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Henan CBM
Development and Utilization Co., Ltd
And
Dart Energy
PTE LTD
And
Hong Kong Prosperous Clean Energy
Company Ltd
Letter of
Intent on Cooperative
Development of
Unconventional Gas
Dated: May 20, 2013
Cooperating Parties:
Party A: Henan CBM Development and
Utilization Co., Ltd
Party B: Dart
Energy PTE LTD
Party C: Hong Kong
Prosperous Clean Energy Company Ltd
A.
Precondition
to the Cooperation
1.
Party
A
is
a
business
entity
incorporated
under
the
approval
of
Henan
Provincial
Government.
It
is
responsible
exclusively
for
coal
bed
methane
(CBM)
exploration,
extraction and production, development
and utilization in Henan Province and is the
first
provincial
CBM
development
and
utilization
company
in
China.
Party
A
has
obtained the qualification to
exclusively cooperate with foreign enterprises.
2.
Party B is a
company incorporated and operating under the laws
of Singapore. The
company
has
the
technical
and
capital
capabilities
of
t
assessing
CBM
resources,
designing
appraisal
and
pilot
drilling
programs
and
subject
to
technical
success
of
those
programs,
moving
to
developing
and
producing
commercially
viable
CBM.
It
has developed innovative, low cost
horizontal and vertical drilling technology that
is
instrumental in establishing the
sustainable growth of commercial CBM production
and pre-drainage of several coal mining
areas.
3.
Party
C
focuses
on
clean
energy
and
is
engaged
in
development
and
utilization
of
automotive new energy, including LPG,
CNG and CBM. Now the company has eight
CNG gas stations, two LPG gas stations
and one L-CNG gas station in operation.
4.
It
is the
intention
of
the
parties
that Party
A
and Party
B
will
cooperate
and
carry
out
exploration
work
in
the
6
CBM
blocks
under
the
principle
of
“
easier
block/cherry-pick
development
first
”
subject to the
condition that the choice is beneficial to all
parties.
5.
As
part
of
the
process
of
entering
into
the
PSCs,
the
parties
wish
to
commence
a
technical
evaluation
with
a
view
to
determining
the
feasibility
and
scale
of
CBM
exploration and development within the
corresponding areas. To this end, all parties
agree
to
include
a
confidentiality
clause
in
this
LOI
with
the
aim
of
facilitating
the
providing and sharing of appropriate
data.
6.
Party B
and Party C agree to cover the costs to carry out
the technical due diligence
and
evaluation, and the parties agree to formulate the
indicative timetable for the
negotiation of the PSC in details after
the completion details after the completion of
the technical due diligence and
evaluation.
B.
Cooperation Intention
1.
Evaluation.
The
parties
propose
to
carry
out
a
technical
commercial
&
legal
evaluation of the
feasible area selected by
Party A to determine the potential for
CBM
resources.
The
evaluation
shall
also
identify
a
preliminary
view
of
the
most
promising
areas
for
initial
exploration
activities,
follow-up
appraisal
and
potential
development of a full-scale CBM project
in the corresponding area.
2.
Technical
data.
Party
A
will
use
its
best
endeavors
to
coordinate
the
collection
of
technical
data
for
the
cooperated
areas,
as
may
be
necessary
to
conduct
the
technical,
commercial
and
legal
evaluation.
At
the
same
time,
Party
A
will
also
arrange for Party B and
Party C to carry out site and underground mine
visit(s) of the
corresponding
areas
as
appropriate
and,
if
possible,
carry
out
analysis
of
physical
coal
samples
and
available
drill
cores
available
from
previous
drill
core
programs
undertaken in
respect of the corresponding areas.
Party
A
shall
endeavor
to
arrange
appropriate
staff
and
party
B
and
Party
C
’
s
technical
personnel
to
work
together,
in
order
to
complete
all
the
technical,
commercial
and
legal
evaluation,
and
efficiently
handle
the
mutual
interference
issues that may
be occur in the evaluation and mining work.
3.
The parties
shall use their best endeavors to work co-
operatively at all times within
the
scope of the content of the cooperation and shall,
where possible, openly share
information
between
them
that
will
assist
in
accomplishing
the
objective
and
purposes of this LOI.
4.
Production
Sharing Contract. All parties shall use their best
endeavors to conclude
and sign the
PSCs. The rights and obligations of each party
will be defined in PSCs.
The PSCs shall
be reported to the various competent government
authorities after
being signed, and
shall subject to the approval of the relevant
regulatory authorities
and
the
Ministry
of
commerce
of
the
People
’
s
Republic
of
China
and
other
government authorities.
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