ZNOG Zion Oil and Gas Inc (QB)

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Checks drawn on U.S. banks must be received at least three business days before the Purchase Dates. Purchases of shares and/or Units are recorded daily (the “Purchase Date”). For ACH withdrawals that have been set up by the Plan Agent, the Plan Agent would debit the bank account only on the 25^th of the month.

You can also apply these amounts to the purchase of Units, as long as the Units are available for purchase under the Plan. Please note that the dollar limitation of $10,000 and the approval of the “Request for Waiver” for amounts in excess of $10,000 do not apply to Unit purchases.

Automatic dividend reinvestment. You can also increase your holdings of our Common Stock through automatic reinvestment of your cash dividends (when and if dividends are paid in the future). You will also be credited with dividends on fractions of shares you hold in the Plan. You can elect to reinvest all or a portion of your dividends. However, Participants electing to reinvest dividends are required to reinvest at least 10% of the dividend to qualify as a dividend reinvestment program under I.R.S. Regulations. To date, Zion has not paid dividends on its common stock and no assurance can be given as to when, if ever, Zion will be able to pay dividends on its common stock.

Mandatory Share Deposit for Discounted Shares. As a participant, you are required to have your Common Stock held in book entry form in the Plan with the Plan Agent for at least six (6) months after the date of purchase of your shares for any discounted shares. Any shares withdrawn from the Plan Account within six (6) months after the date of purchase will be subject to a withdrawal penalty. See Question 18.

You are not required to deposit shares of Common Stock and Warrants that are purchased as part of a Unit and also you are not subject to any withdrawal fee for such securities.

Automated transactions. The Plan Agent does have online interactive purchase facilities. The Plan Agent does provide the Plan Prospectus and enrollment forms online. Participants will be able to view their accounts and statements online.

We offer for limited time periods, the opportunity to purchase Units of our securities where each Unit is comprised of one or more shares of Common Stock and one or more Common Stock purchase warrants. The Warrant affords you the opportunity to purchase additional shares of our Common Stock at a fixed warrant exercise price. The Warrants would become first exercisable on the 31^st day following the Unit Option Termination Date and continue to be exercisable through the expiration date at a per share fixed exercise price. The Warrants would not be exercisable prior to such date. We may file an application with NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market to list the Warrants: however, no assurance can be provided that any warrants would be approved for listing on any exchange or securities market.

Checks, bank wire payments, or electronic bank payments for purchases received by the Plan Agent, or at the offices of the Company, before 12 noon (EST) on a business day generally will be recorded as purchased on the same business day (the “Purchase Date”). The Plan Agent has online interactive purchase facilities (www.amstock.com) to handle electronic enrollment and electronic check processing. In addition, the same electronic services are offered through the Company’s website (www.zionoil.com). Checks, bank wire payments, or electronic bank payments for purchases received by the Plan Agent, or at the offices of Company, after 12 noon (EST) on a business day generally will be recorded as purchased on the next business day for the Purchase Date. Electronic bank payments are treated as received and recorded on the date of receipt of the funds into the Plan Agent’s or the Company’s bank account.

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The price at which shares will be deemed purchased and credited to the investor’s account will be at the average of the high and low sale prices of the Company’s publicly traded Common Stock as reported on the NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market on the Purchase Date.

Any discount is subject to periodic change by Zion. Zion reserves the sole discretion to determine any current or future discount off the Market Price of the Publicly Traded Stock for continuing investments in shares of our Common Stock. Zion shall have the sole discretion to determine, if there is to be a Discount Amount, if any, and the duration of the Discount Period. The Discount Period and the Discount amount, if any, shall be posted on the Zion website and the Plan Agent’s website at least two business days prior to the next succeeding Purchase Date.

Your Plan account will be credited with the number of shares (including fractional shares, computed to four decimals) equal to the amount invested for your Plan account divided by the applicable price per share.

The Unit will be offered directly to Plan participants at a price per Unit to be fixed periodically by Zion. Changes to the per Unit purchase price will be posted on the Zion website and the Plan Agent’s website at least two business days prior to the next succeeding Purchase Date.

Since only shares are purchased directly from the Company, the investor’s Plan account will be credited with the number of shares (including fractional shares, computed to three decimals) of the Company’s Common Stock that was purchased. The price at which shares will be deemed purchased and credited to the investor’s account will be at the average of the high and low sale prices of the Company’s publicly traded Common Stock as reported on the NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market on the Purchase Date. Transaction confirmations are communicated daily by the Plan Agent and also quarterly and year-end statements are mailed by the Plan Agent.

