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Chariot Limited
("Chariot", the "Company" or the "Group")
13 August 2024
Result of General Meeting and Total Voting Rights
Chariot (AIM: CHAR), the African focused transitional energy company, announces that at the General Meeting of the Company held earlier today all resolutions were duly passed.
The Company is pleased to confirm that as a result of obtaining shareholder approval for the Fundraising, which comprised an oversubscribed Placing and Subscription and an oversubscribed Open Offer, Chariot has raised a total of US$9 million (£7 million) through the issue of 106,704,899 New Ordinary Shares.
The net proceeds of the Fundraising will be used as follows in order to:
· Strengthen the balance sheet to continue to progress and deliver value from Chariot's portfolio of projects
· Secure a material new venture opportunity with multi-billion barrel potential
· Progress onshore gas commercialisation plans in Morocco to build a gas to industry supply
Total Voting Rights
The Company has applied for admission of the New Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Fundraising to trading on AIM. Admission will occur at 8.00 a.m. on 14 August 2024. On Admission, the Company will have 1,180,884,055 Ordinary Shares in issue and there are no shares held in treasury. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Capitalised terms in this announcement shall have the same meaning as in the announcement made by the Company on 19 July 2024 unless the context requires otherwise.
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014, as retained in the UK pursuant to S3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended).
Enquiries:
Chariot Limited Adonis Pouroulis, CEO Julian Maurice-Williams, CFO | +44 (0)20 7318 0450
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Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (Nomad and Joint Bookrunner) Derrick Lee, Adam Rae (Corporate Finance) Leif Powis (ECM)
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited (Joint Bookrunner) Callum Stewart, Ashton Clanfield, Jason Grossman |
+44 (0)20 7397 8900
+44 (0) 20 7710 7760 |
Celicourt Communications (Financial PR) Mark Antelme, Jimmy Lea
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+44 (0)20 7770 6424 |
NOTES FOR EDITORS:
About Chariot
Chariot is an Africa focused transitional energy group with three business streams: Transitional Gas, Transitional Power and Green Hydrogen.
Chariot Transitional Gas is focused on high value, low risk gas development projects in Morocco, a fast-growing emerging economy, with a clear route to early monetisation, delivery of free cash flow and material exploration upside.
Chariot Transitional Power is focused on providing competitive, sustainable and reliable energy and water solutions across the continent through building, generating and trading renewable power.
Chariot Green Hydrogen is partnering with TEH2 (80% owned by TotalEnergies, 20% by the EREN Group) and the Government of Mauritania on the potential development of a 10GW green hydrogen project, Project Nour in Mauritania, and is progressing pilot projects in Morocco.
The ordinary shares of Chariot Limited are admitted to trading on AIM under the symbol 'CHAR'.
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