Thailand’s post-coup interim government will unveil the winners of the latest round of gas and oil concessions next month and is considering incentives to woo investors to older fields, the energy minister said.

Piyasvasti Amranand told a business seminar he expected the cabinet to approve all pending lists of winners for the onshore and offshore oil and gas blocks – several of which had been approved by the previous government -- by end-December.
“I believe we will be able to clear them up by the end of this year and these concessions will cover many areas of the country, northeast, north as well as acreages in the Andaman Sea,” he said.
Krairit Nilkuha, head of the Department of Mineral Fuels, said bidding, opened in July 2005, drew applications for 25 of 82 blocks.