Under dividend reinvestments, the Plan Agent will combine the dividend funds of all Plan participants whose dividends are automatically reinvested and will generally invest such dividend funds on the dividend payment date (and any succeeding trading days necessary to complete the order). If the dividend payment date falls on a day that is not a trading day, then the investment will occur on the next NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market trading day. In addition, if the dividend is payable on a day when optional cash payments are to be invested, dividend funds may be commingled with any such pending cash investments and a combined order may be executed. The record date associated with a particular dividend is referred to as the “dividend record date”.

Zion shall have the sole discretion to determine, if there is to be a discount to the Market Price of the Publicly Traded Stock. The Discount Amount, if any, and the duration of the Discount Period shall be posted on the Zion website and the Plan Agent’s website at least two business days prior the next succeeding Purchase Date. Modifications of the Discount Amount and the Discount Period will become effective on the succeeding Purchase Date following the announcement of such change.

No interest will be paid on cash held pending purchase.

Shares under the Plan, whether sold directly, or as part of a Unit or issued upon the exercise of a Warrant, will be purchased directly from Zion from our pool of authorized and unissued Common Stock.

Currently, Zion has reserved approximately 30,000,000 shares of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock to purchases under the Plan.

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ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN

The Plan is administered by American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC (the “Plan Agent”). The Plan Agent keeps records, sends statements of account to Plan participants and performs other duties relating to the Plan. The Common Stock purchased in your Plan account will be registered in the name of the Plan Agent. You may, at any time, withdraw all or any part of the shares held in your Plan account; subject to applicable withdrawal fees (see Question 18). Special arrangements may be made with the Plan Agent if you are an institution that is required by law to maintain physical possession of share certificates.

Also, the Plan Agent acts as the warrant agent, receiving Unit purchases, accepting exercises, issuing common stock and warrants and forwarding funds when requested.

As a Plan participant, you will receive a statement of your account as soon as practicable after each transaction (i.e., dividend reinvestment, optional cash payments, share withdrawals, transfers, Unit purchases, warrant transactions, etc.) is posted to your Plan account. You should retain these statements in order to establish the cost basis of shares and Warrants purchased under the Plan for income tax and other purposes. In addition, you will receive copies of all communications sent to all other shareholders, such as annual and quarterly reports, proxy statements and income tax information for reporting dividends paid. Under certain circumstances, in lieu of copies, you may receive a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials providing access to the Company’s proxy statement and annual report online. The Plan Agent will provide account and statement information online to investors.

PLAN ELIGIBILITY AND ENROLLMENT

Any person or legal entity is eligible to participate in the Plan. You do not have to be a current shareholder, nor do you have to reside or be located in the U.S. or be a U.S. citizen. Purchases of shares of Common Stock or Units through the Plan are usually made in U.S. currency, drawn on a U.S. bank account or by a wire in U.S. currency from a foreign bank account; except, we can handle certain foreign currency transactions as outlined below.

We have successfully implemented an electronic enrollment procedure with the Telecheck Internet Check Acceptance service as a payment method. In addition to the enrollment procedures otherwise specified with the mailing to the Plan Agent of the signed Plan Enrollment Form and check payment, current stockholders and prospective investors may enroll in the Plan by the procedures that allow for an acceptance of an electronic signature and date to the Plan Enrollment Form and a secure internet check acceptance by First Data/Citibank Merchant Services as coordinated with the Plan Agent.

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Electronic enrollment and payment procedures have been implemented, in which AST can accept electronic enrollment and electronic bank payments in U.S. Dollars and international shareholders and investors can make payments in British Pounds, Euros, Swiss Francs, Israeli Shekels, or Canadian Dollars for DSPP purchases through the Company as coordinated with AST. Funds received in foreign currency will be recorded by AST in US Dollars based upon the New York Closing Foreign Exchange Rate (5:00 p.m. EST) on the Purchase Date as published online in the Wall Street Journal, Market Data Center under Currencies (www.wsj.com/mdc).

In addition, before investing in our Common Stock and/or Units, each participant who resides or is located outside the U.S. is responsible for reviewing the laws of his or her country of residence or other applicable laws to determine if there are any restrictions on his or her ability to invest through the Plan.

