A ‘Geologic Freak’ in Arkansas Is Big Oil’s New Lithium Bet

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The article describes a geological formation in Arkansas that has drawn major oil-company interest as a potential source of lithium. It connects the investment opportunity to accelerating electrification and volatile oil and gas markets, while noting the issue’s prominence at the COP climate conference.

The world is electrifying at an unprecedented pace, and it’s only going to keep speeding up. COP 31, the latest iteration of the United Nations’ annual climate conference, kicked off today in Antalya, Türkiye, and achieving 35 percent global electrification by 2035 is going to be one of the event’s most central agenda items. Until extremely recently, this target likely would have seemed overly ambitious, but experts say that a number of factors, including volatile oil and gas markets stemming from the war in Iran, paired…