CGX in money woes

Faced with a demand for US$15M from Repsol for its share of oil drilling costs, CGX is entering into a private placement of  CDN$35-40M that could result in its fellow Canadian explorer Pacific Rubiales taking majority control of the company.

CGX which had been seeking commercial oil here unsuccessfully since 2000, encountered serious financial woes last year after two wells came up dry – one wholly owned and