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Gulf oil giants Saudi Aramco, Adnoc set sights on lithium – ET Auto

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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ national oil companies plan to extract lithium from brine in their oilfields, in line with efforts to diversify their economies and profit from the shift to electric vehicles (EVs), three sources told Reuters.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Energy is the foundation of Russia, its economy, its government, and its political system. They pose an existential threat to the industry and therefore to the Russian economy: The revenues Russia can earn from its crude and natural gas exports face intense pressure. The emergence of the U.S., This has transformed the U.S. Wary of U.S.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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In practice, the call for a change is a call for Saudi Arabia and Russia, the two dominant global crude exporters, which each daily export over seven-plus mmbbls (including condensates and NGLs) and which each see the other as the key to any "balancing" moves, to bear the brunt of any production cuts. percent year-over-year, up from 2.3

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Global billionaires unite in “Breakthrough energy coalition” to support development of zero-carbon energy

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As the UN climate conference COP21 opened in Paris, Bill Gates announced the formation of the “ Breakthrough energy coalition ”, an investment grouping of global billionaires focused on developing the technologies that will create a new zero-carbon energy mix. —Breakthrough energy coalition. Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon, US.

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Tesla unlikely to build new factories for ‘one or two years’: report

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He gives a very clear message about what happened to the global economy, and concern also about the overcapacity today,” Pandjaitan said during the September 6 conference. “So Additionally, reports said that Tesla was in talks with Saudi Arabia about building a Gigafactory, though Musk later denied the claims.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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Just last year, a half dozen precisely targeted malicious drones managed to slow oil production in Saudi Arabia for days, and more recently, several low-cost drones caused significant damage to oil tankers in the UAE. In 2017 IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), pp. IEEE, 2017.

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Battery metal price plunge is closing mines and stalling deals – ET Auto

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And while most crucial battery markets are now in surplus, shortages are already forecast toward the end of the decade as the greening of the economy accelerates. Building new mines takes years and sometimes decades, and stalled projects can often be hard to restart.

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