RE: As we move toward Christmas week I was hoping some19 Dec 2025 08:33
Based on the public bios and filings, Colin Harrington is much more an energy finance / deal / capital-markets executive than a “field-ops oilman” (i.e., not someone whose career bio is built on drilling, production engineering, or operating assets day-to-day).
What his background actually shows
Zephyr’s own leadership bio says he “began his career in energy finance in 1998” and highlights recapitalisations and turnarounds at natural resource companies.
In Zephyr’s 2023 annual report, his career is described as: investment banking / investment management, CEO of Origin Creek Energy (a “special situations investor”), Managing Partner of Wellford Energy Group, and former CEO of Wellford Capital Markets (FINRA broker-dealer).
Origin Creek Energy’s own “Team” page describes him in energy finance, with prior roles in investment banking, and education (Wharton MBA, etc.)—again, not an operating pedigree.
Takeaway: if your definition of an “oil man” is someone who has personally led operated drilling/production programmes as a petroleum engineer/geologist/ops exec, his public profile doesn’t read that way. It reads like capital + corporate strategy + asset transactions.
And this is the issue and, in my opinion, why we are where we are, another year down, share price on its arse and no oil coming out of the ground and being sold.