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JULY 9, 2018

Roskill Information Services forecasts that the lithium industry will need to add nearly 100kt of new lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) production per year by 2027 to keep up with demand driven by the global transition to electric vehicles. The shift to greater mineral production has been driven by several factors.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

One of the world’s legendary investors is upping his bet on Argentina’s shale oil and gas industry in a show of confidence for shale production in South America’s largest unconventional prize—and a big boost for both supermajors and smaller players making big waves in the heart of new discovery areas. Earlier post.].

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The first batch of the new Vito rolled off the production line at Daimler’s local joint venture Fujian Benz Automotive Co., This is another milestone of our ‘Mercedes-Benz Vans goes global’ growth strategy. The introduction in China completes its global launch. FBAC) in Fuzhou in August.

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Toyota Tsusho and Orocobre have been long-term partners in the development of the Salar de Olaroz Lithium Facility in Jujuy Province in northern Argentina, a lithium brine project, which was brought into successful production in 2014. The measured and indicated resource of 6.4

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Another milestone was establishing the first joint production facility COMPAS. Nissan and Daimler broke ground on the US$1-billion Aguascalientes, Mexico, plant in 2015, which will produce next-generation premium compact vehicles for Infiniti as of 2017 and for Mercedes-Benz starting in 2018.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

BASF broke ground for its new production plant for sodium methylate in Guaratinguetá, Brazil, its largest site in South America. Sodium methylate is an efficient and reliable catalyst for the production of biodiesel. It is the second BASF plant for this product, in addition to a plant in Ludwigshafen.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There may still be significant questions over issues such as land use and competition for feedstock supplies for traditional food and feed uses, but that won’t stop the global use of biofuels from more than doubling between 2009 and 2015.

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MARCH 8, 2015

The introduction of leaded gasoline in the 1920s initiated a period of unabated growth in the global emissions of Pb. While the lead isotope ratios agree with those in the rock of local mines (brown) prior to 1960, they correspond to those of urban air samples in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil (green) after 1960. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 14, 2016

Demand for lithium—the hottest commodity on the planet and the only commodity to show positive price movement in 2015—is poised to continue on its upward trajectory, becoming the world’s new gasoline and earning the moniker of “White Petroleum”. by James Stafford of Oilprice.com. Remember—this is one man, one company.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Global use of biofuels will more than double between 2009 and 2015 – that is the verdict of Hart Energy Publishing’s Global Biofuels Centre (see article ). It predicts 35 per cent growth in the US; 30 per cent growth in Brazil; and substantial increases in areas including the Asia-Pacific region, France, Germany and Argentina.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Liquid fuels production (OPEC crude and lease condensate, non-OPEC crude and lease condensate, and other) and consumption (by OECD and non-OECD regions) under three price cases in 2040. The Middle East OPEC member countries alone account for 90% of the total growth in projected OPEC crude and lease condensate production. Source: EIA.

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