Industry, Mozambique and Production

Syrah begins production of active anode material in Louisiana – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Syrah Resources , an industrial minerals and technology company, has become an integrated natural graphite active anode material (AAM) supplier outside China, processing natural graphite from Syrah’s Balama Graphite Operation in Mozambique.

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bp begins shipping LNG from Mozambique’s first LNG project and first FLNG platform

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

bp has successfully loaded the first LNG cargo from Mozambique’s offshore Coral Sul FLNG (floating liquefied natural gas) facility, the country’s first LNG project and first floating LNG facility deployed in the ultra-deep waters of the African continent. FLNG vessels are floating LNG production, storage and offloading units.

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Syrah Resources signs binding offtake agreement with Tesla for natural graphite active anode material

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Australia-based Syrah Resources Limited signed a binding offtake agreement with Tesla to supply natural graphite Active Anode Material (AAM) from its vertically integrated AAM production facility in Vidalia, Louisiana. Balama mine operation in Mozambique. Vidalia battery anode material project site.

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Syrah Resources completes BFS for expansion of US anode material production

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The BFS confirms that 10ktpa of AAM production can be achieved via expansion of the existing plant and infrastructure within Syrah’s existing 25-acre industrial site. Syrah intends to initially expand natural graphite AAM production capacity at Vidalia to 10ktpa, and then increase in line with growing market demand.

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PetroSA in talks with Mozambique for GTL plant; 70% diesel output

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2012

South African state-owned oil company PetroSA is in talks with Mozambique to develop a 40,000 barrels-per-day gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant there. The country’s total recoverable resources are seen at more than 100 trillion cubic feet, industry officials and analysts have said.

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Walkabout Resources’ Tanzanian graphite project moves to construction phase

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2021

The licences are within the highly prospective Mozambique belt, a region that hosts some of the world’s highest grade, coarse flake graphite deposits. Roskill notes that Lindi Jumbo is one of a number of Australian-backed flake graphite projects worldwide, many of which are focused on Africa.

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UTM Offshore signs FEED agreement for Nigeria’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The FLNG facility will have a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) nameplate production capacity of 1.2 The penetration of FNLG in Africa, which started in Cameroon and expanded to Angola and Mozambique and now to Senegal, Mauritania and Nigeria, highlights Africa’s commitment to unlocking the full exploitation of its gas resources.

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DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This project will expand Anovion’s existing manufacturing capacity in Sanborn, NY—notably the only qualified US source of battery-grade synthetic graphite commercially shipping product today. The project will build a new plant in Chattanooga to produce 30,000 metric tons per year of graphite targeted at the electric vehicle industry.

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ExxonMobil seeking to boost growth, continue work on lower-emissions technologies including biofuels and carbon capture

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2019

During the meeting, Woods highlighted progress on major upstream projects that are expected to help increase production to about 5 million oil-equivalent barrels per day by 2025. Those projects include plans to increase production in the Permian Basin to 1 million oil-equivalent barrels per day by 2024. —Darren Woods.

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Tesla agrees to purchase majority of battery-ready graphite from US facility

Teslarati

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Syrah’s Vidalia plant is expected to process graphite from Mozambique , effectively making it the first US-based source of graphite anodes. This should make the facility an important partner for companies such as Tesla, which have staked their future on the rapid growth of the electric vehicle sector and the battery industry.

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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

First, environmental plant closures in the raw material coal needle coke industry hampered the production of graphite electrodes. At the same time, consumption of graphite electrodes in electric arc furnaces (EAFs) began to rise as the Chinese government took steps to halt production of poor quality induction furnace steel.

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ExxonMobil evaluating significant near-term capital and operating expense reductions; COVID-19

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

ExxonMobil and its partners started production of oil at the Liza field in December 2019, less than five years after the first discovery of hydrocarbons and years ahead of industry average. Production in Guyana is expected to reach more than 750,000 gross barrels of oil per day by 2025.

