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🧭 My honest read

Putting it all together:

Bull case signals:

✔ No raise (huge)

✔ Farm-out previously “near completion”

✔ Price holding up

✔ Subtle higher lows

✔ Potential on-ground activity

🎯 Bottom line (no fluff)

This is now a binary window.

You are sitting in:

👉 “Pre-deal tension phase”

The market is basically saying:

“We think something might happen, but we’re not committing yet.”

🧠 Key takeaway for you

You’re not wrong to be cautious about a raise.

But right now:

👉 The absence of a raise is actually your strongest bullish signal

Because if they needed one urgently… it would already be done.

🤔 So what does the silence mean?

There are 3 realistic interpretations:

1. (Most likely IMO)

👉 Negotiations still ongoing, close but not signed

These things ALWAYS take longer than expected

2. (Bullish)

👉 Final stages, legal/commercial structuring

Often total silence before signing

3. (Bearish risk)

👉 Talks dragging, not dead, but not agreed

Company holding off raise hoping to salvage deal

💡 The REALLY interesting bit

You mentioned:

“No operational update for 2 months”

That’s not accidental.

They could easily put out fluff updates:

“ongoing discussions”

“continued production”

etc.

But they haven’t.

👉 That often means: They don’t want to say anything until something material happens

📉📈 The Share Price Behaviour (THIS MATTERS)

Your chart + price action lines up with a very specific pattern:

Not dumping (so no immediate placing fear)

Not exploding (so no deal signed yet)

Gradual higher lows / slow grind up

This is classic: 👉 “Market suspects something is happening, but has no confirmation”

If a raise was expected: ➡️ You’d see steady downward pressure

➡️ Drift toward 0.8–1.0p again

Instead you’re seeing: ➡️ Zig-zag upwards

➡️ Buyers stepping in on dips

That’s quietly bullish behaviour.

⏱️ Timing vs Drilling Season

You’re spot on here, this is the tension point:

The clock is ticking now

They have to choose:

Option A – Farm-in lands → Partner funds drilling

→ No dilution

→ Re-rate

Option B – No deal → They either delay drilling

OR

→ Raise cash

🚨 The BIG signal: No raise (yet)

This is honestly the most important point you’ve raised.

Let’s be blunt:

If they were planning a raise… they had the perfect window to do it already.

Why?

Share price dipped under 1p earlier this year

Market was weak → easy to justify “working capital” raise

Drilling season approaching → textbook excuse

👉 But they didn’t.

That tells you something quite strong:

They believe (or believed) a deal was close enough to wait.

Companies on AIM do NOT usually sit around risking liquidity unless:

A deal is genuinely live

Or they are forced (which doesn’t seem the case here)

🛰️ “Movement on the ground” (satellite chatter)

Now this part is always a bit “LSE detective mode” 😂 but…

If there is activity:

It suggests prep work / logistics / site readiness

Not necessarily drilling yet

Could also be tied to partner site visits or inspections

Remember: Farm-in partners often physically inspect assets before final sign-off

So: 👉 Ground movement + silence = could be due diligence phase

Wow master crying about mm's? Look who decided to buy after all that CRYING he did 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Farmout not great news. Whatever will they think of next 😂😂😂

Brent "plummeting" in price.. hang on wait a minute when it flew up 30% and we didn't move an inch, we decided Brent value had nothing to do with MATD didn't we? But the other way round is fine? 😂😂😂😂

What happened to the JV StockMaiden? What happened to the raise at 0.7p don't you mean? Oh wait neither has happened has it!! Absolutely melt 😂😂😂😂

Still commenting on a board you hate with nonstop nonsensical nonsense?

How many years has it been now?

Why are we arguing with trolls and nonsense? That's what they want. Anyone new coming to this board finds a load of shxt throwing going on and nothing else, I wouldn't invest here if all I saw was negativity and arguing with morons.

Ignore them, don't respond to their stupidity, don't feed them. Post positive information and facts, not arguments with the idiots 👌

You forgot your tinfoil hat you weirdo.

Energy crisis, meaning he will have an excuse NOT to drill more oil? 😂😂😂😂

And that's for tiny amount of shares LSE - 1m shares to buy is 1.28

It's a buy, evidenced by my post earlier.

You really think 4.7m shares sold almost back to back, results in a now dummy buy of 1m shares at 1.28?? 😂😂😂😂

Also that 3.8m share sale at 1.10 is 100% a buy, there were 3m shares on the ask for 1.15, and when I dummy sell 1m shares I was getting 1.044 quotes. Ain't no way someone sold quadruple that for higher than the bid. Lucky whoever got those!

