It was an important step for the company; apart from anything else Coastal has achieved some meaningful cash flow. But Coastal, which has had some gas production in Thailand for some time, said it wanted to go for the bigger prize of oil. Having achieved this the question is where does it go from here.

Coastal will be presenting at the next oilbarre.com conference on September 15. Doubtless delegates will be told the company’s plans then. The meeting is at T