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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

Cars That Think

The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, when she interned at Arkansas Nuclear One.

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Major spill from the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline in Arkansas

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Approximately 4,500 barrels of oil and water (189,000 gallons US) have been recovered. According to a company spokesperson, the pipeline was carrying Canadian Wabasca Heavy crude at the time of the spill. According to a company spokesperson, the pipeline was carrying Canadian Wabasca Heavy crude at the time of the spill.

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Galvanic, IBAT testing proves Smackover brine is DLE compatible

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I’ve written here in the past about my company’s Smackover prospect in southwest Arkansas. That’s when our companies teamed up to put IBAT’s plant, and Smackover brine, to the test. Of the fresh water used, 94% of it was recaptured and recycled, thus minimizing its consumption.

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Albemarle expands Nevada site to increase domestic production of lithium

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Beginning in 2021, the company plans to invest $30 million to $50 million to double the current production at the Nevada site by 2025, making full use of its brine water rights.

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The US’s largest battery-grade lithium refinery will be in Oklahoma

Baua Electric

It will use Port Muskogee on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System to ship lithium brine water to the refinery, where it will derive the lithium, and then use the same inland waterway system to ship battery-grade lithium out. The company currently expects to break ground in the first half of 2024.

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UI, ExxonMobil study finds where bioenergy crops would grow best while minimizing detrimental effects on aquatic ecosystems

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A team from the University of Illinois, Urbana and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) has identified regions in the United States where bioenergy crops would grow best while minimizing effects on water quantity and quality. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Click to enlarge.

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GM leaps ahead in lithium mining race, secures next-gen extraction deal

Teslarati

This has pushed many, including GM, further down its supply chain, buying up companies and securing supplies for the future. GM has already invested in countless extraction companies and their subsequent mining projects, primarily focusing on lithium, but today’s investment is distinct from all the rest.

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