Why it's incredible: The lake contains huge amounts of explosive carbon dioxide and methane. Lake Kivu is a giant body of water that is so saturated with carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane at its ...

Gases from the lake will enter the gray stainless-steel tube to be separated. The volcanoes responsible for much of Kivu’s gas loom over Goma and its environs. In 2002, an eruption of Nyiragongo ...

The Ministry of Environment has announced that Rwandans will begin using methane gas for cooking in 2027, as part of a clean energy initiative aimed at reducing the reliance on firewood and ...

Lake Kivu is framed by imposing cliffs ... spewing a lethal cloud of gas that suffocated any humans and animals in its path. When Lake Nyos erupted in 1986, it asphyxiated nearly 2,000 people ...

KINSHASA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo has awarded licences to three natural gas blocks in Lake Kivu on its eastern border, with some production expected to start as early as ...

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 ...

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 ...

KINSHASA, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has received bids from nine qualifying companies for three gas blocks on Lake Kivu which it put up for auction on July 28, the ...

One year on, the little-known company won the rights to a gas block in Lake Kivu, which holds vast amounts of gases that threaten to explode into the air if improperly managed. Now, an investigation ...

Roughly 72 cubic miles (300 cubic kilometers) of CO2 and 14 cubic miles (60 cubic km) of methane sit at the bottom of Lake Kivu, Katsev said, which is also laced with hydrogen sulfide gas from the ...

Additionally, a technical report assessing the bid, dated Dec. 8 2022, appeared to have been altered in Alfajiri's favour, according to the documents and the sources. The documents do not show why ...