertible debentures. Payment may be made in cash, in kind, through set-off of claims or otherwise be conditional. The company’s share capital may by support of the authorization be increased by an amount corresponding to 20 per cent of the share capital and number of shares in the company as of on the date the board of directors make use of the authorization. Deviation from the shareholders’ preferential rights shall be allowed in situations where a directed issue is deemed more appropriate for the company due to timing, commercial or similar reasons, and in order to enable acquisitions. The chairman of the board of directors, the managing director, or anyone authorized by the board of directors, shall have the right to make any minor adjustments required in order to register this resolution.

Majority requirements

For a valid decision on the proposal on an authorization for the board of directors, as outlined above, requires that the proposal is supported by shareholders representing at least two-thirds (2/3) of the votes cast and the shares represented at the meeting.

Item 17. Resolution on changes to the prerequisites for participating in shareholders’ meetings in the articles of association

The following change to the articles of association is proposed by reason of the right to participate at the general meeting being regulated by the Swedish Companies Act (2005: 551) and therefore does not need to be part of the articles of association, and that an expected legislative change in 2020 will lead to the current wording being contrary to law. The board of directors proposes to change the prerequisites for participating in shareholders’ meetings in the articles of association (§ 12), whereby the following wording in § 12, second paragraph is changed: “Shareholders wishing to participate in shareholders’ meetings must be listed as shareholder in a printout or other presentation of the entire share register reflecting the circumstances five weekdays before the shareholders’ meeting and notify the company no later than the date specified in the notice of the shareholders’ meeting. The last mentioned date may not be a Sunday, other public holiday, Saturday, Midsummer’s Eve, Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve and may not occur earlier than the fifth weekday before the shareholders’ meeting. A shareholder may be accompanied by advisors at a shareholders’ meeting only if he or she notifies the company of the number of advisors in accordance with the procedure prescribed for in respect of notice of attendance to be made by a shareholder.” It is proposed that said provision is changed to the following new wording: “Shareholders wishing to participate in shareholders’ meetings must notify the company no later than the date specified in the notice of the shareholders’ meeting. A shareholder may be accompanied by advisors at a shareholders’ meeting only if he or she notifies the company of the number of advisors in accordance with the procedure prescribed for in respect of notice of attendance to be made by a shareholder.”

The chairman of the board of directors, the managing director or a person appointed by the board of directors shall be authorized to make any minor adjustments required to register the resolution with the Swedish Companies Registration Office.

Majority requirements

For a valid decision on the proposal on to change the articles of association, as outlined above, requires that the proposal is supported by shareholders representing at least two-thirds (2/3) of the votes cast and the shares represented at the meeting.

Item 18. Resolution on changes to the articles of association (removal of share classes C1 and C2)

The board of directors proposes that the general meeting resolves to change the articles of association, with the effect that the company will, after the registration of the new articles of association, only have two types of shares, series A and B. The articles of association in their proposed new version are set out in the board’s complete proposal.

The chairman of the board of directors, the managing director or a person appointed by the board of directors shall be authorised to make any minor adjustments required to register the resolution with the Swedish Companies Registration Office.

Majority requirements

For a valid decision on the proposal on to change the articles of association, as outlined above, requires that the proposal is supported by shareholders representing at least two-thirds (2/3) of the votes cast and the shares represented at the meeting.

Number of shares and votes in the company

The total number of shares in the company at the time of issuance of this notice is 102,060,127 (100,767,448 A-shares, 483,366 convertible B-shares and 809,313 convertible C2-shares). The total number of votes for all issued shares in the company is 101,412,676.6 votes. The company does not hold any of its own shares.

Shareholders’ right to request information

Pursuant to Chapter 7 section 32 of the Swedish Companies Act (Sw. aktiebolagslagen (2005:551)) the board of directors and the managing director are under a duty to, if any shareholder so requests and the board of directors deems that it can be made without material damage to the company, provide information, regarding circumstances which may affect the assessment of a matter on the agenda or of the company’s economic situation. Such duty to provide information also comprises the company’s relation to the other group companies, the consolidated financial statements and such circumstances regarding subsidiaries which are set out in the foregoing sentence.

Documentation

The financial accounts, auditor’s report, complete proposals for resolution and other documents to be dealt with at the general meeting will be kept available at the company’s office not later than three weeks before the meeting. The documents will be sent free of charge to shareholders who so request and state their postal address. The documents will also be made available not later than the aforementioned date on the company’s website www.mahaenergy.ca. All the above mentioned documents will also be presented at the general meeting.

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Stockholm, April 2020

The board of directors

Offical version of notice to attend the annual general meeting
The official version of the notice to attend the annual general meeting is in the Swedish language and available for download at the following link: https://mahaenergyab.se/information/

For more information please visit www.mahaenergy.ca or contact:                   
Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11                   
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

Or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Maha in Brief
Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company’s auditors are Deloitte. The Company’s predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 30 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha’s strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates four oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil, LAK Ranch, and Illinois Basin Assets in the U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Maha Energy AB (publ) Announce March Production Volumes

­­­Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press release
Stockholm
April 2, 2020

Maha Energy AB (publ) Announce March Production Volumes

Production Volumes

The Company's aggregate sales production for the month of March totaled 97,1311 barrels of oil and 40.283 million scf of gas for a combined average production of approximately 3,350 BOE/day2, before royalties and taxes.

Gas deliveries to CDGN were curtailed during the month of March due to a prolonged maintenance issue at one of the end gas customers, and a total shut down of a second end customer due to the COVID-19 closure of a municipal border during the second half of March.

The GTE-4 well at the Tie field was shut in as planned during the second half of March to carry out conversion to artificial lift.

Both events contributed to reduced production during the month of March.

1   Subject to minor standard industry adjustments at the time of custody transfer.
2   Barrels of oil equivalent ("BOE") conversion ratio of 6,000 scf: 1 bbl is used.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11      
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11      
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 30 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.