Its like the company is ashamed of recent production numbers.
One would think that a competent management team would have this information at their fingertips at a bare minimum for monthly (if not weekly) production. If the numbers were good they would be announcing them to high heaven in PR after PR trumpeting each subsequent month of $10.00 per BBL production.
The obvious conclusions / options reached from the ongoing production information blackout are:
1) They know the numbers and won't release them in a clear, transparent way because they are very bad and belie managements previous statements.
2) They don't know the numbers and are thus incompetent managers / business people.
3) The numbers are good and they are witholding them for some obtuse reason.