Zion Oil & Gas Inc (ZNOG)

[Imperial Whazoo]

I have been following this company for a long time. I want to direct everyone's attention to an article in Oil & Gas Journal dated 07/05/04 and entitled "Pace Speeds Up In Exploration for Triassic Targets in Israel". I'm not a subscriber so I don't have access to reprints on their web site (www.ogj.com) so all I have is a bitmap of one of the pages. Somebody can probably give the board folks better access to this than can I, but I think its important enought to try to verbally describe.

The blessings on the tribes of Israel, of course, covered Asher (one of Jacob's sons) of whom it was interestingly & somewhat mysteriously said: "And of Asher he [Moses] said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil." (Deuteronomy 33:24.) Obviously of interest is the phrase "let him dip his foot in oil". Now it always seemed an odd kind of blessing and it would seem far fetched to extrapolate this to mean petrolem type oil. However, check out, if you can, the map on the second page of the referenced O&G Journal article (I don't have the entire page... only a BMP of the map from the page, so I can't direct you to the precise page).

Let me describe this map from O&G Juornal. You see a tan area covering Syria, Lebanon & northern Israel, including about 1/6 of the map area in blue, representing the Mediterranean Sea. Bisecting the map, shaded in green, is an oil & gas field, most of which is in Syria, but a postion of which extends into Israel. Now, the green shaded area ia shaped like the part of your leg and foot that extend below the knee. So, it looks like a leg and the part of the leg that extends to northern Israel is a foot. So, you have a foot, the toe of which extends into Israel. The area of Israel is Asher, and the place where the Meged oil discovery was made is the toe of the foot. So, here we are, about 4000 years after the prophecy and the oil field is shaped like a leg and a foot, and the foot's toe extends into Israel, where the prohecy said "let him dip his foot in oil" and there we have this huge oil discovery. Pretty cool, huh? So Zion Oil is drilling for oil in that place; in Asher.

Anyway, because of this, when I first saw the map and recognized the shape and had the prophecy recalled to my attention, I immediately began to watch Zion.

I hope somebody can get a copy of the article (or at least a link to the page with the map) so everyone can check it out. In lieu of that, I have a BMP I cut-n-pasted way back when I came upon all of this. If you want me to send my BMP to you, send me a private message & I'll e-mail you.

Imperial whazoo