SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-009537 to Dune Oil Corp. (TRLEF)
Dune Oil Corp.
Date: Aug. 20, 2024 · CIK: 0001648636 · Accession: 0000000000-24-009537
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August 20, 2024
Arthur Halleran
Chief Executive Officer
Trillion Energy International Inc.
838 West Hastings Street, Suite 700
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6C 0A6 Canada
Re:Trillion Energy International Inc.
Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2023
Filed May 7, 2024
File No. 000-55539
Dear Arthur Halleran:
We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments.
Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a
comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2023
General
We note that you have filed various reports on SEDAR in Canada, including new releases,
material change reports, and oil and gas disclosure filings, which you have not also
furnished on Form 6-K. Rule 13a-16 of Regulation 13A and General Instruction B to
Form 6-K require that you promptly furnish information on Form 6-K that you (i) make
public pursuant to laws of the jurisdiction of your domicile or in which you are
incorporated or organized, (ii) file with a stock exchange on which your securities are
traded and which is made public by that exchange, or (iii) distribute to security holders.
The required information includes that which is material with respect to the issuer and its
subsidiaries concerning changes in the business; changes in management or control;
acquisitions or dispositions of assets; bankruptcy or receivership; changes in the certifying
accountants; the financial condition and results of operations; material legal proceedings; 1.
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changes in securities or in the security for registered securities; defaults upon
senior securities; material increases or decreases in the amount of securities or
indebtedness; the results of the submission of matters to a vote of security holders;
transactions with directors, officers or principal security holders; the granting of options
or payment of other compensation to directors or officers; and any other information that
is considered to be of material importance to security holders.
Please address this requirement with regard to the missing reports and adhere to this
requirement in conjunction with future publications.
Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions, page 25
2.We note that you had identified three parties having beneficially owned 5% or more of
your shares in the disclosures provided in your 2020 annual report pursuant to Item 403 of
Regulation S-K, though have not provided similar disclosures pursuant to Item 7 of Form
20-F in any of the three subsequently filed annual reports.
Please explain to us how you determined that no information would be required to address
this disclosure requirement if this is your view.
Financial Statements
Audit Report, page F-1
3.We note that you filed three years of financial statements though have presented only the
most recent two fiscal years on an audited basis. We understand that your 2021 financial
statements were originally presented based on U.S. GAAP and were audited by
Harbourside CPA LLP, though were subsequently adjusted in conjunction with your
adoption of IFRS and correction of an error, as described in Notes 2(r) and 25 to the
financial statements provided in your 2022 annual report.
Given the nature and extent of adjustments made to the 2021 financial statements, and the
guidance in Q4/A4 of the June 9, 2006 PCAOB publication "Adjustments to Prior-Period
Financial Statements Audited by a Predecessor Auditor" it appears that you should have
the 2021 financial statements restored (to include the disclosures referenced above) and
fully audited by MNP LLP to comply with Item 8.A.3 of Form 20-F.
4.We understand that you changed auditors from Harbourside CPA LLP to MNP LLP
sometime after filing your annual report for 2021, though have not provided disclosure
regarding this change in either of the subsequent annual reports.
Please expand your disclosures on page 37 to include the information prescribed by Item
16.F of Form 20-F, concerning your change in auditor, and address the requirement to
provide letters from the predecessor and successor auditors as exhibits.
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In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.
Please contact Lily Dang at 202-551-3867 or Karl Hiller at 202-551-3686 with any
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation