It is on the east side of the RN5 Boulevard Melchior Ndadaye opposite the Brarudi Brewery and the Port of Bujumbura on Lake Tanganyika.

[1] In 2010 the state-owned water and power company Regideso Burundi signed a contract with Interpetrol to supply 10 MW for six months.

It was expected that the 30MW plant would be ready by September 2017, and Regideso would no longer have to practice "load shedding" power cuts.

[3] In April 2018 the Director General of Interpetrol Burundi threatened to suspend production, since Regideso had failed to make payments on schedule.

Other complaints were that the tax administration was not respecting exemptions for spare parts and equipment, and the Bank of the Republic of Burundi (BRB) was not releasing dollars for Interpetrol to pay suppliers.