Issue of Equity and TVR

RNS Number : 5439G

Solo Oil Plc

29 June 2012

 



For Immediate Release

29 June 2012

Solo Oil plc

('Solo' or 'the Company')

Issue of Equity and TVR

Solo today announces that it has accessed £300,000 from the three year £10 million Equity Line Facility with Dutchess Opportunity Cayman Fund Ltd to continue funding the developments and current flow testing programme at the Ntorya-1 discovery well in Tanzania. Solo holds a 25% working interest in the Ruvuma PSA.

Neil Ritson, Solo Chief Executive Director, commented;

"The excellent results from the testing at Ntorya-1 confirm our view that the Ruvuma PSA has very considerable potential for both commercial gas and possibly oil production.  Additional working capital is required, although the bulk of the funding for the future programme is planned to come from a farm-down."

Solo has issued and allotted 66,666,667 new Ordinary Shares of 0.01 p each at a price of 0.45p pursuant to the drawdown.  An Application will be made for the new ordinary shares to be admitted to trading on the AIM Market. The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares in the Company and trading of these shares on AIM is expected to commence on the 6 July 2012.

Following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 2,687,500,023 Ordinary Shares with a nominal value of 0.01p each, with voting rights ("Ordinary Shares"), and 265,324,634 deferred shares of 0.69p each. The deferred shares are non-voting, are not admitted to trading on AIM and are not entitled to any participation in the profits or the assets of the Company. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury. Therefore the total number of Ordinary Shares in the Company with voting rights is 2,687,500,023.

The above figure of 2,687,500,023 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Service Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information:

Solo Oil plc David Lenigas Neil Ritson	[phone]
Beaumont Cornish Limited Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker Roland Cornish	[phone]
Old Park Lane Capital Plc Joint Broker Michael Parnes Luca Tenuta Shore Capital Joint Broker Pascal Keane Jerry Keen (Corporate Broker) Pelham Bell Pottinger                            Public Relations Mark Antelme  Henry Lerwill	[phone] [phone] [phone]

 

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