Vanoil preps Rwanda shoot

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Getting to work in Rwanda: Vanoil readies 2D shoot.

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Noah Brenner

 23 April 2010 18:38 GMT

Canadian explorer Vanoil will start a marine seismic survey for oil on Rwanda’s Lake Kivu in June, an official with the Ministry of Infrastructure said today.



Teta Bahunde, the officer in charge of oil and gas, told Reuters that Vanoil, which has an understanding with Rwanda’s government to enter a production sharing agreement in six months, planned to spend $600,000 on the 2D survey.

“We are still not sure if there is oil but we have reason to believe it is there,” Bahunde said in a Reuters report.

“The common origin of Lake Kivu with Lake Edward, Lake George and Lake Albert presupposes a similar sedimentary in-fill and therefore makes Lake Kivu an ideal basin to explore.”

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