Strategic Oil & Gas (TSX-V: SOG)

Strategic Oil & Gas (TSX-V: SOG), a Calgary Alberta-based junior oil and gas company, along with its wholly owned subsidiary, Strategic Transmission, had its CCAA proceedings transitioned to a court-appointed receivership on January 28. In early January 2020, the company approached the Alberta Energy Regulator ("AER") with its high level plan of compromise and arrangement to exit the CCAA proceedings. The plan called for, among other things, a payment of $5.0 million to the Orphan Well Association ("OWA") in respect of certain assets the company was seeking to have abandoned and a proposed dividend of $0.10 on the dollar for the company's trade creditors, owed an estimated $10.6 million. In mid-January, the AER notified the company that it was not supportive of the proposed plan. In response, the company advised that it had no further options with respect to a restructuring and planned to wind up its operations and transition its assets to the OWA through a court-appointed receivership. KPMG was appointed receiver of the company's Alberta assets. Alvarez & Marsal is the receiver of the company's assets in the Northwest Territories. Counsel is Dentons for the company, Torys for KPMG, Bennett Jones for GMT Capital, a secured debenture holder and Cassels Brock for the Government of the Northwest Territories.