Djibouti: Kuwait to fund geothermal scheme


Issue 351 - 28 Jul 2017 | 1 minute read

The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development has signed an agreement to provide a $27m loan to develop the Gale-Le-Koma geothermal project in the Lake Assal region. The project involves the drilling of ten wells (eight production boreholes and two reinjection boreholes) and development of a 15MW geothermal power plant, with a target completion date of 2021.The agreement was signed with the Office Djiboutien de Développement de l’Energie Géothermique (ODDEG), which has carried out preliminary drilling and confirmed a geothermal reservoir at the site.

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