lithium

This paper explores the development of direct-lithium-extraction technologies designed to recover lithium from unconventional feedstocks.

SPE’s newest technical community, the Critical Minerals Technical Section, aims to connect petroleum expertise with emerging opportunities to extract lithium, rare earth elements, and other critical minerals from subsurface reservoirs and industrial brines.

This paper demonstrates that high-purity salts of calcium, magnesium, strontium, sodium, and lithium can be recovered from produced-water brine using a chemical-reaction pathway followed by vacuum-driven crystallization and a lithium-extraction process.

Smackover Lithium, an Equinor joint venture, will drill new wells on the Franklin project to get a better understanding of its brine makeup and lithium potential.

This paper details the formulation and characterization of a novel nanoparticle system composed of polyethyleneimine and dextran sulfate for direct lithium extraction from bulk oilfield brines in North America.

Big oil companies are backing direct lithium extraction while the market flashes warning signs.

The supermajor follows other oil companies including ExxonMobil, Equinor, and Occidental Petroleum in the hunt to bolster US supplies of lithium.

The drilling contractor is spending big to deploy natural-gas-powered microgrids and battery storage.

The proposed facility would be used to accelerate innovations in lithium extraction, carbon storage, and geothermal energy in addition to oil and gas technologies.

The USGS has said up to 19 million tons of lithium resource is contained in the briny waters of the Smackover formation in Arkansas.