UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

 

☒   QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the Quarterly Period Ended: September 30, 2016

 

Commission File Number: 0-17264

 

Omagine, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware		20-2876380
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

136 Madison Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10016

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(212) 563-4141

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. ☒ Yes ☐ No

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate website every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). ☒ Yes ☐ No

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.

 

Large accelerated filer	☐	Accelerated filer	☐
Non accelerated filer	☐	Smaller reporting company	☒

 

Indicate by a check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ☐ Yes ☒ No

 

As of November 14, 2016, the Registrant had outstanding 20,132,648 shares of common stock, par value $.001 per share (“Common Stock”).

 

 

 

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	FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1:	FINANCIAL STATEMENTS	1
	CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS: SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 AND DECEMBER 31, 2015	1
	CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS: THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 AND SEPTEMBER 30, 2015	2
	CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY	3
	CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS: NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 AND SEPTEMBER 30, 2015	4
	NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS	5
ITEM 2:	MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS	20
ITEM 3:	QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK	49
ITEM 4:	CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES	49
PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1:	LEGAL PROCEEDINGS	50
ITEM1A:	RISK FACTORS	50
ITEM 2:	UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS	50
ITEM 3:	DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES	51
ITEM 4:	MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES	51
ITEM 5:	OTHER INFORMATION	51
ITEM 6:	EXHIBITS	51
	SIGNATURES	54

  

 

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

Some of the statements contained in this report that are not statements of historical facts constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, notwithstanding that such statements are not specifically identified as such. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and projections about future events. The words “estimates,” “projects,” “plans,” “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “targeted,” “continue,” “remain,” “will,” “should,” “may” and other similar expressions, or the negative or other variations thereof, as well as discussions of strategy that involve risks and uncertainties (such as the Al Rayan Bank Loan discussed in this report), are intended to identify forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include but are not limited to statements about or relating to: (i) future revenues, expenses, income or loss, cash flow, earnings or loss per share, the payment or nonpayment of dividends, capital structure and other financial items, (ii) plans, objectives and expectations of Omagine, Inc. or its subsidiary Omagine LLC or the managements or Boards of Directors thereof, (iii) the Company’s business plans, products or services, (iv) future economic or financial performance, and (v) assumptions underlying such statements. Forecasts, projections and assumptions contained and expressed herein were reasonably based on information available to the Company at the time so furnished and as of the date of this report. All such forecasts, projections and assumptions are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the Company's control, and no assurance can be given that such forecasts, projections or assumptions will be realized. No assurances can be given regarding the achievement of future results, as our actual results may differ materially from our projected future results as a result of the risks we face, and actual future events may differ from anticipated future events because of the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements that have been made regarding such anticipated events.

 

Factors that may cause actual results, our performance or achievements, or industry results, to differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements include without limitation:

 

●	the uncertainty associated with political events in the Middle East and North Africa (the “MENA Region”) in general, including the ongoing civil disorder and military activities in the MENA Region;
●	the success or failure of Omagine’s efforts to secure additional financing, including project financing for the Omagine Project;
●	oversupply of residential and/or commercial property inventory in the Oman real estate market or other adverse conditions in such market;
●	the impact of MENA Region or international economies and/or future events (including natural disasters) on the Oman economy, on Omagine’s business or operations, on tourism within or into Oman, on the oil and natural gas businesses in Oman and on other major industries operating within the Omani market;
●	deterioration or malaise in economic conditions, including the continuing destabilizing factors associated with the recent rapid decline in the price of crude oil on international markets;
●	inflation, interest rates, movements in interest rates, securities market and monetary fluctuations;
●	threatened and ongoing acts of war, civil or political unrest, terrorism or political instability in the MENA Region; or
●	The ability to attract and retain skilled employees.

 

Potential investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

 

 

 

ITEM 1: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

OMAGINE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

 

		September 30,				December 31,
		2016				2015
		(Unaudited)
ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS:
Cash		$	12,423			$	324,703
Inventory (Note 2)
Land under development			490,813,363				490,813,363
Total inventory held for sale			490,813,363				490,813,363
Prepaid expenses and other current assets			11,090				1,767
Total Current Assets			490,836,876				491,139,833
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT:
Real estate held for investment (Note 2)
Total investment in real estate			227,800,637				227,800,637
Office and computer equipment			160,002				160,002
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization			(152,527	)			(148,894	)
Total Property and Equipment			227,808,112				227,811,745
OTHER ASSETS			4,057				33,762
TOTAL ASSETS		$	718,649,045			$	718,985,340
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
Convertible notes payable and accrued interest		$	482,110			$	397,929
Notes payable and accrued interest - YA II PN, Ltd. (less unamortized discount of $57,500 and $20,833, respectively)			514,842				204,167
Accounts payable			776,526				340,290
Accrued officers payroll			367,877				389,834
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities			165,546				155,330
Total Current Liabilities			2,306,901				1,487,550
Long Term Liabilities			-				-
TOTAL LIABILITIES			2,306,901				1,487,550
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Preferred stock: $0.001 par value Authorized:  850,000 shares Issued and outstanding: - none			-				-
Common stock: $0.001 par value Authorized: 50,000,000 shares Issued and outstanding: 20,062,648 shares in 2016 and 18,728,313 in 2015			20,062				18,728
Capital in excess of par value			469,794,059				468,651,654
Deficit			(40,502,569	)			(38,342,692	)
Total Omagine, Inc. stockholders' equity			429,311,552				430,327,690
Noncontrolling interests in Omagine LLC			287,030,592				287,170,100
Total Stockholders' Equity			716,342,144				717,497,790
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY		$	718,649,045			$	718,985,340

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

  

 

OMAGINE, INC. AND  SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(Unaudited)

 

		Three Months Ended September 30,								Nine Months Ended September 30,
		2016				2015				2016				2015
REVENUE:
Total revenue		$	-			$	-			$	-			$	-
OPERATING EXPENSES:
Officers and directors compensation (including stock-based compensation of  $135, $1,880,765, $301,655 and $1,957,285, respectively)			113,885				1,976,515				578,238				2,240,535
Professional fees			266,276				9,375				342,757				142,394
Consulting fees (including stock-based compensation of $25,000, $1,343,924, $25,000 and $1,355,105, respectively)			28,458				1,414,848				466,251				1,745,904
Commitment fees (All stock-based compensation)			150,000				-				150,000				-
Travel			114,604				117,281				389,203				423,875
Occupancy			14,690				45,683				45,657				124,419
Other selling general and administrative			50,677				125,585				203,898				286,651
Total Costs and Expenses			738,590				3,689,287				2,176,004				4,963,778
OPERATING LOSS			(738,590	)			(3,689,287	)			(2,176,004	)			(4,963,778	)
OTHER (EXPENSE) INCOME
Amortization of debt discounts			(25,000	)			(12,500	)			(63,333	)			(28,800	)
Interest expense			(26,678	)			(18,643	)			(60,048	)			(44,843	)
Other (Expense) - Net			(51,678	)			(31,143	)			(123,381	)			(73,643	)
NET LOSS			(790,268	)			(3,720,430	)			(2,299,385	)			(5,037,421	)
Add net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests in Omagine LLC			113,223				24,752				139,508				102,160
NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO OMAGINE, INC.		$	(677,045	)		$	(3,695,678	)		$	(2,159,877	)		$	(4,935,261	)
LOSS PER SHARE - BASIC AND DILUTED		$	(0.03	)		$	(0.21	)		$	(0.11	)		$	(0.29	)
WEIGHTED AVERAGE NUMBER OF SHARES OUTSTANDING
- BASIC AND DILUTED			19,850,406				17,417,560				19,561,559				17,240,703

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

 

OMAGINE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT)

 

		Common Stock
		Issued and Outstanding.								Capital in								Noncontrolling
						$0.001 Par				Excess of								Interests in
		Shares				Value				Par Value				Deficit				Omagine LLC				Total
Balances at December 31, 2013			14,935,038			$	14,935			$	25,987,795			$	(27,508,439	)		$	(25,952	)		$	(1,531,661	)
Stock grant issued to law firm in satisfaction of $15,812 of accounts payable			34,374				34				26,214				-				-				26,248
Issuance of Common Stock under 2014 Standby Equity Distribution Agreement ( SEDA)			218,941				219				309,781				-				-				310,000
Issuance of Common Stock for SEDA commitment fees			85,822				86				149,914				-				-				150,000
Issuance of Common Stock for 401(k) Plan contribution			73,315				73				76,177				-				-				76,250
Issuance of Common Stock for cash			1,004,629				1,004				1,486,096				-				-				1,487,100
Issuance of Common Stock for finders' fees on restricted Common Stock sales			46,000				47				76,121				-				-				76,168
Exercise of Tempest Warrants			490,000				490				663,010				-				-				663,500
Cancellation of shares issued to stockholder relations agent			(10,000	)			(10	)			(9,010	)			-				-				(9,020	)
Stock Option expense			-				-				3,486,856				-				-				3,486,856
Adjustments for noncontrolling interests in Omagine LLC			-				-				-				-				(53,669	)			(53,669	)
Net loss			-				-				-				(5,160,960	)			-				(5,160,960	)
Balances at December 31, 2014			16,878,119			$	16,878			$	32,252,954			$	(32,669,399	)		$	(79,621	)		$	(479,188	)
Issuance of Common Stock for 401(k) Plan contribution			36,483				37				76,213				-				-				76,250
Stock grant to consultant for services rendered			5,000				5				9,445				-				-				9,450
Issuance of Common Stock for cash			206,281				206				219,794				-				-				220,000
Issuance of Common Stock to an Executive Officer in  payment of salaries payable			100,000				100				119,900				-				-				120,000
Stock Options exercised by former Director			2,000				2				1,018				-				-				1,020
Exercise of Tempest Warrants			160,603				161				252,879				-				-				253,040
Issuance of Common Stock for finders' fees on restricted Common Stock sales			41,245				41				72,459				-				-				72,500
Issuance of Common Stock for Directors' Compensation for services September 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015			50,000				50				99,950				-				-				100,000
Issuance of Common Stock under 2014 Standby Equity Distribution Agreement (SEDA)			17,696				18				24,982				-				-				25,000
Issuance of Restricted Common Stock for cash			1,230,886				1,230				1,238,470				-				-				1,239,700
Stock Option expense			-				-				4,001				-				-				4,001
Stock Option expense - Extension of Strategic Options (1,965,000 to December 31, 2016)			-				-				915,493				-				-				915,493
Stock Option expense - Extension of Strategic Options (950,000 to December 31, 2016)			-				-				541,215				-				-				541,215
Stock Option expense - Stock Appreciation Rights (1,455,000 expiring December 31, 2017)			-				-				1,654,481				-				-				1,654,481
Payment-in-Kind capital contribution of land by noncontrolling interest in Omagine LLC			-				-				431,168,400				-				287,445,600				-718,614,000
Adjustments for noncontrolling interests in Omagine LLC			-				-				-				-				(195,879	)			(195,879	)
Net loss			-				-				-				(5,673,293	)			-				(5,673,293	)
Balances at December 31, 2015			18,728,313			$	18,728			$	468,651,654			$	(38,342,692	)		$	287,170,100			$	717,497,790
Issuance of Common Stock for 401(k) Plan contribution			61,001				61				76,189				-				-				76,250
Issuance of Common Stock for Directors' Stock Compensation for services January 1, 2016 to December  31, 2016			115,386				116				149,884				-				-				150,000
Stock Option expense			-				-				405				-				-				405
Issuance of Common Stock to an Executive Officer in  payment of salaries payable			56,000				56				50,344				-				-				50,400
Issuance of Common Stock for Directors' Cash Compensation for services January 1 2016, to June 30, 2016			83,334				83				74,917				-				-				75,000
Issuance of Restricted Common Stock for cash			769,488				770				558,230				-				-				559,000
Conversion of Convertible Notes payable liability into Common Stock			24,207				24				30,960				-				-				30,984
Issuance of Common Stock to a Director for the exercise of  stock options			2,000				2				1,698				-				-				1,700
Issuance of Common Stock under 2014 Standby Equity Distribution Agreement (SEDA)			31,289				31				24,969				-				-				25,000
Issuance of Common Stock to consultant for services			30,340				30				24,970				-				-				25,000
Issuance of Common Stock for SEDA commitment fees			161,290				161				149,839				-				-				150,000
Adjustments to noncontrolling interests in Omagine LLC			-				-				-				-				(139,508	)			(139,508	)
Net loss			-				-				-				(2,159,877	)			-				(2,159,877	)
Balances at September 30, 2016 (Unaudited)			20,062,648			$	20,062			$	469,794,059			$	(40,502,569	)		$	287,030,592			$	716,342,144

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. 

 

 

OMAGINE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(Unaudited)

 

		Nine Months Ended September 30,
		2016				2015
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net loss attributable to Omagine, Inc.		$	(2,159,877	)		$	(4,935,261	)
Adjustments to  reconcile net loss to net cash flows used by operating activities:
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests in Omagine LLC			(139,508	)			(102,160	)
Depreciation and amortization			66,966				32,337
Stock-based compensation related to stock options			405				3,114,190
Issuance of Common Stock for finders' fees on restricted Common Stock sales			-				12,500
Issuance of Common Stock for consulting fees			25,000				9,450
Issuance of Common Stock for 401(k) Plan contributions			76,250				76,250
Issuance of Common Stock for Directors' fees			225,000				100,000
Issuance of Common Stock for commitment fees			150,000				-
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Prepaid expenses, other current assets and other assets			20,382				(3,436	)
Accrued interest on notes payable			17,507				21,698
Accounts payable			436,236				160,791
Accrued officers' payroll			28,443				(142,573	)
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities			10,216				(30,964	)
Net cash flows used by operating activities			(1,242,980	)			(1,687,178	)
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Purchase of equipment			-				(6,398	)
Net cash flows used by investing activities			-				(6,398	)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Principal payments on 2014 note payable to YA II PN, Ltd.			-				(225,000	)
Proceeds from sale of Common Stock			584,000				259,700
Proceeds of 2015 note payable to YA II PN, Ltd. Net of $50,000 commitment fee			-				450,000
Proceeds from exercise of stock options			1,700				1,020
Principal payments on 2015 note payable to YA II PN, Ltd.			(225,000	)			(130,000	)
Proceeds from the sale of Common Stock Warrants			-				250,000
Proceeds of issuance of 2016 note payable to YA II PN, Ltd. Net of $60,000 commitment fee			540,000				-
Principal payments on 2016 $600,000 note payable to YA II PN, Ltd.			(315,000	)			-
Proceeds of issuance of an additional 2016 note payable to YA II PN, Ltd. net of $40,000 commitment fee			360,000				-
Principal payments on 2016 $400,000 note payable to YA II PN, Ltd.			(115,000	)			-
Proceeds of issuance of convertible note payable			100,000				-
Net cash flows provided by financing activities			930,700				605,720
NET (DECREASE) INCREASE  IN CASH			(312,280	)			(1,087,856	)
CASH BEGINNING OF PERIOD			324,703				1,113,679
CASH END OF PERIOD		$	12,423			$	25,823
SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
Income taxes paid		$	600			$	2,197
Interest paid		$	56,451			$	19,089
NON-CASH FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Issuance of Common Stock to an Executive Officer in payment of salaries payable		$	50,400			$	120,000
Issuance of Common Stockin satisfaction of convertible note payable ($15,000) and accrued interest ($15,984)		$	30,984			$	-
Payment-in-kind capital contribution of land by noncontrolling interest in Omagine LLC pursuant to Omagine LLC Stockholder Agreement		$	-			$	718,614,000

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

  

OMAGINE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Unaudited)

 

NOTE 1 - NATURE OF THE BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES 

 

Nature of the Business

 

Omagine, Inc. (“Omagine”) is a holding company incorporated in Delaware in October 2004 which operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Journey of Light, Inc., a New York corporation (“JOL”) and its 60% owned subsidiary Omagine LLC, a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Sultanate of Oman (“LLC”). Omagine, JOL and LLC are collectively referred to herein as the “Company”. JOL was acquired by Omagine in October 2005. LLC is the Omani real estate development company organized by Omagine to do business in Oman.

 

The Company is focused on entertainment, hospitality and real-estate development opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa (the “MENA Region”). On October 2, 2014, LLC signed a Development Agreement with the Government of Oman (the “Government”) for the development of the Omagine Project. On July 2, 2015, a usufruct over one million square meters of beachfront land (the “Land Rights”) was registered in LLC'’s name with the Government. On November 29, 2015, LLC executed a Murabaha Facility Agreement with Masraf Al Rayan Bank (Qatar) for a $25 million loan to finance the first phase of the Omagine Project consisting of design, development and initial construction activities. The loan, which is subject to satisfaction of certain conditions precedent to closing, would bear interest at an annual rate equal to the 12 month LIBOR rate plus 1% and would be payable one year from the closing date. One condition precedent to closing is that the loan be secured by a $25,000,000 cash deposit in an LLC account at the Qatari bank. Contingent upon the closing of such loan and/or contingent upon the general contractor advancing $10 million to LLC upon execution of the construction contract, commencement of these first phase activities is expected to begin promptly thereafter. (See Note 9 – “Omagine Project”).

 

Interim Financial Statements

 

The consolidated balance sheet for the Company at the end of the preceding fiscal year has been derived from the audited balance sheet and notes thereto contained in the Company’s amended annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 and is presented herein for comparative purposes. All other financial statements are unaudited. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for all periods presented, have been made. The results of operations for the interim periods presented are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for the respective full years.

 

Certain footnote disclosures normally included in the financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“US GAAP”) have been omitted in accordance with the published rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 filed with the SEC on April 14, 2016.

 

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

Principles of Consolidation - The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Omagine, JOL and LLC. LLC is an Omani limited liability company organized under the laws of the Sultanate of Oman. All inter-company transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

 

Financial Instruments - Financial instruments include cash, convertible notes payable and accrued interest, notes payable and accrued interest, accounts payable, accrued officers’ payroll and accrued expenses and other current liabilities. The amounts reported for financial instruments are considered to be reasonable approximations of their fair values, based on market information available to management.

 

Cash and Cash Equivalents – The Company considers all highly liquid instruments with a maturity of three months or less at the time of issuance to be cash equivalents. At September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, cash included approximately $4,500 and $36,000 respectively in an Oman bank account not covered by FDIC insurance.

 

Inventory – Inventory is stated at cost. At September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, inventory consists only of the land under development acquired on July 2, 2015 (which was costed at the fair value of the property at the date of acquisition). The Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2015 reflect an increase of $490,813,363 in inventory resulting from LLC’s July 2, 2015 acquisition of the Land Rights. (See: Note 2 – “Inventory and Property”).

 

Property, Plant and Equipment - Property, plant and equipment (“PP&E”) are stated at cost. PP&E consists of land under development which is held for investment; furniture and fixtures; and office machinery and equipment. PP&E (including buildings and structures after they are completed and put into service) are depreciated on a straight-line basis over their respective useful service lives. The Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2015 reflect an increase of $227,800,637 in PP&E resulting from LLC’s July 2, 2015 acquisition of the Land Rights. (See: Note 2 – “Inventory and Property”).

 

 

Stockholders’ Equity - Stockholders’ equity consists of common stock, capital in excess of par value, deficit, and non-controlling interests in LLC. The Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2015 reflect an increase of $718,614,000 in stockholders’ equity resulting from LLC’s July 2, 2015 acquisition of the Land Rights (a $431,168,400 increase in Omagine stockholders’ equity and a $287,445,600 increase in non-controlling interests in LLC). (See: Note 2 – “Inventory and Property”).

 

Estimates and Uncertainties - The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“US GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results as determined at a later date could differ from those estimates. In recording $718,614,000 in the accompanying consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2015 as the value of the non-cash consideration received by LLC as Land Rights, management relied to a great extent upon the written opinions of three expert valuation firms engaged by LLC to value such Land Rights. Furthermore, in allocating such Land Value to inventory and land under development, management relied to a great extent upon the written opinion of an expert independent accounting firm engaged by LLC to advise it on the proper accounting to record the Land Value in LLC’s financial statements. Both LLC’s independent auditor and the Company’s independent auditor are in agreement with and have consented to the accounting indicated in the accompanying consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2015. (See: Note 2 – “Inventory and Property”).

 

Revenue Recognition - The Company follows the guidelines of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101,”Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements” (SAB101). LLC signed a development agreement for the Omagine Project with the Government of Oman in October 2014, and will recognize revenue ratably over the development period of the Omagine Project measured by methods appropriate to the services or products provided.

 

Income Taxes - Omagine and JOL are subject to United States (“U.S.”) income taxes at both the federal and state level and LLC is subject to income taxes in Oman. Separate state income tax returns are filed with each state in the U.S. in which Omagine or any subsidiary of Omagine is incorporated or qualified as a foreign corporation. LLC files an income tax return in Oman. Other than with respect to LLC, the Company is not presently subject to income taxes in any foreign country. The Company reports interest and penalties as income tax expense. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized based on differences between the book and tax bases of assets and liabilities using presently enacted income tax rates. The Company establishes a provision for U.S. income taxes by applying the provisions of the applicable enacted tax laws to taxable income, if any, for the relevant period. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.

 

Stock-based Compensation - Stock-based compensation is accounted for at fair value in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification 718, “Compensation – Stock Compensation” (“ASC 718”). For stock options granted, Omagine has recognized compensation expense based on the estimated grant date fair value method using the Black-Scholes valuation model. For such stock option awards, Omagine has recognized compensation expense using a straight-line amortization method over the requisite service period. ASC 718 requires that stock-based compensation expense be based on awards that are ultimately expected to vest. Stock option expense for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015 were $405 and $3,114,190, respectively. (See Note 7).

 

Earnings (Loss) Per Share - Basic earnings (loss) per share of Omagine’s $0.001 par value common stock (“Common Stock”) is based upon the weighted-average number of shares of Common Stock (“Common Shares”) outstanding during the relevant period. Diluted earnings (loss) per share is based upon the weighted-average number of Common Shares and dilutive securities (stock options, warrants, stock appreciation rights and convertible notes) outstanding during the relevant period. Dilutive securities having an anti-dilutive effect on diluted earnings (loss) per share are excluded from the calculation.

 

For the nine month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, the Common Shares underlying the following dilutive securities were excluded from the calculation of diluted shares outstanding as the effect of their inclusion would be anti-dilutive:

 

		2016				2015
Convertible Notes			286,663				156,399
Stock Options			3,269,000				3,273,000
Stock Appreciation Rights			1,455,000				1,455,000
Warrants			6,422,124				6,773,896
Total Common Shares Issuable			11,432,787				11,658,295

 

Non-controlling Interests in Omagine LLC - As of the date of this report LLC is owned 60% by Omagine. In May 2011, Omagine, JOL and three new investors (the “New Investors”) entered into a shareholders’ agreement (the “Shareholder Agreement”) pursuant to which Omagine’s 100% ownership of LLC was reduced to 60%.

 

 

The New Investors are:

 

i.	The Office of Royal Court Affairs (“RCA”), an Omani organization, and
ii.	Two subsidiaries of Consolidated Contractors International Company, SAL (“CCIC”). CCIC is a 60 year old Lebanese multi-national company headquartered in Athens, Greece having approximately five and one-half (5.5) billion dollars in annual revenue, one hundred thirty thousand (130,000) employees worldwide, and operating subsidiaries in among other places, every country in the Middle East. The two CCIC subsidiaries which are LLC shareholders are:

 

	1.	Consolidated Contracting Company S.A. (“CCC-Panama”), a wholly owned subsidiary of CCIC and is its investment arm, and
	2.	Consolidated Contractors (Oman) Company LLC, CCIC’s operating subsidiary in Oman which is a construction company with approximately 13,000 employees.

