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Symbion Power hopes to trailblaze methane exploitation in DRC from 2024

A methane extraction platform at Lake Kivu, Gisenyi, Rwanda, April 2016. © Pablo Porciuncula/AFP

The US firm and Kinshasa are currently in negotiations over the exploitation of methane in Lake Kivu to produce electricity. Symbion Power expects to start operations soon, despite no such project having been successfully implemented in the DRC to date. [...]

Published on 07/02/2023 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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