Investors who are not U.S. persons should keep the following in mind: (1) they may face tax obligations in their own country on dividends and company-paid fees; and (2) the enrollment procedure is the same as for U.S. taxpayers, except that a W-8 tax form must be filed so that withholding on dividends will be reduced to the Tax Treaty amount for the resident country of the investor, if there is an income tax treaty between the United States and the resident country of the investor.

The Plan Agent or Zion may refuse to offer the Plan to residents of any state that may require registration, qualification or exemption of the securities to be issued under the Plan, or require registration or qualification of the Plan Agent or any of its officers or employees as a broker-dealer, a salesperson or an agent, where we determine, in our sole discretion, that the number of shareholders or the number of shares held does not justify the expense that we may incur with respect to effecting sales of our common stock under the Plan in the state.

Current Shareholders of Record

If you already hold shares of our common stock registered in your name, you may join the Plan by returning a completed enrollment form to the Plan Agent. Your participation will begin promptly after your signed Enrollment Form is received by the Plan Agent. Once you have enrolled, your participation will continue automatically until either you elect to withdraw from the Plan or we terminate the Plan or your participation in the Plan. However, any Plan discounts apply only to new purchases under the Plan of Common Stock and/or Unit purchases and not to existing shareholders depositing current Common Stock with the Plan Agent.

New Investors

If you are not a current shareholder, you may join the Plan by returning to the Plan Agent a completed enrollment form along with an initial investment of at least $250, but not more than $10,000 (subject to our right to waive this maximum, see Question 13) for direct Common Stock purchases.

Along with the Enrollment Form, the new investor must send a voided check to have electronic debits processed from your bank account for your initial investment or send your initial investment by check payable to the “American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC.” You are being required to send a voided check to prevent any mistakes that can be made in submitting the correct account. Electronic enrollment and payment procedures are in place as another option for new investors as outlined above.

Beneficial Owners and Shares Held in “Street Name”

If you are a beneficial owner of Zion’s Common Stock and your shares are registered in the name of a bank, broker, trustee or other agent, you may transfer your shares to a Plan account to enroll in the dividend reinvestment program by instructing your bank, broker, trustee or agent to transfer shares into your name and following the above instructions for Current Shareholders or by following the above instructions for New Investors.

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If you want to make optional monthly cash investments in excess of $10,000 in any month or an initial investment in excess of $10,000 for direct Common Stock purchases, you must receive our written approval. To obtain our written approval, you must submit a “Request for Waiver” form. You can obtain a Request for Waiver form on our website or the website of the Plan Agent at www.amstock.com or by contacting Zion Oil & Gas, Inc., Investor Relations, 12655 North Central Expressway, Suite 1000, Dallas, Texas 75243 Upon completion, please send it directly to Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. for review and approval. Zion should notify the investor and the Plan Agent of approval of the Waiver as well as the form of the payment (wire or check). We have the sole discretion to approve or refuse any request to make an optional monthly cash investment or initial investment in excess of the maximum amount and to set the terms of any such optional monthly cash investment or initial investment. We have the sole discretion to structure the “Request for Waiver” program in any way with respect to any requirements, features, terms, or conditions with respect to any investor.

We will decide whether to approve a submitted Request for Waiver within three (3) business days of the receipt of the request. If you do not receive a response from us in connection with your request, you should assume that we have denied your request. If a request is approved, funds must be received no later than 3:00 p.m. Eastern time, one business day prior to the first day of the applicable “Pricing Period” (as defined below). We may alter, amend, supplement or waive, in our sole discretion, the time periods and/or other parameters relating to optional cash purchases in excess of $10,000 made by one or more participants in the Plan or new investors, at any time and from time to time, prior to the granting of any Request for Waiver.

If we approve your Request for Waiver, we will notify you promptly. In deciding whether to approve a Request for Waiver, we will consider relevant factors, including, but not limited to, the following:

If requests for waiver are submitted for an aggregate amount in excess of the amount we are then willing to accept, we may honor such requests in order of receipt, pro rata or by any other method that we determine to be appropriate. We may determine, in our discretion, the maximum amount that an existing shareholder or new investor may invest pursuant to the Plan or the maximum number of shares of Common Stock that may be purchased pursuant to a request for waiver. In addition, we may place reasonable conditions regarding the form and timing of payment on the granting of any waiver.

