RE: ZENITH 4-6p14 May 2020 18:03
As a reminder, mcap at 2p nowadays is the equivalent to 12p in old money once the dilution is considered. 6x as many shares in issue now, so, regardless of the monetary amounts raised, the problem is dilution, therefore it is unreasonable to compare the monetary values raised against other companies in isolation. 12m raised at say 8p is somewhat different to being raised at 1.5p or 2p--I don't actually know how much dilution has occurred in those others, UKOG is also dire I believe but the two things need to be considered concurrently.
When the mcap was 12p, the business plan was a 3 year rehabilitation of existing wells with small incremental increases in production. Well interventions (there were hundreds available) were supposed to be at a rate of 1 every 2-3 weeks and improvements were expected to be a few barrels a day per well up to the first target of 1000bbls after the first year, and 3000 after 3 years including a new well. The risk was implied to be low and the reward slow but with not unreasonable targets. Production was 350bbls a day and the price of oil about 60-70. 3years later and say 12m spent, the production halved and there were no successes in any attempts. even when there were so called transformational or material increases of 60bbls a day notified, these never amounted to anything, were never recorded in annual or interim figures and therefore were either non existent or the increase was witnessed for a few minutes to enable the announcement to be 'true' before the well died to nothing after a few minutes or maybe a couple of hours. No further info provided.
No 'promises' or targets announced in rns have ever been met, timelines and dates were always miles out or just didn't happen and were forgotten about, new a100 rig bought, upgraded allegedly with more funds but never seen or used.
Piece of scrap metal rescued from the pile of equipment that other companies had trialled and tested in the field and retuned to the manufacturer with no orders placed. No other rigs from this supplier so far as I could find were in use in the world.
Salaries are bonkers. Have a look at recent rns from Aminex. CEO salary now only 60k a year, share options are performance based. The 'cat' mentioned some adjustments in the last zen rns, so it will be interesting to see what they are.
Caveat emptor, miracles happen but Leopards and their spots seldom change.