Good points, Sudbury. Might just be another coincidence, but your review of possible underhanded treatment of retail stockholders ties in quite well with Bettzies comments about the (connected) investment bankers who just may already be in the know this time around with regards to the deep drilling. Granted there may be nothing too any of this, but:

"...BTW, had the chance to play in a charity golf tourney this weekend and it happened that two of the guys started an unsolicited discussion on NOT. Obviously I chimed in but in an interesting twist they were investment bankers and clamed up when I started to ask their near term prediction stating..."we are in heavy but that's all we can say". We exchanged lots of general discssion mostly discussed on here and it was interesting."