DRC: call for tenders for 3 gas blocks, the counting of the bids set for this Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Initially scheduled at the address of the Technical Secretariat of the ad hoc Commission at 10:00 a.m., the public session for examining the bids of bidders for the call for tenders for three gas blocks in Lake Kivu will finally take place on the same day, i.e. on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 in the Salonga room of the Pullman hotel in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
This clarification was provided by the Congolese Minister of Hydrocarbons, Didier Budimbu, in a press release published on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.
“The Ministry of Hydrocarbons informs the companies having submitted their applications as well as any interested person that in accordance with the notice of expression of interest N ° 001 / AMI / BG-LACKIVU / COM-ADHOC / BDN / MIN -HYDRO relating to the three gas blocks of Lake Kivu, published on July 28, 2022, the public session for the examination of the bids for Wednesday, October 12, 2022, which was initially scheduled to be held at the address of the Technical Secretariat of the ad hoc Commission at 10 a.m. sharp will finally take place in the Salonga room of the Pullman hotel in Kinshasa at 12 p.m. sharp, local time. “, can we read in this press release.
Through this tender operation, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is making available to investors 66 billion normal cubic meters of gas located in Lake Kivu.