Laredo Oil Assists Stranded Oil Resources Corporation in Acquisition of Teapot Dome Oilfield
Austin, Texas, January 30, 2015 – Laredo Oil, Inc. (“Laredo Oil”) (OTCBB: LRDC) announced today that pursuant to its management services agreement with Stranded Oil Resources Corporation (“SORC”), it has assisted SORC, through one of its subsidiaries, in purchasing the Department of Energy's Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 3 (NPR-3), the Teapot Dome Oilfield located 35 miles north of Casper, WY, for $45.2 million.
Today’s purchase is the culmination of a competitive bidding process that closed on October 16, 2014. Under the terms of the sale, operation and ownership of all NPR-3’s mineral rights and approximately 9,000 acres of land is immediately transferred to SORC. The remaining surface acreage is scheduled to be transferred in May, bringing the total acres purchased to 9,318.
Mark See, Chairman and CEO of Laredo Oil, stated, “We view the Teapot Dome Oilfield as a good strategic fit as the purchase is aligned with SORC’s core strategy of acquiring and re-developing mature domestic oil fields. By targeting historic properties with known characteristics, we reduce the uncertainty and risk generally associated with oil exploration. NPR-3 was used for a variety of R&D test projects under Government ownership, thus the quantity and quality of the data on the field is impressive. We look forward to developing the field under commercial operations.”
ABOUT LAREDO OIL, INC.
Laredo Oil, Inc. (www.laredo-oil.com) is a management services company managing the acquisition and conventional operation of mature oil fields and the further recovery of stranded oil from those fields using enhanced oil recovery methods for its sole customer, SORC, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Alleghany Corporation. The common stock of Laredo Oil is listed on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol, “LRDC”.
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Laredo Oil, Inc.
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