GasMeth Energy Limited has injected an additional Rwf230 billion into its ongoing methane gas extraction and processing project on Lake Kivu, bringing the total investment to more than Rwf810 billion.

Construction of a laboratory that will monitor methane gas extraction and the ecological stability of Lake Kivu is expected to be complete in November this year, officials have said. ALSO READ: REMA ...

Nov 2 (Reuters) - A Canadian start-up run from a private home was chosen by Democratic Republic of Congo for a technically complex project to extract methane from the deep waters of a volatile lake, ...

LAKE KIVU, Congo -- The blue-green waters of Congo's Lake Kivu conceal a deadly invisible mixture that could trigger a fiery disaster or be a blessing in disguise for the 2 million people who live ...

Rwanda has signed a $400 million deal to produce bottled gas from Lake Kivu, which emits such dense clouds of methane it is known as one of Africa’s “Killer Lakes”. The project by Gasmeth Energy, ...

Residents living along the shores of Lake Kivu in central Africa have always appreciated – and feared – its power. In Swahili, the word mazuku, or “evil wind,” refers to pockets of deadly, odorless ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's oil ministry has called for bids to exploit reserves of methane gas at the bottom of Lake Kivu on its eastern border with Rwanda, the prime minister ...

Mountain gorillas and freshwater cichlids in the western branch of the East African rift valley depend on the same fragile surrounding—a thriving ecosystem around Lake Kivu. Natural hazards and a ...

This image shows the stratification of Lake Kivu, with its lower, warmer waters separated from its higher, cooler waters. D. Bouffard and A Wuest / AR Fluid Mechanics 2019 Lake Kivu is one of Africa’s ...

LAKE KIVU, Rwanda (Reuters) - Rwandans blame the "demons" of Lake Kivu for the deaths of fisherman and others who have occasionally disappeared on one of Africa's great expanses of water in the heart ...