Rwanda: CNG project from Lake Kivu methane

The government signed an agreement on 1 February with Gasmeth Energy Ltd to extract and process methane gas from Lake Kivu for a compressed natural gas (CNG) project.Gasmeth plans to finance, construct and maintain a gas extraction, processing and compression project including a gas extraction plant on Lake Kivu. The company will extract and separate methane gas from the lake’s water and transport it to an onshore plant for processing.