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The account was suspended not deactivated. It is fairly rational to assume they have not renewed their hosting fees. If they wanted to relaunch the website they would of built it in the background and the transition would of been more or less instant when they made it go live - in the mean time leaving the current one up. They still own the domain name but they are dirt cheap anyway.
The website also seems surplus to requirement at the minute. It wasn't used for anything meaningful with any noticeable updates (although there was the news section debacle to counter this point, so there was some possible well meaning activity). It just feels like a kick in the balls because its one less avenue that shows the lights are still on to us shareholders and one less official (but never materialising) point of contact with company. Taking the grand total of effective points of contact from zero to zero.
The hosting fees would of been very small so either the finances are super super tight or its an administrative error on bill paying. If that is the case then it should be easily and quickly resolved.
People will go ape sh*t with glee if it turns out frr tender for it lol. Maybe that's what the Web hosting money is being used for - to buy all the fag packets to write our tender on.
Based on what would be a rational assumption, the Georgian government wouldn't be wasting their time and money arbitrating under false pretences. The continuation of the arbitration indicates to me that FRR have 'got away with it' so to speak in regards to the asset transfer. Obviously time will tell. Maybe the stalling and obfuscation is literally just FRR stalling to get the finance to make Outrider disappear before they can fully investigate the matter and find that it is 'a bit dodgy'. For the time being, we have the asset anyway.
Would the GG even bother abitrating with Steve and Zaza if the asset transfer was not legit?
Excellent news then according to you. If FRR have some how managed to come to some lucrative deal or Indeed sell the block etc then outrider they are only going to get the £2million still.
If they were planning to stiff shareholders, why doesn't Steve just let Hope have the shares.... I'd take some solace in that.
Zaza is trapped in a revolving door at the Last chance saloon, where the fat lady keeps lifting the mic up to start singing but stops as he goes out of sight, until he comes round again (Luckily for us FRR has paid the electric bill for the speakers to work anyway).
Wish I could turn off till end of Jan but know no doubt I'll be checking on here nearly every day for a morcel of hope to add to my small pile of crumbs. The last indirect word from zaza to shareholders...
' ‘business as usual’ stance as the operations on the ground are very much in full swing and I suspect that this is not the last we have seen of the company.
Shareholders, I am told should sit tight, there may be a consolidation of the shares but they are still very much worth holding on to as a re-listing is very much on the cards and I understand that shareholder meetings etc will carry on. The court case can be attended to and the financing put in place, on the ground they are working with potential partners of significant size in Georgia.'
How much has the picture changed I wonder. By the abscense, it appears that arbitration was never a worry at the time and maybe they didn't anticipate it to become apparent financial choke hold on the company it is now.
I think that is based on frr's counter claim against the Georgian government. Let's face it most of people on here would be over the moon with $3.5billion dividend - whatever frr would keep for moldova/ukraine
What the auto generated English subtitles for a laugh. ***** and Australian cottage cheese get and honorable mention
Best confirmation we could hope for from an employee is that there is/was Baker Hughes and BP personnel pottering around on site still in fairly recent times. People should take some comfort that we are still producing and still supposedly drilling and therefore still functioning as a company, no matter how tenuously. Hopefully this employee payment issue can be resolved soon.
Continued drilling (BH still on the scene?) and production? Question is where is all the extra money going? Must be pretty soul destroying watching the oil go down the road for sale and being told there is no money for wages
Interesting reply
Ha, whoops. Sorry I never read the thread titles. My apologies
Timster I don't think he mentioned BP?
So arbitration was delayed till the end of Jan and assuming all goes well financing will be put in place shortly afterwards. We know financing is going to be a fair old whack since the last we heard about it, it was at 160mil. Whether BP is still knocking about waiting for frr to get its sheet together is yet to be seen but I imagine it would only be a matter of time until a super major or the Chinese peaks some interest again if we survive and begin field development.
I however, do not like the sound of 'crisis period' to me that means the staff will still not be getting paid until late January and that does not fill me with confidence. That is a very grim situation for them and the stability of the company. I hope they recieve some sort of interim payment before Christmas and that Zaza was being realistic.
Oh yeah the link.... https://pasteboard.co/IEoubxy.jpg
Link to original article for anyone feeling detectivy. I did several searches online using lines of text from the Georgian article and could not find it published online anywhere. This did seem like a relatively small story though
Presumably we won't know unless it is followed up and published in a Georgian newspaper again and the kind gentleman translates and posts it again.
Yeah I'm not really going for that theory star rage. I also. Dont think we have the money stashed In a subsiduary to pay the debt off either or have been secretly drilling extra Wells.
One thing regdik, it was 80 employees who turned up to the meeting, I presume it is probably nearly the whole workforce who hasn't been paid, as well as, also presumably Zaza and Steve still not having had a dime themselves either.