 

As of the date hereof, the shareholders of LLC and their associated ownership percentages as registered with the Government of Oman are as follows:

 

LLC Shareholder		Percent Ownership
Omagine			60	%
RCA			25	%
CCC-Panama			10	%
CCC-Oman			5	%
Total:			100	%

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

On August 27, 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-15, “Presentation of Financial Statements—Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40): Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern” (“ASU 2014-15”). ASU 2014-15 provides guidance on determining when and how reporting entities must disclose going concern uncertainties in their financial statements. The new standard requires management to perform interim and annual assessments of an entity's ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date of issuance of the entity's financial statements (or within one year after the date on which the financial statements are available to be issued, when applicable). Further, an entity must provide certain disclosures if there is “substantial doubt about the entity's ability to continue as a going concern.” The FASB believes that requiring management to perform the assessment will enhance the timeliness, clarity and consistency of related disclosures and improve convergence with IFRS (which emphasize management's responsibility for performing the going concern assessment). However, the time horizon for the assessment (look-forward period) and the disclosure thresholds under U.S. GAAP and IFRS will continue to differ. This ASU 2014-15 is effective for annual periods ending after December 16, 2016, and interim periods thereafter; early adoption is permitted. The Company does not believe that this pronouncement will have a material impact on our financial statement disclosures.

 

Certain other accounting pronouncements have been issued by the FASB and other standard setting organizations which are not yet effective and therefore have not yet been adopted by the Company. The impact on the Company’s financial position and results of operations from adoption of these standards is not expected to be material.

 

NOTE 2 – INVENTORY AND PROPERTY

 

The Company’s consolidated financial statements for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 reflect $718,614,000 of land under development which the Company has allocated to inventory ($490,813,363) and property ($227,800,637). This $718,614,000 of land under development was purchased by LLC on July 2, 2015 pursuant to the terms of the Shareholder Agreement whereby an LLC shareholder agreed to transfer the Land Rights over one million square meters of beachfront land to LLC in exchange for the issuance to such shareholder of 663,750 Omagine LLC shares (the “LLC Shares”). Since the Land Rights represented a non-cash payment for the LLC Shares, it was necessary to value the Land Rights.

 

Three expert real estate valuation companies were engaged by LLC to independently value the Land Rights in accordance with the professional standards specified by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (“RICS”) and International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). The average of the three Land Rights valuations was 276,666,667 Omani Rials ($718,614,000).

 

LLC engaged the services of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) as its IFRS accounting consultant to definitively determine the correct method of recording the $718,614,000 average value of its Land Rights in its IFRS compliant financial statements. After receiving PwC’s written opinion, LLC then consulted with its independent auditor, Deloitte & Touche (M.E.) & Co. LLC (“Deloitte”) with respect to the matter and received Deloitte’s written opinion agreeing with the PwC opinion. Both PwC and Deloitte independently concluded that the Land Rights should be recorded as capital, work-in-process (inventory) and land on LLC’s financial statements. With respect to the Company’s consolidated financial statements, the Company’s independent auditor in the U.S. has likewise concurred that, pursuant to US GAAP, the Land Rights should also be recorded as capital, inventory and land.

 

 

In determining the allocations to inventory and to land, LLC followed the advice of Deloitte by computing the percentage (x) calculated by dividing (y) the area of the land LLC definitively knew it intended to sell, by (z) the total area of land constituting the Omagine Site, and then multiplying that percentage (x) by $718,614,000 to get the correct number (N) for inventory. The correct number for land was then calculated by subtracting N from $718,614,000. Using its detailed internal financial model, management calculated (x) to be equal to 68.3%, thereby making the inventory number $490,813,363 and the land number $227,800,637. In its consolidated financial statements therefore, the Company has divided the Land Rights between land under development which is held for sale (inventory) and land under development which is held for investment (PP&E). These percentage allocations may be modified over time as the more precise land uses become apparent during and after the master planning and construction processes.

 

As more fully described in Note 1 and in Note 9 (See: “the Omagine LLC Shareholder Agreement section of Note 9), financing for the Omagine Project has not yet been secured. If such financing is not obtained, LLC may not be able to complete the Omagine Project and may not be able to recover the $718,614,000 value of the land under development described above.

 

NOTE 3 – PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT ASSETS

 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets consist of:

 

		September 30,				December 31,
		2016				2015
Prepaid rent (New York office)		$	1,859			$	1,767
Prepaid Rent (Muscat, Oman Office)			8,970				-
Other prepaid expenses			261				-
Total		$	11,090			$	1,767

 

NOTE 4 – CONVERTIBLE NOTES PAYABLE AND ACCRUED INTEREST

 

Convertible notes payable and accrued interest thereon consist of:

 

		September 30,				December 31,
		2016				2015
Due to a director of Omagine, interest at 10% per annum, due on demand, convertible into Common Stock at a conversion price of $2.50 per Common Share:
Principal		$	150,000			$	150,000
Accrued Interest			89,987				78,727
Due to investors, interest at 15% per annum, due on demand, convertible into Common Stock at a conversion price of $2.50 per Common Share:
Principal			35,000				50,000
Accrued Interest			39,842				51,195
Due to investors, interest at 10% per annum, due on demand, convertible into Common Stock at a conversion price of $2.50 per Common Share:
Principal			50,000				50,000
Accrued Interest			16,760				18,007
Due to entity owned by two directors of Omagine, interest at 5%  per annum, due on December 24, 2016 convertible into Common Stock at a conversion price of $0.75 per Common Share:
Principal			100,000
Accrued Interest			521				-
Total		$	482,110			$	397,929

 

 

NOTE 5 –NOTES PAYABLE AND ACCRUED INTEREST – YA II PN, LTD. (p/k/a YA GLOBAL MASTER SPV, LTD.)

 

In July 2013, Omagine borrowed $200,000 from YA II PN, Ltd. (“YA”) (p/k/a YA Global Master SPV, Ltd.) via an unsecured loan (the “2013 YA Loan”) and on April 23, 2014 Omagine paid the 2013 YA Loan balance and accrued interest thereon due at April 23, 2014 in full and borrowed an additional $500,000 from YA via a second unsecured loan (the “2014 YA Loan”) and on April 22, 2015 Omagine paid the 2014 YA Loan balance and the accrued interest thereon in full. On May 20, 2015, Omagine borrowed an additional $500,000 from YA via a third unsecured loan (the “2015 YA Loan”). On March 15, 2016 Omagine paid the 2015 Loan balance and the accrued interest thereon in full and borrowed an additional $600,000 from YA via a fourth unsecured loan (the “March 2016 YA Loan”). On June 22, 2016, Omagine borrowed an additional $400,000 from YA via a fifth unsecured loan (the “June 2016 YA Loan”).

 

Notes payable and accrued interest thereon due to YA consist of:

 

		September 30,				December 31,
		2016				2015
2015 YA Loan - interest at 10% per annum, due in 12 monthly installments of principal ($50,000 in July 2015, $40,000 monthly August 2015 to October 2015, $35,000 monthly November 2015 to February 2016, $40,000 monthly March 2016 to May 2016 and $70,000 on June 1, 2016)		$	-			$	225,000
March 2016 YA Loan - interest at 10% per annum, due in 12 monthly installments of principal ($60,000 in April 2016 and May 2016, $50,000 monthly June to August 2015, $45,000 in September 2016, $35,000 in October and November 2016,$40,000 in December 2016, $45,000 in January 2017, $60,000 in February 2017 and $70,000 in March of 2017)			285,000				-
June 2016 YA Loan - interest at 10% per annum, due in 12 monthly installments of principal ($40,000 in July  and August 2016, $35,000 monthly September to November 2016, $25,000 monthly, December 2016 to February 2017 and $35,000 monthly March to June 2017)			285,000				-
Less:  Unamortized debt discount at September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015			(57,500	)			(20,833	)
Principal, net			512,500				204,167
Accrued interest			2,342				-
Total		$	514,842			$	204,167

 

NOTE 6 – COMMON STOCK

 

With respect to the issuances of the Common Shares listed below:

	1.	see Note 9 under ”Equity Finance Agreements” with respect to sales of Common Shares made to YA II PN, Ltd. (p/n/a YA Global Master SPV, Ltd.) (”YA”) pursuant to the Standby Equity Distribution Agreement (“2014 SEDA”).
	2.	where issuances of restricted Common Shares occurred at non-discounted valuations, it is so noted and all such non-discounted valuations were based on the closing price of a Common Share on the relevant date.

 

 

	3.	where issuances of restricted Common Shares occurred at discounted valuations, it is so noted and all such discounted valuations were calculated using the Finnerty Method based on the closing price of a Common Share on the relevant date less a 17% restricted stock discount for 2014 issuances, an 18% restricted stock discount for 2015 issuances and a 25% restricted stock discount for 2016 issuances that were or will be issued.
	4	where issuances of restricted Common Shares occurred at agreed upon negotiated prices, the sale proceeds or value of services rendered are so noted.

 

On January 16, 2016, Omagine contributed an aggregate of 61,001 restricted Common Shares at the non-discounted valuation of $76,250 to all eligible employees of the Omagine, Inc. 401(k) Plan.

 

On January 16, 2016, Omagine issued 38,462 restricted Common Shares to each of three independent directors for services to be rendered from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 for an aggregate value of $150,000.

 

On April 5, 2016, the president of the Company purchased 56,000 restricted Common Shares based on the $0.90 closing price of Omagine’s Common Stock on such date of purchase. The total purchase price of $50,400 was paid to the Company by the $50,400 reduction in the accrued salary and expenses owed by the Company to the president.

 

On April 6, 2016, the three independent directors of the Company each purchased 27,778 restricted Common Shares based on the $0.90 closing price of Omagine’s Common Stock on April 5, 2016 for an aggregate of 83,334 Common Shares purchased. The aggregate purchase price of $75,000 was paid to the Company by the $25,000 reduction in accrued director’s fees owed by the Company to each of the independent directors.

 

On April 12, 2016, the Company sold 700,000 restricted Common Shares to a non-U.S. person who is an accredited investor for proceeds of $504,000.

 

On April 22, 2016, the holders of a Convertible Note converted $30,984 of principal and accrued interest into 24,207 shares of Common Stock.

 

On May 17, 2016, an Independent Director exercised Stock Options at $0.85 to purchase 2,000 shares of Common Stock.

 

On June 15, 2016, pursuant to the SEDA, Omagine sold 31,289 Common Shares to YA for proceeds of $25,000.

 

On July 29, 2016, Omagine sold 10,684 restricted Common shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $10,000.

 

On August 19, 2016, Omagine sold 13,245 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $10,000.

 

On August 30, 2016, Omagine sold 11,312 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $10,000.

 

On September 16, 2016, Omagine sold 34,247 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $25,000.

 

On September 19, 2016 Omagine paid a consultant 30,340 restricted Common Shares at a value of $25,000.

 

On September 21, 2016, Omagine issued 161,290 restricted Common Shares to YA in satisfaction of a $150,000 commitment fee due in connection with the extension of the 2014 SEDA to February 1, 2019.

 

On January 5, 2015, Omagine contributed an aggregate of 36,483 restricted Common Shares at the discounted valuation of $76,250 to all eligible employees of the Omagine, Inc. 401(k) Plan.

 

On February 23, 2015, Omagine paid a consultant 5,000 restricted Common Shares at the discounted valuation of $9,450.

 

On March 26, 2015, Omagine sold 6,281 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $10,000.

 

On March 26, 2015, Omagine sold 200,000 restricted Common Shares to a non-U.S. person who is an accredited investor for proceeds of $210,000.

 

On May 16, 2015, Omagine sold 100,000 restricted Common Shares to an officer and director for proceeds of $120,000.

 

On June 29, 2015, the Non-US investor (described below in connection with a June 24, 2014 transaction) exercised 158,228 Tempest Warrants at an exercise price of $1.58 for proceeds of $250,000.

 

On June 29, 2015, Omagine paid a finder’s fee to a non-U.S. Finder in connection with the aforementioned sale of 158,228 restricted Common Shares. Such finder’s fee was satisfied by issuing such non-U.S. Finder 7,911 restricted Common Shares valued at $12,500.

 

On June 30, 2015, a former director exercised 2,000 stock options for proceeds of $1,020.

 

On September 1, 2015, two new Directors were each issued 25,000 restricted Common Shares at a value of $50,000 each for services to be rendered from September 1 to December 31, 2015.

 

 

On September 3, 2015, pursuant to the SEDA, Omagine sold 17,696 Common Shares to YA for proceeds of $25,000.

 

On September 14, 2015, Omagine sold 10,000 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $14,700.

 

On October 8, 2015, 2,375 Tempest Warrants were transferred to an affiliate of the Non-U.S. Investor, a “Non-U.S. Affiliate”. On October 8, 2015, such Non-U.S. Affiliate exercised such 2,375 Tempest Warrants at an exercise price of $1.28 per Common Share for proceeds to Omagine of $3,040.

 

On October 26, 2015, Omagine sold an aggregate of 1,200,000 restricted Common Shares to three non-U.S. persons who are accredited investors (500,000 restricted Common Shares each to two investors and 200,000 restricted Common Shares to one investor) for aggregate proceeds to Omagine of $1,200,000.

 

On November 16, 2015, Omagine paid a finder’s fee to a non-U.S. Finder in connection with the October 26, 2015 aforementioned sale of 1,200,000 restricted Common Shares. Such finder’s fee was satisfied by issuing such non-U.S. Finder 33,334 restricted Common Shares valued at the discounted valuation of $60,000.

 

On November 16, 2015, Omagine sold 20,886 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds to Omagine of $25,000.

 

On January 10, 2014, Omagine paid a law firm for legal services rendered by issuing such law firm 34,374 restricted Common Shares at the discounted valuation of $26,248, which value was $10,436 in excess of the $15,812 owed by Omagine to such law firm at that date.

 

On January 8, 2014 pursuant to the SEDA, Omagine sold 29,687 Common Shares to YA for proceeds of $25,000.

 

On January 17, 2014 pursuant to the SEDA, Omagine sold 24,912 Common Shares to YA for proceeds of $20,000.

 

On January 24, 2014 pursuant to the SEDA, Omagine sold 31,705 Common Shares to YA for proceeds of $25,000.

 

On February 13, 2014, Omagine contributed an aggregate of 73,315 restricted Common Shares at the non-discounted valuation of $76,250 to all eligible employees of the Omagine Inc. 401(k) Plan.

 

On February 14, 2014 pursuant to the SEDA, Omagine sold 68,493 Common Shares to YA for proceeds of $150,000.

 

On March 14, 2014, Omagine sold 70,000 restricted Common Shares to a non-U.S. person who is an accredited investor for proceeds of $70,000.

 

On March 14, 2014, Omagine paid a finder’s fee to a non-U.S. person (a “non-U.S. Finder”) in connection with the aforementioned sale of 70,000 restricted Common Shares to a non-U.S. person. Such finder’s fee was satisfied by issuing such non-U.S. Finder 3,500 restricted Common Shares at the discounted valuation of $6,101.

 

On March 21, 2014 pursuant to the SEDA, Omagine sold 13,597 Common Shares to YA for proceeds of $25,000.

 

On April 11, 2014, Omagine sold 150,000 restricted Common Shares to a non-U.S. person who is an accredited investor for proceeds of $150,000. At September 30, 2014, such non-U.S. person owned 1,195,300 Common Shares, or approximately 7.4% of the Common Shares then outstanding, and 441,120 Strategic Warrants (See Note 7).

 

On April 11, 2014, Omagine paid a finder’s fee to a non-U.S. Finder in connection with the aforementioned sale of 150,000 restricted Common Shares to a non-U.S. person. Such finder’s fee was satisfied by issuing such non-U.S. Finder 7,500 restricted Common Shares at the discounted valuation of $10,147.

 

On April 22, 2014, Omagine issued 85,822 restricted Common Shares to an affiliate of YA in satisfaction of a $150,000 commitment fee due in connection with the 2014 SEDA.

 

On May 6, 2014 pursuant to the SEDA, Omagine sold 32,270 Common Shares to YA for proceeds of $50,000.

 

On June 24, 2014, Omagine sold 362,308 restricted Common Shares and issued 1,000,000 Tempest Warrants (See Note 7) to a non-U.S. person who is an accredited investor (the “Non-U.S. Investor”) for proceeds of $422,100.

 

On June 24, 2014, Omagine paid a finder’s fee to a non-U.S. Finder in connection with the aforementioned sale to the non-U.S. Investor (See Note 7). Such finder’s fee was satisfied by paying such non-U.S. Finder $20,000 in cash and issuing such non-U.S. Finder 15,000 restricted Common Shares at the discounted valuation of $19,920.

 

On August 15, 2014, the Non-U.S. Investor transferred 240,000 Tempest Warrants to an affiliate of his which is also a non-U.S. person (the “Non-U.S. Affiliate”) and such Non-U.S. Affiliate exercised such 240,000 Tempest Warrants at an exercise price of $1.40 per Common Share for proceeds to Omagine of $336,000. On August 25, 2014, Omagine paid a finder’s fee of $16,800 to a non-U.S. Finder in connection with such Tempest Warrant exercise.

 

On September 3, 2014, in exchange for a $3,000 cash settlement payment, the Company cancelled 10,000 restricted Common Shares valued at the non-discounted valuation of $9,020 issued to a consultant for services rendered.

 

 

On October 2, 2014, the Non-U.S. Investor transferred 250,000 Tempest Warrants to the Non-U.S. Affiliate and the Non-U.S. Affiliate exercised such 250,000 Tempest Warrants at an exercise price of $1.31 per Common Share for proceeds to Omagine of $327,500. On October 6, 2014, Omagine paid a finder’s fee of $16,375 to a Non-U.S. Finder in connection with such Tempest Warrant exercise by the Non-U.S. Affiliate.

 

On November 7, 2014, Omagine sold 14,881 restricted Common Shares to a non-U.S. person who is a civil engineer of CCC-Oman and an accredited investor for proceeds of $30,000.

 

On November 10, 2014, Omagine sold 7,440 restricted Common shares to a non-U.S. person who is a civil engineer of CCC-Oman and an accredited investor for proceeds of $15,000.

 

On November 20, 2014, Omagine sold an aggregate of 400,000 restricted Common Shares at $2.00 per share to two non-U.S. persons who are accredited investors (150,000 shares to one investor and 250,000 shares to the other investor) for aggregate proceeds of $800,000. The two non-U.S. persons are family members of an Omagine stockholder who owned approximately 7.1% of the Common Shares outstanding at December 31, 2014.

 

On November 21, 2014, Omagine paid a finder’s fee to a non-U.S. Finder in connection with the aforementioned sale of 400,000 restricted Common Shares. Such finder’s fee was satisfied by issuing such non-U.S. Finder 20,000 restricted Common Shares valued at $40,000.

 

NOTE 7 – STOCK OPTIONS, STOCK APPRECIATION RIGHTS AND WARRANTS

 

Stock Options/Stock Appreciation Rights

 

Omagine’s shareholders approved the reservation by Omagine of 2,500,000 Common Shares for issuance under the 2003 Omagine, Inc. Stock Option Plan (the “2003 Plan”). The 2003 Plan expired on August 31, 2013. On March 6, 2014, the Board of Directors approved the adoption of the 2014 Omagine, Inc. Stock Option Plan (the “2014 Plan”).

 

Both the 2003 Plan and the 2014 Plan are designed to attract, retain and motivate employees, directors, consultants and other professional advisors of Omagine and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Recipients”) by giving such Recipients the opportunity to acquire stock ownership in Omagine through the issuance of stock options (“Stock Options”) to purchase Common Shares.

 

Omagine has registered for resale the 2.5 million Common Shares reserved for issuance under the 2003 Plan by filing a registration statement with the SEC on Form S-8. At September 30, 2016, there were 2,279,000 unexpired Stock Options issued but unexercised under the 2003 Plan and all such Stock Options remain valid until the earlier of their exercise date or expiration date.

 

Pursuant to the 2014 Plan, 3,000,000 Common Shares were reserved for issuance. The 2014 Plan was amended to increase the reservation of 3,000,000 Common Shares for issuance to 5,000,000 Common Shares and to permit issuance of stock appreciation rights (“The Amended 2014 Plan”). Omagine intends to seek its shareholders’ ratification of the adoption by Omagine of the Amended 2014 Plan. At September 30, 2016, there were 990,000 unexpired Stock Options and 1,455,000 Stock Appreciation Rights (“SARs”) issued but unexercised under the Amended 2014 Plan.

 

A summary of Stock Option and SARs activity for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015 pursuant to both the 2003 Plan and the 2014 Plan is as follows:

 

		Number of Shares				Weighted Average Exercise Price				Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term (in years)				Aggregate Intrinsic Value
Outstanding at January 1, 2015			3,275,000			$	1.97				1.24			$	1,923,170
Exercised in Q2 2015			(2,000	)		$	0.51				-				-
Granted in Q3 2015			1,455,000			$	2.00				2.29				-
Outstanding September 30, 2015			4,728,000			$	1.98				1.67			$	59,440
Exercisable at September 30, 2015			4,728,000			$	1.98				1.67			$	59,440
Outstanding at January 1, 2016			4,728,000			$	1.98				1.41			$	26,240
Exercised in Q2 2016			(2,000	)		$	0.85
Expired Q2 2016			(2,000	)		$	0.85
Outstanding September 30, 2016			4,724,000			$	1.98				0.65			$	-
Exercisable at September 30, 2016			4,724,000			$	1.98				0.65			$	-

 

 

Of the 4,724,000 Stock Options outstanding at September 30, 2016, 2,915,000 of such Stock Options were issued by Omagine in January 2012 and December 2014 as “Strategic Options” to officers, directors and consultants of Omagine whose continued service was deemed by the Board of Directors to be particularly crucial to attaining LLC’s then strategic goal of signing the Development Agreement (“DA”) with the Government of Oman and in recognition of those efforts during 2014 and beyond. The Strategic Options are fully vested, provide for a cashless exercise feature and currently expire on December 31, 2016; 1,965,000 of the Strategic Options are exercisable at $1.70 and 950,000 are exercisable at $2.55. To continue to incentivize the retention and sustained service to the Company of its mission-critical employees and consultants, the expiration date of the 1,965,000 Strategic Options issued in January 2012 was extended by Omagine in December 2012 to December 31, 2013 (the “First Extension“) and in December 2013 to December 31, 2014 (the “Second Extension”) and in December 2014 to December 31, 2015 (the “Third Extension”) and on August 12, 2015 to December 31, 2016 (the “Fourth Extension”). The December 31, 2015 expiration date of the 950,000 Strategic Options issued December 29, 2014 was extended on August 12, 2015 to December 31, 2016 (“First Extension”).

 

Of the 2,915,000 Strategic Options, an aggregate of 1,685,000 were granted to Omagine’s three officers, an aggregate of 125,000 were granted to Omagine’s independent directors and 1,000,000 were granted to the Deputy Managing Director of LLC who, pursuant to a March 2007 consulting agreement expiring on December 31, 2016, is also a consultant to the Company. The Deputy Managing Director of LLC also holds 160,000 Stock Options granted pursuant to his consulting agreement which are not Strategic Options, exercisable at $1.25 per share and expiring on March 31, 2017. 

