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Lithium production in South Arkansas will be the focus of a two-day conference next week in Little Rock.

Traditional oil, gas and wastewater players join chemical manufacturers and North American lithium pure-play companies to lift production of the critical material.

Two major energy companies are about to step on the accelerator toward a new future, and the fuel under the hood is from right here in Arkansas.

Exxon Mobil is drilling about 10,000 ft deep in the Smackover Formation to tap into the lithium market, eyeing first production in 2027.

Commercializing lithium should be natural for the Natural State, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said last week as Exxon Mobil Corp. announced the start of major brine operations in south Arkansas.

The project involves drilling vertical wells into a deep underground saltwater resource called the Smackover in Southeastern Arkansas.

Exxon Lithium: Exxons expansion into the sector will rely on one or more of a so-far unproven fleet of direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies that Eramet, Sunresin, Rio Tinto and others are working to commercialize.

Exxon Mobil has yet to decide which lithium filtration technology it will deploy as part of its aggressive plans to become one of the worlds top producers of the metal used to make electric vehicle...

ExxonMobil confirmed on Monday that it is drilling wells for lithium-bearing brine in Columbia and Lafayette counties. It also plans to construct by 2027 a lithium production facility in the

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