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Interesting Saturday morning post in its way , Ezhik, but what it amounts to, in fact, is a statement of some known facts about the salt issue relating to 16-2, the gas pipe line, and a statement relating to your own lnvestment strategy.

I sometimes voice criticism of how the company is communicating with its investors but they have already answered the questions you raised in relation to salt and the gas pipeline. In relation to salt, (which is a common oilwell issue), they have declared that it is eminently resolvable and the gas pipeline is,(the company has said), underway.

In respect of your investment strategy, well that is a matter entirely for yourself and I wish you good luck with it.

750k shares dealt in 24 trades in a company with 1.6 billion shares issued. Come on BOD. Get the collective finger out with a bit of market oriented activity!

Appears to be nothing there apart from a bit of a story from time to time.And then a raise to keep things going.

Does anyone else feel that the number of trades in Aim,(on all shares), has diminished considerably over the past couple of months, and that the number of posts here on the generality of shares has also diminished. If your answer is "yes" why do you think that should be so?

For your comments. Ref.the TP note, that is just a repeat of the 12 April note, so it doesn't add a cubit to our understanding ,or give us any idea of when we are likely to see any progress.

In passing can anyone tell me when was the last time a ZPHR RNS had a positive affect on the SP?! The company really does need to get its skates on and do something to liven up the market. What did they employ Auctus for? Where is the attention CH was to apply to the US market, especially the institutional element? Constant SP drift is not a good look.

Thank you again ,gentlemen.

Thank you Adon for your posts but I'm afraid I don't always follow your line of reasoning. Zphr looked like a phenominal company a couple of years ago when CH was spreading the gospel in interviews every couple of weeks. We don't see much of that nowadays. The whells seemed to come off that train when 16-2 had the salt problem and the company didn't acknowledge the real problem for several months.

Zephyr still hasn't produced a barrel of its own drilled oil for sale. There have been a myriad of excuses for lack of delivery,but even those have not been presented in a very timely manner. Can I repeat that the market has little or no interast in nonop wells which it sees as short term .Yes I agree with you that the bod did well to buy those assets relatively cheaply but that should not be the raison d'etre of an aspiring mid tier oiler. And remember that the raised almost 50$m to fund those purchases for which they are getting back about 23$M a year. Meantime they have diluted the company.s shares massively

You're no fool Adon but you come across as as an investor with an esoteric interest here as opposed to a high financial one.I am more interested in the sp than any other aspect of the company. I'd like to see more of CH and hear more from him. Why hasn't he told us what caused the blowout? They must know by now.The average spud time for a well here is 30 days. The production test for 16-2 was to end in January, but still no oil!

Lastly, in the webinar CH said that the Dominion pipeline had already begun and that it would be operational in Q3, so why no progress report?

1.The Dominion pipeline is of crucial importance to ZPHR for the wells it has drilled to date as CH alluded in the webinar, They will be kept informed by Dominion and should keep their shareholders informed.

2.The RNS specifically states that it is a progress report on 36-2 as well as the Williston.

3. ZPHR has been "riding bumps " for almost two years now and the SP has fallen from 7.6 p to 4p. Where is the progress in that?

Finally the nonop production is of no interest to the market or to institutional investors.

Of course! Six and a half lines covered 36-2 to tell us that they are doing repair work (ok) but with no indication of how long that may take. Note on the nonops shows that both quantity and revenue is falling,(though not by much) and effectively nothing which would enliven the market,(which is the important bit).

I would have thought they could have given some sort of progress report on the Dominion pipeline which has a keen bearing on 16-2,(of which there was no mention whatsoever). All in all a depressing RNS

Sceaux, you've posted quite a lot today,and in doing so revealed details of your holding. Multiply that many time and you'll be getting close to mine.

The first in three days. Bit of disenchantment setting in here. And CH promised to "keep in touch" in a better when he made the podcast. Ah well!

Hi theyknowitall. Thanks for your 19.24 post. I read you. You bought well here. Go well!

There are eight shareholders here who hold 80 m of the shares and who are above the 3% reportable threshold. A number of those holders are also knownn to each other. I don't know whether that may influence their trading in the shares?

There appears to be an assumption here that only one large holder, (Aidan O'Hara ), was the activator of the recent sell off. What's to prevent any of the other eight large investors from following suit at their convenience? With 80m shares in play wouldn't that keep the SP low for some time.

There isn't any in ZPHR shares. And if there were it would be a total waste of time given the paltry quatntity of shares traded daily.

Of course I'm invested in UOG. That's why I posted here!

your sentiments McDoog but there is a lot that can be done about "market sentiment, and MM's games", if there isn't why are Zephyr employing Auctus to heighten their institutional investor profile, and why did CH acknowledge well over a year ago that he needed to get busy about impressing and enticing the institutional investors. This is AIM, McDoog and investors don't tend to hang about for months waiting for the next bit of good news. They cash in and move on.
I don't know the reason for the blowout at 36-2 but I do know that ZPHR drilled 16-2 well over a year ago and they still haven't produced any oil from it despite repeated assertions that it was about to produce. The same pipeline which was needed then still hasn't been completed and to do so ZPHR is in the hands of Dominion. Many a slip twixt cup and lip, they say.
My broker can only get me a derisory quote to sell all of my shares. That's the only thing that keeps me here now. Less than 3 million shares were traded today. That is jokesville! And it suggests a very unimpressed market place. A bit of market savvy activity is called for here.

Hi The Dog Farther, I'm not just a visitor here. I am recently invested, but not on the very large cale in which I an in ZPHR. Your comparison in relation to turnover and profit is interesting. Problem with ZPHR is that they haven't managed to produce any oil for sale from their own drilled wells.
I like the cut of the gib of the directors here. They are well trained oilmen. And I will be very intereste to see what they announce in the immediate future. It needs to be something imortant or I would guess the SP will slide back. Go well.

A handful of trades. Most of them buys and the SP has been marked down 6%. Come on BOD or TP or whoever is responsible for these things and speak to the MM's or put out some news that the market may find encouraging. You do have a fiducary responsibility to your shareholders. When was the last positive news? Anyone remember? Oh I'm being negative again for telling them that they are making a cojones of my portfolio!

I think the company needs to come up with some important news in order to prolong the spring in the SP here. all the rest is just plain guesswork.

to stay as it is, ( in respect of the SP), when a large part of the company's shares are in the hands of 10 0r 12 investors, ( some of whom probably know each other ), who may be likely to sell part of their holdings as the current seller or sellers are doing. Most of that "controlling" group will have bought in around the 2-4p mark and it seems logical for them to sell to take a good profit. Just a thought.

A good, interesting, and succinct post yours at 15.24 .

Wrong on all counts,yet again, The Bhoys.