GOVT TO SIGN OIL, GAS CONTRACTS

Jakarta, Nov 30 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government will sign at least nine contracts of work, which consist of four oil and gas, and five coal bed methane/CBM contracts, here on Monday.

In the signing of the contracts which will be attended by Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Darwin Zahedy, the government will be represented by the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (BP Migas).

The contracts between BP Migas and the contractors will be signed on Monday at 1.30 pm. The signing of the contracts is one of the items of the minister's program in his first 100 days in office.

The oil blocks whose contracts would be signed are Blok Sula I, Blora Block, North Makassar Strait Block and Langgak Block. While the CBM contracts included Block Barito, Muara Enim Block and Batang Asin Block.