 

Of the 1,455,000 Stock Appreciation Rights, an aggregate of 750,000 were granted to three officers of Omagine, 15,000 were granted to one independent director and 675,000 were granted to the Deputy Managing Director of LLC.

 

The $671,440 estimated fair value of the Second Extension was calculated using the Black Scholes option pricing model and the following assumptions (i) $0.89 share price, (ii) 378 day term of the Second Extension, (iii) 144% expected volatility, (iv) 0.13% (378 day term) risk free interest rate, and such $671,440 was expensed evenly over the 378 day requisite service period of the Second Extension (December 19, 2013 through December 31, 2014).

 

On December 13, 2014, Omagine granted to six persons an aggregate of 950,000 fully vested Strategic Options with a cashless exercise feature (625,000 to three officers, 25,000 to one director and 300,000 to two consultants) exercisable at $2.55 per share and expiring on December 31, 2015. The $1,277,370 estimated fair value of the 950,000 Strategic Options was calculated using the Black Scholes option pricing model and the following assumptions: (i) $2.52 share price, (ii) 368 day term, (iii) 147% expected volatility, (iv) 0.25% (368 day term) risk free interest rate and was expensed in full in the quarterly period ended December 31, 2014.

 

On December 29, 2014, the expiration date of the 1,965,000 Strategic Options issued in January 2012 was extended from December 31, 2014 to December 31, 2015 (the “Third Extension”). The $1,504,404 estimated fair value of the Third Extension was calculated using the Black Scholes option pricing model and the following assumptions: (i) $2.52 share price, (ii) 368 day term, (iii) 147% expected volatility, (iv) 0.25% (368 day term) risk free interest rate and was expensed in full in the quarterly period ended December 31, 2014.

 

On August 12, 2015, the expiration date of the 1,965,000 Strategic Options issued in January 2012 was extended from December 31, 2015 to December 31, 2016 (the “Fourth Extension”). The $915,493 estimated fair value of the Fourth Extension was calculated using the Black Scholes option pricing model and the following assumptions: (i) $1.91 share price, (ii) 507 day term, (iii) 147% expected volatility, (iv) 0.32% (507 day term) risk free interest rate and was expensed in full in the quarterly period ended September 30, 2015.

 

On August 12, 2015, the expiration date of the 950,000 Strategic Options issued in December of 2014 was extended from December 31, 2015 to December 31, 2016 (the “First Extension”). The $541,215 estimated fair value of the First Extension was calculated using the Black Scholes option pricing model and the following assumptions: (i) $1.91 share price, (ii) 507 day term, (iii) 147% expected volatility, (iv) 0.32% (507 day term) risk free interest rate and was expensed in full in the quarterly period ended September 30, 2015.

 

 

On March 28, 2014, Omagine granted to four persons an aggregate of 40,000 Stock Options exercisable at $1.80 per share and expiring on March 27, 2019. One such person is an Omagine independent director, one is an Omagine officer and two are consultants. The $55,376 estimated fair value of the 40,000 Stock Options was calculated using the Black Scholes option pricing model and the following assumptions: (i) $1.80 share price, (ii) a 5 year term, (iii) 106% expected volatility and (iv) 1.75% (5 year term) risk free interest rate. $51,914 of such estimated fair value was expensed in the year ended December 31, 2014, and $3,462 was expensed in the year ended December 31, 2015.

 

On June 30, 2015, a former Omagine director exercised 2,000 stock options at $0.51 per share.

 

On August 31, 2015, Omagine granted an aggregate of 1,455,000 Stock Appreciation Rights (“SARs”) to six persons exercisable at $2.00 per share and expiring on December 31, 2017. Of the 1,455,000 SARs, an aggregate of 750,000 were granted to three officers of Omagine, 15,000 were granted to one independent director and 675,000 were granted to the Deputy Managing Director of LLC. The $1,654,481 estimated fair value of the SARs was calculated using the Black Scholes option pricing model and the following assumptions: (i) $1.60 share price, (ii) 854 day term, (iii) 147% expected volatility, (iv) 0.28% (854 day term) risk free interest rate and was expensed in full in the quarterly period ended September 30, 2015.

 

A summary of non-vested Stock Options and the Common Shares underlying such Stock Options for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015 is as follows:

 

		Number of Shares				Weighted Average Exercise Price				Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term (in years)
Non-vested shares at January 1, 2015			10,000			$	1.80				4.30
Vested in Q1 2015			(10,000	)		$	1.80				4.30
Non-vested shares at September 30, 2015			-				-				-
Non-vested shares at January 1, 2016			-				-				-
Non-vested shares at September 30, 2016			-				-				-

 

Issued and outstanding Stock Options and SAR’s (all non qualified) as of September 30, 2016 are as follows:

 

Year Granted				Number Outstanding				Number Exercisable				Exercise Price				Expiration Date
	2007				160,000				160,000			$	1.25				March 31, 2017
	2008				150,000				150,000			$	2.60				September 23, 2018
	2012				1,965,000				1,965,000			$	1.70				December 31, 2016
	2012				2,000				2,000			$	1.70				April 12, 2017
	2013				2,000				2,000			$	1.38				January 14, 2018
	2014				40,000				40,000			$	1.80				March  27, 2019
	2014				950,000				950,000			$	2.55				December 31, 2016
	2015				1,455,000				1,455,000			$	2.00				December 31, 2017
	Totals				4,724,000				4,724,000

 

 

A summary of information about Stock Options and SARs outstanding at September 30, 2016 is as follows:

 

				Stock Options Outstanding												Exercisable
Range of Exercise Prices				Number of Shares				Weighted Average Exercise Price				Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term (in years)				Number of Shares				Weighted Average Exercise Price
	$ 1.01 - $2.00				3,624,000				1.80				0.70				3,624,000				1.80
	$ 2.01 - $3.00				1,100,000				2.56				0.49				1,100,000				2.56
Totals					4,724,000			$	1.98				0.65				4,724,000			$	1.98

 

As of September 30, 2016, there was $675 of unrecognized compensation costs relating to unexpired Stock Options. That cost is expected to be recognized $135 in 2016 and $540 in 2017.

 

Warrants

 

As of September 30, 2016, Omagine had 6,422,124 Common Stock purchase warrants (“Warrants”) issued and outstanding. The Warrants do not contain any price protection provisions that would require them to be classified as liabilities (subject to re-measurement at fair value each time a balance sheet is presented) rather than presented as a component of stockholders’ equity.

 

The Tempest Warrants

 

On June 24, 2014, in connection with the sale of 362,308 restricted Common Shares to an investor (See Note 6), Omagine issued 1,000,000 Warrants to such investor, each of which were exercisable for the purchase of one restricted Common Share at a per Common Share exercise price equal to the greater of: (a) $1.00 per Common Share, or (b) 80% of the closing sale price for a Common Share on the trading day immediately preceding the relevant exercise date (the “Tempest Warrants”). Both the exercise price of the Tempest Warrants and the number of Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the Tempest Warrants were subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split, combination or subdivision of the Common Stock, or a dividend, reclassification, reorganization, or spin off.

 

On August 15, 2014, 240,000 Tempest Warrants were transferred to an affiliate of the investor. The affiliate exercised the 240,000 Tempest Warrants at an exercise price of $1.40 per Common Share for proceeds of $336,000. On October 2, 2014, a further 250,000 Tempest Warrants were exercised by such affiliate at an exercise price of $1.31 per Common Share for proceeds of $327,500. On June 29, 2015, the investor exercised 158,228 of the Tempest Warrants at an exercise price of $1.58 per Common Share for proceeds of $250,000. In conjunction with this June 29, 2015 exercise, Omagine agreed with the investor to file a registration statement with the SEC to register all the aforementioned Common Shares presently owned by the investor and his affiliate as well as the remaining 351,772 Common Shares underlying the remaining 351,772 Tempest Warrants outstanding at that time. On October 8, 2015, 2,375 Tempest Warrants were transferred to an affiliate, a “Non-U.S. Affiliate”. On October 8, 2015, such Non-U.S. Affiliate exercised such 2,375 Tempest Warrants at an exercise price of $1.28 per Common Share for proceeds to Omagine of $3,040. The balance of all 349,397 unexercised Tempest Warrants expired on June 23, 2016.

 

The Strategic Warrants

 

Omagine has 6,422,124 Warrants outstanding, 3,211,062 of which are exercisable for the purchase of one Common Share at a per Common Share exercise price of $5.00 and 3,211,062 of which are exercisable for the purchase of one Common Share at a per Common Share exercise price of $10.00 (collectively, the “Strategic Warrants”).

 

 

Omagine filed a post-effective amendment to its registration statement on Form S-1 (Commission File No. 333-183852) whereby the Strategic Warrants and the 6,422,124 Common Shares underlying the Strategic Warrants were registered by Omagine (the “Warrant Registration”). The Warrant Registration was declared effective by the SEC and its effective status expired. Omagine filed another post-effective amendment to the Warrant Registration on February 11, 2015 which was declared effective by the SEC on February 13, 2015 and its effective status expired. Omagine filed another post-effective amendment to the Warrant Registration on January 14, 2016 which was declared effective by the SEC on January 25, 2016 (the “Updated Warrant Registration”). As of the date hereof, the effective status of the Updated Warrant Registration expired and the Company intends to file a post-effective amendment to such Registration Statement with the SEC in order to again register the Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of the Strategic Warrants. Neither the exercise prices of the Strategic Warrants nor the number of Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the Strategic Warrants are subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split, combination or subdivision of the Common Stock, or a dividend, reclassification, reorganization, or spinoff.

 

On August 18, 2014, pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors, the expiration date for all Strategic Warrants was extended for a third time to June 30, 2015 and again on January 5, 2015, pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors, the expiration date for all Strategic Warrants was extended to December 31, 2015. Again on August 12, 2015, pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors, the expiration date for all Strategic Warrants was extended to December 31, 2016. All other terms and conditions of the Strategic Warrants remained the same. All Strategic Warrants expire on December 31, 2016 unless redeemed earlier by Omagine upon 30 days prior written notice to the Strategic Warrant holders.

 

NOTE 8 – U.S. INCOME TAXES

 

Deferred U.S. tax assets are comprised of the following:

 

		September 30,				December 31,
		2016				2015
U.S. federal net operating loss carry forwards		$	6,807,000			$	6,375,000
U.S. state and city net operating loss carry forwards, net of U.S. federal tax benefit			1,945,000				1,822,000
			8,752,000				8,197,000
Less: Valuation allowance			(8,752,000	)			(8,197,000	)
Total		$	-			$	-

 

Management has determined, based on the Company's current condition, that a full valuation allowance is appropriate at September 30, 2016. At September 30, 2016, the Company had U.S. federal net operating loss carry forwards of approximately $19,448,000 expiring in various amounts from fiscal year 2017 to fiscal year 2036.

 

Current U.S. income tax law limits the amount of loss available to offset against future taxable income when a substantial change in ownership occurs. 

 

The Company believes that it has no uncertain tax positions and no unrecognized tax benefits at September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015.

 

NOTE 9 – COMMITMENTS

 

Leases

 

Omagine leases its executive office in New York under a month to month lease from an unaffiliated third party. LLC leases office space in Muscat, Oman from an unaffiliated third party under a one year lease which commenced in January 2016 and which provides for an annual rental of $35,880. The Company’s rent expense for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015 was $45,657 and $124,419, respectively.

 

Employment Agreements

 

The Company presently has no employment agreements with any person.

 

Pursuant to a prior employment agreement, Omagine was obligated to employ its President and Chief Executive Officer at an annual base salary of $125,000 plus an additional amount based on a combination of net sales and earnings before taxes. Omagine plans to enter into a new employment agreement with its President although the terms of such employment agreement have not yet been determined. Omagine had continued to accrue salary payable to its President through December 31, 2014 and on January 1, 2015 the Company recommenced its bi-monthly payroll for employees, including for its President on the basis of an annual salary of $125,000. On May 1, 2015 the Company paid its President $87,781 of accrued officer’s payroll and on May 16, 2015 the Company applied $120,000 of accrued officer’s payroll in exchange for the purchase of 100,000 restricted Common Shares of Omagine, Inc. stock at a purchase price of $1.20 per share. On April 5, 2016 the Company applied $50,400 of accrued officer’s payroll in exchange for the purchase of 56,000 restricted Common Shares of Omagine Inc. stock at a purchase price of $0.90 per share. On June 14, 2016 the Company paid its President $55,601 of accrued officer’s payroll. At September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, Omagine had unpaid accrued officer’s compensation due to its President of $57,155 and $115,131, respectively.

 

 

Pursuant to a prior employment agreement, Omagine was obligated to employ its Vice-President and Secretary at an annual base salary of $100,000. Omagine plans to enter into a new employment agreement with its Vice-President although the terms of such employment agreement have not yet been determined. On January 1, 2015 the Company recommenced its bi-monthly payroll for employees, including for its Vice-President on the basis of an annual salary of $100,000. On March 26, 2015 the Company paid its Vice-President $33,000 of accrued officer’s payroll. On September 9, 2015, October 2, 2015 and December 7, 2015, the Company paid its Vice-President accrued officers’ payroll of $2,000, $3,200 and $2,500, respectively. On June 23, 2016 the Company paid its Vice-President $32,000 of accrued officer’s payroll and on July 28, 2016 the Company paid an additional $2,700. At September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, Omagine had unpaid accrued officer’s compensation due to its Vice-President of $141,122 and $137,905, respectively.

 

On January 1, 2015 the Company recommenced its bi-monthly payroll for its Controller on the basis of an annual salary of $80,000. On January 14, 2015 the Company paid its Controller $25,000 of accrued officer’s payroll. At September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, Omagine had unpaid accrued officer’s compensation due to its Controller of $169,600 and $136,798, respectively.

 

Contingent Fee Payment Obligation

 

Depending on circumstances, LLC may execute an agreement with Michael Baker International (”Baker”) to hire Baker as its Program Manager and/or Project Manager (the potential “PM Contract”). Omagine has employed Baker to provide design and engineering services through the feasibility and engineering study phases of the Omagine Project. As part of its compensation agreement with Baker, Omagine agreed that it would be obligated to pay Baker the sum of $72,000 (the “Contingent Fee”) after LLC signed the DA with the Government of Oman. Omagine paid Baker the Contingent Fee in October 2015.

 

Equity Financing Agreements

 

Omagine, Inc. and YA were parties to a Stand-By Equity Distribution Agreement (the “2011 SEDA”) which was due to expire on September 1, 2014. On July 21, 2014, the 2011 SEDA was terminated by the mutual consent of Omagine and YA.

 

On April 22, 2014, Omagine and YA entered into a new Standby Equity Distribution Agreement on generally the same terms and conditions as the 2011 SEDA (the”2014 SEDA“). Unless earlier terminated in accordance with its terms, the 2014 SEDA was to terminate automatically on the earlier of (i) the first day of the month next following the 24-month anniversary of the “Effective Date” (as hereinafter defined) (i.e. February 1, 2017), or (ii) the date on which YA shall have made payment to Omagine of Advances pursuant to the 2014 SEDA in the aggregate amount of $5,000,000. On September 20, 2016, the Company and YA entered into an agreement amending the SEDA extending the term of the 2014 SEDA to February 1, 2019 or to such date on which YA shall have made payment to Omagine of Advances pursuant to the 2014 SEDA in the aggregate amount of $5,000,000 (the “Second SEDA Amendment”). On April 22, 2014, in satisfaction of a $150,000 commitment fee due pursuant to the 2014 SEDA, Omagine issued 85,822 restricted Common Shares to YA Global II SPV, LLC, which is an affiliate of YA (the “Affiliate”). On September 21, 2016 in satisfaction of a $150,000 commitment fee due pursuant to the Second SEDA Amendment, Omagine issued 161,290 restricted Common shares to the YA Affiliate. (See Note 6)

 

Pursuant to the terms of the 2014 SEDA, Omagine may in its sole discretion, and upon giving written notice to YA (an ”Advance Notice”), periodically sell Common Shares to YA (“Shares”) at a per Share price (“Purchase Price”) equal to 95% of the lowest daily volume weighted average price (the “VWAP”) for a Common Share as quoted by Bloomberg, L.P. during the five (5) consecutive Trading Days (as such term is defined in the 2014 SEDA) immediately subsequent to the date of the relevant Advance Notice (the “Pricing Period”).

 

Omagine is not obligated to sell any Shares to YA but may, over the term of the 2014 SEDA and in its sole discretion, sell to YA that number of Shares valued at the Purchase Price from time to time in effect that equals up to five million dollars ($5,000,000) in the aggregate. YA is obligated under the 2014 SEDA to purchase such Shares from Omagine subject to certain conditions including (i) Omagine filing a registration statement with the SEC to register the resale by YA of the Shares sold to YA under the 2014 SEDA (“Registration Statement”), (ii) the SEC declaring such Registration Statement effective (the date of such declaration by the SEC being the “Effective Date”), (iii) Omagine certifying to YA at the time of each Advance Notice that Omagine has performed all covenants and agreements to be performed and has complied with all obligations and conditions contained in the 2014 SEDA, (iv) periodic sales of Shares to YA must be separated by a time period of at least five Trading Days, and (v) the dollar value of any individual periodic sale of Shares designated by Omagine in any Advance Notice may not exceed the greater of (a) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), or (b) the average of the ”Daily Value Traded” for each of the five (5) Trading Days immediately preceding the date of the relevant Advance Notice, where Daily Value Traded is the product obtained by multiplying the number representing the daily trading volume of Common Shares for such Trading Day by the VWAP for a Common Share on such Trading Day.

 

 

Omagine Project

 

The Omagine Project is planned to be developed on one million square meters (equal to approximately 245 acres) of beachfront land facing the Gulf of Oman just west of the capital city of Muscat and nearby Muscat International Airport (the “Omagine Site”). LLC has signed a Development Agreement (“DA”) and a Usufruct Agreement (“UA”) for the Omagine Project with the Government of Oman. (See “Development Agreement and Usufruct Agreement” below). The Omagine Project is planned to be an integration of cultural, heritage, entertainment and residential components including a high-culture theme park and associated buildings, shopping and retail establishments, restaurants and approximately 2,100 residences.

 

Development Agreement and Usufruct Agreement

 

Omagine’s 60% owned subsidiary, LLC, signed a DA with the Government of Oman in October 2014 for the development in Oman by LLC of the Omagine Project. The legal effectiveness of the DA was conditional upon its ratification by Oman’s Ministry of Finance, which Ratification occurred in March 2015. On July 1, 2015 (the “Operative Date”), the Government and LLC entered into the UA with respect to the land constituting the Omagine Site.

 

The Land Rights give LLC extensive rights over the land constituting the Omagine Site including the right to sell such land on a freehold basis. On July 2, 2015, the UA was registered by the Government and a Land Rights registration fee of 20,250 Omani Rials ($52,650) was paid by LLC to the Government (and expensed in the consolidated statements of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2015), which registration legally perfected LLC’s ownership of the Land Rights.

 

The five year period commencing on the Operative Date is a rent free period and thereafter LLC will pay annual rent to the Government based on only the built but unsold commercial area of the Omagine Project (approximately 150,000 square meters) or approximately 45,000 Omani Rials ($117,000) per year based on the current annual per square meter fee of 0.300 Omani Rials ($0.78). The term of the DA is 20 years and the term of the UA is 50 years (renewable) commencing from the Operative Date. The UA and the DA provisions relevant to the UA survive the expiration of the term of the DA.

 

The Operative Date of July 1, 2015 is the date from which all time periods for the execution by LLC of various tasks enumerated in the DA are to be measured. The continued legal effectiveness of the DA subsequent to the Operative Date is dependent upon the following milestone dates being achieved (any or all of which may be extended or waived by the Government): (1) LLC’s delivery to the Government within twelve months from the Operative Date of a term sheet with lenders for the financing of the first phase, any other phase or all of the Project, (2) LLC’s submission to the Ministry of Tourism of a social impact assessment within 8 months of the Operative Date and the Government’s approval thereof within 12 months of the Operative Date, (3) the Government’s approval within 12 months of the Operative Date of the development control plan for the Omagine Project, and (4) the transformation of LLC into a joint stock company within 12 months of the Operative Date. Company management has had informal discussions with the concerned government officials and management is confident that given the present economic conditions in the region (of which the Government is keenly aware), the Company will be granted an extension of time on many of such due dates similar to the extension of the Operative Date to July 1. 2015 already previously granted by the Government.

 

Pursuant to the DA, LLC must substantially complete the construction of the seven Pearl buildings and one hotel (the “Minimum Build Obligation” or “MBO”) within 5 years of the Operative Date. Any material breach by LLC of its obligation to perform the MBO would constitute an event of default under the DA. The DA specifies that the principal construction contracts should be executed within one year of the Operative Date. LLC is required to provide written notice to the Government in certain circumstances, such as LLC’s change in an anticipated milestone date that would result in a substantial achievement of work to occur later than 60 days after such milestone date. The DA provides that the Government is required to grant reasonable requests for the extension of the terms of the DA in such circumstances.

 

The foregoing discussion of the terms of the DA and UA is not meant to be definitive or complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete texts of the DA and UA as filed by the Company with the SEC.

 

Omagine LLC Shareholder Agreement

 

Omagine and JOL organized LLC in Oman and capitalized it with an initial investment of twenty thousand (20,000) Omani Rials ($52,000). On April 20, 2011, Omagine, JOL and the New Investors entered into a shareholder agreement relating to LLC (the “Shareholder Agreement”).

 

Pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement, Omagine invested an additional 70,000 Omani Rials ($182,000) into LLC and agreed to make a further additional investment into LLC of 210,000 Omani Rials ($546,000) after the execution of the DA (the “OMAG Final Equity Investment”). As of December 31, 2015, Omagine had invested 300,000 Omani Rials ($780,000) into LLC. Pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement, RCA invested the value of the Land Rights as a non-cash “payment-in-kind” capital contribution to LLC on July 2, 2015.

 

Further pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement, the New Investors invested an aggregate of 60,000 Omani Rials ($156,000) into LLC and agreed, subject to certain conditions precedent, to make further additional investments into LLC in the aggregate amount of 26,628,125 Omani Rials ($69,233,125).

 

 

The CCC Deferred Investment Obligation and the OMAG Option

The conditions precedent to CCC and RCA being required to make their agreed $69,233,125 aggregate additional investments (their “Deferred Equity Investments”) into LLC include (1) the execution of a construction contract on or before July 1, 2016 between LLC and CCC-Oman (the “CCC-Contract”) and (2) execution of a legally binding agreement between LLC and a lender pursuant to which such lender agrees to provide Debt Financing for the first phase or any or all phases of the Omagine Project in an amount sufficient to finance the first phase of the Omagine Project’s construction plus the installment payments due to Omagine for its Success Fee and Pre-Development Expense Amount.(the “First Financing Agreement Date”).

The First Financing Agreement Date occurred on November 29, 2015 but the CCC-Contract was not executed on or before July 1, 2016 nor has it been executed yet as of the date hereof and the LLC Shareholders are presently re-negotiating portions of the Shareholder Agreement (an “Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement”).

