Al parecer, la empresa petrolera estadounidense ExxonMobil se est\u00e1 involucrando en la extracci\u00f3n de litio. Seg\u00fan informaciones de medios de comunicaci\u00f3n estadounidenses, el gigante petrolero ha adquirido derechos de perforaci\u00f3n para una zona del estado norteamericano de Arkansas en la que se sospecha que existen grandes yacimientos de litio.<\/p>\n
Seg\u00fan la Wall Street Journal<\/em>, ExxonMobil ha invertido 100 millones de d\u00f3lares (equivalentes a 93 millones de euros) en la adquisici\u00f3n de derechos de perforaci\u00f3n a la empresa de exploraci\u00f3n Galvanic Energy para una superficie de unas 48,5 hect\u00e1reas en el sur de Arkansas.<\/p>\n La inversi\u00f3n de ExxonMobil en la extracci\u00f3n de litio es muy peque\u00f1a en comparaci\u00f3n con los beneficios de $56.000 millones que obtuvo la empresa el a\u00f1o pasado. Aun as\u00ed, indica que la empresa se est\u00e1 preparando para un futuro de disminuci\u00f3n de los beneficios del negocio del petr\u00f3leo.<\/p>\n Citando a personas con informaci\u00f3n privilegiada, el Wall Street Journal<\/em> informa de que ExxonMobil se plantear\u00eda ampliar sus operaciones de extracci\u00f3n de litio si la regi\u00f3n de Arkansas resulta rentable. Galvanic, con sede en Oklahoma City, estima que la zona contiene 4 millones de toneladas de carbonato de litio equivalente (LCE), lo que, seg\u00fan afirma, es suficiente para fabricar 50 millones de veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos. Galvanic tambi\u00e9n informa de que los pozos de prueba completados recientemente mostraron un nivel medio de LCE de 325 mg\/l, que seg\u00fan dice es la concentraci\u00f3n m\u00e1s alta de cualquier dep\u00f3sito de salmuera de litio en Norteam\u00e9rica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Al parecer, la compa\u00f1\u00eda petrolera estadounidense ExxonMobil se est\u00e1 involucrando en la extracci\u00f3n de litio. Seg\u00fan informaciones de medios de comunicaci\u00f3n estadounidenses, el gigante petrolero ha adquirido derechos de perforaci\u00f3n<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":197633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[15524,24529,10230,13682,9956,28175,6903,28176,28177,28178,4391,13169,13946,609],"class_list":["post-197680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-alberta","tag-arkansas","tag-batteries","tag-battery-cells","tag-canada","tag-e3","tag-exxonmobil","tag-galvanic-energy","tag-imperial-oil","tag-leduc","tag-lithium","tag-raw-materials","tag-suppliers","tag-usa"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" ExxonMobil is also said to already be involved in another lithium project through its subsidiary Imperial Oil Ltd. The Journal of Petroleum Technology reports that Imperial, together with metals company E3, will start up a lithium pilot plant at the Leduc oil and gas field in Alberta, Canada, later this year. Apparently, three test wells have been drilled so far as part of the partly government-funded project, which is said to have yielded a lithium concentration of 75 mg\/L for the reservoir.<\/p>\n ExxonMobil has not made these activities public through its press office. In 2016, Greenpeace published documents showing how ExxonMobil was lobbying the British government and governments in the EU against the introduction of electric cars. In 2019, company CEO Darren Woods told an oil and gas industry meeting that he didn’t understand the point of electric vehicles. Three years later, however, his verdict was quite different: Woods told CNBC<\/em> last year that he believes electric cars could make up the entire new car market by 2040.<\/p>\n wsj.com<\/a> (paywall), qz.com<\/a>, gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}