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Opinion: Can Argentina Capitalize On Its Vast Shale Reserves?

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Argentina, once a regional energy leader, is now better known for financial busts and bombastic politicians than hydrocarbons prospects. The question today is just how much Argentina is willing to change and how this plays into a low oil price environment that is already negatively impacting investment elsewhere.

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Start-Up MOBI LATAM partners with EnergyX to develop Bolivian domestic lithium battery supply chain

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Bolivia is lithium-rich; the USGS estimates identified lithium reserves in the country to be 21 million tons—ahead of Argentina and Chile, the other members of the “lithium triangle”. However, Bolivia is production-poor; Chile and Argentina are top global producers, but Bolivia has yet to produce the mineral in commercial quantities.

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Minerals used in electric cars: How much does the US import and from where?

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The source of the information is the International Energy Agency , so the data are applicable in general, and they are not specifically tailored to the cars made in the United States. The table below includes two sets of information. Argentina, Chile, China, Russia. Again, this information is from the US Geological Survey.

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Argentina’s YPF and Bridas, 50% owned by CNOOC, to invest $1.5B in Vaca Muerta shale oil development in Argentina

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Argentina state-owned energy company YPF and Bridas, an Argentina-based oil and gas company 50% owned by China National Offshore Oil Corporation, agreed to invest $1.5 Vaca Muerta is present in an area of 30,000 km 2 (7.4 million acres); of this area, YPF participates in 12,000 km 2 2 (3.0 million acres, or 40% of the total.

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BMW Group to source lithium from Livent

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Now, the company is broadening its supplier base and additionally sourcing lithium from Argentina, where the raw material is obtained from brine from salt lakes. View of the salt lake Salar del Hombre Muerto in northern Argentina. In this way, the company creates complete transparency over the origin and mining methods of the material.

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Mexico forms state-run company to mine lithium: Litio para Mexico

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million tons of identified lithium resources, ranking the country 10 th in the world behind Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, the US, Australia, China, Congo, Canada and Germany. In April 2022, Mexico amended its Mining Law to to reserve to the state the exclusive right to explore and exploit lithium. According to the USGS, Mexico has 1.7

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Argentina and Venezuela to cooperate in $2.2B 100,000 bpd extra-heavy oil joint venture in Orinoco Belt

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Argentina and Venezuela will form a joint venture targeting production of 100,000 barrels of extra-heavy oil per day in the Junin field area of the Orinoco Oil Belt. billion project will also include a refinery. The alliance coincided with the release of the Orinoco Belt to participation by foreign companies in 2005. billion barrels.

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