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Purchase Price of Shares for Optional Cash Investments in Excess of $10,000. Shares purchased pursuant to an approved Request for Waiver will be purchased directly from us as described herein, including the establishment of a “Threshold Price” and a “Waiver Discount,” as more fully described below. If we grant your request to purchase shares pursuant to a Request for Waiver, there will be a “Pricing Period,” which will generally consist of one to 15 consecutive separate trading days on the NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market, to be determined at our discretion. Each of these separate trading days will be a “Purchase Date,” and an equal proportion of your optional cash investment will be invested on each trading day during such Pricing Period, subject to the qualifications listed below. The “Purchase Price” for shares acquired on a particular Purchase Date will be equal to 100% (subject to change as provided below) of the volume weighted average price, rounded to four decimal places, of our common shares as reported by NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market for the trading hours from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Eastern time (through and including the NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market closing print), for that Purchase Date. For example, if a cash investment of $1,000,000 is made pursuant to an approved Request for Waiver, and the Pricing Period consists of ten trading days, there would be ten separate investments, each for $100,000, beginning on the Pricing Period commencement date and continuing for ten trading days. The number of shares purchased for each Purchase Date would be calculated by dividing the proportionate amount of the approved waiver request amount, in this example $100,000, by the volume weighted average price as reported by NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market, rounded to four decimal places, for the trading hours from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Eastern time (through and including the NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market closing print), for that Purchase Date, less any Waiver Discount. Plan shares will not be available to Plan participants until the conclusion of each Pricing Period or investment, unless we activate the Continuous Settlement Feature (see below).

The Plan Agent will apply all optional cash purchases made pursuant to a Request for Waiver for which good funds are received on or before the first business day before the Pricing Period to the purchase of shares of Common Stock on each Purchase Date of the applicable Pricing Period.

Threshold Price. For any given Pricing Period, we may establish a minimum price, or “Threshold Price,” applicable to optional cash purchases made pursuant to a Request for Waiver. This determination will be made by us in our discretion after a review of current market conditions, the level of participation in the Plan, and current and projected capital needs.

If established for any Pricing Period, the Threshold Price will be stated as a dollar amount that the volume weighted average price, rounded to four decimal places, of our common shares as reported on the NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market for the trading hours from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Eastern time (through and including the NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market closing print), for each trading day of such Pricing Period (not adjusted for discounts, if any) must equal or exceed. Except as provided below, we will exclude from the Pricing Period any trading day that the volume weighted average price is less than the Threshold Price. We also will exclude from the Pricing Period and from the determination of the purchase price any day in which no trades of our common shares are made on the NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market. For example, if the Threshold Price is not met for two of the trading days in a 10 day Pricing Period, then we will return 20% of the funds you submitted in connection with your Request for Waiver unless we have activated the Pricing Period Extension Feature for the Pricing Period (described below).

Pricing Period Extension Feature. We may elect to activate for any particular Pricing Period the “Pricing Period Extension Feature,” which will provide that the initial Pricing Period will be extended by the number of days that the Threshold Price is not satisfied, or on which there are no trades of our common shares reported by NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market, subject to a maximum of five trading days. If we elect to activate the Pricing Period Extension Feature and the Threshold Price is satisfied for any additional day that has been added to the initial Pricing Period, that day will be included as one of the trading days for the Pricing Period in lieu of the day on which the Threshold Price was not met or trades of our common shares were not reported. For example, if the determined Pricing Period is 10 days, and the Threshold Price is not satisfied for three out of those 10 days in the initial Pricing Period, and we had previously announced at the time of the Request for Waiver acceptance that the Pricing Period Extension Feature was activated, then the Pricing Period will automatically be extended, and if the Threshold Price is satisfied on the next three trading days (or a subset thereof), then those three days (or a subset thereof) will become Purchase Dates in lieu of the three days on which the Threshold Price was not met. As a result, because there were 10 trading days during the initial and extended Pricing Period on which the Threshold Price was satisfied, all of the optional cash purchase will be invested.

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Continuous Settlement Feature. If we elect to activate the Continuous Settlement Feature, shares of Common Stock will be available to Plan Participants within three business days of each Purchase Date beginning on the first trading day in the applicable Pricing Period and ending on the final trading day in the applicable Pricing Period, with an equal amount being invested on each such day, subject to the qualifications set forth above. We may elect to activate the Continuous Settlement Feature at the time of the Request for Waiver form acceptance.

