Permex Petroleum Announces Strategic Divestiture of Central Basin Property
Vancouver, British Columbia, December 10, 2020 - Permex Petroleum Corporation ("Permex" or the "Corporation") (CSE: OIL) (OTCQB: OILCF) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with an arm's-length Texas based, private oil and gas exploration and production company (the "Purchaser") to divest of the company’s Central Basin property for an approximate gross transaction value of $1.31M USD in cash, prior to customary closing adjustments (the “Divestiture”).
Pursuant to the agreement, which has an effective date of October 1, 2020. The purchasers will conduct the customary due diligence and anticipate a closing of December 18, 2020. Post completion of the sale, Permex will be in a strong financial position with no external debt on the balance sheet while it continues its operations of the 6 remaining oil and gas properties that it holds across the Permian basin of west Texas and Delaware sub basin of southeast New Mexico.
“We are taking bold and decisive actions to better position the company over the long term,” said Mehran Ehsan, President and CEO. “This divestiture does not only allow the company to remove, uninflated decommissioning obligations from its schedule of liabilities but to also strengthen our balance sheet. Furthermore, in alignment with our growth strategy, while continuing operating our other oil and gas properties we have begun short listing new possible discounted acquisitions in the Permian basin of Texas in order to increase returns, margins and profitability.”
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Mehran Ehsan
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
(604) 259-2525
Scott Kelly
CFO, Corporate Secretary & Director
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