Jeez. 1.287 to buy 1m shares.

1.024 to sell 1m shares

25% spread is absolutely insane!

All those cheap shares at 1.15 whipped up.

We keep seeing the price drop like a brick, one large buy gets filled, bam price rises 15%

Very illiquid stock. When we get a catalyst.. I'll look forward to the illiquid nature of the stock 👌

1. What a farm-out is

A farm-out agreement is when an oil company sells part of its licence interest to another company in exchange for them funding work, usually drilling.

For example:

Petro Matad owns 100% of a block

Another company joins and pays for a well or seismic

They earn 30–50% ownership

Small explorers often do this because drilling costs $5–15+ million per well.

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2. Why the regulator meeting matters

The meeting in your image is with MRPAM, the regulator.

For any farm-out to actually happen, the regulator must usually:

1. Approve the assignment of interest

2. Approve the updated work programme

3. Approve the operator structure

So companies often hold these annual block meetings when they are:

updating the work programme

discussing partner participation

or aligning the licence commitments

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3. What the slide suggests about timing

The slide title “2026 HSE / Environmental Objectives” suggests they are presenting the operational plan for the year.

That matters because a farm-out partner will normally want:

regulatory clarity

an approved work programme

environmental permissions

before signing or announcing a deal.

So this meeting could simply be part of the regulatory groundwork.

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4. The typical sequence when a farm-out is coming

When companies are close to a farm-out, the timeline usually looks like:

1. Farm-out negotiations with potential partners

2. Regulator meeting to discuss work programme

3. Environmental / HSE plan approval

4. Farm-out announcement

5. Regulator formally approves partner entry

So meetings like this often happen shortly before or during negotiations, but they are not proof.

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5. Why Petro Matad in particular gets speculation

The reason investors always watch meetings like this is because Petro Matad has historically needed a partner to fund drilling on its Mongolian licences.

A farm-out would:

reduce their financial burden

allow drilling to happen faster

usually trigger a major re-rating of the company

So people scrutinise every regulatory meeting photo for clues.

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My honest read from the photo

This looks like a standard annual regulatory meeting, not a farm-out signing meeting.

But it does fit the stage of work you would expect before a farm-out announcement.

From GPT; Good spot mate, there are a couple of things we can pull from that image.

First, the organisation in the tweet is Petro Matad, which operates oil blocks in Mongolia. The meeting mentioned is with MRPAM.

What the meeting is

The tweet says “Block XX meeting with MRPAM”

In Mongolia’s oil sector, this is typically an annual Block work programme review between the oil company and the regulator.

So the meeting is basically:

The oil company presenting its yearly work plan

The government regulator reviewing/approving it

Discussion of drilling plans, exploration work, budgets, and timelines

This is a routine regulatory meeting required under Mongolia’s petroleum agreements.

What the slide says

The title at the top of the slide reads:

“2026 оны ХАБЭА-БО зорилт”

That translates roughly to:

“2026 HSE–Environmental Objectives”

Where:

ХАБЭА (HABEA) = Health, Safety and Environment (HSE)

БО = Environmental protection

So the slide is basically listing HSE targets for 2026.

Table headings

The columns appear to be:

Objective / Target

Indicator

Result or Implementation

Things that can be partially read

Some rows (a bit blurry) look like standard oil industry HSE targets such as:

Zero accidents / incidents

Safety training

100% compliance

Environmental protection measures

Emergency preparedness

Monitoring and reporting

There are also several “100%” targets visible in the middle column, which is typical for compliance metrics.

What this likely means for investors

If you’re following Petro Matad (I know a lot of people watching the Mongolian oil plays are), this tweet basically signals:

Their annual regulatory meeting happened

They presented 2026 operational and safety plans

The process is moving forward normally

It’s not announcing drilling or production, just that regulatory engagement is ongoing.

MM's shakedown worked a treat - earlier I couldn't get any quotes to buy with the ask at 1.30, I could only get quotes for 1.33-1.35 for volume.

Scared someone in paper hands, ah well someone sold them which means someone bought them! I think Hamm forgets that when someone sells shares they don't just get put on the shelf in the shop saying 'please buy me'.. a sold means sold to someone. Moron 😂😂😂😂

Bin you thought it would keep going up forever did you mate? That 10% spread destroys any chance of flipping. But good luck to you :)

Kurdish ground troops are already in Iran. Known from friends who are also on the ground there. Make of that what you will tenbag

Who's forecasting 1000% news on nothing? Replying to that nonsense is as equally a waste of time replying to stock maiden 😂😂😂