Return of Unsubscribed Funds. We will return a portion of each optional cash investment, provided the total optional cash investment is in excess of $10,000, for each trading day of a Pricing Period or extended Pricing Period, if applicable, for which the Threshold Price is not met or for each day in which no trades of our common shares are reported on the NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market, which we refer to as unsubscribed funds. Any unsubscribed funds will be returned within three business days after the last day of the Pricing Period, or if applicable, the extended Pricing Period, without interest. The amount returned will be based on the number of days on which the Threshold Price was not met compared to the number of days in the Pricing Period or extended Pricing Period. For example, the return amount in a 10 day Pricing Period will equal one-tenth (1/10) of the total amount of such optional cash investment (not just the amount exceeding $10,000) for each trading day that the Threshold Price is not met or for each trading day in which sales are not reported.

The establishment of the Threshold Price and the possible return of a portion of the investment apply only to optional cash investments in excess of $10,000. Setting a Threshold Price for a Pricing Period will not affect the setting of a Threshold Price for any other Pricing Period. We may waive our right to set a Threshold Price for any particular Pricing Period.

In any event, no interest will be paid on returned funds.

Waiver Discount. We may establish a discount from the market price applicable to optional cash investments in excess of $10,000 made pursuant to a Request for Waiver. This discount, which we also refer at as the “Waiver Discount,” may be between 0% and 10% of the purchase price and may vary for each Pricing Period and for each optional cash investment.

The Waiver Discount will be established at our sole discretion after a review of current market conditions, the level of participation in the Plan, the attractiveness of obtaining such additional funds through the sale of common shares as compared to other sources of funds, current and projected capital needs and other factors that we determine in our sole discretion. Setting a Waiver Discount for a particular Pricing Period shall not affect the setting of a Waiver Discount for any other Pricing Period. The Waiver Discount will apply only to optional cash investments of more than $10,000 (or other applicable maximum monthly amount). The Waiver Discount will apply to the entire optional cash investment and not just the portion of the optional cash investment that exceeds $10,000. A Pricing Period is the time period, in which we establish certain Waiver Discounts to be in effect with a specified discount amount.

The above restriction and Waiver Discount apply only to direct stock purchases. The dollar limitation of $10,000, the Waiver Discount and the approval of the “Request for Waiver” for amounts in excess of $10,000 do not apply to Unit purchases.

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No. The Company pays all fees, administrative and other expenses related to your Plan enrollment. However, you may incur certain charges for certain other transactions, requests or withdrawals under the Plan. However, Participants can be subject to an early withdrawal fee on direct stock purchases at a discounted price and would be responsible for any brokerage commissions attributable to any open market sale. 

Yes, if you are a Company employee, you have the additional option of purchasing shares through automatic payroll deductions. Employees who participate through the automatic payroll deduction option may open a Plan account simply by completing an Enrollment Form and returning it to Zion. Otherwise, the stock purchase plans are available on equal terms to all shareholders, new investors and Company employees.

MANDATORY BOOK-ENTRY SERVICES

All shares of Zion Oil’s Common Stock that are purchased through the Direct Stock Plan will be held by the Plan Agent and reflected in book-entry form in your account on the records of the Plan Agent. If you hold other Zion Common Stock certificates, you may also, at any time, deposit those certificates with the Plan Agent, but the shares represented by the deposited certificates will not be included in the book-entry form in your Plan account. Note: The certificates should not be endorsed and the assignment section should not be completed.

The Common Stock and Warrants purchased as part of a Unit will also be held in book-entry form with the Plan Agent, unless a Participant requests delivery of the certificates representing the Common Stock and/or Warrants in whole shares with a check representing fractional shares and/or warrants.

No. There is no cost to you either for having the Plan Agent hold the shares purchased for you through the Plan or for depositing with the Plan Agent the stock certificates you hold for the purpose of adding the shares to your book-entry share position. However, you may incur certain charges for certain other transactions, requests or withdrawals under the Plan.

Yes. Any shares withdrawn from the Plan Account within six (6) months after the date of purchase will be charged a withdrawal fee equal to the discount to the Market Price of the Publicly Traded Stock that you received when purchasing the shares being withdrawn, up to a maximum of the number of shares purchased at the discounted price. Shares cannot be transferred within the Plan or gifted without incurring the same withdrawal fee, whether by act of law or by voluntary transfer. The Participant is subject to the withdrawal fee at the time of withdrawal. The withdrawal fee will also apply to any purchases of shares made at the discounted price through automatic dividend reinvestment and employee payroll deductions (if applicable) during the six (6) month period before the date of withdrawal. The Participant must send in a check for the amount of the withdrawal fee for the applicable shares being withdrawn from the Plan, or, alternatively, the Plan Agent is authorized to sell sufficient whole shares equal to the withdrawal fee and remit the residual whole shares and cash in lieu of fractional shares to the requesting Participant.