The failure to execute the CCC-Contract by July 1, 2016 does not relieve RCA of its continuing obligation under the Shareholder Agreement (irrespective of such CCC-Contract failure) to make RCA’s approximately $20 million Deferred Investment into LLC; but it may (under certain conditions) relieve CCC of its obligation under the Shareholder Agreement to make its approximately $49 million Deferred Investment into LLC.

Additionally pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement, such failure of the CCC-Contract to occur on or before July 1, 2016 automatically and without any further action required by any party, triggered and activated on July 2, 2016 an option in favor of Omagine, Inc. (the “OMAG Option”) to purchase all LLC Shares presently owned by CCC at any time of OMAG’s choosing prior to July 1, 2017 at a price equal to CCC’s original purchase price of 22,500 Omani Rials ($58,500). Furthermore pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement, neither CCC-Oman nor CCC-Panama is permitted to sell any of such LLC Shares presently owned by them prior to July 2, 2017 to any Person other than Omagine, Inc., or to a purchaser designated by Omagine, Inc., in a sale made pursuant to the exercise of the OMAG Option.

Although the LLC Shareholders are presently negotiating an Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement, there is no assurance that it will happen. If agreement is not reached by the LLC Shareholders on the matters presently under discussion, or if alternative financing is not obtained, or if alternative shareholder arrangements are not agreed, LLC may not be able to complete the Omagine Project and may not be able to recover the $718,614,000 value of the Land Rights included in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheet at September 30, 2016 (See Note 2).

Further pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement, LLC is required to pay Omagine a Success Fee of $10,000,000 in five equal annual installments beginning on or within 10 days after the Draw Date and a Pre-Development Expense Amount to be determined (presently estimated at $17,920,114) payable 50% on or within 10 days after the Draw Date and 50% in five equal annual installments beginning on the first anniversary of the Draw Date. The Draw Date is defined as “the date upon which LLC draws and receives the first amount of Debt Financing pursuant to a Financing Agreement”. It is possible that the payment terms for the Pre-Development Expense Amount and the Success Fee may be modified if and only if the LLC Shareholders agree to an Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement.

 

NOTE 10 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

At September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively, Omagine’s accounts payable included $52,585 and $32,148 due to its officers and directors.

 

For the nine months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, the Company expensed a total of $68,000 and $47,000, respectively, for consulting fees paid to an entity controlled by the Deputy Managing Director of LLC.

 

In April 2016, the Company paid a $300,000 sponsorship fee to the same such entity controlled by the Deputy Managing Director of Omagine LLC for the Company to serve as the Title Sponsor Partner of the 2016 World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosted by the United Nations at UN headquarters in New York City from May 19 to May 23, 2016.

 

NOTE 11 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

On October 14, 2016, the Company entered into a Convertible Promissory Note with an accredited investor for the principal amount of $50,000 with interest at 5% per annum, due on April 14, 2017 and convertible into the Company’s Common Stock at a conversion price of $0.65 per Common Share.

 

On October 17, 2016, the Company entered into an Interest Free Promissory Note with an accredited investor for the principal amount of $75,000, due on December 13, 2016, and in lieu of any interest due and payable on the principal amount of the Note, the Company issued to the Note Holder 150,000 Common Stock Purchase Warrants exercisable at the greater of (a) $0.50, or (b) 80% of the Market Price on the Trading Day immediately preceding the relevant Exercise Date.

 

On November 1, 2016, Omagine sold 20,000 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $10,000 and also sold 10,000 restricted Common Shares to an independent director who is also an accredited investor for proceeds of $5,000.

On November 4, 2016, Omagine sold 10,000 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $5,000.

On November 8, 2016, Omagine sold an aggregate of 20,000 restricted Common Shares to two accredited investors for aggregate proceeds of 10,000.

On November 14, 2016, Omagine sold 10,000 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $5,000.

On November 14, 2016, the Company entered into an interest free Convertible Promissory Note with an accredited investor for the principal amount of $185,000 due on May 15, 2017, six months from the funding date of November 16, 2016, convertible into the Company’s Common Stock only in the case of non-payment or in the Event of Default at a Conversion Price equal to 60% of the three lowest daily Volume Weighted Average Prices for the Company’s Common Stock during the twenty trading days immediately preceding the Conversion. The Company may prepay the Note in whole or in part at any time without penalty. After deduction of a $30,000 original issue discount (OID) and legal fees of $5,000, the Company received net proceeds of $150,000 on November 16, 2016. (See: Exhibits 10.42 and 10.43, the Note Purchase Agreement and the Securities Purchase Agreement).

 

 

Item 2 - Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

Omagine, Inc. (“Omagine” or the “Registrant”) was incorporated in Delaware in October 2004 and is a holding company which conducts substantially all its operations through its 60% owned subsidiary Omagine LLC, an Omani limited liability corporation (“LLC”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Journey of Light, Inc., a New York corporation (“JOL”). Omagine and JOL are collectively referred to herein as “OMAG” and Omagine, JOL and LLC are collectively referred to herein as the “Company”.

 

The Company is focused on entertainment, hospitality and real estate development opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa (the “MENA Region”) and on the design and development of distinctive tourism destinations. The Company presently concentrates the majority of its efforts on the business of LLC and specifically on the Omagine Project. Omagine, Inc. has 20,132,048 shares of its Common Stock issued and outstanding as of November 14, 2016.

 

In November 2009, Omagine organized LLC as a wholly owned subsidiary under the laws of the Sultanate of Oman (“Oman”) to design, develop, own and operate our initial project – a mixed-use tourism and real estate project named the “Omagine Project” (See “The Omagine Project” below). In October 2014, LLC and the Government of Oman (the “Government”) signed an agreement (the “Development Agreement” or “DA”) for the development in Oman by LLC of the Omagine Project (See: Exhibits 10.7 and 99.1 and “The Development Agreement and the Usufruct Agreement”, below). On July 2, 2015, after the Usufruct Agreement (“UA”) was registered by the Government legally perfecting LLC’s ownership of the Land Rights, the Government and LLC entered into an agreement (the “Operative Agreement”) making July 1, 2015 the “Operative Date” from which all time periods for the execution by LLC of various tasks enumerated in the DA are to be measured.

 

Omagine initially capitalized LLC at Omani Rials (“OR”) 20,000 [$52,000] and in 2011 Omagine’s 100% ownership of LLC was reduced to 60% pursuant to a shareholders’ agreement (the “Shareholder Agreement”) signed in May 2011 by Omagine, JOL and three new LLC minority investors (See: Exhibit 10.6 and “The Shareholder Agreement” below).

 

As of the date hereof, the shareholders of Omagine LLC (the “LLC Shareholders”) are:

 

i.	Omagine, Inc. and
ii.	Royal Court Affairs (“RCA”), an organization representing the personal interests of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the ruler of Oman, and
iii.	Two subsidiaries of Consolidated Contractors International Company, SAL (“CCIC”). CCIC is a 65 year old Lebanese multi-national company headquartered in Athens, Greece having worldwide and operating subsidiaries in among other places, every country in the MENA Region. In its fiscal years immediately prior to 2016, CCIC had approximately five (5) billion U.S. dollars in annual revenue and one hundred thirty thousand (130,000) employees but this may be reduced during its 2016 fiscal year as a result of adverse economic conditions in the MENA Region (See: “Market Conditions” below).  The two CCIC subsidiaries which are LLC shareholders are:

 

	a.	Consolidated Contracting Company S.A. (“CCC-Panama”), a wholly owned subsidiary of CCIC, and
	b.	Consolidated Contractors Oman Company LLC (“CCC-Oman”), CCIC’s operating subsidiary in Oman.

CCC-Panama and CCC-Oman are sometimes referred to collectively in this report as “CCC”.

 

As previously reported several obstacles were encountered with regard to concluding the construction contract for the Omagine Project with CCC (the “CCC-Contract”). It recently appeared that these obstacles would be overcome via an agreement with CCC and an Omani bank with whom CCC has a business relationship. CCC’s introduction and long-standing relationship with the Omani bank was the impetus behind the proposed debt financing and advisory services to LLC by the Omani bank. All efforts to date to conclude the CCC-Contract with CCC, and recently to conclude an agreement with the Omani bank referred to us by CCC, have resulted in no forward progress.

Management was originally pleased in August 2016 by the prospect of concluding the drawn out negotiations with CCC to finalize the CCC-Contract and the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement with CCC and RCA before concluding a term sheet with the Omani Bank, but all such CCC negotiations once again foundered and management no longer sees that path as a viable way forward.

Also as previously reported, management has been holding discussions in parallel with several potential LLC investors and as of the date hereof, we are in final discussions with several such investors and have a signed agreement with one such investor.

We presently expect to amend the Shareholder Agreement as necessary to memorialize the new arrangements and revisions to which the LLC Shareholders may agree (the “Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement”). We presently expect that the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement will be signed by the parties within the next month and that serious design, development and construction activities on the Omagine Project will begin during the first quarter of 2017.

Management has also been conducting parallel project finance discussions with a bank other than the Omani Bank with whom CCC has a business relationship, and we expect a successful conclusion to that discussion to occur soon after the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement is executed by the parties.

As these matters unfold, management will report all material developments and agreements to its shareholders in a timely manner.

Management’s primary goal continues to be the launch in the first quarter of 2017 of serious design and construction activities for the Omagine Project. Management cautions that future events rarely develop exactly as forecast and the best estimates routinely require adjustment. Investors and shareholders are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statement or forecast, which speaks only as of the date hereof.

 

The Shareholder Agreement

 

Upon organizing Omagine LLC in 2009, Omagine made an initial cash investment into LLC of OR 20,000 [$52,000] in consideration for the issuance to Omagine of 200,000 LLC Shares.

 

Pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement:

 

i.	Before the DA was signed and after the execution of the Shareholder Agreement, the LLC Shareholders purchased an aggregate of 1,300,000 LLC Shares for an aggregate cash investment of OR 130,000 [$338,000], as follows:

 

	a)	Omagine purchased an additional 700,000 LLC Shares for OR 70,000 [$182,000] in cash, and
	b)	RCA purchased 375,000 LLC Shares for OR 37,500 [$97,500] in cash, and
	c)	CCC-Panama purchased 150,000 LLC Shares for OR 15,000 [$39,000] in cash, and CCC-Oman purchased 75,000 LLC Shares for OR 7,500 [$19,500] in cash (collectively, the “225,000 Initial CCC Shares”).

 

ii.	After the DA was signed on October 2, 2014, Omagine purchased an additional 2,100,000 LLC Shares for an additional investment by Omagine of OR 210,000 [$546,000] in cash, and

 

iii.	On July 2, 2015, RCA purchased an additional 663,750 LLC Shares in consideration for the non-cash investment by RCA of the Land Rights valued at OR 276,666,667 [$718,614,000].

 

The CCC Contract was not signed on or before July 1, 2016 and the Shareholder Agreement is expected to be amended shortly by the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement. Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Shareholder Agreement, Omagine, Inc. has the option (the “ OMAG Option”) to purchase the 225,000 Initial CCC Shares from CCC for 22,500 Omani Rials ($58,500). The OMAG Options are exercisable at any time up to and including July 1, 2017 and Omagine, Inc. in its sole discretion, may assign the OMAG Option to any Person. (See: “the CCC-Contract” below and the CCC-Panama Subscription Agreement and the CCC-Oman Subscription Agreement which are integral parts of and fully incorporated into the Shareholder Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit 10.6).

As of September 30, 2016 and the date hereof the LLC shareholders have made cash investments into LLC as indicated in the following Table A:

 

Table A  -  LLC Shareholders’ Cash Equity Investments into Omagine LLC

 

		Omagine, Inc.								Royal Court Affairs								Consolidated Contractors
		OR				USD				OR				USD				OR				USD
Initial cash equity investment at inception			OR 20,000			$	52,000				0				0				0				0
Additional cash equity investment at signing of Shareholder Agreement (the “SHA”)			OR 70,000			$	182,000				OR 37,500			$	97,500				OR 22,500			$	58,500
Additional OMAG Deferred Cash Equity Investment due under the SHA before the first Financing Agreement Date **			OR 210,000			$	546,000				0				0				0				0
Total Cash Equity Investments made by each of the LLC Shareholders into LLC as of June 30, 2016 and the date hereof.			OR 300,000			$	780,000				OR 37,500			$	97,500				OR 22,500			$	58,500

 

As of September 30, 2016 and the date hereof RCA has made a non-cash payment-in-kind investment into LLC as indicated in the following Table B:

 

 

Table B  -  RCA’s Non-Cash Equity Investment into Omagine LLC

 

Omagine, Inc.

Royal Court Affairs

Consolidated Contractors

OR

USD

OR

USD

OR

USD

Additional non-cash equity investment of Land Rights on registration of the Usufruct Agreement*

0

0

OR 276,666,667

$

718,614,000

0

0

 

As of July 1, 2016 and the date hereof RCA is obligated to make an additional Deferred Cash Investment into LLC as indicated in the following Table C:

 

Table C  -  RCA Deferred Cash Equity Investment into Omagine LLC

 

Omagine, Inc.

Royal Court Affairs

Consolidated Contractors

OR

USD

OR

USD

OR

USD

Additional RCA Deferred Cash Investment which is now due under the SHA

0

0

OR 7,640,625

$

19,865,625

0

0

  

 

 

As of September 30, 2016 CCC, in management’s opinion, was obligated to make additional Deferred Cash Investments into LLC as indicated in the following Table D, however it is management’s present opinion that this is now unlikely to occur.

 

Table D  -  CCC Deferred Cash Equity Investments into Omagine LLC

 

Omagine, Inc.

Royal Court Affairs

Consolidated Contractors

OR

USD

OR

USD

OR

USD

Additional Deferred Cash Investments which may be due under the SHA

0

0

0

0

OR 18,987,500

$

49,367,500

 

*

All conversions of Omani Rials to U.S. Dollars in this Report are calculated at an exchange rate of one (1) Omani Rial being equivalent to $2.60 except for the land valuation which is calculated at an exchange rate of one (1) Omani Rial being equivalent to $2.5974. See: “The Land Rights” and “Critical Accounting Policies”, below.

 

In order to bring the Omagine Project to its present state, Omagine, Inc. (as of September 30, 2016), has:

 

(i)

invested 300,000 Omani Rials ($780,000) in cash into Omagine LLC, and

 

(ii)

expended $17.9 million of Pre-Development Expenses on behalf of the Omagine Project through the October 2, 2014 DA signing date consisting of both cash and non-cash expense items as Omagine, Inc. had promised to do pursuant to the SHA, and

 

(iii)

single-handedly kept the Omagine Project and Omagine LLC financially afloat after the October 2, 2014 DA signing date by expending an additional $10.8 million on behalf of the Omagine Project via cash loans from Omagine, Inc. to Omagine LLC (“Loans”) and the direct payment by Omagine, Inc. of Omagine LLC liabilities and accounts payable consisting of both cash and non-cash items (“Advances”), neither of which Loans nor Advances Omagine, Inc. had any obligation whatsoever to do pursuant to the SHA.

 

All such Pre-Development Expenses, Loans and Advances are or will be liabilities of LLC, reimbursable to Omagine, Inc. in accordance with the terms of the Shareholder Agreement (as may likely be amended; See: the following Table E, and “Pre-Development Expenses and Loans and Advances to LLC”, below).

 

Table E - Pre-Development Expenses, Loans and Advances

 

Pre-Development Expenses, Loans and Advances		Cash Items				Non-Cash Items (Depreciation; Amortization; Stock Option Expense)				Total
Pre-Development Expense Amount (incurred prior to the October 2, 2014 DA signing date)		$	13,611,951			$	4,308,163			$	17,920,114
Loans & Advances (incurred on or after the October 2, 2014 DA signing date)		$	3,876,589			$	6,961,789			$	10,838,378
Total  -  (Due to Omagine, Inc. from Omagine LLC)		$	17,488,540			$	11,269,952			$	28,758,492

 

 

The foregoing summary of some of the terms of the Shareholder Agreement and does not purport to be complete and it is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the SHA. The full text of the SHA is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.6. RCA and Omagine, Inc. are presently in negotiations with investors which may lead to an Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement.

 

The Omagine Project

 

The Omagine Project is a mixed-use tourism and residential real estate project. Subject to normal and customary scheduling changes during its development and construction and to the current delays encountered in getting the CCC-Contract signed, the Omagine Project is now planned to be completed in 2022. It is being developed on one million square meters (equal to 100 hectares or approximately 245 acres) of beachfront land (the “Existing Land”) facing the Gulf of Oman just west of Oman’s capital city of Muscat and approximately six miles from Muscat International Airport. Present development plans envision the creation of approximately a net additional 106,000 square meters of “Reclaimed Land” which together with the Existing Land will comprise approximately 1,106,000 square meters of land (the “Project Land”). The Omagine Project will require substantial Project Finance to complete (See: “The Shareholder Agreement”, above and “Financial Advisor”, below).

 

The Omagine Project is planned to be an elegant integration of cultural, scientific, heritage, entertainment and residential components, including seven pearl shaped (20 meter diameter) buildings (the “Pearls”) located along an open boardwalk with associated entertainment exhibitions; an amphitheater and stage; green landscaped spaces; a canal; an enclosed harbor and marina; boat slips and docking facilities; retail shops; a variety of restaurants, cafes and entertainment venues; a five-star resort hotel; a four-star hotel; and possibly an additional three or four-star hotel; shopping and retail establishments integrated with the hotels; commercial office buildings; and more than two thousand elegant residences to be developed for sale by LLC. The ethos of the project is elegant but relaxed entertainment and the Company expects that the Pearls will become “the Landmark” for the Sultanate of Oman.

 

Pursuant to Omani Law, non-Omani persons are not permitted to purchase land in Oman unless such land is located within an Integrated Tourism Project (“ITC”) such as the Omagine Project. The Government has designated the Omagine Project as an ITC and has issued a license to LLC (an “ITC License”) thereby permitting the sale by LLC of the freehold title to the Project Land and to properties developed on the Project Land to any person, including any non-Omani person. Since the Omagine Project will contain significant hospitality (hotels), retail, commercial, and entertainment elements, LLC’s business operations are expected over time to encompass real estate development, hospitality, entertainment and property management.

 

The Development Agreement and the Usufruct Agreement

 

Omagine’s 60% owned subsidiary, LLC, signed a Development Agreement (“DA”) with the Government of Oman in October 2014 for the development in Oman by LLC of the Omagine Project. The legal effectiveness of the DA was conditional upon its ratification by Oman’s Ministry of Finance which Ratification occurred in March 2015. On July 1, 2015 (the “Operative Date”), the Government and LLC entered into a Usufruct Agreement (“UA”) with respect to the Land Rights over the Existing Land and the DA and UA extend such Land Rights to all of the Project Land.

 

On July 2, 2015, after the UA was registered by the Government legally perfecting LLC’s ownership of the Land Rights, the Ministry of Tourism (“MOT”) of the Government and LLC entered into an agreement (the “Operative Agreement”) making July 1, 2015 the “Operative Date” from which all time periods for the execution by LLC of various tasks enumerated in the DA are to be measured. In the Operative Agreement MOT states in relevant part: “We ask you to receive the land and begin procedures for executing the project as per the development agreement entered into with you, keeping in mind that the effective commencement date of the development agreement is 1 July 2015”. The Operative Date is the date from which all time periods for the execution by LLC of various tasks enumerated in the DA are to be measured (See Exhibits 10.8 and 99.2).

 

 

The DA and UA are the contracts that govern the design, development, construction, management and ownership of the Omagine Project, the use and sale by LLC of the Project Land, and the Government’s and LLC’s rights and obligations with respect to the Omagine Project. In the event of any conflict between the terms and conditions of the DA and the terms and conditions of the UA, the terms and conditions of the DA control (See Exhibits 10.7, 99.1, 10.8 and 99.2). The term of the DA is 20 years and the term of the UA is 50 years (renewable) commencing from the Operative Date. The UA and those DA provisions relevant to the UA survive the expiration of the term of the DA.

 

The Land Rights owned by LLC give it extensive rights over the Project Land including the right to sell such Project Land on a freehold basis. LLC may use, control, develop, retain, operate and/or sell the approximately 1.1 million square meters of Project Land to itself or to third parties. The DA obligates LLC to pay the Government twenty-five (25) Omani Rials ($65) for each square meter of Project Land purchased directly by LLC or sold by LLC to any third party (the “Land Price”). The average valuation for the Land Rights (net of such Land Price is OR 276,666,667 ($718,614,000) (See: “The Land Rights”, below).

 

The five year period commencing on the Operative Date is a rent free period (the “Rent Free Period”) and thereafter LLC will pay annual rent to the Government (the “Land Rent”) based on only the built but unsold commercial area (excluding the residential area) of the Omagine Project (approximately 150,000 sq. meters) or approximately OR 45,000 ($117,000) per year based on the current annual per square meter fee of OR 0.300 ($0.78). No Land Rent is due or owing during the Rent Free Period and no Land Rent is ever due or owing with respect to plots of Project Land (i) on which there is a residential building, or (ii) on which there is not a substantially completed non-residential building (i.e. Project Land that is open space, roads, non-residential building work-in-progress, etc. are rent-free).

 

The continued legal effectiveness of the DA subsequent to the Operative Date is dependent upon certain milestone dates being achieved (any or all of which may be extended or waived by the Government), including: (1) LLC’s delivery to the Government by June 30, 2016 of a term sheet with lenders for the financing of the first or any other phase of the Project, [this milestone date was achieved by the term sheet and financing agreement which LLC received from a Qatari bank in November 2015], (2) LLC’s submission to the Ministry of Tourism of a social impact assessment by March 31, 2016 and the Government’s approval thereof by June 30, 2016, (3) the Government’s approval by June 30, 2016 of the development control plan for the Omagine Project, and (4) the transformation of LLC into a joint stock company by June 30, 2016 (these milestone dates 2, 3 and 4 are not yet achieved and are expected to be extended if and when the Operative Date is extended).

 

MOT and LLC management have been in communication with regard to the delays encountered to date by LLC in meeting certain DA milestone dates as measured from the Operative Date. The MOT (and all Government Ministries) are acutely aware of the unusual fiscal strains imposed on the present banking and economic environments in the region. In this regard on September 26, 2016 management met with the Minister of Tourism and his senior staff to update MOT on recent events and to discuss the matter of extending the Operative Date. While no conclusive extension of the Operative Date was made in the meeting, the MOT anticipates that a follow up meeting with management will be made by end of year and management is hopeful and presently expects that the Operative Date will be extended once we finalize our ongoing negotiations and agreements with respect to the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement. No assurance can be given however to what extent, if any, that the Operative Date will in fact be extended by MOT.

 

Pursuant to the DA, LLC must substantially complete the construction of the seven Pearl buildings and one hotel (the “Minimum Build Obligation” or “MBO”) by June 30, 2020 (the “MBO Completion Date”), as such date may be amended or extended per the DA as indicated above. The DA imposes no performance timelines on LLC with respect to completing the development or construction of elements of the Omagine Project other than the MBO but the completion of the MBO will require LLC to obtain the necessary Project Finance to do so. Any material breach by LLC of its obligation to perform the MBO would constitute an event of default under the DA. The DA specifies that the principal construction contract (i.e. the CCC Contract) should be executed by June 30, 2016. This did not happen as indicated above. LLC is required to provide written notice to the Government in certain circumstances, such as LLC’s change in an anticipated milestone date that would result in a substantial achievement of work to occur later than 60 days after such milestone date. Such notice has been communicated both verbally and in writing to the appropriate government officials in recent communications with them and was discussed further at the September 26, 2016 meeting with the Minister of Tourism.