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Syrah Resources successfully produces Li-ion battery grade spherical graphite; market numbers

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Australia-based Syrah Resources has successfully produced uncoated battery grade spherical graphite, using natural flake graphite from its Balama Graphite & Vanadium Project in Mozambique. Industrial Minerals estimates that it takes 2.5 tonnes of flake graphite on average to make one tonne of spherical graphite.

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More than 50 percent of MoUs signed in Vibrant Gujarat are green | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

The event was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and had the participation of several heads of state, including the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the Chief Guest and President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi of the Republic of Mozambique as a special guest. times more production and 2.7

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Petrobras sells sugar, ethanol and petrochemical assets for US$587 million

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The company has eight industrial units: seven in Brazil, in the state of São Paulo (Andrade, Cruz Alta, São José, Severínia, Mandu, Tanabi and Vertente mills, the last in a joint venture with the Humus Group, which owns 50%) and one in Africa, in Mozambique (Sena mill). billion in the period 2015-2016—below the US$15.1-billion

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Gravita India largest battery recycling firm enters into EV recycling business

Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 28, 2021

Industrial recycling of lithium-ion batteries is done mainly in the European Union and China. According to the International Energy Agency, 100-120 GWh of electric vehicle batteries will be retired by 2030, a volume roughly equivalent to current annual battery production. EV batteries are not yet recycled at scale.

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Tesla supplier sheds light on graphite supply challenge for EV battery manufacturers [Editorial]

Teslarati

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Syrah Resources is an Australian company that supplies Tesla from its mine in Mozambique, one of the largest graphite producers. . Only a handful of countries mine graphite and even fewer refine the mineral enough to be used in batteries and other products. After China, Brazil and Mozambique are the next largest graphite producers.

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Charged recently spoke with Graphex CEO John DeMaio, who gave us an explanation of graphite’s essential function, the current state of the industry, and some trends to watch for the future. It’s a petroleum product. Charged : As you know, supply chains are a hot topic in the industry these days.

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Report: Chinese Export Rule Changes Could Impact EV Battery Production

The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Starting this month, the Chinese government requires permits for certain graphite products being exported. It’s an essential component and China is responsible for about 66 percent of the world’s graphite production. & In terms of graphite production, no other nation comes close. Mozambique and Madagascar produce 13 and 8.5

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Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2020

According to a January 2020 report from the US Geological Survey (USGS), the DRC is the world’s leading source of mined cobalt, supplying approximately 70% of world cobalt mine production. With the exception of production in Morocco and artisanally mined cobalt in DRC, most cobalt is mined as a byproduct of copper or nickel.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If they have local demand for batteries cell manufacturers will move to the region to be close to their customers, particularly in the automotive industry. The DRC can truly become the regional and global center of gravity for the production of precursor materials for batteries to drive the fourth industrial revolution.

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Syrah begins production of active anode material in Louisiana – Charged EVs

bp begins shipping LNG from Mozambique’s first LNG project and first FLNG platform

Syrah Resources signs binding offtake agreement with Tesla for natural graphite active anode material

Syrah Resources completes BFS for expansion of US anode material production

PetroSA in talks with Mozambique for GTL plant; 70% diesel output

Walkabout Resources’ Tanzanian graphite project moves to construction phase

UTM Offshore signs FEED agreement for Nigeria’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility

DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

ExxonMobil seeking to boost growth, continue work on lower-emissions technologies including biofuels and carbon capture

Tesla agrees to purchase majority of battery-ready graphite from US facility

Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

ExxonMobil evaluating significant near-term capital and operating expense reductions; COVID-19

Syrah Resources successfully produces Li-ion battery grade spherical graphite; market numbers

More than 50 percent of MoUs signed in Vibrant Gujarat are green | Autocar Professional

Petrobras sells sugar, ethanol and petrochemical assets for US$587 million

Gravita India largest battery recycling firm enters into EV recycling business

Tesla supplier sheds light on graphite supply challenge for EV battery manufacturers [Editorial]

A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

Report: Chinese Export Rule Changes Could Impact EV Battery Production

Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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