Fresh from its latest failure to find commercially viable quantities of oil at its onshore Israel acreage, Biblically-inspired wildcatter Zion Oil plans to resume testing on 14 October. The controversial firm acknowledged on 16 August that lengthy testing of its Megiddo-Jezreel 1 well “cannot be considered commercially successful,” but called for more shareholder funding to enable further testing. Shareholders were sufficiently undeterred by Zion’s past failures and an ongoing SEC investigation to stump up enough cash for further testing. The firm announced on 27 September that it raised “$5.3mn in the current unit offering,” and that the new testing is expected to take “between six to nine weeks barring any unforeseen mechanical delays.”