New Energy

Congo Picks Symbion to Tap Methane-Filled Lake

  • New York’s Symbion plans $300 million Makelele block project
  • Three North American companies win gas bids, oil minister says

Lake Kivu

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New York’s Symbion Power won a bid to produce electricity from methane trapped in a lake in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s oil minister Didier Budimbu Ntubuanga told Bloomberg.