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In his interview Ian Price mentioned the interim results due soon, do we have an date when these are expected?

Shares currently down 4%

It all depends whether this is short term or long term. To get full value from HH it means staying around to pump the oil for the next 20 years (projected reserve life), this was never going to be Solo's role and certainly not what the investors wanted. Solo is an investment company whose job it is to buy assets and then sell at a profit (see any of Kejoklo's 700+ droning posts). They have done the first of these and now have some very useful cash.
I detailed the cashflow prospects in previous posts, HH was interesting but Ruvuma is where the real money is and that is where we invest to maximise our revenue.

Not too many would argue with that DPLSOLO!

Jay is saying KN1 back in production really quickly and at very low cost.

I think this is more accurate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQhhGwR4TZo

I thinks it's reasonably clear, real world buy is 2.27 and sell is 2.16 a spread of 0.11. The MMs have a wide spread to make money so if DPLSOLO is offering 2.25 that is below their Ask. I suspect your 840,000 order is part filled and you have hoovered up the shares sold at 2.21 and 2.22 earlier today.

Interesting figures Sky-Rider particularly the Stabilised Dry Oil Rate of 1688 bopd. If they get close to these sort of figures that would mean $3 million per year for SOLO and with reserves of 10 million barrels.

I firmly believe if a $50 million deal was on offer it would have been taken long ago, in full or in part. We need our four live assets to be earning, KN1 is waiting on the TPDC but should generate $1 million per year. HH should generate $2-3 million per year by mid 2019 and possibly a lot more, H1 is still 2 years off but offers promise. Which brings us back to Ruvuma. If you speak to Solo board members they express an opinion that $12 million per year is the bare minimum from CH1 and it will be productive by late 2019. They also cast doubt on the investment figures in the AEX farm out documents but as Crusty has pointed out any finance option has to be for multiple drills. Ruvuma is where the money is and I would happily sacrifice other assets if necessary to maximise our investment there.

Looking at the charts for this stock the volume shows how the big increase is in how much it is actually traded. Back in Feb the average week saw around 20 million shares traded and the price was relatively static. Even the three months decline to May when the price decreased from 2p to sub 0.5p saw a relatively modest increase in traffic. Since then volumes have increased massively and the last time significant operational news was announced on the 14th June the price doubled on nearly 230 million trades in one day.
The last three months the share price has actually tripled at trading volume on average of around 100 to 150 million per week. Even in sleepy August it is still double the Feb average. Come September people will be back from holiday and I expect volume to be back to well over the 100 million a week level.
It may be the case that some who bought at sub 1p are top slicing or cashing in, profit is profit and no criticism there. On these volumes some day to day volitivity is to be expected and a daily trading pattern does seem to be emerging. The test however, will be if there is significant news on orders when I would expect to see a sharp response in both the volume and share price.

Jan 2020 is now in effect 15 months away and Neil was pretty clear at the AGM that the he thinks the flow from CH1 will be much higher than 40 mcf / day. The SOLO bod also would like to see a thorough costing of the work planned at Ruvuma, all discussed at the AGM.
In the meanwhile we need to KN1 and HH producing to cover our day to day expenditure and generate some spare cash.

Time Trade Price Volume Value
14:43:52 1.1275 43,380 489.11
14:41:36 1.1294 16,256 183.60
14:39:32 1.1294 43,395 490.10
14:38:25 1.1292 177,116 2,000
14:37:30 1.13 470,000 5,311
14:30:52 1.0975 224,633 2,465
14:28:34 1.0875 90,315 982.18
14:28:14 1.0875 100,008 1,088
14:26:24 1.10 50,000 550.00
14:21:34 1.0999 252,848 2,781
14:20:39 1.11 225,225 2,500
14:18:47 1.13 60,000 678.00
14:18:46 1.13 130,903 1,479
14:16:53 1.16 17,536 203.42
14:11:14 1.1504 107,610 1,238
14:09:17 1.1504 96,643 1,112
14:07:40 1.1504 143,116 1,646
14:00:55 1.16 101,351 1,176

From what I learnt at the AGM yesterday, on a month by month basis we will be earning cash not spending it in 2019. KN1 will be fixed (currently waiting on TPDC) and HH will be in production.
We still have the issue of financing Ruvuma but Alistair and Dan were clear on this, no cash calls are expected this year and when they are as ever all options will be on the table (bank loans, dilution, open offer, farm out, sale). The rewards however are spectacular and likely to be a lot more than the $12 million a year suggested by the AEX farm out document.

I was there today and Alistair seems far more a hard headed businessman than Neil so positive for the future. The money they have raised today is to clear the $1.5 million we already owe on the loan facility and have cash in the bank for the expected cash calls later this year.
It is clear TPDC is ruling the roost in Tanzania so that is why KN1 isn't fixed and the Aminex farm-out absolutely had to happen. None of the board believe CH1 will drill this year (ARA don't take over until Nov) and Neil was adamant that for the EPS 40 mcf/day is an absolute minimum and he believes it will be much higher.
With KN1 and HH we should be in a monthly cash positive position in 2019 then its about raising the cash to exploit Ruvuma.

This is the most significant question, how many of the 300 million shares are coming on the market and when.

Nobody can call this share dull but I am getting a sense of Déjà vu from last week. Long term is good but there is a strong focus on the short term here and until that RNS arrives nobody knows nothing. There appear two options more delay / alternative funding or the deal as agreed on the 5th July. If it’s the former and that is what Ebioss appear to want then the questions are who, when, how much and what terms. If it’s the latter the terms are clear but I would like some steer from the lenders on their intention on the 192 million shares, holding, selling, percentages etc…..

The L2 is burning up and all the MM shares are gone.
My buy at 1.26p this morning is looking good.

Post the agreement between EBIOSS and BTG the share price went up well over 50% because this provided addition capital to the group. This loan deal has been in place for a month and represents a dilution of nearly 13% at a horrendous price of 0.6p and was not in my opinion to the great benefit of the company or the PIs. It was a "we need money, where can we get it at any cost" move.
From the final paragraph of the RNS. "The standstill has been arranged to facilitate further discussions with EBIOSS .... following .... the signing of an agreement .... which includes BTC providing additional funding to EBIOSS." They could not be more clearer, they now have other money and don't need this frankly very expensive loan.
The RNS therefore could not be more positive. I have taken advantage of the selling to buy more even if it has raised my average slightly (my previous was below a penny). they have to do something by Friday and I expect funding news to come out of EBIOSS that is better than what is already on the table.

They clearly would prefer to repay the £1.15 million than issue 191,666,667 new ordinary shares at a price of 0.6 pence per share

Hi StoneFold another great analysis I would only question your "near to production" value estimate of £100 million. The UKOG market cap is already £120 million and I would say a lot of that is HH. As I understand it the reserves are estimated an order of magnitude higher than that but we should know much more when the highly anticipated basin-wide study is published in August.