 

The Company undertook and financed many development activities on behalf of LLC subsequent to the DA signing (the “Initial Activities”) in an effort to fast-track the Omagine Project’s development. The fast-track advantages sought to be gained thereby however have not materialized due to LLC’s failure to utilize the $25 million Al-Rayan Loan to finance the Initial Activities, LLC’s ongoing operations in Oman, and LLC’s previously disclosed phase one design and construction activities (See: our previous disclosures in prior reports filed with the SEC).

 

The cause of such failure was the extended and drawn out negotiations with CCC relevant to the CCC-Contract and CCC’s Deferred Cash Investment after the November 2015 Financing Agreement Date.

 

Because of these delays therefore, the more serious and substantial design, masterplanning and construction activities for the Omagine Project did not begin in December 2015 as required for the fast-track development strategy and as management had planned. (See: “Initial Activities” and “Pre-Development Expenses and Loans and Advances to LLC”, below). The design, development and construction of the Omagine Project will still benefit from these Initial Activities having been undertaken but not to the extent envisioned by our planned fast-track development approach. 

 

Non-Omani persons (such as expatriates living and working in Oman) are not permitted by Omani law to purchase land or residences in Oman outside of an ITC. The Government’s designation and licensing of the Omagine Project as an ITC therefore permits LLC to sell the freehold title to Project Land and properties which are developed on Project Land to any Omani or non-Omani individual or juristic person worldwide. Properties within an ITC enjoy a premium price relative to properties not in an ITC. Any Project Land or buildings remaining unsold at the expiration of the 50 year Usufruct Term will revert to the Government. LLC does not anticipate that there will be any such unsold properties at the expiration of the 50 year Usufruct Term.

 

The foregoing summary of some of the terms of the DA and of the UA does not purport to be complete and it is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full texts of such agreements. The full text of the Development Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibits 10.7 and 99.1. The full text of the Usufruct Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibits 10.8 and 99.2 and also contained in Schedule 2A of the Development Agreement.

 

The Land Rights

 

The value of the Project Land has been determined by three highly experienced professional valuation firms in accordance with the requirements and procedures specified for such a valuation by (i) the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (“RICS”) of London, England, and (ii) International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). Each of the three firms has a worldwide brand in the real estate valuation business.

 

	●	In November 2014, LLC engaged the Oman office of Savills (http://www.savills.com/ (“Savills”) operating as Arabian Real Estate LLC (http://www.savills.om). Savills provides real estate services from over 600 offices worldwide, is listed on the London Stock Exchange, and is a FTSE 250 Index company.
	●	In December 2014, LLC engaged DTZ International Ltd., a Dubai, UAE firm with extensive experience in Oman (http://www.dtzglobal.com) (“DTZ”). DTZ is one of the top three global commercial real estate service companies, with more than 28,000 employees operating across more than 260 offices in 50 countries and $63 billion in transaction volume.
	●	In January 2015, LLC engaged Jones Lang LaSalle, UAE Limited, Dubai Branch (http://www.jll-mena.com/mena/en-gb/locations/Our-locations-in-MENA/dubai) (“JLL”). JLL has 53,000 employees operating across more than 230 offices in 80 countries.

 

The Savills and DTZ final valuation reports were received by LLC in January 2015. The JLL final valuation report was received by LLC in July 2015. The Company is of the opinion that JLL’s valuation is flawed and most probably represents a statistical outlier. In an abundance of caution however, management has nevertheless determined to include the JLL valuation in its calculation of the average value of LLC’s Land Rights. The Land Rights valuations by the three aforementioned firms are summarized in the table below:

 

  

Land Rights Valuation
Valuation Firm		Omani Rials
Savills		OR 295,000,000
DTZ		OR 385,000,000
JLL		OR 150,000,000
Average		OR 276,666,667

 

In view of the changing economic conditions in the MENA Region due to the fall in oil prices, LLC may commission an updated land valuation in the coming months.

 

The Accounting Treatment for the Land Rights

 

Omagine and JOL prepare their financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“US GAAP”) and the Company prepares its consolidated financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. LLC’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”).

 

LLC has land under development valued at 276,666,667 Omani Rials. Based on a $2.5974 per 1 Omani Rial exchange rate, the Company recorded this land under development in its financial statements at $718,614,000 and the Company has allocated this amount as follows: 188,963,334 Omani Rials ($490,813,363 based on a $2.5974 per 1 Omani Rial exchange rate) to inventory; and 87,703,333 Omani Rials ($227,800,637 based on a $2.5974 per 1 Omani Rial exchange rate) to property. This land under development was purchased by LLC on July 2, 2015 pursuant to the terms of the Shareholder Agreement whereby an LLC shareholder subscribed for 663,750 LLC Shares at a purchase price equal to the value of the Land Rights. Since the Land Rights represented a non-cash payment-in-kind for the LLC Shares, it was necessary to value the Land Rights.

 

Three expert real estate valuation companies were engaged by LLC to independently value the Land Rights in accordance with the professional standards specified by RICS and IFRS. The average of the three Land Rights valuations was OR 276,666,667. (See: “The Land Rights”, above and Exhibits 99.4, 99.5 and 99.6).

 

Since the 276,666,667 Omani Rial value of the Land Rights was substantial, LLC retained the services of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) to provide its written analysis and report to LLC with respect to the correct IFRS accounting method LLC should use to record the 276,666,667 Omani Rial Land Rights value in its IFRS compliant financial statements. PwC did not advise on the valuation of the Land Rights (as determined by Savills, DTZ and JLL), but only on the correct accounting LLC should use to record such Land Rights valuation in LLC’s financial statements in accordance with IFRS. PwC’s written report was received by LLC in August 2015. Promptly thereafter, LLC consulted with its independent auditor, Deloitte & Touche (M.E.) & Co. LLC (“Deloitte”) with respect to the matter, and Deloitte’s written technical analysis report (which agreed with PwC’s analysis) was received by LLC in November 2015.

 

The Land Rights over the Project Land are extensive, are closely akin to ownership rights and include the right to sell such land on a freehold basis. The Land Rights are virtually equivalent to ownership rights and like any asset, if its value were to become impaired for any reason (including any contractual reason pursuant to the DA requirements), a reserve for such impairment would need to be established at such time. Although it is not required to do so, in view of the unsettled economic environment in Oman and the greater MENA Region, the Company is considering updating these valuation reports in December 2016 to verify if any material changes in the value of the Project Land may have occurred since the above three valuation reports were completed thereby possibly requiring the establishment of such a reserve for impairment. Management’s decision as to whether or not to undertake such updated reports will depend to a large extent upon management’s assessment of economic conditions in Oman in December 2016. Both PwC and Deloitte independently concluded that the Land Rights should be recorded as capital and as tangible assets (work-in-process inventory and land) on LLC’s financial statements. With respect to the Company’s consolidated financial statements, the Company’s independent auditor in the U.S. has likewise concurred that pursuant to US GAAP, the Land Rights should be recorded as capital, inventory and land.

 

  

In determining the proper amounts to be allocated to inventory and to land, LLC calculated the percentage (x) by dividing (y) the area of the land LLC presently plans definitively to sell, by (z) the total area of the Project Land, and then multiplying that percentage (x) by 276,666,667 Omani Rials to get the number (N) for inventory. The amount to be allocated to property was then calculated by subtracting N from 276,666,667 Omani Rials. Using its detailed internal financial model, management calculated (x) to be equal to 68.3%, thereby making the inventory number (N) equal to 188,963,334 Omani Rials ($490,813,363 based on a $2.5974 per 1 Omani Rial exchange rate) and the property number equal to 87,703,333 Omani Rials ($227,800,637 based on a $2.5974 per 1 Omani Rial exchange rate). In its consolidated financial statements therefore, the Company has allocated the value of the Land Rights between (i) land under development which is held for sale (inventory), and (ii) land under development which is held for investment (PP&E). As more precise land use percentages emerge during and after the masterplanning and construction of the Omagine Project, the percentage allocations for the value of the Land Rights may be reclassified to distinguish between the land underlying properties that we will own and operate and those which we will own and lease.

  

Pre-Development Expenses and Loans and Advances to LLC

 

Prior to the DA being signed, Omagine incurred significant costs related to marketing, planning, concept design, re-design, feasibility studies, engineering, financing, promotions, capital raising, travel, legal fees, consulting and professional fees, other general and administrative activities and similar such activities including preparing and making presentations to the Government and to potential investors and all other activities and matters associated with the negotiation and conclusion of the DA with the Government (collectively, the ”Pre-Development Expenses”). The Shareholder Agreement defines the “Pre-Development Expense Amount” as the total amount of such Pre-Development Expenses incurred before the DA was signed by the Government and LLC on October 2, 2014.

 

Omagine, Inc. expended $17,920,114 to pay for 100% of the Pre-Development Expense Amount.

 

Subsequent to the October 2, 2014 DA signing date and as of September 30, 2016, Omagine, Inc. has voluntarily - and without any obligation to do so - single-handedly kept the Omagine Project and Omagine LLC financially afloat by expending an additional $10.8 million on behalf of the Omagine Project via Loans and Advances to LLC.

 

A summary of the Pre-Development Expense Amount and of the Loans and Advances is detailed in the following table:

 

Pre-Development Expenses, Loans and Advances

 

		Cash Items				Non-Cash Items				Total
Pre-Development Expense Amount (incurred prior to the October 2, 2014 DA signing date)		$	13,611,951			$	4,308,163			$	17,920,114
Loans & Advances (incurred on or after the October 2, 2014 DA signing date)		$	3,876,589			$	6,961,789			$	10,838,378
Total Due to Omagine, Inc. from Omagine LLC		$	17,488,540			$	11,269,952			$	28,758,492

 

The Pre-Development Expense Amount, Loans and Advances are or will be liabilities of LLC; reimbursable to Omagine, Inc. in accordance with the terms of the Shareholder Agreement. The terms and conditions of the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement now being negotiated may change the presently existing terms and conditions of the existing Shareholder Agreement with respect to the Pre-Development Expense Amount and of the Loans and Advances.

 

  

The Pre-Development Expense Amount

 

Pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement as presently in effect, the date subsequent to the first Financing Agreement Date when LLC draws down the first amount of debt financing is defined as the “Draw Date”.

 

The first Financing Agreement Date occurred on November 29, 2015 when LLC and Masraf Al Rayan signed a Financing Agreement. A Draw Date pursuant to that Financing Agreement never occurred however because CCC (represented by CCIC executive management), after first agreeing in December 2015 to promptly (i) finalize the negotiation of the CCC-Contract (which in December 2015 was in an advanced stage of completion), (ii) sign the CCC-Contract, and (iii) invest their Deferred Cash Investments immediately after the CCC-Contract was signed – subsequently – and on several different occasions - changed its mind. Consequently, these matters have been the subject matter of numerous and virtually continuous discussions and negotiations since December 2015 with many and varied interim “agreed agreements”, all of which to date were “agreed” and then later forsaken by CCC. The CCC-Contract negotiations were ultimately abandoned by management. (See: “The CCC-Contract”, below).

 

Further pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement as presently in effect:

 

	1)	the liability for the Pre-Development Expense Amount shall be recorded on LLC’s financial records on the Draw Date and in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”), and

 

	2)	fifty percent (50%) of the Pre-Development Expense Amount will be paid to Omagine, Inc. on or within ten (10) days after the Draw Date, and

 

3)

the remaining fifty percent (50%) of the Pre-Development Expense Amount will be paid to Omagine, Inc. in five equal annual installments beginning on the first anniversary of the Draw Date.

 

The Loans and Advances to LLC

 

The $10,838,378 of Loans and Advances are payable to Omagine, Inc. by LLC on demand (but as a practical matter, not until LLC has the financial capacity to do so and Omagine has no present intention of demanding immediate payment of the Loans and Advances).

 

The Success Fee

 

The Shareholder Agreement defines the Success Fee as being equal to ten (10) million dollars. Pursuant to the terms of the Shareholder Agreement as presently in effect:

 

	1)	the liability for the Success Fee shall be recorded on LLC’s financial records on the Draw Date and in accordance with the IFRS, and

 

2)

the Success Fee will be paid to Omagine, Inc. in five annual two (2) million dollar installments beginning on or within ten (10) days after the Draw Date.

 

Omagine, may at its option, not enforce the aforementioned payment schedules for the Pre-Development Expense Amount and/or the Success Fee as agreed in the Shareholder Agreement and may agree to a different schedule for such payments and Omagine may likewise, at its option, refrain from demanding payment of the Loans and Advances until LLC is in a financial position to make such payment.

 

As of the date hereof, Omagine continues to make Loans and Advances to and on behalf of LLC for the activities being undertaken by or on behalf of LLC in order to advance the development schedule for the Omagine Project and expects to do so until the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement is agreed and signed.

 

The Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement (assuming it is agreed and executed) is expected to, among other things, address, restate and formalize the terms of repayment by LLC to Omagine, Inc. of the Pre-Development Expense Amount, the Loans and Advances and the Success Fee but the manner, terms and conditions to be agreed relative thereto is uncertain at this time. Management’s primary goal continues to be the launch of serious design and construction activities for the Omagine Project and management does not object to any reasonable resolution of these and other matters preventing that goal from being accomplished.

  

LLC Capital Structure

 

As of the date hereof the LLC Shareholders have made:

 

	(i)	cash investments totaling OR 360,000 [$936,000] (of which OR 300,000 [$780,000] was invested by Omagine), and
	(ii)	a non-cash investment of the Land Rights valued at OR 276,666,667 ($718,614,000), for a total investment to date of OR 277,026,667 ($720,269,334).

 

 

LLC is presently capitalized as follows:

 

		Investment
Shareholder		Omani Rials				US Dollars
Omagine			OR 300,000			$	780,000
RCA			OR276,704,167			$	718,711,500
CCC-Panama			OR 15,000			$	39,000
CCC-Oman			OR 7,500			$	19,500
Total:			OR277,026,667			$	719,550,000

 

As of the date hereof, as a result of (i) Omagine having made its OR 210,000 ($560,000) Deferred Cash Investment into LLC, and (ii) RCA having made its OR 276,666,667 ($718,614,000) non-cash PIK Investment of the Land Rights into LLC, LLC is presently obligated to issue a further 2,100,000 LLC Shares to Omagine and a further 663,750 LLC Shares to RCA. As of the date hereof, neither CCC nor RCA have made their respective Deferred Cash Investments into LLC.

 

As of the date hereof, the ownership percentages of LLC as registered at the Ministry of Commerce & Industry are as follows:

 

LLC Shareholder		% Ownership
Omagine			60	%
RCA			25	%
CCC-Panama			10	%
CCC-Oman			5	%
Total:			100	%

 

RCA continues to be obligated to make further cash investments into LLC in the aggregate amount of OR 7,640,625 [$19,865,625] but the timing and payment of such an RCA Deferred Cash Investment may change from that memorialized in the Shareholder Agreement presently in effect to what may be agreed in the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement.

 

The Transformation

 

At some time subsequent to the execution of the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement, LLC intends to transform its corporate structure from a limited liability company into a joint-stock company (the “Transformation”).

 

The Shareholder Agreement also specifies, among other things, the corporate governance and management policies of LLC and it provides for the LLC shares presently owned by JOL to be transferred to Omagine subsequent to the signing of the DA. We presently expect this share transfer to occur at the time of the Transformation of LLC into a joint stock company.

 

The foregoing summary of the terms of the Shareholder Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Shareholder Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit 10.6.

 

Banks, Investors and Contractors

 

The Al Rayan Bank

 

As previously reported, in November 2015, LLC signed an agreement (the “Al Rayan Loan Agreement”) and arranged a $25 million loan (the “Al Rayan Bank Loan”) with Masraf Al Rayan, a substantial Qatari bank. Management has continued to have discussions with Masraf Al Rayan since November 2015 but it is management’s opinion that the Al Rayan Loan Agreement and the Al Rayan Bank Loan will not be utilized by LLC.

 

  

The Omani Bank with whom CCC has a business relationship

 

Extended meetings and discussions with CCC and with the Omani Bank with whom CCC has a business relationship resulted in changing, confusing and often contradictory paths being followed before ending unsuccessfully. It was planned by all the LLC Shareholders that CCC and RCA would inject into LLC a portion (an aggregate of approximately $26 million USD) of their “Deferred Equity Investments” (as such term is defined in the Shareholder Agreement); that LLC would hire a the Omani Bank as its financial adviser and lender; that LLC would execute a Phase One valued at approximately $220 million and consisting of one hotel, 250 residences and one Pearl; that LLC and CCC-Oman will enter into the CCC-Contract; and that an Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement would be executed, however all such plans were apparently based on CCC providing the adequate corporate guarantee to the Omani bank – which to the best of management’s knowledge – did not happen. Discussions with the Omani bank and with CCC on this matter are now ended.

 

Management however remains cautiously optimistic that ongoing discussions with an alternative investor and an alternative bank may be concluded by the end of 2016.

 

Design, Development & Construction:

 

The design, development and construction of the Omagine Project will be divided into various phases (each, a “Phase”). Since the CCC-Contract has not and will not be signed, CCC will not likely be the General Contractor for the project and the construction Phases are now expected to be put out to bid to various contractors. This bidding process is expected to garner substantial cost savings for LLC.

 

Initial Activities

 

The Immediate Post-DA Period was the time period between the DA signing and the first Financing Agreement Date. The execution of many initial activities during this period by LLC required the parallel launching by LLC management of many diverse efforts and processes on multiple fronts immediately after the DA Execution Date of October 2, 2014. This early initiative fast track strategy (financed entirely by Omagine) greatly benefited LLC to date in many ways, among which are:

 

1.	the DA was Ratified by the Government;
2.	the UA was signed and registered with the Government;
3.	the Operative Date of July 1, 2015 replaced both the Execution Date of October 2, 2014 and the Effective Date of March 11, 2015 referenced in the DA;
4.	three separate valuation studies and reports were commissioned and the valuation of the Land Rights was completed;
5.	expert accounting analyses and reports were received from PwC, Deloitte and the Company’s independent auditor regarding LLC’s purchase of the Land Rights and the recording thereof in LLC’s and the Company’s financial statements;
6.	LLC booked OR 276,666,667 of new equity which is also reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements;
7.	a cost accounting budgetary framework to be used during the development, construction and marketing of the Omagine Project was created by an independent accounting and finance consultant;
8.	an expert IT consultant was selected to architect and install the IT framework and solutions we intend to implement across LLC and the Company and across the Omagine Project’s “smart city” environment;
9.	an independent third party update to our feasibility study was commissioned and completed;
10.	an update of LLC’s internal financial model by specialist real estate investment bankers and advisers was commissioned and completed;
11.	confirmation from banks in Oman (but not from banks outside of Oman) that the value of the Land Rights can be used as collateral to support the Syndicated Bank Financing was received;
12.	the “Brand Identity” and associated brand pillar components and uniform brand messaging platform we intend to implement for Omagine, LLC and the Omagine Project were created;

 

  

13.	LLC’s strategic plan was completed;
14.	multiple meetings with, and multiple iterations of proposals and presentations from major mission-critical project consultants (architects, designers, Masterplanners, engineers, program managers, quantity surveyors, real estate advisers, hospitality advisers, hotel management companies, financial advisers and others) have been received, reviewed and analyzed by management and selections of many consultants have been made by management;
15.	candidates for ten senior LLC executive positions have been recruited, interviewed and selected;
16.	extensive and multiple presentations and meetings with potential LLC equity investors in six MENA Region countries, Europe, Asia and the U.S. were conducted and while most offers were declined by LLC, negotiations with several selected strategic investors are still ongoing and discussions with one such investor have intensified recently;
17.	extensive and multiple presentations and meetings with local, regional and international banks in Oman, the MENA Region and Europe with respect to the provision of Syndicated Bank Financing have occurred;
18.	Multiple drafts of the CCC Contract were created (most recently in May 2016) and the final attempt to close this transaction ended unsuccessfully after many delays, and
19.	several other contracts for mission-critical consultants are presently being prepared,

 

The CCC Contract / Phase One

 

All prior disclosures and discussion of the CCC-Contract and to prior descriptions of Phase One are now inoperative, void and of no consequence since the CCC-Contract was not and very likely will not be signed with CCC-Oman. Management’s primary goal continues to be the launch of serious design and construction activities for the Omagine Project. Discussions with CCC have ceased and the CCC Contract is not expected to be signed at all. 

 

In August 2016, management was optimistic and positively inclined to believe that a beneficial conclusion for all parties concerned would be forthcoming in a matter of several weeks but no conclusion occurred and management presently believes that, for whatever reason, no amount of further negotiations will result in a definitive conclusion of these matters with CCC.

 

It is presently expected that several building contractors will be involved in the project as the various Phases of the work is bid out to local contractors after the design is substantially completed. As part of the masterplanning, we will develop a phasing program for the entire project and as the design and/or specifications of any Phase is sufficiently completed such that LLC can tender it for competitive bidding it will do so. CCC-Oman will be welcome to bid on any such Phase if it so desires.

 

Any new construction contracts with potential contractors will be modeled after the early draft CCC-Contract as envisioned by Omagine and will be based on internationally accepted contracting standards promulgated by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (“FIDIC”) and will contain a set of industry standard performance parameters, incentives and penalties to ensure Omagine LLC’s interests are protected and that value is delivered.

 

  

LLC will manage the bidding and competitive process by which the various contractors will be chosen. There is an ample supply of qualified contractors in Oman.

 

The contractor will only commence construction activities on a Phase or section of a Phase after the competitive bids therefore are examined and a contract award is made by LLC.

 

It is anticipated that several Phases will be under construction simultaneously in an overlapping manner as the various designs and specifications for the various Phases are sequentially completed. Construction on Phases will continue until the conclusion of all Permanent Works constituting the Omagine Project are completed.

 

LLC plans to maintain a robust control of the design of the entire project and of each Phase through to completion.

 

Development Phases / Construction Phases / Project Financing / Masterplanning

 

It is anticipated that the Omagine Project will be developed in several phases and each such phase will likely include one or more Sections of construction. It is expected therefore that several tranches of project financing from banks or other financial institutions will occur and several Financing Agreements will likely be executed during the course of the project’s phased development and construction. The first Financing Agreement Date occurred on November 29, 2015 with the signing of the Al Rayan Loan agreement but as stated above that is now unlikely to be utilized. Until other Financing Agreements are actually executed by the relevant parties however, no assurance can be given that they actually will be so executed or that Project Financing will be available to LLC. Each such further Financing Agreement, if any, is expected to coincide approximately with the beginning of a new development and construction phase, all of which phases will include design, marketing and one or more new Sections of construction activities. The closing of a tranche of Project Finance whether from banks, financial institutions or from Syndicated Bank Financing will each be likely memorialized by a separate Financing Agreement.

 

The November 29, 2015 execution date of the first such Financing Agreement with Masraf Al Rayan is defined in the Shareholder Agreement as the “Financing Agreement Date”. The earlier that the Financing Agreement Date occurred, the better it was expected to be for LLC, the Omagine Project, and all concerned for a variety of reasons but this was ultimately complicated by the CCC-Contract delays described herein. The present liquidity squeeze in GCC banks which didn’t exist a year ago may continue to have a negative impact on our Project Finance efforts. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, the bank with which we are presently negotiating a project finance package does not have any liquidity issues. 