The above provisions do not apply to shares of Common Stock and Warrants purchased as part of a Unit, along with any shares issuable upon exercise of a Warrant. Also, the above provision does not apply to any shares purchased without any discount to the Market Price of the Publicly Traded Stock, or purchased under a “Request for Waiver” program.

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PURCHASE OF UNITS

No. The Units are not tradable. The shares of Common Stock and Warrants are being sold as part of a Unit solely for convenience sake and immediately upon purchase the shares of Common Stock and Warrants are separable and may be traded separately.

Our common stock is currently traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol “ZN”. The Units are non-transferable and will not be traded. The Common Stock included in the Units will be listed for quotation on the NASDAQ Capital Market or any other exchange or securities market under the symbol “ZN”.

The Warrants included in the Units may be separately transferable following their issuance. The Warrants will become first exercisable on the 31^st day following any Unit Option Termination Date and continue to be exercisable through the expiration date at a fixed per share exercise price. The Warrants would not be exercisable prior to such date. We may file an application with NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market to list the Warrants on the NASDAQ Capital Market or any other exchange or securities market; however, no assurance can be provided that the warrants would be approved for listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market or any other exchange or securities market.

The shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants would be immediately tradable upon issuance and would be listed for quotation on the NASDAQ Capital Market or any other exchange or securities market under the symbol “ZN”, assuming that the registration statement, as amended, of which this Prospectus Supplement forms a part remains effective, and that our Common Stock is still listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market or any other exchange or securities market, at that time. Such registration statement, as amended, was declared effective by the SEC on December 11, 2019 and, therefore, expires on the third anniversary thereof, subsequent to a 180 day grace period. Such registration statement, as amended, is sometimes referred to herein as the “registration statement” or the “shelf registration statement.”

The Common Stock and Warrants purchased as part of a Unit will be held in book-entry form with the Plan Agent, unless a Participant requests delivery of the certificates representing the Common Stock in whole shares with a check representing fractional shares and/or Warrants.

OPTIONAL CASH PAYMENTS

As a Plan participant, you may (but are not required to) make optional cash payments at any time in our Common Stock in amounts of at least $50, subject to a limitation of $10,000, per month, subject to the “Request for Waiver” for amounts greater than $10,000 per month.

All optional cash payments will be invested in our Common Stock on the 25^th day of each calendar month and if such day falls on a holiday or a weekend, then on the next trading day. See Question 6. Interest will not be paid on funds held pending investment.

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Optional cash payments may be made by sending a personal check, drawn from a U.S. Bank in US Dollars, or by sending a bank wire in U.S. dollars, payable to “American Stock Transfer & Trust Co., LLC,” (“AST”) along with the Enrollment Form. AST can accept electronic enrollment and electronic bank payments in U.S. Dollars and international shareholders and investors can make payments in British Pounds, Euros, Swiss Francs, Israeli Shekels, or Canadian Dollars for DSPP purchases through the Company as coordinated with AST. Funds received in foreign currency will be recorded by AST in US Dollars based upon the New York Closing Foreign Exchange Rate (5:00 p.m. EST) on the Purchase Date as published online in the Wall Street Journal, Market Data Center under Currencies (www.wsj.com/mdc).

If you elect this option, your funds will be debited from your bank account on the 25^th day of each month (the “Purchase Date”). If the 25^th day of the month is a weekend or holiday, the debit date will be the next succeeding business day. The price at which shares will be deemed purchased and credited to the investor’s Plan account will be at the average of the daily averages of the high and low sale prices of the Company’s publicly traded Common Stock as reported on the NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market for the five trading day period ending on the Purchase Date (hereinafter the “Market Price of the Publicly Traded Stock”). You may change the amount of funds to be deducted or terminate an automatic monthly investment of funds by either accessing your account online (www.amstock.com) or by completing and submitting to AST a new automatic investment form.

No. You will not be charged any fees in connection with your optional cash payments. However, you may incur certain charges for certain other transactions, requests or withdrawals under the Plan.

If an optional cash payment is made by a check drawn on insufficient funds or incorrect draft information, or the Plan Agent otherwise does not receive the money, the requested purchase will be deemed void, and the Plan Agent will immediately remove from your account any shares already purchased upon the prior credit of such funds.

