MTMV · CIK 1393044
What Motomova Inc. told the SEC could break it.
Motomova's disclosures describe a speculative, exploration-stage oil and gas micro-cap. Its value rests entirely on discovering commercially productive reservoirs in its Alaska and Oklahoma acreage — exploration that can fail through dry holes or wells that don't return a profit at prevailing prices, and it has already recorded leasehold impairments such as a $247,286 Alaska charge. With no production revenue and no employees, it warns that unsuccessful drilling could cause the business to fail and investors to lose their entire investment, and its operations face stringent federal and state environmental regulation — EPA oversight, RCRA waste rules, Clean Water Act permits, air-emissions controls, and severance taxes — that raises costs and carries penalties.
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In its own words
What could break it.
Commodity & input dependence
- oil & natural gas exploration economics — reservoir-discovery and commodity-price risk (leasehold impairments)high
Motomova's value depends on discovering commercially productive oil/gas reservoirs in its Alaska and Oklahoma acreage; it recorded leasehold impairments (e.g. a $247,286 Alaska charge), and exploration can be unprofitable from dry holes or wells that don't return a profit at prevailing commodity prices.
“Exploration for oil and natural gas can be unprofitable, not only from failing to discover reserves, but from productive wells that do not produce sufficient revenues to return a profit.”
SEC filing →As of 2011
Other disclosures
- exploration-stage, no revenue, no employees; speculative micro-cap (entire-investment-loss risk)medium
Motomova is a sub-scale oil & gas exploration company with no employees and no production revenue; if its exploratory drilling is unsuccessful, the business may fail and investors could lose their entire investment — a speculative going-concern-type risk.
“If our exploratory drilling operations are not successful, our business may fail and investors may lose their entire investment in our Company. Oil and gas exploration and development involves many operating risks.”
SEC filing →As of 2011
Regulatory & policy
- oil & gas environmental regulation (EPA, RCRA, Clean Water Act, air emissions, severance taxes)medium
Motomova's operations are subject to stringent federal/state environmental regulation — EPA oversight, RCRA waste rules, Clean Water Act discharge permits and air-emissions controls — plus state production limits and severance taxes, which raise costs and carry penalties for non-compliance.
“Our operations will be subject to stringent environmental regulation by state and federal authorities including the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ). Such regulation can increase the cost of such activities.”
SEC filing →As of 2011
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