 

LLC is presently exploring other possible Equity Sales and Debt Facilities in order to finance the Omagine Project. One of such Debt Facility presently under consideration by management is a secured loan from Omagine to LLC if and when sufficient funds are available to Omagine to make such loan. Like any other Debt Facility, this would also be memorialized by a Financing Agreement.

 

No assurance however can be given at this time as to whether the Company will be successful in arranging either Equity Sales or Debt Facilities or in closing the financing facility for the Omagine Project until such events actually happen.

 

Any reference in this report to a term or condition of the Development Agreement, the Usufruct Agreement and/or the Shareholders Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full texts of such agreements. The full text of the Development Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibits 10.7 and 99.1. The full text of the Usufruct Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibits 10.8 and 99.2. The full text of the Shareholder Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.6.

 

Subject to the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement being signed in December 2016 or January 2017, the masterplanning of the Omagine Project is planned to occur in the first quarter of 2017. It is presently planned that in parallel with the masterplanning effort we will engage the hospitality, real estate, insurance and marketing consultants to execute various professional studies which will inform the masterplanning process and our business plan. These consultants and advisers all contribute to and inform the masterplanning and final design process for the Omagine Project.

 

  

The preliminary master plan along with the various studies and our fleshed-out business plan (which in turn is informed by our now completed Strategic Plan) is expected to be utilized by the financial adviser to drive the Syndicated Bank Financing effort. 

 

During the masterplanning process, exact sizes, shapes and placement of the various project elements (residential, hotels, entertainment, landscape, etc.) are determined and as the master plan evolves and takes shape, the various follow-on Phases of development and construction will also naturally evolve. Simultaneously with these processes, the Financial Adviser will be updating the Omagine Project’s financial model to reflect the precise and final constituent project elements along with their projected costs and associated projected revenue streams. Finally, all of the foregoing data and other marketing, sales and strategic planning studies created by or on behalf of LLC are assembled into an “LLC Business Plan”. With the LLC Business Plan in hand and with the LLC Financial Adviser in the lead, LLC and the Financial Adviser and other select consultants set about the business of making final presentations to the various banks, with which we are now and will continue to be in touch, with the objective of arranging the Syndicated Bank Financing.

 

Notwithstanding anything contained in this report regarding possible, proposed or planned (i) sales of equity by Omagine and/or LLC (“Equity Sales”), or (ii) debt facilities with banks, financial institutions or other persons (including loans from Omagine to LLC) or sale of debt securities by LLC (collectively, “Debt Facilities”), or (iii) Syndicated Bank Financing or Project Finance, no assurance can be given at this time as to whether the Company or LLC will be able to obtain the significant amount of financing and Project Finance necessary over time to execute the development of the Omagine Project.

 

Over the past many months, we have conducted, and continue to conduct, numerous meetings:

 

i.	with respect to LLC Equity Sales, with several potential equity investors interested in becoming shareholders of LLC, including sovereign funds, investment funds and high net-worth individuals from Europe, China, and several MENA Region countries, and
ii.	with respect to Omagine Equity Sales, with investment funds and high net-worth investors in the U.S., Europe and the MENA Region interested in becoming shareholders of Omagine, and
iii.	with respect to Debt Facilities for LLC other than Syndicated Bank Financing, with several banks and other potential investors (including Omagine) in the U.S., Europe, the GCC countries and Oman, and
iv.	With respect to major local, regional and international banks in Oman and the GCC there appeared to be a significant amount of banking liquidity in 2015, but presently the banking liquidity levels are under severe pressure primarily as a result of the worldwide drop in the price of crude oil and resulting decrease in deposits into these banks by governments. Similarly the large appetite we witnessed in 2015 at such banks for providing Syndicated Bank Financing and Debt Facilities to LLC appears to have cooled in 2016.

 

LLC management and financial executives have held numerous meetings and discussions over the past several months with many major local and international banks, the purpose of which, among other things, was to discuss the prospects for such banks providing the Syndicated Bank Financing which is expected to be composed primarily of debt financing from banks. This is a crucial matter to address and accomplish in order to make the Omagine Project a reality. Based on present assumptions, we estimate that LLC’s peak Syndicated Bank Financing requirements will be approximately $350 to $400 million during the multi-year development cycle of the Omagine Project.

 

The process of obtaining project financing is not a trivial exercise. It is a time-consuming and complicated process which, when successful, culminates in an event known as a “Financial Close” – usually several Financial Close events - as projects of the size and scope of the Omagine Project are almost always developed in phases. With respect to any proposed Syndicated Bank Financing requirements, the question of whether or not LLC’s Land Rights can or will be used by the various banks as collateral to support such Syndicated Bank Financing is therefore of considerable importance. At present LLC management is confident that banks within Oman will use LLC’s Land Rights as collateral for bank debt facilities for LLC but we are unclear as to the position of many of the regional and international banks outside of Oman in this regard.

 

  

The DA addresses this matter in considerable length and clearly contemplates that LLC - as the registered owner of the Land Rights will be granting a security interest in its Land Rights to banks and lenders to the project. The DA further obliges the Government - as the registered owner of the land - to consent to any such grant of a security interest by LLC. (See: Exhibits 10.7 and 99.1, and Clause 22 of the DA - Lenders Security Interests). The DA states in relevant part:

 

“… the Government shall enter into Direct Agreements with Lenders acknowledging their rights by way of Security Interests over certain assets of the Project Company including an assignment to the Lenders of the Development Agreement, the Usufruct Agreement, other related agreements, and the Project Assets …” (See: Exhibits 10.7 and 99.1, Schedule 20 to the DA - Principles of Direct Agreement).

 

The major Omani banks with which LLC management has met - and with whom we continue to meet and update - have indicated that LLC’s Land Rights will be considered by such Omani banks as collateral to support bank financing debt facilities for the Project Finance for the Omagine Project but other non-Omani regional and international banks have been less forthcoming with definitive answers until they see more details about the nature and extent of LLC’s Land Rights. 

 

LLC management is presently confident that the OR 276,666,667 ($718,614,000) value of its Land Rights will be considered by the Omani banks as collateral for the Syndicated Bank Financing for the Omagine Project but it remains unclear at this stage whether or not banks other than Omani banks will do likewise. Notwithstanding the foregoing statement however, it is not possible at this time to predict with certainty what future events may alter LLC’s present assessment of its ability to use its Land Rights to collateralize any bank debt financing including any Syndicated Bank Financing.

 

Updated Studies

 

In addition to the valuation studies and reports with respect to the Land Rights (See: “The Land Rights”, above), management also commissioned:

 

(i)	an updated feasibility study of the Omagine Project by an independent third party which is a professional real estate, tourism and marketing consultant, and
(ii)	an updated LLC internal financial model for the Omagine Project by unaffiliated third parties who are expert financial, investment banking and real estate consultants.

 

Both the updated feasibility study and the financial model have been completed and they will be utilized by LLC to fine tune its development plans, and ultimately by LLC’s designated Financial Adviser for the balance of the project in arranging the Syndicated Bank Financing and other financing for LLC as may be required.

 

Omagine LLC’s internal financial model is updated, modified and adjusted from time to time in order to capture what management believes are the then present market realities and projected trends. The financial model is organized to show best case, worst case and probable case scenarios. The most recently updated probable case scenario forecasts substantial net positive cash flows for Omagine LLC over the seven year period subsequent to the signing of the DA and a net present value (“NPV”) of the Omagine Project of approximately $1.4 billion dollars. Management believes its financial model assumptions are reasonable but cautions that they may change as new facts and information become available, as the development program and design process unfolds and as market conditions require. It is virtually certain that the various components of the financial model - and therefore the estimates of total cash flow and NPV - will change from time to time in line with market fluctuations and as the project unfolds.

 

The sale of residential and commercial properties are a large revenue driver supporting Omagine LLC's internal financial projections. The OR 276,666,667 average valuation of the Land Rights has had a positive effect on projected revenue at LLC.

 

 

Management cautions that investors should not place undue reliance on the aforementioned financial model projections or on estimates by market participants mentioned herein as all such projections, estimates and forecasts are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the Company's control, and no assurance can be given that the projections will be realized or that the estimates or forecasts will prove to be accurate. Potential investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statement or forecast, which, unless otherwise noted to the contrary, speaks only as of the date hereof.

 

Off Plan Sales and Land Price Payments

 

As is present practice in Oman, LLC anticipates that sales contracts with third party purchasers of residential or commercial properties that are purchased “off plan” (i.e. purchased before the construction thereof), will stipulate the payment to LLC by such purchasers of (i) a deposit on signing of such sales contract, and (ii) progress payments during the construction period of the relevant property covered by such sales contract. Since the aggregate of such deposit and progress payments before and during the construction of the relevant property is expected to be approximately 85% of the sales price of the relevant property stipulated in such sales contract, LLC anticipates that (i) the construction costs for properties that are sold “off plan” will be substantially “owner-financed” by the relevant purchaser, and (ii) it will likely be unnecessary therefore for LLC to utilize any or very much Syndicated Bank Financing in order to pay for the construction costs of properties which are sold pursuant to “off plan” sales contracts. Management expects that this commonly accepted sales contract and payment process will significantly benefit LLC by reducing its aggregate requirements for Syndicated Bank Financing from its banks. The consumer appetite for such “off plan” sales is less today than it was in recent years. (See “Market Conditions” below).

 

Furthermore, Land Price Payments to the Government are not due or owing from LLC until such time as LLC legally transfers the freehold title to land to a purchaser at the time of the closing of the sale of such land. Such closings will only occur after LLC has received final payment of the relevant sales contract amount from the purchaser. LLC’s financing profile is therefore further enhanced since it is not obligated to make any Land Price Payments to the Government until after it has already received 100% of the contracted sales price amount from the relevant purchaser at the closing when the freehold title to such land and property is transferred to the purchaser.

 

Consolidated Results

 

The financial results of LLC are included in the consolidated financial results of the Company in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The Company experienced a substantial increase in capital on July 2, 2015 when the Land Rights were registered in LLC’s name and recorded in LLC’s and the Company’s financial statements. The Company will experience another substantial increase in capital, if and when the then appropriate percentage representing Omagine’s ownership interest in LLC is recorded in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. LLC's ongoing financial results will be included in the consolidated financial statements of the Company as appropriate for as long as Omagine remains a shareholder of LLC.

 

In addition to the activities mentioned above, the Company’s preparations for its future business activities also include, but are not limited to: (i) negotiating various agreements with other major vendors, contractors, consultants and employees proposed to be involved in the Omagine Project, (ii) arranging the appropriate and required legal, accounting, tax and other professional services both in Oman and the U.S., (iii) reviewing and complying (to the extent we are presently able) with the listing requirements of various stock exchanges so we may be prepared to apply for such listing(s) as soon as we are eligible, (iv) examining various other matters we believe will enhance shareholder value, and (v) examining other potential Company revenue streams which are ancillary to, and derivative of, the Omagine Project.

 

The Company plans to enter businesses other than real estate development - and ancillary to, and derivative of, the Omagine Project - and the Company presently expects to generate ongoing revenue streams from such businesses, but no projections of the amount of such revenue, if any, can be made at this time.

 

Although the Company had expected to generate revenue in the medium term as LLC (i) began reimbursing Omagine for its Pre-Development Expenses, and (ii) begins paying the Success Fee installments to Omagine, such reimbursements are now likely to be delayed (See: “Pre-Development Expenses and Loans and Advances to LLC” and “Success Fee” above). The Company is not expected to generate revenue from sales or operations of properties within the Omagine Project until the development and construction of the Omagine Project is substantially underway. The masterplanning, development and construction of the Omagine Project is now expected to begin in the first quarter of 2017.

 

 

Financial Adviser

 

LLC’s financial adviser (“Financial Adviser”) for Phase One is expected to be a bank or other professional financial consulting company. As such the Financial Adviser will arrange the syndication among several banks of the debt financing (“Syndicated Bank Financing”) for the Omagine Project.

 

It is presently expected that a definitive agreement between LLC and its Financial Adviser will be executed in the first quarter of 2017. No assurance however can be given that any such agreement will be signed until it is actually signed by the parties.

 

Importantly, given the present liquidity issues at local and MENA Region banks, the matter of Project Finance is an issue that now moves to the forefront (from its previously deferred position) of all developer’s and contractor’s agendas. While the required Project Finance for the Omagine Project (estimated at approximately $400 million) – or any project – is not usually needed until after the masterplanning and design phase is complete or near complete, given present economic strains both developers and contractors are well advised to seek to lock up a Project Finance commitment early on rather than waiting to start a syndication at a later date.

 

LLC’s Financial Adviser will advise on capital structure and lead the arrangement and placement of the Syndicated Bank Financing. LLC will then work together with its Financial Advisor to appoint lead arrangers for such Syndicated Bank Financing which may include the Financial Advisor itself.

 

The amount of Syndicated Bank Financing owed at any one time by LLC to its Lenders is expected to fluctuate over the development and construction cycle of the Omagine Project and will be greatly influenced by (i) any additional Equity Sales, and (ii) the pace and tempo of LLC’s receipt of proceeds from its planned sales of real estate to third parties. The capital of LLC, proceeds from Equity Sales if any, Syndicated Bank Financing and the proceeds from sales of its residential and commercial properties, are expected to be utilized by LLC to develop the Omagine Project.

 

The maximum amount of such Syndicated Bank Financing presently expected to be outstanding at any one time during the development and construction cycle of the Omagine Project is presently estimated by management to be between $350 million and $400 million.

 

We have had extensive discussions with a number of MENA Region financial institutions with respect to such Syndicated Bank Financing and while they remain interested in discussing the Project Finance for the Omagine Project, virtually all such banks confirmed the tightening of bank liquidity due to the current economic climate resulting from the sharply reduced price for crude oil. We are presently in discussions with a bank which is not experiencing such liquidity issues and which has already given LLC a “soft commitment” with respect to the provision by it of the debt financing required for the Omagine Project. With LLC’s Financial Adviser leading this effort, management remains hopeful with respect to LLC’s prospects for arranging the Syndicated Bank Financing for the Omagine Project but recognizes that given present economic and market conditions, it is not a trivial task and will be challenging. These discussions are ongoing and no assurances can be given at this time regarding the outcome, if any, from such discussions. The DA recognizes and addresses this issue when it states, in relevant part:

 

“The Government recognizes that the Project Company intends to raise limited recourse financing in relation to the Project and that Lenders may expect to be afforded certain rights in relation to it. Accordingly, the Project Company will by or before the completion of twelve (12) months from the Execution Date [now the Operative Date of July 1, 2015; see Exhibits 10.7, 99.1, 10.8 and 99.2] enter into a written term sheet with the Lenders for the financing of the First Phase, any other phase or all of the Project (a “Term Sheet”). If the Project Company has not delivered a copy of such Term Sheet to the Government by or before the expiry of the twelve (12) month period referred to above, this Development Agreement then shall have no further effect.” (See Exhibits 10.7 and 99.1).

 

The condition referred to above was fulfilled on November 9, 2015 when LLC entered into a written term sheet with Masraf Al Rayan with respect to the financing of the First Phase of the Omagine Project.

 

  

MENA Region banks and financial institutions continue to maintain adequate levels of liquidity but the rapid fall in world oil prices is a challenge to those banks whose liquidity relies to a great deal on government deposits resulting from the sale of crude oil. Such new and large government borrowings from commercial banking institutions tend to crowd out commercial borrowing capacity for private companies. The largest banks of course are weathering this storm more handily then the mid-size or smaller banks. The project financing environment in Oman and the MENA Region continues to remain cautious after the rapid decline of worldwide oil prices which led to the rapid decline of bank deposits being received from governments. LLC management has met recently with several internationally recognized Financial Advisers, all of whom have deep and wide-ranging expertise in the MENA Region project financing markets and as part of their normal business activities are in regular contact with MENA Region banks and international financial institutions regarding the status of and conditions prevailing in the project finance marketplace. The Company is now cautiously optimistic (and less confident then it had been before the 2015 sudden drop in oil prices) that LLC and its yet to be designated Financial Adviser will be able to arrange the necessary project financing for the Omagine Project. Management believes that all the Financial Advisers and banks with whom it has recently met concur that there is currently still a reasonable degree of liquidity and appetite among MENA Region banks and financial institutions for lending to, and investing in, sound development projects in the MENA Region. Most such persons and institutions however are more cautious than they were a year ago because of the recent rapid fall in oil prices and the continuation of the unsettled military activities ongoing in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya.

 

No assurance can be given at this time that LLC will be able to obtain any, or a sufficient amount of, the project financing required to develop, build and complete the Omagine Project. If such a circumstance were to occur, it would have a material adverse effect on our business and operations.

 

Market Conditions

 

As previously disclosed and as has been and continues to be widely reported by local and international media and press, the worldwide price of crude oil fell very suddenly and dramatically in 2014 and 2015 (from over $100 per barrel to about $25/$30 per barrel) as robust production in the U.S. and elsewhere created a global glut of crude oil. Presently the price of crude oil is about $45/bbl. Almost all countries in the MENA Region are dependent on the sale of crude oil to support their economies and their government spending programs.

 

Although MENA Region governments had 100s of billions of dollars of savings in sovereign reserve funds, this oil price shock ushered in an extremely challenging environment for the MENA Region governments and for the companies of all types – including contractors – operating in the MENA region. In reaction to the large, rapid and unexpected drop in crude oil prices, government budgets were slashed across the region; contractors’ payments were delayed; and many government sponsored projects were postponed, delayed or cancelled. Payment delays and stalled government projects off the back of the decline in oil prices have severely impacted the entire construction industry in the MENA Region – including in Oman. The Omagine Project however is not a government sponsored project and Omagine LLC is a private company.

 

Crude oil prices “seem” to have recently stabilized around the mid-$40s per barrel price and a rebalancing of the market “seems to be” is in progress but the knock-on effects of the lower government spending and the delayed payments by MENA Region governments to contractors has had a severe economic impact on local economies and contractors.

 

Almost all local banking institutions in the MENA Region are dependent on large deposits from oil and gas sales by governments in order to provide the normally excess liquidity apparent in the local banking system prior to this recent dramatic worldwide drop in oil prices. With the sudden fall in deposits from oil sales, bank liquidity at local banking institutions in the GCC and wider MENA Region are under immense pressure as deposits have fallen dramatically while simultaneously governments became large borrowers where they were not before.

 

Now however even some of the largest contractors are experiencing difficulties. CCIC is a very large multi-national contractor with significant financial resources but they too had to adjust accordingly to the present economic realities.

 

We expect that this sudden business cycle change will eventually right itself as all market participants adapt to the new realities but we are of the present opinion that, the Company has succeeded in creatively making a path where none had apparently previously existed. These current economic conditions however, should they continue unabated, could cause a knock-on effect in the real estate markets resulting in slower or fewer sales and lower selling prices.

 

  

The market intelligence garnered by management indicates that local bankers and market participants believe that both transaction volume and pricing in the Omani real estate market are stable and are expected to improve in 2017 relative to expected performance in 2015 and 2016. We are presently unsure what the impact on transaction volume and pricing will be from the fall in crude oil prices but we expect some softness in the market as all participants adjust to the “new normal” of $40 to $50 crude oil prices. From a timing perspective, LLC plans to now launch residential and commercial sales at the Omagine Project in the third or fourth quarter of 2017.

 

Trends in the Omani market during the past few years have indicated a reduced presence of speculative buyers and a reduced consumer appetite for pre-sales of residence units (“off-plan” sales) as buyers now frequently demand a finished product before entering into sales contracts with developers. Although, many societal disorders, military activities and terrorism continue in other parts of the MENA Region, as long as the politically stable and quite safe conditions existing at present in Oman persist then, market conditions should favorably impact LLC’s future operations.

 

Nearby Dubai is experiencing softness in its residential sales and leasing market but in general Dubai’s economy (a regional barometer) remains relatively strong and, in certain areas, quite robust. Raw material and labor prices remain somewhat volatile in Oman having recently experienced both downward and upward swings over the past year – but overall construction costs are sharply down due to the severe competition presently in the market among building contractors.

 

In Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya, among other countries, daily violent military clashes and terrorism are now commonplace. Other Arab countries in the MENA Region have experienced and are experiencing demonstrations of discontent with the rule of their heads of state and in some cases these demonstrations are being met with violent pushback by some MENA Region governments but this was not and is not the case in politically and economically stable Oman. Anxiety over the health of His Majesty, the much beloved Sultan Qaboos, and what effect, if any, that will have on Oman’s political stability and leadership succession seems to have abated and His Majesty has recently returned to Oman from a medical checkup in Germany and is seen to be actively managing state affairs.

 

Construction material costs and property selling prices in Oman and the surrounding region remain somewhat volatile and undue reliance on present forecasts should be avoided. Management cautions that future events rarely develop exactly as forecast and the best estimates routinely require adjustment. Management fully expects that its cost estimates for the Omagine Project (and therefore, its financial model) will require adjustment – possibly significant adjustment – as future events unfold. Investors and shareholders are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statement or forecast, which speaks only as of the date hereof.

 

Nearby Dubai leads the way for the Gulf tourism market and this is likely to be the case for the foreseeable future, given its existing visitor market, attractions, its impressive future capital development and marketing investment programs, and especially given its recent selection as the host for EXPO 2020 which is expected to attract over 25 million visitors.

 

Sales and Marketing

 

LLC plans to undertake several wide ranging and continuous marketing, advertising, branding and public relations campaigns to establish its brand identity in anticipation of its late 2017 launch of residential and commercial properties for sale and to advertise and promote its forthcoming entertainment, hospitality and retail offerings.

 

As we move forward we plan to construct and operate a sales showroom at the Omagine Site. The sales office/showroom will be staffed with experienced real estate sales personnel and will contain large scale models of the Omagine Project and its various components as well as associated collateral sales and marketing materials.

 

The anticipated launch date for residential and commercial sales is presently planned to be in the third or fourth quarter of 2017. Management expects that the continuing stability of local real estate markets as well as the Government’s continuing improvements to Oman’s infrastructure (Muscat International Airport, roads, regional airports, etc.) will contribute positively to LLC’s future sales prospects. The impact of the recent fall in crude oil prices and the knock-on economic effects on consumers and government projects is unknown and difficult to predict at this time.

 

  

Management expects the Omagine Project to benefit from Dubai’s hosting of EXPO 2020, and similarly from nearby Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup Games in 2022. Both of these events are expected to attract a huge amount of visitors and tourists. The Omagine Project will be conveniently located one hour from Dubai and Qatar by air and is easily accessible by a fine roadway system in both Oman and the U.A.E. A visit to the Omagine Project will be a natural and logical addition to a Dubai or Qatar visit.

 

Sale prices and rental rates for housing in other integrated tourism projects in the Muscat area of Oman have remained stable during 2015 and as of the date of this report. The inventory of unsold housing in the secondary (re-sale) market (both outside of and within ITCs) has diminished due to recent, albeit quite price-sensitive, sales activity. New housing inventory, especially smaller apartments designed to hit perceived market price-points, has continued to come onto the local Muscat area market and the market absorption rates (number of market transactions) for such new residential housing is strong. The DA allows for sales and pre-sales of any of the residential or commercial buildings that will be developed and built on the Omagine Site.