ISSUANCE OF STOCK CERTIFICATES

No. Stock certificates will not be issued for direct purchases of shares of Common Stock in a Plan account unless a specific request is made to the Plan Agent.

 Certificates for full shares held in the Plan may be obtained, without charge, by writing to the Plan Agent and requesting the issuance of shares in certificate form with the exception of the Withdrawal Fee in Question 18, if the Fee applies.

Certificates for fractional shares will not be issued under any circumstances.

No. Shares held in your Plan account may not be pledged or assigned. If you wish to pledge or assign your shares, you first must write to the Plan Agent and request the issuance of shares in certificate form, and pay any applicable withdrawal fees.

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GIFTS AND TRANSFERS OF SHARES

Yes. Subject to compliance with all applicable laws, you may transfer ownership of some or all of your Plan shares by sending the Plan Agent written, signed transfer instructions. You will be responsible for any applicable taxes in connection with the transfer.  However, a new or existing shareholder must sign an Enrollment Form in order to become a Plan Participant.

You may transfer shares to new or existing shareholders. The Participant will be responsible for any brokerage commissions, if there are any with any sales. If you are opening a new Plan account for the transferee, you must include a completed Enrollment Form with the gift/transfer instructions; however, a new Plan account will not be opened as a result of a transfer of fewer than ten (10) shares, unless you (i) authorize the reinvestment of dividends on the shares to be transferred and (ii) include an optional cash payment with your transfer instructions sufficient to purchase the remainder of the ten (10) shares required to enroll. The Plan Agent may charge the Participant a $15 fee for this transfer service, subject to any applicable Withdrawal Fee in Question 18.

CHANGING METHOD OF PARTICIPATION AND WITHDRAWAL

You may change your method of participation at any time by completing a new Enrollment Form and returning it to the Plan Agent.

You may terminate your participation in the Plan by giving written notice to the Plan Agent. Upon termination, you must elect either (a) to receive a certificate for the number of whole shares held in your Plan account and a check for the value of any fractional share (which value will be based on the closing market price on NASDAQ or any other exchange or securities market of the Common Stock on the first day that shares of Common Stock are traded after the withdrawal request is received); or (b) to have all of the shares in your Plan account sold for you. If you request that your shares be sold, the Plan Agent will make the sale in the market, if practicable, within ten (10) trading days after receipt of the request. You will receive the proceeds of sale, less any brokerage commission and transfer tax. Receipt by the Plan Agent of due notice of a participant’s death or incompetence shall be deemed a notice of withdrawal. Medallion Signature Guarantee is required for sale requests of $10,000 or higher. Because the Plan Agent will sell shares, on behalf of the Plan, neither the Company nor any participant under the Plan has the authority or power to control the timing or pricing of sales, or the selection of the broker dealer making the sales. Therefore, you will not be able to precisely time your sales through the Plan, and will bear the market risk associated with fluctuation in the price of the Company’s Common Stock. The price of the Common Stock could go up or down before the broker sells your shares. In addition, you will not earn interest on any cash proceeds generated by a sales transaction for your account.

Any certificates issued upon termination will be issued in the name or names in which the account is registered, unless otherwise instructed. If the certificate is to be issued in a name other than the name or names on your Plan account, your signature (and that of any co-owner) on the instructions or stock power must be “Medallion Guaranteed” by a financial institution participating in the Medallion Guarantee program. You will be responsible for any applicable taxes in connection with the transfer. No certificates will be issued for fractional shares. The Participant is responsible for any brokerage commissions.

The Plan Agent will process notices of withdrawal and send proceeds to you as soon as practicable, without interest. If a notice of withdrawal is received on or after an ex-dividend date but before the related dividend payment date, the withdrawal will be processed as described above and a separate dividend check will be mailed as soon as practicable following the payment date. Thereafter, cash dividends will be paid out to the shareholder and not reinvested in Company Common Stock.

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If a notice of withdrawal is received by the Plan Agent at least two (2) days prior to an optional cash payment purchase date, any optional cash payment held by the Plan Agent will be returned to you as soon as practicable.

Signatures of all registered holders must be “Medallion Guaranteed” by a financial institution participating in the Medallion Guarantee program for all sale requests. The Medallion Guarantee program ensures that the individual signing is in fact the owner as indicated on the participant’s account.

