The closure of the farm-out agreement with Australian company Armour Energy was subject to AEP being assigned interest in native title agreements.

Armour revealed the Aubrey McClendon-led US company failed to accept a form of deeds it had provided by midnight on 9 January, which it said resulted in the condition precedent to assign AEP the interest in the native title agreement being “incapable of satisfaction” by the time required.

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