 

The DA stipulates the obligation of the Government to issue such Licenses and Permits as may be required for the development of the Omagine Project, including but not limited to issuing an Integrated Tourism Complex License (“ITC License”) designating the Omagine Project as an ITC. On June 26, 2014, the Government issued an ITC License to LLC designating the Omagine Project as an ITC.

 

Non-Omani persons (including expatriates living and working in Oman) are forbidden by Omani law to purchase land, residences or commercial properties in Oman unless such land, residences or commercial properties are located within an ITC. Because it is now licensed as an ITC, the land, residences and commercial properties within the Omagine Project may be sold to any buyer worldwide - including any non-Omani buyer - and the freehold title to such land, residences and commercial properties may be transferred to such buyers. Residences in ITCs are viewed to be highly desirable by purchasers (by both investors and owner-occupiers) and ITC residences therefore enjoy a premium selling price relative to non-ITC residences. Purchasers of residences within Omagine (or any ITC) are entitled by Omani Law to be issued a resident visa (for themselves and their immediate family).

 

The excellent location of the Omagine Site is recognized by local market participants and the significance of the provision of the Omagine Site to LLC is substantial. The increase in the value over the last several years of the land constituting the Omagine Site has had a positive effect on the valuation of the Land Rights and is expected to have a positive effect on LLC’s revenue from the sale of residential and commercial properties. The value of the land constituting the Omagine Site is expected to be a primary driver of future LLC and Company revenue and the benefits accruing to LLC and the Company pursuant to LLC’s Land Rights over the Project Land is expected to be material and significant.

 

Pursuant to the DA and UA, LLC will pay the Government OR 25 ($65) per square meter for the Project Land it sells to third party purchasers. The average valuation for the Land Rights (net of such Land Price) is OR 276,666,667 ($718,614,000) (See: “The Land Rights”, above).

 

Design, Engineering, Construction, Program Management, Content Development

 

The Company does not presently own or directly operate any design, engineering, content development or construction companies or facilities. With assistance from Omagine via the Loans and Advances, LLC has during the Immediate Post-DA Period undertaken many critical tasks as indicated above, but for LLC to fully accomplish its objectives and undertake and finance the Omagine Project, it will have to close an Equity Sale or Debt Facility transaction (or a combination thereof), the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement and a construction contract. The failure to date to accomplish these matters with CCC has delayed the Omagine Project and the masterplanning process.

 

Subject to the approval of its shareholders and to negotiating and agreeing to a contract, LLC presently intends to hire Michael Baker International (“Baker”) or a similar internationally prominent firm as its Program Manager and Project Manager. Baker is in the business of providing program and project management, engineering, design and construction management services to a wide variety of clients including the U.S. Department of Defense and many state governments and commercial clients. Omagine has employed Baker through the feasibility and engineering study phases of the Omagine Project.

 

  

Baker is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, with offices throughout the U.S. and in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and is experienced in all aspects of engineering, program management and construction management for large scale construction and development projects of the magnitude of the Omagine Project. Baker has significant program management and construction management contracts with the United States military worldwide, including in the MENA Region. The Company believes it maintains a good working business relationship with Baker but recognizes that there are presently many such highly reputable program and project management companies available and operating in Oman. The Company is confident that Baker’s inability or unwillingness to perform or the loss of Baker’s services altogether, (none of which circumstances are presently anticipated by or known to the Company), would not have any adverse impact on its or LLC’s business or operations.

 

The interpretive design, entertainment content, and visitor experience design candidates to be hired by LLC have been narrowed to a short list of professional companies. One or more of such companies (”Content Developers”) will be engaged by LLC to design the transformation of Omagine’s high level strategic vision for the content of the Pearl structures and surrounding areas into physical places offering emotional, intellectual and physical experiences and interactions. Each of the prospective Content Developers has serviced a diverse client base, including theme parks, museums, zoos, aquariums and other such complex entertainment centers around the world, including in the MENA Region, and each continues to regularly produce world class attractions globally of the size and scope of the Omagine Project.

 

LLC presently intends to hire various local Omani contractors for the construction of the Omagine Project (See: “The CCC Contract”, above).  

To date, Omagine has generally conceived the development concepts and defined the ”scope of work” and then, as required, contracted with various designers, architects, contractors and consultants in the United States, Europe and the Middle East to perform those tasks. LLC will engage various firms as its consultants (master planner, engineers, real estate and hospitality consultants, etc.) who will together with management finalize the design for the entire Omagine Project. There are many such consultants available with competitive pricing and the Company does not believe that the loss or inability to perform of any such consultant which it has selected would have a material, adverse impact on its business or operations. The Company believes it maintains a good working business relationship with its consultants. As presently planned, all copyrights to all material documents, designs and drawings executed by such independent designers, architects, contractors and consultants are, or will be, the property of either LLC or Omagine.

 

 

Results of Operations:

 

Overview

 

The Company is expected to generate revenue in the near to medium term as (depending on the terms and conditions of the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement) LLC begins reimbursing Omagine for its Pre-Development Expenses and the Loans and Advances and begins paying the Success Fee installments (See: “Pre-Development Expenses and Loans and Advances to LLC”, above) but is not expected to generate revenue from operations in the near term until the development of the Omagine Project is substantially underway. The Company will need to generate sustainable operating revenue in order to attain its objectives and sustain its operations going forward. 

 

As the development program for the Omagine Project becomes more detailed and as the planning and design processes progress, the estimates of construction and development costs have and will become proportionately more accurate. LLC presently expects, based on the current assumptions underlying its updated development program, that the development costs (including the costs for design, construction, program management and construction management) for the Omagine Project will be between $2.1 and $2.5 billion dollars.

 

The costs of labor and materials as well as the selling prices and market absorption rates of new residential and commercial properties remain somewhat volatile in Oman and accurate forecasts for such future costs, selling prices or market absorption rates cannot be made at this time. (See “Market Conditions” and “Sales and Marketing”, above).

 

  

LLC nevertheless presently expects, based on current assumptions and market activity that such residential selling prices during its planned multiple sales releases beginning in late 2017 will be at least equal to the prices that are presently budgeted by LLC.

 

In their opinion on our 2014 audited financial statements, our auditors expressed substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern but in our September 30, 2016 unaudited financial statements included in this report and in our December 31, 2015 audited financial statements that expression of concern has been removed. Beginning in the Company’s September 30, 2015 consolidated financial statements and continuing to date, the Company’s consolidated financial statements reflect a substantial increase in capital resulting from the inclusion therein as of July 2, 2015 of the value of the Land Rights purchased by LLC.

In October 2016, Omagine entered into two notes, one of which was convertible, for aggregate proceeds to the Company of $125,000. In November 2016 another note which is only convertible upon default was executed for net proceeds to the Company of $150,000. 

Our single most important strategic objective for the past many years was achieved when the DA was signed by Omagine LLC and the Government of Oman on October 2, 2014. Since that time the DA has been ratified by the Government, the UA has been signed by and registered with the Government and LLC’s Land Rights have been valued by three outside independent experts at an average valuation of seven hundred eighteen million six hundred fourteen thousand dollars ($718,614,000).

 

THREE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 vs.

THREE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The Company did not generate any revenue or incur any cost of sales during the three month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015. The Company is relying on Omagine LLC’s operations for the Company’s future revenue generation. Management is presently examining other possible sources of revenue for the Company which may be added to the Company’s operations.

Total selling, marketing, general and administrative operating expenses (“SG&A Expenses”) were $738,590 during the three months ended September 30, 2016 compared to $3,689,287 during the three months ended September 30, 2015. This $2,950,697 (80%) decrease in SG&A Expenses was attributable to the following expense categories: officers and directors compensation including stock based compensation ($1,862,630), consulting fees including stock-based compensation ($1,386,390), Travel ($2,677), Occupancy ($30,993) and other selling, general and administrative costs ($74,908) offset by increases in professional fees ($256,901) and commitment fees ($150,000).

The Company sustained a net loss of $677,045 for the three months ended September 30, 2016 compared to a net loss of $3,695,678 for the three months ended September 30, 2015. This $3,018,633 (82%) decrease in the Company's net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2016 compared to the prior period was principally attributable to the $2,950,697 decrease in SG&A Expenses mentioned above and an increase in amortization of debt discounts ($12,500), increase in interest expense ($8,035) and an increase in net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in LLC ($88,471).

 

NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 vs.

NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The Company did not generate any revenue or incur any cost of sales for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015.

Total SG&A Expenses were $2,176,004 during the nine month period ended September 30, 2016 compared to $4,963,778 for the nine months ended September 30, 2015. This $2,787,774 (56%) decrease was attributable to the following expense categories: officers and directors compensation including stock based compensation ($1,662,297), consulting fees including stock based compensation ($1.279,653), Travel ($34,672), Occupancy ($78,762) and other selling general and administrative costs ($82,753) offset by increases in professional fees ($200,363) and commitment fees ($150,000).

 

The Company sustained a net loss of $2,159,877 for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 compared to a net loss of $4,935,261 for the nine months ended September 30, 2015. This $2,775,384 (56%) decrease in the Company's net loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 compared to the prior period was principally attributable to the $2,787,774 decrease in SG&A Expenses mentioned above and an increases in amortization of debt discounts ($34,533), increase in interest expense ($15,205) and an increase in net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in LLC ($37,348).

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The Company incurred net losses of $2,159,877 and $4,935,261 during the nine months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively. During the nine months ended September 30, 2016, the Company had a decrease in cash of $312,280 resulting from the positive cash flow of $930,700 from financing activities offset by a negative cash flow of $1,242,980 from operating activities. Financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 consisted of proceeds from the sale of Common Stock of $584,000, proceeds of $540,000 from a note payable to YA II PN, Ltd. (p/k/a YA Global Master SPV, Ltd.) (“YA”) (the March 2016 YA Loan), proceeds of $360,000 from a note payable to YA (the June 2016 YA Loan), proceeds of $1,700 from the exercise of stock options and proceeds of $100,000 from the issuance of a convertible note payable to an entity owned by two Independent Directors of Omagine, Inc., offset by payment of five monthly installments totaling $225,000 for the 2015 YA Loan, payment of six monthly installments totaling $315,000 for the March 2016 YA Loan, and payment of three monthly installments totaling $115,000 for the June 2016 YA Loan.

 

The Company had $0 in capital expenditures for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.

 

At September 30, 2016, the Company had $490,836,876 in current assets, consisting of $490,813,363 of land under development held for sale (See Note 2 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements), $12,423 of cash and $11,090 in prepaid expenses and other current assets. The Company's current liabilities at September 30, 2016 totaled $2,306,901 consisting of $482,110 of convertible notes payable and accrued interest, $514,842 of notes payable and accrued interest, $942,072 of accounts payable and accrued expenses and $367,877 of accrued officers’ payroll. At September 30, 2016, the Company had working capital of $488,529,975 compared to working capital of $489,652,283 at December 31, 2015. Thirty-three percent (33%) of the $2,306,901 of current liabilities at September 30, 2016 ($768,915) is due and owing to officers and/or directors of Omagine.

The $1,122,308 decrease in the Company's working capital at September 30, 2016 compared to December 31, 2015 is attributable to the increase in current liabilities ($819,351) and a decrease in cash ($312,280) offset by an increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets ($9,323). The Company’s liabilities at September 30, 2016 increased compared to December 31, 2015 due to increases in notes payable and accrued interest ($310,675), accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities ($446,452) and convertible notes payable and accrued interest ($84,181) offset by decreases in accrued officers’ payroll ($21,957).

Warrants

 

As of September 30, 2016, Omagine has 6,422,124 Common Stock purchase warrants (“Warrants”) issued and outstanding, 3,211,062 of which are exercisable for the purchase of one Common Share at a per Common Share exercise price of $5.00 and 3,211,062 of which are exercisable for the purchase of one Common Share at a per Common Share exercise price of $10.00 (collectively, the “Strategic Warrants”).

 

Management is hopeful that the 6,422,124 outstanding Strategic Warrants will eventually become “in the money” and will be exercised which will provide a future source of additional financing for Omagine. 

 

 

Strategic Warrants

 

Of the 6,422,124 Strategic Warrants distributed, 3,211,062 are exercisable at $5 per Common Share and 3,211,062 are exercisable at $10 per Common Share. On January 14, 2016, Omagine filed a Post-Effective Amendment on Form S-1 (Commission File No. 333-183852) to update the previous registration of all 6,422,124 then issued and outstanding Strategic Warrants and the 6,422,124 Common Shares underlying such Strategic Warrants (the “Updated Warrant Registration”). The SEC declared the Updated Warrant Registration effective January 25, 2016. The effective status of the Updated Warrant Registration expired on October 21, 2016 and the Company intends to file an updated post-effective amendment to maintain the warrants effective status of such registration statement. Pursuant to a Board of Directors resolution dated August 12, 2015, the expiration date of all Strategic Warrants was extended from December 31, 2015 to December 31, 2016. All other terms and conditions of the Strategic Warrants remained unchanged.

 

Tempest Warrants

 

On June 24, 2014, Omagine issued the 1,000,000 Tempest Warrants to an investor each of which are exercisable for the purchase of one restricted Common Share at a per Common Share exercise price equal to the greater of: (a) $1.00 per Common Share, or (b) 80% of the closing sale price for a Common Share on the Trading Day immediately preceding the relevant exercise date (See: Exhibit 4.4). On August 15, 2014, such investor transferred 240,000 Tempest Warrants to an affiliate and such affiliate exercised 240,000 Tempest Warrants on August 15, 2014 at $1.40 per share for the purchase of 240,000 restricted Common Shares. On October 2, 2014, such investor transferred an additional 250,000 Tempest Warrants to such affiliate and such affiliate exercised 250,000 Tempest Warrants on October 2, 2014 at $1.31 per share for the purchase of 250,000 restricted Common Shares. On June 29, 2015, the investor exercised 158,228 of the Tempest Warrants at an exercise price of $1.58 per Common Share for proceeds of $250,000. Subsequently on October 8, 2015, such investor transferred an additional 2,375 Tempest Warrants to an affiliate and such affiliate exercised 2,375 Tempest Warrants on October 8, 2015 at $1.28 per share for the purchase of 2,375 restricted Common Shares. All 349,397 remaining Tempest Warrants expired on June 23, 2016 and are no longer exercisable.

 

Standby Equity Distribution Agreements

 

Between 2009 and 2011, Omagine had a Stand-By Equity Distribution Agreement with an affiliate of YA (the “2009 SEDA”). Omagine and YA were parties to a second Stand-By Equity Distribution Agreement (the “2011 SEDA”) which was terminated on July 21, 2014. The 2009 SEDA and the 2011 SEDA are collectively referred to herein as the “Prior SEDAs”. 

 

On April 22, 2014, Omagine and YA entered into a new Standby Equity Distribution Agreement which was amended on October 10, 2014 (the “2014 SEDA”). The 2014 SEDA is generally on the same terms as the 2011 SEDA.

 

Any use by Omagine of the 2014 SEDA will be guided by several factors, including but not limited to: (i) the availability and cost of alternative financing, (ii) our ability to rapidly access required financing, (iii) the liquidity and market price of our Common Stock, (iv) the exercise, if any, of Warrants, (v) the likelihood (or actuality) of the success of our present efforts to arrange (a) new equity investments into Omagine and (b) new debt and/or equity investments into LLC, (vi) the likelihood (or actuality) of LLC having the financial capacity to pay Omagine the $10 million Success Fee and the Pre-Development Expense Amount and Post-DA Pre-Development Expenses in excess of $28.2 million. (See: “Financial Advisor”, and “The Shareholder Agreement”, “LLC Capital Structure”, “Pre-Development Expenses / Post-DA Pre-Development Expenses”, above), and (vii) our then current cash requirements.

 

Because the market for our Common Stock has historically exhibited low liquidity levels, we may not be able to take full advantage of the 2014 SEDA if such liquidity levels do not improve. If the market for our Common Shares is exhibiting low liquidity levels at the time we give YA an Advance Notice (a “Put”) and if YA sells Common Shares into the public market during the five Trading Day Pricing Period subsequent to our Put (as is YA’s customary practice), it is likely that the price of our Common Shares will decline. Any such price decline will immediately increase the number of Common Shares we would otherwise be required absent such price decline to deliver to YA subsequent to the Pricing Period in satisfaction of such Put. If this pattern continued to happen with subsequent Puts by us, it is likely that we would issue and sell to YA the maximum 3,000,000 shares available under the 2014 SEDA before reaching the aggregate sales price of $5 million available under the 2014 SEDA.

 

  

LLC is now obligated to design, develop and construct the $2.5 billion Omagine Project. Given the size and scope of the Omagine Project, it is expected that LLC will require a minimum of $300 million (possibly up to $500 million) of debt financing / project financing (including the Construction Financing) over various times during the next 4 to 5 years. This Construction Financing requirement will not be addressed by utilizing the 2014 SEDA. Notwithstanding that fact, the Company expects to have substantial and rapidly forthcoming working capital requirements other than the Construction Financing for a portion of which it plans to utilize the 2014 SEDA but no assurance can be given that the Company will be able to obtain the necessary working capital.

 

Given the considerable resources we will be required to bring to bear to execute the Omagine Project, we presently expect that we will fully utilize the entire $5 million amount available to us under the 2014 SEDA. Such use of the 2014 SEDA will of course be guided by the price, liquidity and volatility of our Common Stock as we move forward. We cannot presently predict what other future sources of financing might become available to us to cause us to utilize less than the full $5 million available under the 2014 SEDA and our present assessment is that, we will surely need the full $5 million available under the 2014 SEDA. The Prior SEDAs indisputably provided the Company the lifeline needed to achieve the DA signing and the 2014 SEDA will likely provide some of the supplementary working capital the Company will need going forward.

 

Prior SEDAs

 

The 2009 SEDA expired in 2011. The 2011 SEDA was due to expire on September 1, 2014 but was terminated on July 21, 2014 by the mutual consent of the parties (See: Exhibit 10.19).

 

In connection with the 2011 SEDA, Omagine filed with the SEC a registration statement (the “2011 SEDA Registration Statement”) on Form S-1 (Commission File No. 333-175168) pursuant to which 3,244,216 Common Shares were registered (including 244,216 Common Shares issued to YA in May and June 2011 in satisfaction of the $300,000 commitment fees due under the 2011 SEDA). Between August 24, 2011 and May 6, 2014, YA purchased 561,690 Common Shares from Omagine under the 2011 SEDA for an aggregate Purchase Price of $835,000 and YA did not thereafter purchase any Common Shares from Omagine under the 2011 SEDA. On July 21, 2014 Omagine filed a post-effective amendment to the 2011 SEDA Registration Statement de-registering the previously registered 2,438,310 Common Shares which were not issued or sold to YA pursuant to the 2011 SEDA. Such post-effective amendment to the 2011 SEDA Registration Statement was declared effective by the SEC on July 25, 2014.

 

The 2014 SEDA

 

On April 22, 2014, Omagine and YA entered into a new Standby Equity Distribution Agreement which was amended on October 10, 2014 and thereafter amended again on September 20, 2016 to extend the term of the SEDA (the “2014 SEDA”). The 2014 SEDA is generally on the same terms as the 2011 SEDA. Unless earlier terminated in accordance with its terms, the 2014 SEDA shall automatically expire on the earlier of (i) February 1, 2019, or (ii) the date on which YA shall have made payment of Advances pursuant to the 2014 SEDA in the aggregate amount of $5,000,000. In satisfaction of a $150,000 commitment fee due pursuant to the 2014 SEDA, Omagine issued 85,822 restricted Common Shares (the “Commitment Fee Shares”) to YA Global II SPV, LLC which is an affiliate of YA (the “Affiliate”). In satisfaction of a $150,000 commitment fee pursuant to the “Second SEDA Amendment” in September 2016, the Company issued 161,290 restricted shares to the Affiliate.

 

Pursuant to the terms of the 2014 SEDA, Omagine may in its sole discretion, and upon giving written notice to YA (an “Advance Notice”), periodically sell Common Shares to YA (“Shares”) at a per Share price (“Purchase Price”) equal to 95% of the lowest daily volume weighted average price (the “VWAP”) for a Common Share as quoted by Bloomberg, L.P. during the five (5) consecutive Trading Days (as such term is defined in the 2014 SEDA) immediately subsequent to the date of the relevant Advance Notice (the “Pricing Period”).

 

Omagine is not obligated to sell any Shares to YA but may, over the term of the 2014 SEDA and in its sole discretion, sell to YA that number of Shares valued at the Purchase Price from time to time in effect that equals up to five million dollars ($5,000,000) in the aggregate. YA is obligated under the 2014 SEDA to purchase such Shares from Omagine subject to certain conditions including (i) Omagine filing a registration statement with the SEC to register the resale by YA of the Shares sold to YA under the 2014 SEDA (“Registration Statement”), (ii) the SEC declaring such Registration Statement effective (the date of such declaration by the SEC being the “Registration Effective Date”), (iii) Omagine certifying to YA at the time of each Advance Notice that Omagine has performed all covenants and agreements to be performed and has complied with all obligations and conditions contained in the 2014 SEDA, (iv) periodic sales of Shares to YA must be separated by a time period of at least five Trading Days, and (v) the dollar value of any individual periodic sale of Shares designated by Omagine in any Advance Notice may not exceed the greater of (a) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), or (b) the average of the "Daily Value Traded" for each of the five (5) Trading Days immediately preceding the date of the relevant Advance Notice where Daily Value Traded is the product obtained by multiplying the number representing the daily trading volume of Common Shares for such Trading Day by the VWAP for Common Share on such Trading Day.

 

  

Pursuant to the 2014 SEDA in no event shall the number of Common Shares issuable to YA pursuant to an Advance cause the aggregate number of Common Shares beneficially owned (as calculated pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), by YA and its affiliates to exceed 9.99% of the then outstanding common stock of the Company. In addition this 9.99% ownership cap may not be waived by YA or Omagine and since such ownership cap includes all Common Shares owned by any YA affiliate, such cap cannot be avoided by transferring Common Shares to an affiliate of YA.

 

In connection with the 2014 SEDA, on October 15, 2014 Omagine filed the Registration Statement on Form S-1 to register the 3,085,822 Common Shares covered by the 2014 SEDA. On January 8, 2015, Omagine filed an amendment to that Registration Statement and such amendment to the 2014 SEDA Registration Statement was declared effective by the SEC on January 22, 2015. Post-Effective Amendments No. 1 and No. 2 to the SEDA Registration Statement were filed with the SEC on December 21, 2015 and January 6, 2016, respectively, to maintain the effectiveness of the SEDA Registration. On January 13, 2016, the SEC declared the SEDA Registration effective. The Company plans to file a post-effective amendment with the SEC to reinstate the effectiveness of the SEDA Registration which expired on October 9, 2016.

 

The foregoing summaries of the terms of the Prior SEDAs and of the 2014 SEDA do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full texts of the Prior SEDAs and the 2014 SEDA, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.14, 10.15 and 10.18.

 

Sales of Common Shares to YA pursuant to the Prior SEDAs totaled 561,690 Common Shares for an aggregate Purchase Price of $835,000. Management believes that it has been judicious and conservative in its use to date of the Prior SEDAs, but nonetheless our periodic sales of Common Shares to YA or its affiliate pursuant to the Prior SEDAs have been dilutive to all shareholders and the subsequent resales by YA of such Common Shares into the public market have from time to time inflicted downward pressure on our stock price. Omagine intends to utilize the 2014 SEDA to fund its ongoing operations as and if necessary and as of the date of this Report, the Company has sold 48,985 shares of its Common Shares pursuant to the 2014 SEDA for proceeds of $50,000.

