{"id":38363,"date":"2018-10-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-may-cooperate-with-private-entities-in-the\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T19:39:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:39:05","slug":"rwanda-may-cooperate-with-private-entities-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-may-cooperate-with-private-entities-in-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda May Cooperate with Private Entities in the Search for Lake Kivu Petrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has conducted the first round of shallow drilling for geochemistry tests in the methane-gas-producing lake in the west of the country, according to Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board Chief Executive Officer Francis Gatare.<\/p>\n<p>After the ongoing second round of shallow-drilling tests, the state will decide whether to invite private investors to finance 2D or 3D seismic studies, Gatare said in an interview in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the right time, when we have removed risks from the exploration exercise, we will make it known to investors,\u201d he noted, adding that the government will have made a decision before the end of the year, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda is considering partnering with private oil and gas companies in the next phase of exploiting Lake Kivu natural resources, the country\u2019s Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board has announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38363"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38363"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}