Camco - Admission to AIM
Camco International Ltd
24 April 2006
Camco International Limited announces first day of dealings on AIM
Camco International Limited ('Camco' or the 'Company'), an originator and
co-developer of Carbon Credits, today announces the admission of its ordinary
shares to trading on AIM, a market of the London Stock Exchange plc.
As part of the AIM admission, Camco has raised £24.9m in a placing conducted by
KBC Peel Hunt at 64p per share. At the placing price, Camco has a market
capitalisation of approximately £83m.
Camco co-develops projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a range of
well-capitalised enterprises, such as heavy manufacturers, coal mining groups
and utilities. Camco manages a significant portfolio of Carbon Credits that have
arisen from these emission reduction projects.
Tristan Fischer, Camco's Chief Executive Officer, said: 'Coming to AIM is a
significant milestone for Camco and we are very excited about the future. There
is increasing pressure on companies and countries to reduce greenhouse gases,
and Camco's strong position in the key Carbon Credit supply markets of China and
Russia places us well to develop and innovate further.'
In addition, Fischer added: 'In the three months up to the end of March alone,
several new contracts were signed in China and Russia that increased the gross
portfolio of Camco's Carbon Credits by 16.8 million tonnes, so there is real
scope for taking the business forward.'
Contact:
Camco International Limited
Tristan Fischer, CEO 020 7256 7979
Gavin Anderson & Company (for media enquiries)
Ken Cronin/Janine Brewis 020 7554 1400
KBC Peel Hunt Ltd
Jonathan Marren/David Anderson 020 7418 8900
Business Summary:
• Camco is a significant originator of Carbon Credits, partnering with its
clients that are typically well-capitalised companies, such as heavy
manufacturing enterprises, coal mining groups and utilities to source Carbon
Credits.
• Camco's key markets are China and Russia, where the Company has
significant expertise, and which are two of the largest potential sources of
Carbon Credits. In other regions, Camco is developing business through its
strategic partners.
• Camco has originated and/or has a financial interest in 51 projects that
are expected to generate 97.2 million Carbon Credits. These comprise 71.5
million Carbon Credits from 36 projects under exclusive contract to Camco
and a further 25.7 million Carbon Credits from 15 projects in late stage
negotiation.
• Camco works together with its clients to convert Carbon Credit
opportunities into assets of value in international emissions trading
markets. The Camco proposition seeks to reduce the client's exposure to the
costs and risks of embarking on what can be an unfamiliar and complex
process.
• Camco offers to invest its own experience, expertise and human and
financial resources to undertake the work necessary to qualify the project
and to meet some or all of the necessary clean development mechanism ('CDM')
and joint implementation mechanism ('JI') origination and development costs.
These may include, inter alia, documentation costs, validation costs,
verification costs, CDM-EB registration/management fees and third party
experts' costs.
• Camco has considerable experience and expertise in proposing new
methodologies, preparing PDDs and guiding projects through this complex
regulatory process. To date, an executive of Camco has prepared two new
Approved CDM Methodologies and a strategic partner of Camco has successfully
developed one further Approved CDM Methodology.
• Camco engages its clients depending on their circumstances and has three
main contractual models which are set out in Carbon Asset Development
Agreements ('CADAs'): (i) service fee arrangements, (ii) carbon arrangements
(i.e. the right to receive a percentage of Carbon Credits in specie at no
cost, or to purchase a percentage of the Carbon Credits at favourable prices
for its own account) and (iii) project development arrangements. These
contractual models are adjusted to meet country specific legal and
regulatory requirements.
• As well as its own capabilities, Camco maintains strategic partnerships
in many markets, including its core markets, which make important
contributions to Camco's capacity to originate and deliver projects. Camco
uses the network, strengths and resources of these strategic partners for,
but not limited to, deal origination, technology promotion and for
additional CDM development support when needed.
The Market
• Carbon Credits are used to meet compliance targets under the Kyoto
Protocol and related climate change legislation. In order to mitigate the
effects of global warming, signatories to the Kyoto Protocol such as Canada,
the EU15 and Japan, have agreed to reduce their GHG emissions to below 1990
levels. This can be done by taking domestic action to reduce GHG emissions
or by purchasing Carbon Credits from qualifying projects in developing
countries, such as China, under the CDM and in developed countries, such as
Russia, under the JI programme.
• The market for Carbon Credits has grown rapidly in recent years and the
Directors expect that this growth will continue. Up to June 2005, Point
Carbon estimated that 121 million CERs and ERUs (in aggregate) have been
transacted. Since then, transactions involving more than 140 million CERs
and ERUs (in aggregate) have taken place. This suggests a total of over 260
million CERs and ERUs have been transacted at prices ranging from A2 to A18
per tonne depending on the contractual arrangements between parties.
This information is provided by RNS
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