From Black Gold to White Oil: Saudi Arabia’s Race to Control the Battery Midstream
As the global energy transition accelerates, control over lithium processing has become the true source of power in the battery economy. Saudi Arabia is responding by anchoring domestic refining in Yanbu, extracting lithium from oilfield brines, and securing global supply through sovereign capital. The result is a coordinated strategy to control the battery midstream, where value, resilience, and industrial leverage converge.
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