Speaking at the 2013 Asean Council of Petroleum (Ascope) conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the executive director of the Petroleum Institute of Thailand, Siri Jirapongphan, noted that Thailand was already struggling to meet its current demand.

Last year the country produced an average of about 3.7 billion cubic feet of gas per day, however Jirapongphan said that Thailand currently used about 4.8