Lake Kivu is a giant body of water that is so saturated with carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane at its depths it could explode without warning. Two other lakes in Africa have a similarly deadly ...

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 ...

Rwanda already extracts methane gas from Lake Kivu and has been carrying out tests and exploratory digs for more than a decade. It has continued to hold discussions on exploration with DRC despite ...

They resumed after Canada-based Black Swan Energy identified parts of Eastern Kivu as promising for oil and gas production. The presence of methane gas in Lake Kivu, often found alongside oil ...