Whitecap Resources Inc. (WCP) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

February 18, 2021

Toronto Stock Exchange CA Energy Oil, Gas and Consumable Fuels shareholder_meeting 8 min

Earnings Call Speaker Segments

Operator

operator
#1

Good morning, and welcome to Whitecap Resources Special Shareholders Meeting being held this morning by audio webcast on the Lumi meeting platform. And I would like to turn the conference over to Whitecap's Chairman of the Board, Mr. Ken Stickland. Please go ahead.

Kenneth Stickland

executive
#2

Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Special Meeting of Shareholders of Whitecap Resources, Inc., and I'd like to extend a special welcome to any TORC shareholders who are joining us on the platform today. The meeting will now come to order. I'm Ken Stickland, and I'm Chairman of the Board of Directors of Whitecap Resources, Inc., and I'll act as Chair of the meeting. As the COVID-19 crisis prevents us from holding our meeting in person, it's hosted on the Lumi virtual shareholder meeting platform. This allows registered shareholders to vote and submit questions and comments to the moderator to be read and addressed at the meeting. If you have a question or comment today, please submit it through the system. Following the formal portion of our meeting, Grant Fagerheim, our President and Chief Executive Officer, will make some brief remarks. I shall ask Shannon Gangl to act as Secretary of the meeting and Jacquie Fisher and Paul Bedard, representatives of Odyssey Trust Company to act as scrutineers. I have received confirmation from Odyssey as the due mailing of the meeting materials. I direct this confirmation, together with copies of these documents be kept by the secretary with the minutes of this meeting. Business may be transacted at this meeting if 2 or more persons are present holding or representing by proxy not less than 25% of the shares entitled to vote at the meeting. I've been advised by the Scrutineer that the report has been received, and it shows that there is a quorum of shareholders present at the meeting. I direct that the Scrutineers' report be kept by the secretary with the minutes of this meeting. As a result, I now declare that this meeting is regularly called and properly constituted for the transaction of business. Today, we will conduct each vote by way of vote cast on the Lumi platform and those submitted by proxy. I understand that the scrutineers have tabulated all the votes received prior to voting cutoff. If you have previously voted, you do not need to vote again when prompted. By voting again, he will revoke any previous vote made prior to voting cutoff. We will now open the voting for both of the resolutions. Particulars of the votes cast on all matters may be obtained from the secretary after the meeting. I direct that the Scrutineers report on all matters being next to the minutes of this meeting as a schedule. The first item of business is the consideration of the share issuance resolution to approve the issuance of up to 133,293,618 common shares of the company pursuant to the business combination with TORC Oil & Gas Ltd. The full text of the share issuance resolution is found at Appendix B to the joint management information circular of Whitecap and TORC dated January 5, 2021. Thanh?

Thanh Kang

executive
#3

My name is Thanh Kang, and I move that the share issuance resolution set out at Appendix B to the joint management information circular of Whitecap and TORC dated January 5, 2021, be approved.

Janice Wood

attendee
#4

My name is Janice Wood, and I second the motion.

Kenneth Stickland

executive
#5

Thank you. Is there any discussion or questions submitted from any registered shareholder or proxy holder on that motion?

Thanh Kang

executive
#6

Mr. Chairman, there are no questions on that motion.

Kenneth Stickland

executive
#7

Thank you, Thanh. The next item of business is to -- is the consideration of a special resolution to approve the amendment of Whitecap's articles to increase the maximum number of Board members from 9 to 12.

Thanh Kang

executive
#8

I move that the special resolution on Page 97 of the joint management information circular of Whitecap and TORC dated January 5, 2021, be approved.

Janice Wood

attendee
#9

I second the motion.

Kenneth Stickland

executive
#10

Thank you. Is there any discussion or questions submitted from any registered shareholder or proxy holder on that motion?

Thanh Kang

executive
#11

Mr. Chairman, there are no questions on that motion.

Kenneth Stickland

executive
#12

Thank you. As voting has been enabled for both motions, if a shareholder has not voted yet, please do so now. [Voting]

Kenneth Stickland

executive
#13

I'll declare that voting is now closed. Just waiting to see if the scrutineers have any additional information. I've now been advised by the scrutineers that all resolutions have been approved by more than the requisite majority. As a result, I declare the motions carried. Are there any questions submitted to the formal business of the meeting now?

Thanh Kang

executive
#14

Mr. Chairman, there are no questions on the formal business of the meeting.

Kenneth Stickland

executive
#15

Thank you. I will entertain a motion that the meeting be terminated.

Thanh Kang

executive
#16

I move that this meeting be terminated.

Janice Wood

attendee
#17

I second the motion.

Kenneth Stickland

executive
#18

The meeting operator is activating a poll to vote on the termination of the meeting at this point. [Voting]

Kenneth Stickland

executive
#19

I've received confirmation that the resolution has passed. As a result, it's carried, and I declare that the meeting is terminated. And I'm now going to invite Grant Fagerheim to deliver his remarks on behalf of Whitecap management. And again, thank you for all who attended this morning by phone. Grant?

Grant Fagerheim

executive
#20

Thanks very much, Ken. And I would like to comment briefly to give thanks to Brett Herman and Jason Zabinsky and for the entire management team of TORC to facilitate this business combination. We believe that the go-forward entity has a very strong and sustainable growth and income platform from which -- has to move forward with, with significant funds flow into the future. We are excited with what our go-forward company looks like, including our combined staff, our current assets and our go-forward business plan. We look forward to reporting back to you with our achievements as we move forward into 2020 and '21. Thank you to each of you that are on the call today, but to both sets of our shareholders for your support of the combined entity going forward. Have a great day. There's any other questions, we're open for it. We're certainly open for those at this particular time.

Operator

operator
#21

Thank you. That concludes today's webcast.

Grant Fagerheim

executive
#22

Thanks very much, Neil.

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