 

The YA Loan Agreements

 

Omagine and YA, the investment fund which is a party with Omagine to the 2014 SEDA, entered into an unsecured loan agreement dated July 26, 2013 (the “2013 YA Loan Agreement”). Pursuant to the 2013 YA Loan Agreement, Omagine borrowed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) from YA (the “2013 YA Loan”) for a term of one year at an annual interest rate of 10%. The 2013 YA Loan Agreement called for a 10% monitoring and management fee equal to $20,000 to be escrowed and paid to Yorkville Advisors thereby making the net proceeds from the 2013 YA Loan to Omagine equal to $180,000. Such $180,000 of proceeds was received by Omagine on September 3, 2013. The 2013 YA Loan Agreement also extended the expiration date of the 2011 SEDA. The foregoing summary of the terms of the 2013 YA Loan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the 2013 YA Loan Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit 10.21.

 

On April 22, 2014, Omagine and YA entered into another unsecured loan agreement (the “2014 YA Loan Agreement”) whereby Omagine borrowed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) from YA (the “2014 YA Loan”) for a term of one year at an annual interest rate of 10%. Pursuant to the 2014 YA Loan Agreement, on April 22, 2014, through deduction from the $500,000 principal balance of the 2014 YA Loan, Omagine (i) paid the $110,680 balance then due under the 2013 YA Loan Agreement, (ii) paid a $39,000 commitment fee with respect to the 2014 YA Loan, and (iii) prepaid the $1,096 of interest due on the 2014 YA Loan for the period April 23, 2014 through April 30, 2014. The $349,224 net proceeds of the 2014 YA Loan was received by Omagine on April 23, 2014. The foregoing summary of the terms of the 2014 YA Loan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the YA Note Purchase Agreement, the YA Note and the YA Closing Statement attached hereto as Exhibits 10.22; 10.23; and 10.24 respectively. Omagine repaid the 2014 YA Loan pursuant to its terms.

 

  

On May 20, 2015, the Company and YA entered into a third loan agreement (the “2015 YA Loan Agreement”). Pursuant to the 2015 YA Loan Agreement, the Company borrowed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) from YA (the “2015 YA Loan”) for a term of one year at an annual interest rate of 10%. Pursuant to the 2015 YA Loan Agreement the Company agreed to pay a $50,000 commitment fee with respect to the 2015 YA Loan to YA Global II SPV LLC, an affiliate of YA (the “Affiliate”). The $500,000 proceeds of the 2015 YA Loan was received by the Company on May 21, 2015 and the $50,000 commitment fee was paid to the Affiliate. The foregoing summary of the terms of the 2015 YA Loan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the YA Note Purchase Agreement, the YA Note and the YA Closing Statement attached hereto as Exhibits 10.25; 10.26; and 10.27 respectively.

 

In 2016, the Company and YA entered into two additional loans. On March 15, 2016, the Company and YA entered into a loan agreement (the “March 2016 YA Loan Agreement”). Pursuant to the March 2016 YA Loan Agreement, the Company borrowed six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) from YA (now named YA II PN, Ltd.) (the “March 2016 YA Loan”) for a term of one year at an annual interest rate of 10%. Pursuant to the March 2016 YA Loan Agreement the Company agreed to pay off the $150,575 balance due as of March 15, 2016 under the 2015 YA Loan Agreement and to pay a $60,000 commitment fee with respect to the March 2016 YA Loan to YA Global II SPV LLC, the Affiliate. At the closing on March 15, 2016 of the March 2016 YA Loan, the appropriate amounts representing the balance due under the 2015 YA Loan Agreement and the commitment fee for the March 2016 YA Loan were deducted from the $600,000 principal balance of the March 2016 YA Loan and paid to YA and the Affiliate. The $349,425 proceeds of the March 2016 YA Loan were received by the Company on March 15, 2016. The foregoing summary of the terms of the March 2016 YA Loan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the YA Note Purchase Agreement, the YA Note and the YA Closing Statement attached hereto as Exhibits 10.28; 10.29; and 10.30 respectively. On June 22, 2016, the Company and YA entered into another loan agreement (the “June 2016 YA Loan Agreement”). Pursuant to the June 2016 YA Loan Agreement, the Company borrowed four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) from YA (the “June 2016 YA Loan”) for a term of one year at an annual interest rate of 10%. Pursuant to the June 2016 YA Loan Agreement the Company agreed to pay a $40,000 commitment fee with respect to the June 2016 YA Loan to the Affiliate. At the closing on June 22, 2016 of the June 2016 YA Loan, the commitment fee for the June 2016 YA Loan was deducted from the $400,000 principal balance of the June 2016 YA Loan and paid to the Affiliate. The $360,000 proceeds of the June 2016 YA Loan was received by the Company on June 22, 2016. The foregoing summary of the terms of the June 2016 YA Loan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the YA Note Purchase Agreement, the YA Note and the YA Closing Statement attached hereto as Exhibits 10.38; 10.39; and 10.40 respectively. Omagine presently anticipates that the March 2016 YA Loan and the June 2016 YA Loan will be repaid from proceeds of sales of Common Shares made pursuant to (a) private placement transactions, (b) the exercise of Warrants, or (c) the 2014 SEDA, or a combination thereof.

 

There can be no assurance given that Omagine will be able to successfully utilize the Warrants or the 2014 SEDA to secure the significant amount of financing necessary for it to execute its business plan as presently conceived or that we will be able to repay the March 2016 YA Loan or the June 2016 YA Loan.

 

The St. George Investments LLC Loan Agreement

 

On November 14, 2016, the Company entered into an interest free Convertible Promissory Note with St. George Investments LLC for the principal amount of $185,000 due on May 15, 2017, six months from the funding date of November 16, 2016, convertible into the Company’s Common Stock only in the case of non-payment or in the Event of Default at a Conversion Price equal to 60% of the three lowest daily Volume Weighted Average Prices for the Company’s Common Stock during the twenty trading days immediately preceding the Conversion. The Company may prepay the Note in whole or in part at any time without penalty. After deduction of a $30,000 original issue discount (OID) and legal fees of $5,000, the Company received net proceeds of $150,000 on November 16, 2016. (See: Exhibits 10.42 and 10.43, the Note Purchase Agreement and the Securities Purchase Agreement).

 

 

Omagine LLC

LLC presently has limited and strained resources.

Omagine invested the OMR 20,000 cash [$52,000] OMAG Initial Equity Investment into LLC upon its organization and pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement the following additional investments have been made to date into LLC:

i.	a further OMR 130,000 [$338,000] cash investment was made by the LLC Shareholders, and

 

ii.	a further OMR 210,000 [$546,000] cash investment was made by Omagine, and

 

iii.	a further OMR 276,666,667 [$718,614,000] non-cash investment was made by RCA.

LLC is presently capitalized at OMR 277,026,667 [$719,550,000]. Notwithstanding the foregoing, LLC presently has limited cash resources because expenses incurred to date have depleted LLC’s limited cash capital.

As of the date hereof Omagine has invested OMR 210,000 [$546,000] in advance of when Omagine was obligated to do so in order to maintain LLC’s liquidity and has satisfied in full its obligation pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement to make the OMAG Deferred Investment into LLC.

RCA is presently obligated to make its Deferred Cash Investment into LLC in the aggregate amount of OR 7,640,625 [$19,865,625]. However it is possible that the Amended and Restated Shareholder Agreement will modify when such Deferred Cash Investment will be made by RCA.

The OMR 276,666,667 [$718,614,000] investment of the Land Rights into LLC by RCA was perfected on July 2, 2015 concurrent with the registration of the Usufruct Agreement with the Oman Ministry of Housing (See: “The Land Rights”, above).

The continuation of LLC’s business to date has been financed by Omagine.

LLC will have to arrange a significant amount of project financing, including most probably Syndicated Bank Financing, in order to execute its plan to develop the Omagine Project. Until Financing Agreements with respect to such additional financing are actually executed by the parties, no assurance can be given that they actually will be so executed or that such project financing will be available to LLC. (See “Financial Advisor”, above). The Company is relying for revenue growth upon the future business of LLC.

Omagine Inc.

In order to generate the cash needed to sustain the Company’s ongoing operations, Omagine has over the past many years relied on the proceeds from the YA Loans and from sales of Common Shares made pursuant to the Prior SEDAs and the 2012 rights offering as well as from sales of restricted Common Shares and notes made pursuant to private placements. Management is hopeful that the Warrants will provide a future source of additional financing but it is not possible to predict if any of our Warrants will ever be exercised.

Subject to the necessary financial resources being available to it, Omagine may make a secured loan to LLC in order to finance its operations. Such a loan from Omagine, if it were to be made, would be memorialized by a Financing Agreement like any other Debt Facility.

Investors and shareholders should be aware that we have had no revenue for the past several years and we do not expect to generate any revenue until after the development of the Omagine Project is well underway.

The failure to ultimately secure project financing via the closing of a Financing Agreement would have a materially significant adverse effect on the Company’s ability to continue operations.

Capital Expenditures and Construction Financing

The Company did not incur any capital expenditures in the first nine months of 2016. We expect, assuming we are able to close one or more of the debt or equity facilities we are presently working on, that in the near term (i) the Company will incur significant expenses related to capital expenditures, and (ii) LLC will incur substantial debt associated with project financing for the Omagine Project.

 

We presently expect that such capital expenditures will be largely concentrated at LLC and will largely comprise the purchase by LLC and Omagine of the quantities of office equipment, furniture, vehicles, computer hardware and software and telecommunications equipment which will be necessary to service the expanded staff and offices required at both LLC and Omagine to manage the ramping up of our business operations in Oman and the U.S.

We presently expect that such capital expenditures will be financed:

 

i.	at Omagine via the proceeds from sales of Common Shares via the 2014 SEDA, the exercise of Warrants, private placement sales of restricted Common Shares, and the payments received from LLC with respect to the Success Fee, the Pre-Development Expense Amount and the Advances and Loans, and
ii.	at LLC through a combination of invested capital, Equity Sales, bank loans and project finance Debt Facilities (See: “Business - The Shareholder Agreement / LLC Capital Structure,” and “Master planning/Equity Sales/Debt Facilities/Project Financing”).

No assurance can be given that such financing will be available to the Company at either Omagine or LLC.

We presently expect that any future project financing requirements (including any Syndicated Bank Financing) for LLC will be placed with regional and international banks as arranged by LLC with the assistance of its Financial Adviser. LLC’s requirement for project financing is expected to be reduced by its ability to pre-sell residence and commercial units by entering into sales contracts with third party purchasers and receiving deposits and progress payments during the construction of such units. Recent trends in the Omani market however have indicated a reduced consumer appetite for pre-sales of residence units as many more buyers are now demanding a finished product before entering into sales contracts with developers. . (See: “Financial Advisor” and “Market Conditions” and “Sales & Marketing”). 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We have not entered into and have no present intention of entering into any off-balance sheet financing arrangements. We have not formed and have no present intention of forming any special purpose entities.

Item 3 - Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

Information required under this caption is not required for the Registrant since it is a smaller reporting company.

Item 4 - Controls and Procedures

Management’s Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

The Company's disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in this report is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms.  Such controls also include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company is accumulated and communicated to the Registrant’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Under the supervision and with the participation of management, including the Registrant's chief executive and financial officer, the Company carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of such disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report (the “DCP Evaluation”).

Based on this DCP Evaluation, the Registrant’s principal executive and principal financial officer has concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of September 30, 2016.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes during the Company’s last fiscal quarter that materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

PART II – OTHER INFORMATION

 

Item 1 - Legal Proceedings

The Company is not a party to any legal proceedings which would have a material adverse effect on it or its operations.

 

Item 1A - Risk Factors

 

There have been no material changes to the Risk Factors as previously disclosed under Item 1A to Part 1 of our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 filed with the SEC on April 14, 2016.

 

Item 2 - Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

In connection with the Prior SEDAs and with the issuance by us of the Tempest Warrant and the Common Shares listed below, we relied upon the exemption from securities registration afforded by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. No advertising or general solicitation was employed in offering the securities. The offerings and sales were made to a limited number of persons, all of whom were accredited investors, business associates of our Company or executive officers or directors of our Company and transfer was restricted by our Company in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act. In addition to representations by the below-referenced persons, we made independent determinations that all of the below-referenced persons were accredited or sophisticated investors, that they were capable of analyzing the merits and risks of their investment and that they understood the speculative nature of their investment. Furthermore, all of the below-referenced persons were provided with access to our SEC filings.

 

On May 17, 2016, an Independent Director exercised Stock Options at $0.85 to purchase 2,000 shares of Common Stock.

On July 29, 2016, Omagine sold 10,684 restricted Common shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $10,000.

On August 19, 2016, Omagine sold 13,245 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $10,000.

On August 30, 2016, Omagine sold 11,312 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $10,000.

On September 16, 2016, Omagine sold 34,247 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $25,000.

On September 19, 2016 Omagine paid a consultant 30,340 restricted Common Shares at a value of $25,000.

On September 21, 2016, Omagine issued 161,290 restricted Common Shares to YA in satisfaction of a $150,000 commitment fee due in connection with the extension of the 2014 SEDA to February 1, 2019.

On November 1, 2016, Omagine sold 20,000 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $10,000 and also sold 10,000 restricted Common Shares to an independent director who is also an accredited investor for proceeds of $5,000.

On November 4, 2016, Omagine sold 10,000 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $5,000.

On November 8, 2016, Omagine sold an aggregate of 20,000 restricted Common Shares to two accredited investors for aggregate proceeds of 10,000.

On November 14, 2016, Omagine sold 10,000 restricted Common Shares to an accredited investor for proceeds of $5,000.

Use of Proceeds

 

The proceeds of the abovementioned sales of securities were used by the Company for general corporate working capital purposes.

 

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

 

The Company did not purchase any of Omagine’s issued and outstanding Common Shares during the six month period ended September 30, 2016.

 

 

 

Item 3 - Defaults upon Senior Securities

 

None.

 

Item 4 - Mine Safety Disclosures

 

Not Applicable.

 

Item 5 - Other Information

 

None.

 

Item 6 - Exhibits

 

The following exhibits are included as part of this Form 10-Q. References to “Omagine” in this Exhibit List means Omagine, Inc., a Delaware U.S. corporation.

 

Exhibits numbered in accordance with Item 601(a) of Regulation S-K.

 

Exhibit
Numbers	Description
3(i)	Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Omagine dated June 2, 2010 (7)
3(ii)	By-laws of Omagine (1)
4.1	The Subscription and Warrant Agent Agreement dated January 31, 2012 between Omagine and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (11)
4.2	Specimen of $5 Warrant Certificate (11)
4.3	Specimen of $10 Warrant Certificate (11)
4.4	The Tempest Warrants (17)
10.1	The December 9, 2007 CCIC and CCC Agreement (3)
10.2	The March 19, 2007 Hamdan Agreement (2)
10.3	The December 2013 amendment extending the March 19, 2007 Hamdan Agreement (19)
10.4	The December 2014 amendment extending the March 19, 2007 Hamdan Agreement (22)
10.5	The December 2015 amendment extending the March 19, 2007 Hamdan Agreement (27)
10.6	The April 20, 2011 Shareholder Agreement (9)
10.7	The Development Agreement dated October 2, 2014 (20)
10.8	The Usufruct Agreement Dated July 1, 2015 (23)
10.9	An English Translation of the Letter Dated July 2, 2015  (24)
10.10	Convertible Promissory Note payable to Frank J. Drohan (14)
10.11	Convertible Promissory Note payable to Charles P. Kuczynski (14)
10.12	Convertible Promissory Note No. 1 payable to Louis Lombardo (14)
10.13	Convertible Promissory Note No. 2 payable to Louis Lombardo (14)
10.14	The December 8, 2008 SEDA Agreement between Omagine and YA (4)
10.15	The May 4, 2011 SEDA Agreement between Omagine and YA (8)
10.16	The June 21, 2011 Amendment Agreement to the May 4, 2011 SEDA Agreement (10)
10.17	The May 22, 2012 Waiver Letter dated re: the May 4, 2011 SEDA Agreement  (13)
10.18	The April 22, 2014 SEDA Agreement between Omagine and YA (18)

 

 

10.19	The July 16, 2014 Termination Agreement terminating the May 4, 2011 SEDA Agreement (17)
10.20	The October 10, 2014 SEDA Amendment (21)
10.21	The 2013 YA Note Purchase Agreement and Amended Schedule III thereto (16)
10.22	The 2014 YA Note Purchase Agreement dated April 22, 2014 (18)
10.23	The April 22, 2014 Omagine $500,000 Promissory Note in favor of YA (18)
10.24	The April 22, 2014 Closing Statement signed by Omagine and YA (18)
10.25	The 2015 YA Note Purchase Agreement dated May 20, 2015 (24)
10.26	The May 20, 2015 Omagine $500,000 Promissory Note in favor of YA (24)
10.27	The May 20, 2015 Closing Statement signed by Omagine and YA (24)
10.28	The March 2016 YA Note Purchase Agreement dated March 15, 2016 (26)
10.29	The March 15, 2016 Omagine $600,000 Promissory Note in favor of YA (26)
10.30	The March 15, 2016 Closing Statement signed by Omagine and YA (26)
10.31	The Omagine Inc. 401(k) Adoption Agreement (5)
10.32	The Amended Omagine Inc. 2003 Stock Option Plan (6)
10.33	The Omagine Inc. 2014 Stock Option Plan (19)
10.34	The Amended Omagine Inc. 2014 Stock Option Plan (25)
10.35	Lease expiring December 31, 2015 between Omagine and the Empire State Building LLC (15)
10.36	The Masraf Al Rayan Term Sheet (27)
10.37	The Murabaha Facility Agreement between Omagine LLC and Masraf Al Rayan Bank (27)
10.38	The June 2016 YA Note Purchase Agreement dated June 22, 2016 (28)
10.39	The June 22, 2016 Omagine $400,000 Promissory Note in favor of YA (28)
10.40	The June 22, 2016 Closing Statement signed by Omagine and YA (28)
10.41	The September 20, 2016 Second SEDA Amendment between Omagine and YA (29)
10.42	The November 14, 2016 Convertible Promissory Note between Omagine and St. George Investments LLC*
10.43	The November 14, 2016 Note Purchase Agreement between Omagine and St. George Investments LLC*
14	The Code of Ethics (3)
21	Subsidiaries of the Registrant (14)
31	Sarbanes-Oxley 302 certification *
32	Sarbanes-Oxley 1350 certification *
99.1	A PDF Reference Copy of Exhibit 10.7, Development Agreement (20)
99.2	A PDF Reference Copy of Exhibit 10.9, Usufruct Agreement  (24)
99.3	A PDF Reference Copy of the Original Arabic Version of Exhibit 10.10  (24)
99.4	The Savills Final Valuation Report (24)
99.5	The DTZ Final Evaluation Report  (24)
99.6	The JLL Final Valuation Report  (24)
EX-101.INS	XBRL INSTANCE DOCUMENT*
EX-101.SCH	XBRL TAXONOMY EXTENSION SCHEMA DOCUMENT*
EX-101.CAL	XBRL TAXONOMY EXTENSION CALCULATION DOCUMENT*
EX-101.DEF	XBRL TAXONOMY EXTENSION DEFINITION DOCUMENT*
EX-101.LAB	XBRL TAXONOMY EXTENSION LABELS DOCUMENT*
EX-101.PRE	XBRL TAXONOMY EXTENSION PRESENTATION DOCUMENT*

 

* Filed herewith

 

(1)	Previously filed with the SEC on November 18, 2005 as an exhibit to Omagine’s quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the period ended September 30, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(2)	Previously filed with the SEC on April 17, 2007 as an exhibit to the Company’s Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(3)	Previously filed with the SEC on April 14, 2008 as an exhibit to Omagine’s Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(4)	Previously filed with the SEC on December 31, 2008 as an exhibit to Omagine’s current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(5)	Previously filed with the SEC on February 25, 2009 as an exhibit to Omagine’s Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(6)	Previously filed with the SEC on April 14, 2010 as an exhibit to Omagine’s Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(7)	Previously filed with the SEC on July 20, 2010 as an exhibit to Omagine’s Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(8)	Previously filed with the SEC on May 5, 2011 as an exhibit to Omagine’s current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(9)	Previously filed with the SEC on November 8, 2011 as an exhibit to Omagine’s quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2011 and incorporated herein by reference thereto and a reference copy was filed as an exhibit to Omagine’s current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 31, 2011.
(10)	Previously filed with the SEC on June 21, 2011 as an exhibit to Omagine’s current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(11)	Previously filed with the SEC on February 7, 2012 as an exhibit to Omagine’s registration statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-179040) and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(12)	Previously filed with the SEC on January 17, 2012 as an exhibit to Omagine’s registration statement on Form S-1 (Commission File No. 333-179040) and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(13)	Previously filed with the SEC on September 12, 2012 as an exhibit to Omagine’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to its registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-175168) and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(14)	Previously filed with the SEC on January 22, 2013 as an exhibit to Omagine’s Amendment Number 2 on Form 10-K/A amending (a) Omagine’s Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 16, 2012 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 (the “Original Filing”), and (b) Amendment No. 1 to the Original Filing filed on Form 10-K/A with the SEC on May 17, 2012, and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(15)	Previously filed with the SEC on April 1, 2013 as an exhibit to Omagine’s Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(16)	Previously filed the 2013 YA Note Purchase Agreement with the SEC on August 5, 2013 as an exhibit to the Company's quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2013 and it is incorporated herein by reference thereto; and previously filed the Amended Schedule III to the 2013 YA Note Purchase Agreement with the SEC on November 19, 2013 as an exhibit to the Company's quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2013 and it is incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(17)	Previously filed with the SEC on July 31, 2014 as an exhibit to Omagine’s quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2014 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(18)	Previously filed with the SEC on April 28, 2014 as an exhibit to the Company's current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(19)	Previously filed with the SEC on April 15, 2014 as an exhibit to the Company’s Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(20)	Previously filed with the SEC on October 2, 2014 as an exhibit to Omagine’s current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(21)	Previously filed with the SEC on October 10, 2014 as an exhibit to Omagine’s current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(22)	Previously filed with the SEC on January 8, 2015 as an exhibit to Omagine’s registration statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-199383) and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(23)	Previously filed with the SEC on July 9, 2015 as an exhibit to Omagine's current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(24)	Previously filed with the SEC on May 21, 2015 as an exhibit to Omagine's current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(25)	Previously filed with the SEC on November 23, 2015 as an exhibit to the Company's Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2015 and incorporated by reference thereto.
(26)	Previously filed with the SEC on March 16, 2016 as an exhibit to the Company's current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(27)	Previously filed with the SEC on April 14, 2016 as an exhibit to the Company’s Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(28)	Previously filed with the SEC on June 23, 2016 as an exhibit to the Company's current report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(29)	Previously filed with the SEC on September 20, 2016 as an exhibit to the Company's current report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference thereto.

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized. 

 

	OMAGINE, INC. (Registrant)
Dated: November 21, 2016	By:	/s/ Frank J. Drohan
		FRANK J. DROHAN,
		Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive and Financial Officer (Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer)
Dated: November 21, 2016	By:	/s/ William Hanley
		WILLIAM HANLEY
		Controller and Principal Accounting Officer