Participants may request the Plan Agent to sell shares in the open market online at www.amstock.com by acquiring a user ID and password from the Plan Agent, or they may fax or mail a written request to the Plan Agent at: American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, 6201 15^th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11219, (844) 699-6645 (Domestic), (718) 921-8205 (International).

Plan withdrawals made within six (6) months after a purchase at a discounted price described in the answer to Question 18 are subject to the withdrawal fee explained in that answer.

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If you are enrolled in the Plan as of an applicable “record date” for dividends, either all or part of the dividends on your shares (depending on which option you have chosen) will be used to purchase shares of Common Stock as of the applicable dividend payment dates.

The price of the Common Stock to be purchased under the Plan is addressed in Question 4 above.

No. You will not be charged any fees in connection with the reinvestment of your dividends under the Plan. However, you will incur certain charges for certain other transactions, requests or withdrawals under the Plan. 

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Certain federal income tax considerations of participation in the Plan are briefly summarized below under the caption “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations”. This summary is for general information only and does not constitute tax advice. The information in this section is based on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code, Treasury Regulations thereunder, current administrative interpretations and practices of the Internal Revenue Service, or the Service, and court decisions, all as of the date of this prospectus supplement. Future legislation, Treasury Regulations, administrative interpretations and practices or court decisions could significantly change the current law or adversely affect existing interpretations of current law. Any change could apply retroactively to transactions preceding the date of the change.

The tax consequences for participants who do not reside in the United States will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In the case of a foreign shareholder whose distributions arc subject to United States income tax withholding, the amount of the tax to be withheld will be deducted from the amount of the distribution and the balance will be reinvested. You are urged to consult your personal tax advisor to determine the particular tax consequences that may result from your participation in the Plan.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

IF YOU CHOOSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PLAN, YOU SHOULD RECOGNIZE THAT NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR THE PLAN AGENT CAN ASSURE YOU OF A PROFIT OR PROTECT YOU AGAINST A LOSS ON THE SHARES THAT YOU PURCHASE UNDER THE PLAN.

Neither the Company nor the Plan Agent, in administering the Plan, will be liable for any act done in good faith or for any good faith omission to act, including without limitation any claim of liability arising out of failure to terminate a participant’s account upon such participant’s death or incompetence, the price at which shares are purchased or sold for the participant’s account, the times when purchases or sales are made, or fluctuations in the market value of Company Common Stock. This limitation of liability will not constitute a waiver by any participant of his or her rights under the federal securities laws.

Although the Plan provides for the reinvestment of dividends, the declaration and payment of dividends will continue to be determined by the Board of Directors of the Company in its discretion, depending upon future earnings, the financial condition of the Company and other factors. The amount and timing of dividends may be changed, or the payment of dividends terminated, at any time without notice.

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More specifically, our forward-looking statements include, among others, statements relating to our schedule, business plan, targets, estimates or results of future drilling, including the number, timing and results of wells, the ability to obtain the necessary licenses and exploration rights, the timing and risk involved in drilling follow-up wells, planned expenditures, prospects budgeted and other future capital expenditures, risk profile of oil and gas exploration, acquisition of seismic data (including number, timing and size of projects), planned evaluation of prospects, probability of prospects having oil and natural gas, expected production or reserves, increases in reserves, acreage, working capital requirements, hedging activities, the ability of expected sources of liquidity to implement our business strategy, future hiring, future exploration activity, production rates, all and any other statements regarding future operations, financial results, business plans and cash needs and other statements that are not historical facts.

Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those relating to our dependence on our exploratory drilling activities, the volatility of oil and natural gas prices, operating risks of oil and natural gas operations, our dependence on our key personnel, factors that affect our ability to manage our growth and achieve our business strategy, risks relating to our limited operating history, technological changes, our significant capital requirements, the potential impact of government regulations, adverse regulatory determinations, litigation, competition, the uncertainty of reserve information and future net revenue estimates, property acquisition risks, industry partner issues, availability of equipment, weather and other factors detailed herein and in our other filings with the SEC.

We have based our forward-looking statements on our management’s beliefs and assumptions based on information available to our management at the time the statements are made. We caution you that assumptions, beliefs, expectations, intentions and projections about future events may and often do vary materially from actual results. Therefore, we cannot assure you that actual results will not differ materially from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements.

Some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied in forward-looking statements are described under “Risk Factors” in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus and described under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018 and in our other periodic reports filed with the SEC. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual outcomes may vary materially from those indicated. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by reference to these risks and uncertainties. You should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of the particular statement, and we undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statement.

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