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Tesla is starting to hire for its new lithium refinery, which Elon Musk referred to as a “license to print money” in Corpus Christi, Texas. In September 2022, we learned that Tesla has a plan to build a lithium refining facility on the Gulf Coast of Texas. At the time, we knew very little about the project other than Tesla was planning on moving fast with hope to start building in Q4 2022. A few months later, Tesla officially submitted the proposal for a project in Robstown, Texas, 25…

Gov. Jared Polis is temporarily lifting regulations on the trucking industry to alleviate potential gas shortages and price increases after Suncor Energy announced it was shutting down its Colorado refinery until further notice following a series of malfunctions related to cold weather. Polis issued an emergency declaration over the weekend to allow truck drivers carrying gasoline in Colorado to work longer hours and to allow heavier loads of fuel to be transported on the state’s interstates and highways. The Commerce…

The Suncor Energy oil refinery will remain shut down for the next several months after equipment at the sprawling plant in Commerce City was damaged by last week’s “extreme and record-setting weather,” according to a press release issued by the company. “Consistent with our operational excellence and safe operating practice, on Dec. 24 it was determined that the entire facility would be shut down and put into safe mode to allow for the inspection of all units and repair of the damaged equipment,” the statement read. “The…

Tesla is currently working on a lithium refinery project that would be coming to Corpus Christi, Texas, and it sounds like the automaker is in the final stretch of its negotiations with the authorities. In September, we learned that Tesla has a plan to build a lithium refining facility on the Gulf Coast of Texas. At the time, we knew very little about the project other than Tesla was planning on moving fast with hope to start building in Q4 2022. Now it looks like Tesla is in the last…

A lithium-ion battery photographed at a Volkswagen facility in Germany. Lithium-ion batteries are crucial components in electric vehicles.Jan Woitas | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesLONDON — A facility described as the U.K.'s "first large-scale lithium refinery" will be located in the north of England, with those behind the project hoping its output will hit roughly 50,000 metric tons each year once up and running.On Monday, a statement released by Green Lithium on the website of the London Stock Exchange said…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has signed an agreement with Daewoo Group of South Korea for the rehabilitation of the Kaduna Refinery, the government said Thursday. A spokesperson for President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement that the agreement was signed on the sidelines of the 2022 World Bio Summit on Thursday in Seoul, South Korea. Mr Buhari is attending the summit. The 110,000 bpd-capacity Kaduna Refinery is one of Nigeria’s four dysfunctional refineries that have produced no fuel for…

The Nigerian government last month gave its word the country’s biggest crude refinery in Port Harcourt will restart operation from an outage this December, after it would have completed a revamp that began over a year ago. “As we said earlier, the old refinery in Port Harcourt, which is about 60,000 barrels per day capacity, will be functional by December and, of course, we still have some time in the contracting time to conclude the rest of the Port Harcourt Refineries,” Junior Oil Minister Timipre Sylva said…

BP BP -0.11% PLC said two employees have died after suffering injuries in a fire at its Husky Toledo Refinery in Ohio. The London-based oil company said Wednesday that it had shut down the refinery, which it operates. It owns a 50% stake in the facility. BP said the fire was extinguished at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday night local time, and that all other employees had been accounted for. The company didn’t identify the two employees…

The Nigerian government on Wednesday said the country’s biggest refinery will become functional by December. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, disclosed this while briefing journalists after the federal executive council meeting held Wednesday. The 60,000 barrels per day Port Harcourt Refinery was shut in March 2019 for the first phase of repair works after the government secured the service of Italy’s Maire Tecnimont to handle the scoping of the refinery complex, with oil major Eni…

Tesla Inc. TSLA 3.60% is looking into constructing a battery-grade lithium hydroxide refining facility that could support its electric-vehicle battery production. The car maker said in a form to the Texas Comptroller’s Office that it is looking to construct a plant with access to the Gulf Coast shipping channel, and is considering potential sites in Texas and Louisiana. Tesla said that it was still evaluating the…