DR Congo/Rwanda: French expert appointed for Lake Kivu scheme


Issue 343 - 31 Mar 2017 | 2 minute read

Lake Kivu methane specialist Michel Halbwachs has taken on a new methane to power project in Democratic Republic of Congo, with a new company, Limnological Engineering. Halbwachs, whose Rwandan project collapsed following an intellectual property dispute between his former company, Data Environnement, and Rwanda Investment Group, has been recruited by a consortium that was awarded a block on the Congolese side of Lake Kivu last year. The consortium is made up of Tunisia’s Engineering Procurement and Project Management (EPPM), Swede Energy DRC and Kenya’s Transcentury Ltd.

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